The Faculty of Arts Studies cordially invites you to attend the conference The Backstage View: A Mundane History of Collecting (1600-1918), which will be held on 26-27 October at Collegium Maius (Fredry 10).
After more than half a century of intense scientific exploration, resulting in hundreds of in-depth studies, the history of collections has established itself as one of the privileged fields of research in humanities. Various issues such as the provenance of objects in collections; ways in which these objects have been ordered, arranged, and displayed; rooms and buildings in which they have been kept and exhibited; narratives beyond objects and collections; biographies of collectors; social practices connected with collections, etc. have been versatilely investigated. Consequently, collecting, fascinating in its own right, proved also to be a sensitive indicator of broad cultural and social phenomena connected with artistic, scientific, philosophical, societal, and political movements.
More information about the event is available here.
