Konferenz am Institut: Dissecting Society III - Sketches of manners, genre paintings, social novels. Nineteenth-century popular genres as ethnographic formats.
Workshop held at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Department of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis (Oettingenstraße 67, room A04) 28th of June 2019
28.06.2019
Programme
9.15–9.30 Arrival and welcome (Christiane Schwab, LMU Munich)
9.30–10.45 First session
Andreas Beck, Ruhr University Bochum
French and German Stereotypes: Typography as a Means of National Self-Assurance in Illustrated Magazines of the 1830s
Adriana Markantonatos, LMU Munich
L’Illustration, just Illustrations? Reflections on a Blind Spot in the History of (French) Early Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
10.45–11.00 Break
11.00–12.15 Second session
Alexandra Rabensteiner, LMU Munich
A German View on Society. The journal “Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände / Leser”, an Example of Sociographic and Folkloristic Journalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Jens Wietschorke, LMU Munich
Depicting the Urban Underclass. The Case of Vienna in the 19th century.
12.15–13.15 Lunch break
13.15–14.30 Third session
Daniela Salvucci, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen
Travelogues and Adventure Novels. The Literary Common Background of Elsie Masson and Bronislaw Malinowski
Jonathan Roper, University of Tartu
Sketches of Manners as Ethnographic Testimony: Egerton's Public (and Private) Writings
14.30–14.45 Break
14.45–16.00 Fourth session
Florian Grafl, LMU Munich
Hispanic America Writes Back – Social Sketches as Ethnographic Formats in (former) Colonies of the Spanish Empire during the Time of Independence (1830-1860)
Barbara Korte, University of Freiburg
Profiling the World for the Popular Reader: Travel Writing in the Victorian Periodical “Good Words”
16.00–16.10 Final discussion
16.30–17.30 Optional visit of the exhibition ‘Fragende Blicke. Neun Zugänge zu ethnografischen Fotografien’ at the Museum Fünf Kontinente with exhibition creator Paul Hempel with focus on nineteenth-century ethnographic photography (Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 München).