Conference

Archives Unbound: Time and Memory in Romantic Visual Culture

Conference organised by the Research Group "European Romanticism or Romanticisms in Europe?" at the University of Jena, the History of Art Department at the University of York and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut.

The Sarcophagus of Seti I at Sir John Soane's Museum, engraved by Mason Jackson, Source: Illustrated London News, 1864.

 

Participants:

  • Andrin Albrecht
  • Elisabeth Ansel 
  • Hannah Baader
  • Christin Bates 
  • Jacob Bolda 
  • Constanza Caraffa
  • Johannes Grave
  • Richard Johns
  • Selina Kusche
  • Jeremy Melius
  • Kohta Nakajima 
  • Kate Nankervis
  • John Norrman
  • Jessica Richardson
  • Gemma Shearwood 
  • Michael Smith
  • Mira Claire Zadrozny 

 

More information on the programme will follow soon.

Please find here more information on the Research Group European Romanticism or Romanticisms in Europe? at the University of Jena.

02 – 03 February 2026

This event will take place in person at Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai. There will also be the possibility of participating online, more information will follow.

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