PriArc scholar Mari Hvattum hosts the session ‘Coming Back to Haunt You: The History of Rejecting History in Architecture’ at the European Architectural History Network’s biennial conference in Tallin, 14-16 June 2018. Call for papers are open until 30 September and abstracts can be sent to mari.hvattum@aho.no At least since the mid nineteenth […]
How do we represent urban change and technological development in visual and textual form, historically and in the present? How has visual rhetoric been used to normalize the disruption and destruction that accompanies modern ideas of ‘progress’? And what happens when these confident predictions of future relevance fail and we are left with dead-ends and […]
Since the Napoleonic occupation of the country in 1798, images of Egypt have played continuously on the European mind. A geopolitical hotspot, Egypt was central in 19th and 20th century reconceptualisations of time and speed, infrastructure and technology, aesthetics and movement, all negotiated through circulating imagery. This exhibition traces the history of moving images and objects within and out of Egypt, from the massive to the […]
The PriArc team is proud to congratulate PriArc scholar Caroline van Eck with her appointment as Slade Professor of Fine Art for 2017 at The University of Oxford, one of the most prestigious appointments in the world. The Slade Professor gives eight public lectures in the spring term. The topic for Professor van Eck’s lecture […]
Style is a key issue when studying architecture’s uses of the past. To revisit this important but neglected topic, PriArc scholar Mari Hvattum hosts a session On Style at the Society of Architectural Historians’ 70th Annual International Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, June 7–11, 2017. ‘Style’ has been one of the most reviled concepts in 20th […]
30-31 January 2017, the PriArc team organizes its first thematic workshop in Oslo. The workshop is dedicated to experimental preservation, looking particularly at the topic of replica / copy / quote and the way images and monuments travel – in various media – through time and space. The circulation of Egyptian imagery from Winckelmann to […]
PriArc PhD Eirik Arff Gulseth Bøhn contributed with a paper to the third international conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies, organised by the Norwegian Renaissance Society and held at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 28-29 September 2016. His talk, titled ‘“Misteriose Erudition Antiche”: Material Continuum between Past and Present in the […]
The HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research Programmes (JRP) Cultural Encounters and Uses of the Past Conference brought together consortiums of Project Leaders, Principal Investigators and Associated Partners to meet with members of the HERA network, evaluation panel members, and previously funded HERA Project Leaders in Prague, 18-19 September 2016. The event […]
Keen to get going, the PriArc team arranged a pre-meeting in Oslo in June 2016, well ahead of the official project launch. The meeting took place in conjunction with an international symposium organized by the research project The Printed and the Built. The Printed and the Built. Architecture and Public Debate in Modern Europe is a […]
