Cultural Variation: A Workshop on Historical Methodology
October 29–30, 2014
Only seldom do the objects of cultural history manifest themselves as single instances; more commonly, they are surrounded by preparatory sketches and belated imitations, copies, rewritings, reversals, forgeries, transformations, parodies ... This workshop will aim at bringing together some of the many disciplines that study this state of affairs: from archeologists (who, among other things, try to reconstruct series of analogous artifacts) to anthropologists (routinely confronted by endless transformations of a basic mythical narrative); from “attributionist” art historians (treading carefully between masterpieces and croste), to philologists and editors (who must adjudicate among sources at odds with each other), and to literary and cultural historians.
Convener
Contact
Participants
Anna Kathrin
Bleuler
Universität Salzburg
Margreta
de Grazia
University of Pennsylvania
Katharina
Grätz
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Oliver
Primavesi
Fellow
2005/2006
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Carlo
Severi
Fellow
2002/2003
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris