Event overview
A Conference organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, in collaboration with the Society for European Festivals Research.
Day One: 8 June 2022 (1.45-5.00 pm BST): The Public Stage
Day Two: 9 June 2022 (2.00-5.00 pm BST): Festivals
These two half-days of talks and discussion will explore new perspectives on the representation of the Orient in early modern European art and performance between 1529 and 1683, the period framed by the two sieges of Vienna by Ottoman armies.
The conference will examine different settings in which the Orient was imagined and talked about. In particular it will interrogate various types of public display common in early modern societies, in which the self-projection of power and identity was often interwoven with the spectacle of the Other: courtly and public festivals, civic ceremonies and rituals, etc.
It will also consider staged productions, notably operas and ballets, whose multisensorial character added to the inherent orientalist tendency towards display, while heightening the attraction of the exotic for their audiences...
Read more about the conference, the programme, the abstracts, the participants on the CCL website at https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/spectacular-orientalism-in-early-modern-europe/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Jun 2022 | 1:45pm - 5:00pm | |
| 9 Jun 2022 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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