Events

Annual Lecture: Lyndal Roper on ‘Emotions and the German Peasants’ War 1524-25′

When: Thursday 21st November, 2019, 6.30pm

Venue: Arts Two Lecture Theatre, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London

We are delighted that Professor Lyndal Roper (Oxford) will give the Centre for the History of Emotions Annual Lecture for 2019 on Thursday 21st November at 6.30pm in the Arts Two Lecture Theatre, QMUL, Mile End Campus. Professor Roper’s lecture is titled ‘Emotions and the German Peasants’ War 1524-25′. Tickets are free but booking is essential.

Abstract

How should historians study emotions to help them understand the past? The German Peasants’ War of 1524/5 was the biggest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. It altered the course of the Lutheran Reformation, making it far more conservative. Thousands were slain as the revolt was bloodily suppressed. If we are to understand what made people risk everything they had to engage in rebellion, we need to understand their emotions, and we also need to understand theology differently. This paper outlines the emotional patterns of the Peasants’ War and asks how they can help explain what happened.

Doors at 6.00pm, lecture at 6.30pm. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Arts Two Building. For directions to Mile End and a campus map, see bit.ly/QMcampusmap.

All welcome, but booking via Eventbrite is essential.

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Adrian von Buttlar (Freie Universität Berlin) – Cultural Transfer in Matters of Architecture

We are delighted to invite you to the second lecture of our 2019-20 BASF Lecture Series by Adrian von Buttlar, entitled:

'Cultural Transfer in Matters of Architecture: Leo von Klenze in Britain 1836/1851/1853'

When: Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 6.15pm

Venue: Room: 1.28, Arts One, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End campus

Anglo-German cultural transfer in art, architecture and design from the late 18th to the mid-20th centuries provides a wide and fascinating field of research: The import of the english landscapegarden, neo-palladianism, neo-gothic, the aesthetics of the picturesque and the innovations of the industrial revolution on the continent was matched by the growing english interest in the achievements of german romantic idealism: for instance public education (Bildung) by stately art-and-craft schools, academies, museums, monuments and neo-humanistic building programmes. The lecture presents a fairly unknown chapter of this subject:

Leo von Klenze (1784-1864), Court Architect and Chief Surveyor of Public Building in Bavaria, in 1836 was invited to London by the Select Committee of Arts and Manufacture for a Hearing to rise taste in Britain, especially in regard to the applied arts. As the leading capacity in modern museum-architecture Klenze in 1851 returned to London from St. Petersburg, where he had inspected the rise of his New Hermitage Museum, to visit the World Exhibition (and nearby to critize Paxton´s Crystal Palace). Nevertheless, suggested by Prince Albert, he received the Gold Medal of the RIBA and in 1853 was again invited by the House of Commons to the Select Committee on the National Gallery, where he fostered Henry Cole´s (unrealized) plans for a new National Museum to be erected in Hyde-Park by very innovative ideas. His flexible Neo-Grec, which allowed to combine diverse historic elements with a modernist, functional structure was highly esteemed in Britain.

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New BASF Lecture Series      

BASF Lecture Series on Anglo-German Matters 2019/20 

26 November 2019: Room 1.28 ArtsOne 
Building: Adrian von Buttlar (Freie Universität Berlin) – Cultural transfer in Matters of Architecture: Leo von Klenze in Britain 1836/1851/1853

21 January 2020: Maximiliaan van Woudenberg (Cambridge): – Anglo-German Cosmopolitanism at the Villa Diodati in 1816

18 February 2020: Uwe Schütte (Aston University in Birmingham) – The Swastika, Autobahn and Trans Europa Express – Kraftwerk in English Perspectives

10 March 2020: Mara Delius (Die Welt, Berlin) – The meaning of reviewing literature in Britain and Germany

31 March 2020: Maike Oergel (University of Nottingham) – Britain, Germany and Brexit: The Legacy of the 19th-century ‘Germanic’

21 May 2020: Philip Oltermann (The Guardian London/Berlin) – Working as an Anglo-German ‘foreign’ correspondent

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