I'm delighted to be able to announce details of the 'Material
Renaissance' conference, at which project members will be presenting
their research to the public. The details are as follows:
The Material Renaissance: Costs and Consumption in Italy, 1400-1650
A two-day conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.
Monday 7 - Tuesday 8 April 2003
The conference will discuss attitudes to values and valuing,
consumption, markets and marketing, aesthetic and technical innovation,
gifts, social status, patronage, networks and connections in Italy from
c.1400 to c.1650. It is based upon the work of members of the Material
Renaissance research project, a collaborative project funded by the AHRB
and the Getty Grant Program.
Speakers: Reinhold C. Mueller, Suzanne B. Butters, Mary Hollingsworth,
Evelyn Welch, Luca Mola', Patricia Allerston, Guido Guerzoni, Michelle
O'Malley, Anna Melograni, Ann Matchette, Elizabeth Currie, Steve
Wharton, Valerie Taylor, Paula Hohti
Conference fee: GBP 10 full / GBP 5 students and unwaged. Booking forms
can be downloaded from <www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/Brighton20
03.shtml> or obtained from Dr Rupert Shepherd, Room 205, Essex House,
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QQ, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)1273
872544. Fax: +44 (0)1273 678644. E-mail: <[log in to unmask]>
Please feel free to circulate this information. Within the net week or
so, I hope to have a flyer available in Acrobat (PDF) format which you
will be able to download from the project website and use to advertise
the conference wherever you see fit; I shall let you know when it's
available. I do hope we will see you there.
Best wishes,
Rupert
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Rupert Shepherd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK
Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/
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