Shaping the Self

Shaping the Self: Print culture and the construction of collective identity (1460-1660), a one-day interdisciplinary conference

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@RebeccaPilliere @mattconeys last but not least, thanks to #HRC at @warwickuni for the generous support to our #shapingself!

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@RebeccaPilliere @mattconeys: thanks to our speakers & esp. #LucRacaut but also the audience who have attended #shapingself

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can we use the concept of identity as a not problematic one? or is it rather a construction by means of 'contrast&compare'? #shapingself

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the image of Hercules recurred many times today at #shapingself, betw/ myth of golden age, use of classical tropes & figure for origins

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re: intentions, how an object esp. a printed one was used & how these were actually used are sometimes were st. very different #shapingself

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another issue is preservation: of cheap material & of course of identities both individual and of communities #shapingself

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Eisenstein's seminal work on printing as an agent of change certainly in the roots of the #shapingself focuses: print, identity, traditions

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the organizers @RebeccaPilliere and @mattconeys now lead the roundtable at the #shapingself conference

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@gloriamorman people owning Blaeu's atlases were not necessarily using them and were more likely preserving them to 'show off' #shapingself

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@naomilebens dice games were banned in Bologna even if Mitelli produced many of them #shapingself

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@de_rebecca now opens the floor for discussion for the third panel #shapingself

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@naomilebens Mitelli engaged with popular subject through games but stayed conscious of his background as classical painter #shapingself

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@naomilebens Mitelli's printed games ‘space for play’ & different model of artistic invention in print to painting #shapingself #print

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@naomilebens printed games in Mitelli’s oeuvre means of self-fashioning via print in rel to Bologna print & local culture #shapingself

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@naomilebens regional bias and everyday experience reflected in Mitelli's games #shapingself #print

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@naomilebens playing cards & board games among most frequent encountered print forms, pervading imagery & diverse audiences #shapingself

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@naomilebens on 'A space for play, the idea of the city and the self in the printed games of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli'

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@gloriamoorman Blaeu's atlases kept in gorgeous chests ! #shapingself

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@gloriamoorman prestige had become attached to Blaeu's atlases #shapingself

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@gloriamoorman financial dispute and conflict were responsible for the delay in publication of Bleau's atlases #shapingself