International Scientific Conference / Annual Meeting of the Dessau-Wörlitz Commission 2021
conference
In Conversation on Gardens: Interactions Between 18th and Early 19th Century Landscape gardens in Central and East-Central Europe
9–11 September 2021
Historic Inn: „Zum Eichenkranz”, Wörlitz
Concept and scientific direction:
PD Dr. Michael Niedermeier, Dr. Jana Kittelmann, Dr. Ingo Pfeifer, Dr. Andrea Thiele
The Dessau-Wörlitz Commission dedicates this year's annual conference, organised in cooperation with the Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz and the Pückler Gesellschaft für die Erforschung und Erhaltung historischer Gärten e.V., to the history of the landscape garden in its cross-border dimensions.
In addition to genuinely garden-artistic, landscape-aesthetic, and cultural questions, the conference also wants to take a look at the dynastic-political and genealogical motifs of landscape designs in Poland, Russia, or the Old Empire. The conference will discuss the garden-artistic dramatization of manorial gardens as memorial landscapes of an ancient ancestral origin of one's own noble family or the design of neo-Gothic or Classicist garden buildings and country estates as paternalistic-patriotic or national places of remembrance in their respective semantics. The international colloquium will create a dialogue of renowned art historians and scholars with garden monument conservators from various landscape gardens in Poland and Germany.
Various institutions in Germany and Poland collaborate in this project: the Dessau-Wörlitz Commission, the Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz, the Instytut Zachodni in Poznań, the Pückler Gesellschaft für die Erforschung und Erhaltung historischer Gärten e.V., the Stiftung Fürst Pückler Museum Park & Schloss Branitz, the Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau and the Professorship for the History of Landscape Architecture and Garden Monument Preservation in Dresden.
Participation fees:
- on Thursday, 9 September (12 €, for students: 10 €)
- on Friday, 10 September (22 €, for students: 18 €)
- on Saturday, 11 September (15 €, for students: 12 €)
- in the entire conference (45 €, for students: 35 €)
- in the evening reception on 9 September (25 €, binding reservation, payable at the conference venue)
- in the gondola ride and the visit to the Gothic house on 10 September.
The conference fee includes catering for the coffee breaks and for lunch on 10 and 11 September.
The closing date for registration is 30 August 2021.
Poster Program Registration card
Scholarships for conference participation:
Thanks to the generous support of the German-Polish Science Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, we are able to award scholarships for conference participation of 300 € for up to eight interested students and young academics, primarily from Poland and Germany.
If you are interested in a scholarship, please send your CV and a short letter of motivation to Dr Andrea Thiele by 27 August 2021:
andrea.thiele(at)izea.uni-halle.de.
Contact, registration and further information
Homepage of Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz
Contact and further information:
Phone.:+49 (0)345 55 21781
izea(at)izea.uni-halle.de