Friday, 10 October 2014
Introduction and Welcome – room KOL-H-317
9:00 a.m.: Start of the conference
9:15 a.m.: Introductory remarks (Bernd Roeck, Zurich)
9:30 a.m.: “Pictures beyond Norm? Looking for the European City View in Renaissance Art Theory” (Thomas Manetsch, Zurich)
Panel 1: (Latin) Europe – room KOL-H-317
10:30 a.m.: “The Invention of ‘The Beautiful City’: Laus urbium, the veduta, and the Emergence of the European Bourgeoisie” (Bernd Roeck, Zurich)
11:15 a.m.: “The Veduta of the Italian Renaissance” (Cesare de’ Seta, Naples)
12:00 a.m.: “Shaping a Myth: The Cityscape of Venice from the Perspective of German 19th-Century Painters” (Candida Syndikus, Taipei)
12:45 p.m.: Lunch break, ETH Dozentenfoyer, Rämistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zurich
Panel 2: Transitions: Across Europe’s Frontiers– room KO2-F-174
2:30 p.m.: “The Orthodox World(s): The Vedutas of Danzig/Gdansk and Krakau/Cracow” (Sergiusz Michalski, Tübingen)
3:15 p.m.: “Mapping the Frontier: The Cartography and Iconography of Venice vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire” (Stephan Sander-Faes, Zurich)
4:00 p.m. Coffee break
4:15 p.m.:“Guaman Poma’s Cityscapes: Narratives, Hybridity and Resistance“ (Jose Cáceres Mardones, Zurich)
5:00 p.m. “The Brazilian Vedutas by Frans Post” (Uwe Fleckner, Hamburg)
Keynote Lecture – room KO2-F-174
6:00 p.m.: “Images of Zeelandia: Transplantation of the Model of the Ideal City to Taiwan by the VOC” (Shai-Shu Tzeng, Taipei)
Saturday, 11 October 2014
Panel 3: Eastern Promises I: The Far East – room KO2-F-174
9:30 a.m.:“The City in Classical Chinese Literature” (Roland Altenburger, Würzburg)
10:15 a.m.: “Capital as Imperial Theater: The 1761 Syzygy in Image” (Cheng-hua Wang, Taipei)
11:00 a.m.: Coffee break
11:15 a.m.: “Theatres of Memories. Cityscapes as Spaces of Recollection in Film” (Valentin Nussbaum, Taipei)
12:00 a.m.: “The Historical Context of Capitals of the 7th and 8th Centuries in the East Asia” (Seo Tatsuhiko, Kyoto)
12:45 a.m.: Lunch break
Panel 4: Eastern Promises II: The Far East – room KO2-F-174
2:30 p.m.: “The Formation of Veduta Types concerning the Ryukyu Capital and its Port Town in the 18th and 19th Centuries” (Tsutomu Iyori, Kyoto)
3:15 p.m.: “The Many Faces of the City: Tokyo between Xylography and Photography” (Evelyn Schulz, Munich)
4:00 p.m.: “City for Shaping Virtues: Sir William Chambers’ Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772)” (Yue Zhuang, Exeter)
5:00 p.m.: Concluding remarks (Bernd Roeck, Zurich)