Thursday 26 July 2012
9:00-9:30 Official opening by the Mayor of the City
Producing Ontologies
9:30-10:00 Cheng, Yi-Ping. Lancaster University
The Flow and Storage of Things in Taiwanese’s Households: Things and Their Containers
10:00-10:30 Razzall, Lucy. University of Cambridge
Furnishing the House, Furnishing the Mind: Early Modern Literary and Material Cultures of Containment
10:30-11:00 Hakim, Lina. The London Consortium
The Radiometer’s Glass Bulb
11:00-11:30 Break
Materiality- Wood
11:30-12:00 Bowry, Stephanie. University of Leicester
‘A World of Wonders in one Closet Shut’:
The Construction and Compression of Knowledge in the Miniature Curiosity Cabinet of the Seventeenth Century
12:00-12:30 Bernasconi, Gianenrico. University of Applied Science of South Switzerland-Lugano
Collections in Book Form: the Symbolism and Technique of a Container
12:30-13:00 Goff, Alice. University of California, Berkeley
Containing the Trees: The Schildbach Wood Library and the Eighteenth Century Box
13:00-17:30 Lunch Break
Performing Boxes
17:30-18:00 Drakopoulou, Konstantina. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Palioura, Mirka. University of Ioannina
Inside Boxes – Beyond Borders:
Female Contemporary Artists of the Greek Scene
18:30-19:00 Pollack, Julia and Bonnie Mak. University of Illinois
A Librarian Makes a Box
19:30-20:00 Steidl, Katharina. Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Ackermann’s Photogenic Drawing Box and the Conception of Photography
Friday, 27 July 2012
Consuming
9:30-10:00 Yagou, Artemis. Deutsches Museum, Munich/Vrije University, Amsterdam
Packaging Playful Technology: Boxes for Technical Toys in the Collection of the Deutsches Museum in Munich
10:00-10:30 Kocabiyik, Elif İzmir. İzmir University of Economics
Aren Kurtgözü. İzmir University of Economics
Knowledge as a Box: The “National” as Revealed Through a Reading of Turkish Cigarette Packages
10:30-11:00 Wenping Xue. University of Chicago
The Cultural Consequences of Boxes
11:00-11:30 Break
Circulating
11:30-12:00 Carey, Juliet. Waddesdon Manor (The Rothschild Collection)
Edmond de Rothschild’s Boxes
12:00-12:30 Endo, Hanako. Jissen Women’s University, Tokyo,
Shakespeare and Tudor Medicine Chests
12:30-13:00 Break
13:00-13:30 Hammel, Tanja. University of Basel
Botanical Knowledge in a Parcel
13:30-14:00 Pettersson, Ylwa and Kandastar, Razia Asad. Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala
The Travels of Folke Linder: As Traced by his Microscope Box
14:00-17:30 Lunch break
17:30-18:30 Open Space:
Box Exhibit
Pit Arens, Susanne Bauer, Christine Hanke, Martina Schlünder: Installation "Fleck-Kraft-Regler"
18:30-19:00 Break
Keynote speaker
19:00 Baltas, Aristides National Technical University of Athens
What is a Box? Philosophical Perspectives on Mundane Objects
21:00 Dinner at Hotel Galaxy
Saturday, 28 July 2012
Materiality-Glass
9:30-10:00 Espahangizi, Kijan. ETH & University of Zurich
„Only the best packed in glass....“ – A Historical Case Study on the Containment of Modern Techno-Scientific Objects, 1900-1935
10:00-10:30 Palioura, Mirka. University of Ioannina
Pyrpili, Spyridoula. Ministry of Education
Vouleli, Myrto. Historical Archives / National Bank of Greece
Photographic Glass Plates Negatives’ Boxes: Guarding the Memory
10:30-11:00 Break
Ordering
11:00-11:30 Mechler, Ulrich. Medizin und Pharmaziehistorische Sammlung Uni Kiel
Lymph Nodes in Folders – an Experimental System in Pathological Borderlands
11:30-12:00 Day, Deanna. University of Pennsylvania
Mirroring the Body: A Social History of the Medicine Cabinet
12:00-12:30 Break
12:30-13:00 Rentetzi, Maria. National Technical University of Athens
Calibrating Radiotherapy Equipment: Sending TLD’s in Postal Boxes
13:00-17:30 Lunch Break
Hiding-Displaying
17:30-18:00 Spencer, Justina. University of Oxford
Thinking Inside of the Box: 17th Century Dutch Perspective Boxes and Perspectival Illusion
18:00-18:30 Darmstädter, Beatrix. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Hidden Information – The Cases for Woodwind Instruments in the Renaissance and Early Baroque
18:30-19:00 Break
19:30-20:00 Smith, Helen. University of York
‘Outside the Box’: Domestic Practice, Display, and Containment in Early Modern England
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Reinventing
9:30-10:00 D’Eredità, Astrid. Italian National Association of Archaeologists
From Everyday Life to the Finds: an Essay on the Use of Boxes in Archaeology
10:00-10:30 Galiniki, Styliana. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Akrivopoulou, Eleftheria. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Archaeology and Cigarettes: The Packs of Cigarettes as Occasional Packaging Materials of Archaeological Findings
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Bell, Jameson Kısmet. Doğuş University, Istanbul
Contours of the Soul: Transforming the Containers of the Mind into Ventricles of the Brain in 16th Century Europe
11:30-12:00 Ma, Li. Nesna University College, Norway
From Tokens in Envelopes to Clay Tablets: On The Early development of Writing, Counting and Mathematics
12:00-13:30 Wrap-up
Susanne Bauer, Maria Rentetzi, Martina Schlünder