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Conference at the University of Bern, September 24 and 25, 2015

Organization and conception: Linda Báez Rubí (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM/Project Bilderfahrzeuge, Warbung Institute, London) and Raphaèle Preisinger (Institute for Art History, University of Bern)

The emergence of maritime trade routes between Europe, the American continent and
Asia in the 16th century heralded a new era of economic relations that was characterized
by a vital exchange of cultural goods. Images of all kinds may be reinvestigated against
the background of trade between Europe, the Americas and Asia in the early modern
period. Two important trade routes linked all three continents during this era, the route of
the Portuguese India fleet (Carreira da Índia), which circulated between Lisbon and Goa,
Malacca and Macau and halted in the ports of Salvador und Rio de Janeiro, and the
maritime route proceeding from Spain to Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico (Carrera de las
Indias) and from Acapulco on the Pacific coast to Manila (Galeón de Manila or Nao de la
China) and eventually to China or Japan. The documentation and analysis of the spatial
movements of artifacts and their transformation along these ‘European-American-Asian
trails’ allow for a new iconological investigation in a transcultural perspective. The time
frame for this endeavor is provided by the Iberoamerican colonial era. In 1815, just a few
years before almost all colonial territories became independent, maritime trade between
Acapulco and Manila ceased.

A lecture series examining art history during the First World War, organised by Pablo Schneider, of the Bilderfahrzeuge Group, began last week at the Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, bringing together academics from across Germany to consider developments in art history during these formative years. The programme will run until 15th July 2015. For more information and a full programme, click here.

The ‘Bilderfahrzeuge’ group will present two linked panels at the Renaissance Society of America. These bring together members of the research project and invited guest speakers to talk about the movement of objects and the shaping of maritime spaces. All of the papers will be presented on Saturday 28th March in the Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, First Floor, 2094.

Panel 1: Moving Objects, Shifting Spaces I: Mediterranean Migration of Artifacts and Its Effect on Conceptions of Space (Sat, March 28, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, First Floor, 2094)

Annual Conference of the International Research Group ‘Bilderfahrzeuge’
at the Warburg Institute, London