BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news467@kunstgeschichte.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240216T095522 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240514T141500 SUMMARY:54. Basler Renaissancekolloquium «Secret Renaissance» DESCRIPTION:In the Renaissance some forms of knowledge were best kept secre t. From the artisanal workshop\, through trade networks\, to the dense soc ial fabric of cities and the politically charged ambience of courts\, the sharing of knowledge was always shadowed by practices of concealment\, obf uscation\, and silence. Within the artist’s workshop and the craft commu nity\, as in other family businesses and trading networks\, the keeping an d sharing of secrets could be both a point of social-familial cohesion and a jealously guarded competitive advantage in the marketplace. In religiou s life\, secrecy also had its place: the seal of confession\, the “secre t” prayer of the priest at the altar\, the secret interior forum of the conscience. Among political elites\, regimes of magnificence went hand in glove with forms and practices of secrecy\; privy councils\, secret negoti ations\, clandestine diplomacy and espionage. Throughout Renaissance polit ies\, secrets — or the imputation of secrets — also spurred rumor\, an tagonism\, and accusation.\\r\\nThe 54th Basel Renaissance Colloquium aim s to inquire into the nature and scope of Renaissance clandestinities with particular respect to their potential dynamics of (re)presentation: was t here a specific “Renaissance secrecy” and how does it relate to (at le ast equally widespread) contemporary penchants for ostentation and display ? We propose to conceive of secrecy as a social strategy that manifests it self within performative processes while channelling the emergence and/or development of social and institutional hierarchies.\\r\\nWe thus seek to discuss not only the kinds of knowledge deemed worthy of secrecy\, but als o the cultural techniques developed to preserve secrets\, the values — b oth positive and negative — assigned to secret knowledge\, and the chall enges that Renaissance secrecy poses to historical study.\\r\\nThe colloqu ium will allow for individual presentations of about 30 minutes in length\ , followed by questions and a final roundtable discussion. X-ALT-DESC:

In the Renaissance some forms of knowledge were best kept sec ret. From the artisanal workshop\, through trade networks\, to the dense s ocial fabric of cities and the politically charged ambience of courts\, th e sharing of knowledge was always shadowed by practices of concealment\, o bfuscation\, and silence. Within the artist’s workshop and the craft com munity\, as in other family businesses and trading networks\, the keeping and sharing of secrets could be both a point of social-familial cohesion a nd a jealously guarded competitive advantage in the marketplace. In religi ous life\, secrecy also had its place: the seal of confession\, the “sec ret” prayer of the priest at the altar\, the secret interior forum of th e conscience. Among political elites\, regimes of magnificence went hand i n glove with forms and practices of secrecy\; privy councils\, secret nego tiations\, clandestine diplomacy and espionage. Throughout Renaissance pol ities\, secrets — or the imputation of secrets — also spurred rumor\, antagonism\, and accusation.

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The 54th \;Basel Renai ssance Colloquium aims to inquire into the nature and scope of Renaissance clandestinities with particular respect to their potential dynamics of (r e)presentation: was there a specific “Renaissance secrecy” and how doe s it relate to (at least equally widespread) contemporary penchants for os tentation and display? We propose to conceive of secrecy as a social strat egy that manifests itself within performative processes while channelling the emergence and/or development of social and institutional hierarchies.< /p>\n

We thus seek to discuss not only the kinds of knowledge deemed wor thy of secrecy\, but also the cultural techniques developed to preserve se crets\, the values — both positive and negative — assigned to secret k nowledge\, and the challenges that Renaissance secrecy poses to historical study.

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The colloquium will allow for individual presentations of about 30 minutes in length\, followed by questions and a final roundtable discussion.

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