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Graduate Network: Baroque/Neo-Baroque

Are you ready to go beyond interdisciplinary borders? Meet the Baroque/Neo-Baroque cultures
and heritage exposed from a genuinely transhistorical, transcultural, and intermedial approach!
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CIVIS FOCUS AREA OPEN TO FIELD OF STUDIES

Society, culture, heritage Master's Art, Design and Media

PhD Social Science and humanities

COURSE DATES

19 April - 6 May 2022

CONTENT PRACTICAL DETAILS PROFESSORS

The CIVIS Graduate Network on Baroque and Neo-Baroque is a multidisciplinary research-oriented

programme addressed to PhD and Masters’ students from fields such as Literary Studies, Art History,
Musicology, Performance Studies (Theatre, Dance, and Film Studies), History or Social Sciences. It will deal
with the historic period of 16th-17th centuries and beyond, enriching it with later waves of re-interpretations of
the Baroque (the so-called Neo-Baroque).

The Network’s first Spring School will be held at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and the Prado Museum
in Madrid (May 4-6, 2022) and will be prepared by a series of online lectures and discussions (April 19-29,
2022). These activities will reflect the increasing interest in Baroque and Neo-Baroque from an intermedial
perspective. Experts from various disciplines will give insight into their recent research and an overview of
seminal theories, whereas graduate students will present their projects and will discuss them with the experts. All
keynote sessions are to be recorded and published online.

The discourse on the Baroque has been growing in importance and intensity. Exhibitions, publications, and
conferences in cultural studies have brought into focus diverse aesthetic, cultural and social aspects of
contemporary culture whose roots or first intensive treatment lie in the Baroque period. Recent publications Privacy
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emphasize a “Neo-Baroque” in today’s artefacts and they consider Baroque as both an epoch and as a
cultural expression. Both Baroque and its chronological hypostasis, the Neo-Baroque, should in fact be
understood not only as period styles - which is a commonly narrow perspective to interpret them - but also as a
way to see and to catch the gist of the world. In other words, the binomial Baroque/Neo-Baroque is a
conceptual framework.

Main topics addressed

The main topics addressed during the course will be the following:

Baroque and Neo-Baroque forms, genres, and features.

Intermedial relations.
Baroque as an historic époque as well as an ensemble of forms, genres, and expressions.
Tension between the pre-modern and the modern.
Baroque and globalisation.
Paradigms of crisis, of transformations, of the extension of space, of representation and of the loss of pre-
modern transcendent certainties.
Baroque as a complex system and an unstable configuration of cultural practices and knowledge
production.
Historicization of Baroque: period of 16th-17th centuries and the different waves of re-conceptualizations
and re-interpretations of the Baroque (Neo-Baroque).
Academic interest in Baroque social and cultural history.
Conceptualizations of Neo-Baroque in the second half of the 20th century to today.

Learning outcomes
The participants will learn about the intermedial relations of Baroque and Neo-Baroque forms, genres, and
features from examples from different disciplines and will reflect on them from theoretical perspectives. This will
enhance their analytical skills while putting their own research projects in a wider context.

During the Spring School, they will collaborate in an international, transdisciplinary and intermedial manner,
and they will have the opportunity to discuss masterpieces of Baroque art at the Prado Museum with professors
and curators.

In their presentation and in the written paper (supervised by assigned professors), the participants will be able to
demonstrate their capability to bridge theory and practice.

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