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DESCRIPTION:Noémie Etienne will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation\non Mon
 day\, February 19\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled 'Exoticizing in\nthe
  Enlightenment: A Global History of Switzerland in Objects.'\n\n \n\nSwitz
 erland is often\nperceived as a secluded country and has\, for sure\, no m
 aritime borders\,\nyet its inhabitants have a long history of connecting w
 ith the outside world\,\nbe it for scientific\, political\, artistic\, or 
 economic reasons. This talk will\nexamine the current state of an exhibiti
 on project curated by Noémie Etienne\,\nClaire Brizon\, Chonja Lee\, and S
 ara Petrella. The show\, which is to be held in\nLausanne in 2020\, is par
 t of a larger research project on exoticism in the\nseventeenth and eighte
 enth centuries at the University Bern. The aim of the\nexhibition is to re
 flect upon the ways Swiss people invented Otherness in the\nearly modern t
 ime period. They argue that Switzerland plays a specific—and\nunderstudied
 —role in this context. In using the verb “exoticizing” in the\ntitle\, the
 y intend to shed light on the processes that create and organize\ndifferen
 ces and alterities.\n\n \n\nHow should we\nunderstand the work of the Gene
 va-born painter Jean-Etienne Liotard? Why was\nJohn Webber's Feather Cloak
  (brought back to Bern from his travel to the\nPacific with Captain Cook) 
 reassembled? Swiss personalities were involved\nin colonial projects albei
 t the absence of an Empire. This exhibition project\nsheds light on key sc
 holars like Alexandre-César Chavannes\, the librarian of\nthe Académie in 
 Lausanne in charge of the cabinet\, who never travelled abroad\,\nbut was 
 one of the first to use in French the word Anthropologie (1787).\nAs Etien
 ne\, Brizon\, Lee\, and Petrella will suggest\, the lack of royal\ncollect
 ions gave space to the development of a protestant pedagogy based on\nacad
 emic cabinets\, different than the cabinets of curiosity. Material culture
 \nand the politics of representation are also at stake with local manufact
 ories\nproducing printed cotton textiles for the triangular trade and cloc
 ks for\nChina. Indeed\, the reproduction of non-western fashion\, techniqu
 es\, and styles\nin Switzerland is to be understood in a larger context\, 
 namely a market\nsituation driven by economic profit.\n\nNoémie Etienne is
  SNSF\nProfessor at the University of Bern and a specialist in early moder
 n\nart. She is currently leading a research project on exoticism in the\nE
 nlightenment. Her first book\, The Restoration of Paintings in\nParis (175
 0-1815) (Presses Universitaires de Rennes) was published in\n2012\, and su
 bsequently translated into English and published by the Getty in\n2017. He
 r second book (forthcoming) is dedicated to the study of dioramas in\nNew 
 York around 1900. She also co-founded Journal18\, a journal\nfor eighteent
 h-century art and material culture. \n\nThis event will be\nlivestreamed. 
 Please check back the day of the event for a link to\nthe video. To watch 
 videos of past events please visit our YouTube page.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Exoticizing in the Enlightenment
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