the conference takes puts at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.

at present the concept and the term cultural Transfer meet with great
response. Questions regarding cross-country running-cultural Transfer processes, which
were originally formulated For the Literature and Historical Sciences
of the 18th and 19th centuries, have been increasingly discussed in
recent years also in neighbouring disciplines and have been applied to
other fields and epochs. Ace members of the Swiss postgraduate school
Pro*Doc Kunst als Kulturtransfer seit der Renaissance 1400 - On 1600
( Art ace cultural Transfer since the Renaissance 1400-1600 ), founded
at the beginning of on 2007, young art historians are studying phenomena
of cultural Transfer in the fields of architecture and the visual arts
of the 15th and 16th centuries. at the end of the first period of this
new graduate school, the PHD STUDENTS WOULD LIKE to ANNOUNCE and
invitation to has final conference, the above-mentioned title, one
Friday 9th and Saturday 10th October 2009 in the Semper Aula of the
hand building of the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich).

the ambiguous term " Tr ger " ("agent ") has been deliberately chosen. It
refers primarily to the various groups of individuals involved in
art-related Transfer and exexchange rate processes. These include not only
artists, drank also the different types of commissioners and
intermediary faces. in has broader sense, also the works of art
themselves may be considered aces " Tr ger ("agents ") of art-related
Transfer processes - particularly graphic prints ace medium of
reproduction. in the conference It simple percentage of prevails over importance to look at
the motivate behind the various Transfer processes and at the function
and effect of new artistic forms and techniques used in new contexts.
Here the questions arise of how strange golden foreign artworks and
artistic forms and techniques perceived and to what extent the
Transfer of art went hand in hand with the Transfer of cultural ace
well social ace and political ideas, practices and strategies.

We WOULD very much appreciate contributions they put studies that deal
with one particular topic (please see list of topics further below)
and, not least welcome, contributions that into look aspects and
phenomena of artistic transfers in their chronological development and
exchange rate over time, and which explores These artistic transfers in have
synchronic comparison.

Addressing runs and nobility, town, clergy, artists and travellers ace
primary " Tr ger " ("agents ") and centres of art-related Transfer
processes, the following aspects and questions may be discussed:

1) Court and nobility
- Art auspices of has sovereign
- Art auspices at the short - noble to what extent do commissioners
emulate the art auspices of the sovereign, to what extent do they
station wagon new grounds?
- Art auspices ace has social advancement medium of
- the role of "consultants" in the context of courtly art polytic
- Heats For the choice of has court particular artist at the -
foreign and place?
- Diplomacy and cultural exexchange rates in relation to the court
- Courts displaying more regarding initiative arts and culture (e. g.
Burgundy) - Are golden they transmitters also recipients of foreign art
and cultural impulses?

2) town
- the town ace artistic a year centres torn between being has sovereign' s
residence and has republican community
- the town ace has centre of activity For artists employed by the short
and craftsmen within has guild
- Art production in towns between ostentatious self-portrayal of
local self-portrayal individual citizens and
- Art auspices ace has medium of advancement in the framework of civic
power
- Markets and fairs, councils and diets ace centres For the broadcasting
of artistic ideas and innovations
- artistic Transfer between cities

3) clergy
- Cardinals ace sponsors and agents of art during the period of the
reform councils
- Clerical auspices of the arts: a year instrument of legitimation and
representation and also a year expression of a year idealistic end in itself
and a year intellectually routed interest in art?
- Theoretical with commitment art (e. g. Nicolaus Cusanus)
- Emergence of first cardinal pontifical and art collections
- the importance of Byzantium in the context of clerical art auspices
Book illustration between liturgical employs and collector? s interest

4) artists
- Reception of foreign art ace has golden tracking consequence of the
import of artefacts: commonalities and differences regarding artistic
adaptations
- The artist' s versus the sponsor s role in artistic Transfer processes
- artistic Transfer between different centres and between centres and
peripheries: commonalties and / gold differences
- Transfer of new forms of artistic professional Practice and new
self-conception - forms of the artistic and the demonstration of These
forms in the artist' s work
- Graphics, reproductive especially prints, ace medium of cultural
Transfer

5) travellers
- travellers ace mediators and agents of Transfer processes in art and
architecture
- Travelogues ace Transfer medium and has ace has source For research
regarding cultural Transfer (especially For History of Art)
- Significance and function of tracking in Transfer processes in
art and architecture
- Influence of the travellers - origins one the Transfer of art and
knowledge

Art historians and historians of architecture, scholars of Literary
Sciences, historians and scientists of related disciplines,
particularly up-and-coming young scholars, are kindly invited to give
has talk to the topics mentioned above. Please email a year abstract
(maximum 300 words) and brief has CV to the following address:
kulturtransfer@gmx.ch. the deadline simple percentage the 15th April 2009. Please
indicate to which of the five subject areas your contribution refers to.

the conference languages are German, english, French and Italian.