Mirjam Brusius

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Talks and presentations

February 2013 – College Art Association Annual Conference (session ‘Photography in Doubt’), New York City – The doubtful user. W.H.F. Talbot’s early attempts to advance photography (with Chitra Ramalingam)
September 2012 – Indian-European Advanced Research Network, Research Group on Museums and History, Workshop on the Comparative History of Museums in India and Europe, India International Centre, Delhi – Statement on ‘ownership vs. custodianship’
April 2012 – Photography and its Origins, Symposium, Rutgers University – Talbot's notes. Revisiting the origins of photography in the light of a wider Victorian archive
February 2011 – Transnationale Museumsgeschichte 1750-1940, Technische Universität Berlin – Der Nahe Osten im Depot. Assyrische Museumsobjekte als kulturelle Herausforderung im Viktorianischen England
September 2011 – Iran colloquium, Yale University – The back and forth of photography. Naser al Din Shah and images of transmission between 19th century Europe and Qajar Iran
July 2012 – DFG Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe 'Kosmos/Ornatus. Ornamente in Persien und Frankreich um 1400 im Vergleich’, Freie Universität Berlin – New light on the manuscript page. Persian 'Muraqqa' and the arrival of photography in Qajar Iran
July 2012 – Cultures of Curating: Curatorial Practices and the Production of Meaning c. 1650-2000 (session co-organizer), University of Lincoln – Objects on the threshold. Curators around 1850 and the new arrival of objects from Mesopotamia in Londo
March 2012 – Association of Art Historians Conference, Open University – Early Photography in Qajar Iran. Writing the history of photography between miniature painting and Western technocracy
February 2012 – Forschungskolloqium zur Geschichte des Wissens, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Objekte ohne Status: Gescheiterte Kanonisierungsprozesse nahöstlicher Museumsobjekte in europäischen Sammlungen des 19. Jahrhunderts
December 2011 – Tehran 50 – Archaeology and the practice of identity modelling in Iran and Germany in the light of coeval international relations, International Colloquium, Pergamon Museum Berlin – Constructing Persia through the camera's lens. Histories of early photographic documentation in Qajar Iran
August 2011 – Photography and Cinematography in Qajar Era Iran, University of St Andrews – Image problems: Photographic (self-)representations of Persia by Nasser Al-Din Shah and European travelling artists in the mid 19th century
July 2011 – British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, University of Exeter – Objects without status – pictures without purpose. The organisation and visualisation of Middle Eastern archaeological findings in 19th century Europe
May 2011 – 6th European Spring School in History of Science and Popularization, Maó (Menorca) – Objects without status – pictures without purpose. The organisation and visualisation of Middle Eastern archaeological findings in 19th century Europe
March 2011 – Cabinet of Natural History, University of Cambridge – “Map of Turkey, a flexible hat, pencils, and the Talbotype”: Travelling artists in mid-19th century archaeological expeditions to the Middle East
June 2010 – William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond photography, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (Crassh), University of Cambridge – Preserving the Forgotten: Talbot and the Antique
May 2010 – Workshop "Knowledge and Visual Culture", Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid – Making objects mobile. Photography in Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas
March 2010 – Gallery Talks, Exhibition: Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs, The British Library – “A Useful Tool for the Sciences?” Fox Talbot and the invention of photography
March 2010 – Lunchtime talk, Department of the Middle East, The British Museum – Photography and Decipherment. Talbot and Fenton at the British Museum around 1850
Nov 2009 – Paris Photo Conference, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris – Persia, Photography and Prestige. Nasser Al-Din Shah (r. 1848-1896) and the early advancement of a new medium in the Middle East
Nov 2009 – History of Science Society 2009 Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ – W.H.F. Talbot and Roger Fenton at the British Museum. Photographs as Proxy in 19th-century Assyriology
Oct 2009 – The Royal Society, Lecture Series Autumn 2009 (Victorian Science), London – Photographing ancient Mesopotamia: Talbot, Fenton and the British Museum
April 2009 – Multiplying the Visual in the Nineteenth Century, Columbia University, New York – Representations in a triple sense – Talbot’s photographs of a plaster cast of 'Patroclus'
Feb 2009 – Natural Dialogues, Art, Science, & Material Culture, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven – ‘Useful, good and beautiful' – William Henry Fox Talbot’s invention of the Calotype: a new art and a scientific breakthrough