Exhibition at Paderborn University Library

On Tuesday 19 May at 4 pm, a new exhibition will open at Paderborn University Library: The exhibition on the GenderPlaySpaces of the Italian Renaissance aims to make the logic of representation underlying the urban, courtly, and domestic spaces of the Italian Renaissance visible and understandable again. It was conceived and organised by the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Department at the Institute of German Literature and Comparative Literature at Paderborn University. Alice Joy Cox, Consul of the Republic of Italy, will give the opening address. All interested parties are cordially invited to attend. The exhibition can then be visited until 14 June. Further information can be found on the Comparative Literature pages.

From the excursion to the exhibition: Reconstruction of gender spaces in Florence

After the consul's welcoming address, Prof Dr J?rn Steigerwald and Sahra Puscher from the Comparative Literature department of the Institute of German Literature and Comparative Literature will present the exhibition concept in more detail. As part of an excursion seminar to Florence, which was organised in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Florence, students from various disciplines reconstructed prominent rooms that can still be experienced today. In these spaces, the interaction of the sexes was regulated in very different ways and the staging of the sexes also had an important representational function. In order to make this togetherness, coexistence, and opposition visible and understandable, the exhibition focuses on outstanding examples of the house ("casa"), courtyard ("corte"), and city ("città"), which were primarily located in Florence, the centre of the Italian Renaissance. During the opening event, the students will also focus on these three rooms in short presentations.

The exhibition can be visited during the opening hours of the University Library: Mondays to Fridays from 7.30 am to midnight; Saturdays and Sundays from 9 am to 8.30 pm (closed on public holidays).

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