BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2220@dg.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250121T161241 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250404T141500 SUMMARY:56. Basler Renaissancekolloquium «Renaissance of War» DESCRIPTION:If recent geopolitical developments have prompted intensified p ublic conversations and debate about war and warfare\, Renaissance studies has long pursued a comprehensive understanding of war as a social phenome non. Harking back to Jacob Burckhardt’s conceptualization of ‘the [Ren aissance] state as a work of art’\, Renaissance historiography has tradi tionally taken a holistic view of socio-political processes in which power and violence were deeply intertwined with aesthetics\, cultural productio n\, and systems of patronage. War in the Renaissance is a case in point: r ecent scholarship has made significant inroads in highlighting\, for examp le\, the social and financial implications of mercenary cultures\, the use of military motifs in representations of the Renaissance state\, and cont emporary perceptions of the social and moral consequences of war as reflec ted in artistic and discursive practices and early print cultures.\\r\\nTh e 56th Basel Renaissance Colloquium focuses upon war in the Renaissance as a phenomenon\, a practice\, and a cultural formation with powerful implic ations that extended far beyond the battlefield. Inquiring further into th e political\, institutional\, and aesthetic dynamics and consequences of w arfare\, we propose to examine war as an explicit feature of the Renaissan ce\, both in the sense of an epochal framework of European history and as a potentially transferable historiographical model. Examining war in this light\, a series of questions arise: was there a specificity of ‘Renaiss ance war’\, and\, if so\, what was its impact on subsequent social\, eco nomic\, technological\, and/or and artistic trends? How might the destruct ive dynamics of warfare have also served as a vector of social transformat ion? What can be learned from Renaissance ethical and moral regimes that t olerated or even advanced warfare as a political tool while simultaneously pointing to its dangers? How can we tell histories of organized violence as it was experienced by non-combatants and former combatants: persons dis placed and dispossessed by warfare\; women who traveled with armies as sex -workers\, laundresses\, and porters\; disabled ex-soldiers\, whose bodies testified to the brutality of past military campaigns?\\r\\nRenaissance o f War thus invites critical reassessments of the general implications as w ell as the social\, material\, and intellectual conditions of organized vi olence. The meeting is intended as an interdisciplinary forum open to (and seeking to combine) social\, political\, intellectual\, and art historica l methods\, as well as approaches that engage with non-European/global con texts and influences. We are particularly interested in comparative\, conn ected\, and “bottom up” approaches\, as well as in thematic contributi ons relating to\, for example: narratives of victory\, victimhood\, and su rvival\; the aestheticizing\, heroizing\, and (visual) critique of militar y violence\; the construction\, representation\, and differentiation of so cial roles and responsibilities amidst military conflicts\; the forms of t ransformation both foreclosed and propelled by war in the Renaissance.\\r\ \nThe colloquium will allow for individual presentations of about 30 minut es in length\, followed by questions and a final roundtable discussion. X-ALT-DESC:

If recent geopolitical developments have prompted intensified public conversations and debate about war and warfare\, Renaissance studi es has long pursued a comprehensive understanding of war as a social pheno menon. Harking back to Jacob Burckhardt’s conceptualization of ‘the [R enaissance] state as a work of art’\, Renaissance historiography has tra ditionally taken a holistic view of socio-political processes in which pow er and violence were deeply intertwined with aesthetics\, cultural product ion\, and systems of patronage. War in the Renaissance is a case in point: recent scholarship has made significant inroads in highlighting\, for exa mple\, the social and financial implications of mercenary cultures\, the u se of military motifs in representations of the Renaissance state\, and co ntemporary perceptions of the social and moral consequences of war as refl ected in artistic and discursive practices and early print cultures.

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The 56th Basel Renaissance Colloquium focuses upon war in th e Renaissance as a phenomenon\, a practice\, and a cultural formation with powerful implications that extended far beyond the battlefield. Inquiring further into the political\, institutional\, and aesthetic dynamics and c onsequences of warfare\, we propose to examine war as an explicit feature of the Renaissance\, both in the sense of an epochal framework of European history and as a potentially transferable historiographical model. Examin ing war in this light\, a series of questions arise: was there a specifici ty of ‘Renaissance war’\, and\, if so\, what was its impact on subsequ ent social\, economic\, technological\, and/or and artistic trends? How mi ght the destructive dynamics of warfare have also served as a vector of so cial transformation? What can be learned from Renaissance ethical and mora l regimes that tolerated or even advanced warfare as a political tool whil e simultaneously pointing to its dangers? How can we tell histories of org anized violence as it was experienced by non-combatants and former combata nts: persons displaced and dispossessed by warfare\; women who traveled wi th armies as sex-workers\, laundresses\, and porters\; disabled ex-soldier s\, whose bodies testified to the brutality of past military campaigns?

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Renaissance of War thus invites critical reassessments of t he general implications as well as the social\, material\, and intellectua l conditions of organized violence. The meeting is intended as an interdis ciplinary forum open to (and seeking to combine) social\, political\, inte llectual\, and art historical methods\, as well as approaches that engage with non-European/global contexts and influences. We are particularly inte rested in comparative\, connected\, and “bottom up” approaches\, as we ll as in thematic contributions relating to\, for example: narratives of v ictory\, victimhood\, and survival\; the aestheticizing\, heroizing\, and (visual) critique of military violence\; the construction\, representation \, and differentiation of social roles and responsibilities amidst militar y conflicts\; the forms of transformation both foreclosed and propelled by war in the Renaissance.

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The colloquium will allow for individual presentations of about 30 minutes in length\, followed by questions and a final roundtable discussion.

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