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Conference: "My Favorite Things". Patterns of Construction andPerception in the Middle Ages and Early ModernPeriod - Salzburg 12/14------------------------------------------------------------------------Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Kremsan der Donau / Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien,Universität Salzburg12.12.2014-13.12.2014, Salzburg, Universität Salzburg, Unipark Nonntal,Erzabt-Klotz Straße 1, HS 3.409Deadline: 28.11.2014Research into material culture has become one of the most importantfields in medieval and Early Modern Studies. While past research focusedprimarily on the objects as such, the present emphasis derives fromhumans and their ties to things. In this context, the partiality andpreference for certain objects or groups of objects play a particularrole. A variety of "Favorite Things," although not always named as such,are becoming a field of interest that can be recognized as determiningpresent research initiatives.For this reason the "Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und derfrühen Neuzeit" of the University of Salzburg has decided to organize aninternational symposium on the topic of "My Favorite Things: Patterns ofConstruction and Perception in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period."The discussion should lead from religious materiality to the economicworld of things, from exclusive objects in one's mind to thesignificance of things as social markers, from the appeal of materialforeignness to the love of homeland culture, from public to 'private'space, from old to new, and so on. The range between prestigious and'unspectacular' material as well as the role of the manufacturing processes will also be issues raised in the meeting.A particular aim of the symposium is to connect the discussion withquestions and results of contemporary consumer research as well as withthe relevance of most liked things in past and present discourses ofeveryday life, art and literature.------------------------------------------------------------------------10:00-10:30 Opening and Welcome Address10:30-12:00 Introductory Keynotes:Eric Arnould (Syddansk Universitet, Odense), "My Favorite Things" inConsumer Research: What Has Changed since the 1980s?Hans Peter Hahn (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main): The Values ofThings: "Actual," Symbolic, Emotional, ... - Fuzziness andUncertaintiesLUNCH BREAK14:00-15:20 Global Aspects:Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick): Printed to Impress: IndianCotton Textiles in Afro-Eurasia before the European East India CompaniesJohn Styles (University of Hertfordshire): Innovation and Obsolescence:European Textiles for the Body and the Household, 1400-1760COFFEE BREAK15:40-16:20 Object biographies:Karin Dannehl (University of Wolverhampton): Industry's Favorite: anExample of Hollowware Production and Supply from Early Eighteenth-Century England16:20-17:00 Favorite Gifts:Christina Janine Maegraith (Newnham College, Cambridge): CommunalFavourite Things: Exchange and the Choice of Gifts inSeventeenth-Century BohemiaSaturday, December 13, 20149:00-10:20 Gendered Objects:Renata Ago (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"): SuccessfulMen and Their Homes in Seventeenth-Century RomeGabriela Signori (Universität Konstanz):Ringomania: Ring Production and Consumption in Late Medieval KonstanzCOFFEE BREAK10:40-12:00 Smell, Taste, and Touch:Asa S. Mittman (California State University, Chico): Touching thePast/Being Touched by the PastOtto Gecser (ELTE, Budapest): Some Like It Hot: The Preference forPiquant Food between the Middle Ages and Modern TimesLUNCH BREAK13:30-14:10 Things and Identity:Joanita Vroom (Universiteit Leiden): The Unbearable Brokenness ofArtefacts: Dining Utensils as Social Markers in the Byzantine World (ca.10th-15th c.)14:10-14:50 Favorite Spiritual Materiality:Denis Renevey (Université de Lausanne): The Religious Materiality of theName of Jesus14:50-15:30 Favorite Images of Favorite Things:Practices - New Theories?Keith Moxey (Columbia University, New York): Thingly TimeFollowed by a final discussion------------------------------------------------------------------------Ingrid MatschineggInstitut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit,Körnermarkt 13, 3500 Krems++43 622 8044 4982++43 622 8044 4999ingrid.matschinegg@sbg.ac.atHomepage URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages