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[caption id="attachment_4890" align="aligncenter" width="390"] Michael Dahl, Caroline of Ansbach, queen of the United Kingdom, ca. 1730, huile sur toile, Warwick Shire Hall.[/caption]Type : colloque.Date : du 29 au 31 octobre 2017.Lieu : Kensington Palace, Hampton Court Palace, Tower of London, Londres.Caroline of Ansbach, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, three Protestant German princesses became variously Princess of Wales, Queen Consort, and Princess Dowager of Great Britain. Recent research has explored how in fulfilling these roles they made major contributions to the arts, the development of new models of philanthropy and social welfare, the promotion and support of advances in science and medicine, as well as trade and industry, and the furthering of imperial ambition. While local contexts may have conditioned the forms such initiatives took, their objectives were rooted in a European tradition of elite female empowerment.This symposium, Enlightened Princesses: Britain and Europe, 1700-1820, will bring together eminent academicians and museum scholars to investigate the role played by royal women-electresses, princesses, queens consort, reigning queens, and empresses – in the shaping of court culture and politics in Europe of the long eighteenth century.ProgrammeDimanche 29 octobre 2017, Kensington Palace14.00 Exhibition tour 115.00 Exhibition tour 216.00 Exhibition tour 3Tea served in Orangery from 14.00 to 17.00Lundi 30 octobre 2017, Hampton Court Palace9.00 Registration and coffee9.30 Welcome from John Barnes and Amy Meyers9.45 Keynote LectureJoanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses: Britain and Europe, 1700–182010.30 Break10.45 Session 1 | Royal Women as Political AgentsModerator: Lisa FordElise Dermineur, Queens Consort as political agents: A tentative research framework through the example Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden (1720–1782)Heather Carroll, ‘Charlotte has the breeches’: The shifting political perception of Queen CharlotteAllison Goudie, ‘A woman of great feminine beauty, but of a masculine understanding’: Queen Maria Carolina of Naples and Canova’s statue of the king ‘as Minerva’Martin Eberle, Luise Dorothea: Duchess of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg13.00 Lunch14.00 Session 2 | Royal Women: Networks and ConversationsModerator: Lucy PeltzElizabeth Montagu, ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’: Women and literary authority in the age of EnlightenmentLisa Skogh de Zoete, Queen Hedwig Eleanora—A Liebhaberin of the arts: Political culture and sources of knowledge as part of Northern German Court CultureMerit Laine, Creative conversations: Queen Louisa Ulrika and the formulation of Swedish court culture in the Age of LibertySonja Fielitz, ‘A silent but impressive language’: The quietly worked female empowerment of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz16.00 Tea16.30 DiscussionModerators: Sebastian Edwards and Desmond Shawe-Taylor17.30 Drinks and musical programmeMardi 31 octobre 2017, Tower of London9.00 Registration and coffee9.30 Welcome by Joanna Marschner and Amy Meyers9.45 Session 3 | Royal Women as Patrons of Art and ArchitectureModerators: Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste and Desmond Shawe-TaylorTara Zanardi, Material Temptations: Isabel de Farnesio and the politics of the interiorVeronica Biermann, ‘Let’s have a look’: G.L. Bernini’s mirror for Queen Christina and her self-imageChristopher Johns, Two Queens and a villa: Enlightenment sociability in TurinChristopher Baker, Augusta, Princess of Wales and Jean Etienne LiotardHeidi Strobel, Queen Charlotte as patron of female artists13.00 Lunch14.00 Session 4 | Royal Women and the Crafting of ImageModerator: Matthew StoreyHeather Belnap Jensen, Dynastic dressing: The portraits of Caroline Bonaparte Murat, Queen of Naples and the art of costumeEva-Lena Karlsson, Sofia Albertina – a Swedish princess from Rococo to Biedermeier15.10 Session 5 | Royal Women: Engaging with Nature and TechnologyModerator: Sebastian EdwardsTessa Murdoch, Measuring time at the Hanoverian Court: Caroline, Augusta and Charlotte as promoters of clock and watch-making in LondonEmily Roy, Catherine the Great’s Russian mountain: The imagery of the Thunder Stone16.25 Tea17.00 DiscussionModerator: Helen Watanabe-O’KellyTicketingThe fee for attending the conference is £100. Reductions are available for a limited number of students on application to the symposium organiser. The symposium organiser can be contacted at emily.knight@hrp.org.ukCo-organised by Historic Royal Palaces, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, in association the exhibition Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, on view at Kensington Palaces, 22 June – 12 November 2017.See here for draft programme: https://www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/explore/enlightened-princesses-international-symposium/#gs.OetsJR8