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FRIAS Conference - Material Matters

Material Matters: Unveiling the Dynamics of Reuse in Pre-Modern Texts, Images, and Carriers
When Mar 31, 2025 04:30 PM to
Apr 03, 2025 05:00 PM
Where FRIAS seminar room
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Material Matters: Unveiling the Dynamics of Reuse in Pre-Modern Texts, Images, and Carriers

Sustainability appears to be a contemporary concept, developed in response to challenges such as the climate crisis. However, a look into the past reveals a different story. Sustainability and its associated practices, “reusing”, “repairing”, “recycling”, and “reframing”, are not modern innovations, but rather have been living cultural phenomena for millennia. The conference will focus on the reuse and recycling of texts and images from the Middle Ages and early modern period, concentrating chiefly on three specific carrier materials: parchment, paper and glass. The exploration of these practices will be conducted on two distinct yet interconnected levels: the content level (encompassing text and imagery) and the material level (focusing on the mediums of parchment, paper, and glass).

Our ambition is to catalyse research into the pre-modern practices of utilization and reutilization, fostering a cross-disciplinary and international collaborative environment. To this purpose, the conference combines both conventional lectures and dynamic lightning sessions at FRIAS with practical, hands-on experiences. These interactive sessions are planned at prominent institutions including the University Library, the specialized stained-glass research hub Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA), the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg, and the Paper mill in Basel.


Venue

FRIAS, Albertstr. 19,  79104 Freiburg

Program & Poster 

folgt in Kürze / coming soon

Travel

How to get to Freiburg?


By train
Long-distance train connections to Freiburg are available at https://next.bahn.de/


By bus
Long-distance bus connections to Freiburg are available at
https://www.flixbus.de/fernbus/freiburg-ibr


By car
Motorway A5 brings you to Freiburg, either from the direction of Basel or Karlsruhe.


By plane
Frankfurt Airport is an airport where a lot of international flights arrive. Upon arrival in
Frankfurt Airport, Freiburg can be reached by booking a long-distance train
connection (takes approx. 2,5 h).


Airport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (EuroAirport) is located in the South of Freiburg.
An Airport Shuttle Bus can be booked here: https://www.freiburger-reisedienst.de/index.php

Conference Contact

Organisation

  • Hannah Ryley
  • Carolin Gluchowski
  • Julia von Ditfurth
  • Jesko Fildhuth