Herrenhäuser Symposium
Loyal Subversion – Caricatures from the Personal Union
between England and Hanover 1714-1837

The political constellation of the personal union between England and
Hanover with the figure of a foreign king as a mediator between
separate states became a determining factor and was in itself a
historical condition for the emergence and the development of
caricatures in England after the Glorious Revolution. As a political
weapon of the opposition and as a manifestation of public opinion, the
caricatures affected the establishment: one the one hand, their visual
potential was a threat to the sovereign, on the other hand they helped
to stabilize his leadership.

What contents do they show? Does the artistic become political? Is
there something like an institutionalized form of political perception?
Or is this visual criticism nothing else but a loyal subversion of
their subjects?

The Herrenhäuser Symposium "Loyal Subversion – Caricatures from the
Personal Union between England and Hanover 1714-1837" is organized by
the Volkswagen Foundation and the Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für
Karikatur und Zeichenkunst.

Please register online at caricaturevolkswagenstiftung.de


PROGRAM

Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst,
Hanover

7:00 p.m.
Opening Addresses
Dr Gisela Vetter-Liebenow
Director, Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und
Zeichenkunst, Hanover, Germany
Dr Wilhelm Krull
Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany

7:20 p.m.
Keynote
Professor Werner Busch
Department of Art History, Free University of Berlin

9:00 p.m.
Reception

Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover

Images and Caricatures of Kingship
09:30 a.m.
Milton's Monsters: Monarchy and Iconoclasm
Professor Ian Haywood
University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom

Attacks on the Guelph Dynasty: From the Jacobite Caricatures to the
London Radicals and Cruikshank
Dr Sheila O'Connell
Assistant Keeper, British Prints before 1880, British Museum, United
Kingdom

11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break

11:30 p.m.
James Gillray
Dr Christina Oberstebrink
Berlin, Germany

The Satirical Image, Politics, and Periodicals 1830–1837
Professor Brian Maidment
John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

1:00 p.m.
Lunch Break

Royal Representation, Court Culture, and Bourgeois Public
2:30 p.m.
Politics Beyond Caricature: Practices of the Artistic Field in the Long
18th Century
Sune Schlitte
University of Göttingen, Germany

The Royal Brat: Making Fun of George Augustus Frederick
Dr James Baker
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, United Kingdom

4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break

Counterparts
4:30 p.m.
The Republic and the Sovereignty of the People as Antithesis, Anathema,
Frightful Vision
Karl Janke
Curator, Hamburg, Germany

The Image of the Other: The "Non-English" as Identification Marks in
the Personal Union
Dr Temi Odumosu
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow for EUROTAST, Centre for GeoGenetics,
The Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
6:00 p.m.
Break

7:00 p.m.
Conference Dinner


Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover

The Reception on the Continent
9:30 a.m.
Transfer of Caricatures. The London Printing Trade and the Export of
English Graphic Prints
Dr Timothy Clayton
Worcester College Oxford, United Kingdom

10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break

11:00 p.m.
Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763-1840) – Painter, Borderliner, and
Contemporary with the Nascent Hanover Kingdom.
Professor Thomas Schwark
Historical Museum Hanover, Germany

The Reception of English and French Caricatures in the German Magazine
London und Paris (1798-1815)
Christian Deuling, MA
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

12:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Dr Wilhelm Krull
Secretary General, VolkswagenStiftung, Germany

12:40 p.m.
Lunch
and End of Conference


More information on the symposium and the program can be found at:
http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/nc/veranstaltungen/veranstdet/ttback/
41/article/herrenhaeuser-symposium-loyal-subversion.html