THURSDAY, 23 MAY

09.45 Welcome and Opening Remarks

10.00 – 11.00 Keynote lecture
Chair: Giulia CALVI (University of Siena & New Europe College, Bucharest)

Ulinka RUBLACK (University of Cambridge)
The Triumph of Fashion: Towards A Global History

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11. 30 – 12. 30 Session I: Medical Practices
Chair and Discussant: Mária PAKUCS (“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History & New Europe
College, Bucharest)

Giulia CALVI (University of Siena & New Europe College, Bucharest)
Travelling Scientists across the Ottoman Empire. Networks of Practice and Knowledge (XVIIXVIII)

Miri SHEFER-MOSSENSOHN (Tel Aviv University)
Ottoman Physicians around 1700. Rethinking the Body of the Patient

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Session II: Health and Remedies
Chair and discussant: Rossitsa Gradeva (American University in Bulgaria)

Hedda REINDL-KIEL (University of Bonn)
How to Keep Your Body Healthy and Attractive in Ottoman Times

Sorin GRIGORUŢĂ (“A. D. Xenopol” Institute of History, Iași)
Weakness of the Body: Patiens and Pysicians in Early Modern Moldavia

Mária PAKUCS (“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History & New Europe College, Bucharest)
“They Steal it From the Sultan’s Pharmacy”: Pharmaceuticals and Medicines in Early Modern
Transylvania

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.00 Keynote lecture
Chair: Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU (“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History & New
Europe College, Bucharest)

Barbara STOLLBERG-RILINGER (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
“The Most Beautiful of Women”. Empress Maria Theresa’s Body Politics

FRIDAY, 24 MAY

10.00 – 11.00 Session III: Food and Social Status
Chair and discussant: Ovidiu Cristea (“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History)

Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU (“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History & New Europe
College, Bucharest)
Food, Body and Social Status in South-Eastern Europe (18th–early 19th centuries)

Castilia MANEA-GRGIN (The Ivo Pilar Institute/University of Zagreb)
Food, Drink, and the Body in Englishman Samuel Pepys’ and Transylvanian Miklos Bethlen’s
Autobiographical Writings (17th Century)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00 Session IV: Textiles and Politics
Chair and discusant: Dariusz KOLODZIEJCZYK (University of Warsaw)

Giorgio RIELLO (University of Warwick)
Europeans’ Views of the Use of the Veil in the Middle East in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries

Graeme MURDOCK (Trinity College Dublin)
The Calvinist Body Under Ottoman Suzerainty: Cultures of Complaint in Later SeventeenthCentury Transylvania

Michał WASIUCIONEK (New Europe College, Bucharest)
Body Politics, Textile Politics: Kaftan Exchanges in the Ottoman-Moldavian Relations

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.00 Session V: Women, Beauty and Manners
Chair and discussant: Alex DRACE-FRANCIS (University of Amsterdam & New Europe
College, Bucharest)

Sandra CAVALLO (Royal Holloway, London)
Making the Body Beautiful in Early Modern Western Europe and Beyond

Anastasia FALIEROU (Academy of Athens & New Europe College, Bucharest)
Rethinking Modernity: Bodily Practices, Culture of Manners and City Life in the Ottoman Empire

Nicoleta ROMAN (“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History & New Europe College, Bucharest)
‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?’ Women, Beauty and Charms in
Nineteenth Century Romanian Society

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.30 Session VI: Soul of the People and Travel
Chair and discussant: Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu (Faculty of History, University of
Bucharest & Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa, Vienna)

Constantin ARDELEANU (University of Galați & New Europe College, Bucharest)
Purifying Passengers and Cargo. The Danubian Quarantine between Miasmatics and
Contagionists (1830s – 1850s)

Alex DRACE-FRANCIS (University of Amsterdam & New Europe College, Bucharest)
Body and Soul: Physical and Collective Identity in Romanian-language Travel Narratives, 1826-
1853

Organizers: Giulia Calvi, Senior Researcher ERC-2014-CoG no. 646489 and Constanţa
Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, PI–ERC-2014-CoG no. 646489

The conference is organized in the frame of the European Research Council Consolidator
Grant no. 646489 Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe
(LuxFaSS), hosted by the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest.

Project website: luxfass.nec.ro