Beauty cultures have a remarkable history as the practices, texts, and artefacts involved have circulated and transformed through time and space. The collective lecture traces the aesthetic praxeology of European beauty cultures from antiquity to the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period between medicine, pharmacology, and the arts.

Christina Antenhofer (Salzburg), Jill Burke (Edinburgh), Montserrat Cabré (Cantabria), Irene Calà (Munich), Erin Griffey (Auckland), Sabrina Jocher (Salzburg), Timothy McCall (Villanova), Romana Sammern (Salzburg), Katharina Seidl (Innsbruck), and Andreas Winkler (Innsbruck) will present results from the itinerant symposium “Medicine, Beauty and the Body: Materials, Texts and Artifacts“ in Innsbruck, Schloss Ambras, Salzburg, and Vienna.

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Programme of the itinerant symposium „Medicine, Beauty and the Body: Materials, Texts and Artifacts“ 

September 24, 2023

Stadtapotheke Winkler, Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 25, 6020 Innsbruck

17:00 Tour at the historical pharmacy
(limited number of people, by registration only)

September 25, 2023

Schloss Ambras, Schlossstraße 20, 6020 Innsbruck

9:30–12:30 Panel: Medical Cultures at Ambras Castle
(limited number of people, by registration only)

14:00–16:00 Panel: Historical Pharmacology in the Museum
(limited number of people, by registration only)

September 26, 2023

W&K Atelier, Bergstraße 12a, 5020 Salzburg

9:30–12:30 Panel: Beauty Cultures I: Methodological Considerations

14:00–16:00 Panel: Beauty Cultures II: Materials and Artefacts

HS 2, Unipark Nonntal, Erzabt-Klotz Str. 1, 5020 Salzburg

18:00–19:30 Collective Evening Lecture (hybrid): Doctoring Beauty. Beauty and Medicine in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

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September 27, 2023

Austrian National Library, Josefsplatz 1, 1015 Vienna

11:00–13:00 Panel: Beauty Cultures in Manuscripts and Books
(limited number of people, by registration only)

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, 1010 Vienna: Picture collection, Kunstkammer

13:30–18:00 Panel: Beauty Cultures in the Museums I
(limited number of people, by registration only)

September 28, 2023

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, 1010 Vienna: Picture collection, Kunstkammer, Egyptian collection

10:00-12:00 Panel: Beauty Cultures in the Museums II
(limited number of people, by registration only)

13:00-19:00 Panel: Beauty Cultures in the Museums III

In cooperation with the KHM Museumsverband/Schloss Ambras Innsbruck; financed with the support of the State of Salzburg and the State of Tyrol.

Conception, Organisation: Romana Sammern, Erin Griffey, Montserrat Cabré

Picture credits: Pharmacy Museum Winkler, Innsbruck. Foto: Romana Sammern