Collecting the Past: Seminar

Catalog Number: 66455 
Adrian Staehli 
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5.
We will explore different historical practices of collecting and displaying Greek and Roman art from antiquity through the middle ages to most recent times, including the current debates about cultural propriety and the repatriation of looted antiquities, and investigate how various forms of collecting shape the knowledge of ancient civilizations and, more generally, of the past.