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Science took central stage during nineteenth-century fairs
Travelling show people as disseminators of scientific knowledge and visual culture? In so-called anatomical cabinets, zoological and anthropological museums and scientific theatres, itinerant show people demonstrated ‘wonders of nature’ and spectacular scientific developments at the annual fair.
The EU-funded SciFair project performs pioneering research on the role itinerant show people played in the circulation of information about scientific and technological advances at fairs in western Europe between 1850 and 1914. The project starts from the hypothesis that fairs during this period were not only local folk events but also centres of international exchange. The SciFair team analyses practices of science performance across national frontiers and maps transnational networks in western Europe.
SciFair is a five-year research project (2021-2026) funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 948678 - SciFair).
"Oral History in Circus and Fairground Communities" - Veronika Barnaš & Véronique Faber
Arts & Media Archaeology research seminar
RIDING + Quartier Nomade @ De Cinema
Film screening about life behind the scenes at the fairground
"Enchantment: the impossible and the unbelieved" - Kristof Smeyers
Arts & Media Archaeology research seminar
"Magic and Science" - Daan Wegener
Arts & Media Archaeology research seminar