Quoting name: Joanna Ciemińska

Professional Category/Position: PhD Candidate; former researcher at PALAMUSTO

Research project title: Display, representation, consumption and the global world: a social and spatial history of collecting Asian porcelain in European palaces, 1450‒1750

Supervisor: Nuno Senos, IHA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST

Thematic areas: Early Modern Architecture, Consumption, Collecting, Court Studies

Position(s) within IHA: RG Member [Pre-Modern Visual and Material Cultures]

Contact: jcieminska@fcsh.unl.pt

CIÊNCIA ID: B117-1B4C-8463

ORCiD: 0000-0003-3859-7976

Biography

Joanna Ciemińska holds a B.A. and M.A. from both History of Art and French Philology (University of Warsaw) and is currently a PhD candidate in History of Art at NOVA FCSH. Her doctoral track is part of the European Training Network PALAMUSTO, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. It aims to study the socio-architectural history of early modern palaces and court residences, focusing on the phenomena of cultural exchange in a European comparative perspective, as well as to establish the best practices for managing the present-day palaces-museums. Within the project, Joanna’s interests are centred on collecting, consumption and spaces of display; she is currently writing a dissertation on the social and spatial history of collecting Asian porcelain in early modern palaces across Europe. In 2021 she was a visiting researcher at Utrecht University and at Complutense University in Madrid; she completed a professional secondment at Parques de Sintra – Monte da Lua in 2022 and was also a fellow in Herzog Ernst Fellowship at Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt in 2023. Apart from court studies and the history of consumption, her other research interests include heritage interpretation and curating heritage institutions, contemporary methodologies in the humanities, early modern iconography, practices of gift giving in the world of courts and sensory studies in historical research.

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Abbreviations:
RG – Research Group