Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
Mon 10 Oct 2016 – Mon 24 Oct 2016

Wed 29 Jun 2016 – Thu 30 Jun 2016

Sudanese Objects in German Collections – Images at Work
In cooperation with Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst and Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI), München
Mon 27 Jun 2016 | 17:00–19:00

Swimming in a Dark Sea: Rabindranath Tagore, Surrealism and the Colonial Unconscious, Paris, 1930
Rakhee Balaram (State University of New York, Albany/ Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Thu 23 Jun 2016 – Fri 24 Jun 2016

Writing the Margins
With Sven Spieker in cooperation with Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices
Mon 20 Jun 2016 | 17:00–19:00

“Feeling of a Space”: An Art History of Praise and Place in Eighteenth-Century India
Dipti Khera (Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Mon 13 Jun 2016 | 17:00–19:00

The Sudanese Objects in German Collections
Ahmed Adam (University of Khartoum / Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Mon 30 May 2016 | 17:00–19:00

Tracing Absence: Missing Provenance, ‘Lost’ Works, and the Blind-Spots of Art History in Turkey
Banu Karaca (Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Mon 23 May 2016 | 17:00–19:00

Roman Catholicism and Traditional Religions in the Gold Coast Aesthetic Clashes, Continuities and Ambiguities
Annalisa Butticci (University of Utrecht / Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Fri 29 Apr 2016 – Thu 12 May 2016

The Architectures, Aesthetic Practices, and Arts of Iran
Organized in collaboration with Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam (Art University, Tehran/ Art Histories Fellow 2014/15)
Mon 11 Apr 2016 | 17:00–19:00

Small Models of Large Buildings?: On the Miniature Temple in Medieval India
Subhashini Kaligotla (Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Mon 14 Dec 2015 – Tue 15 Dec 2015

Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art I
Conference at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, organized by Hannah Baader, Sugata Ray and Gerhard Wolf
Thu 10 Dec 2015 – Wed 16 Dec 2015

Art Histories, Environment and Ecology
In cooperation with Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Thu 03 Dec 2015 | 16:00–18:00

Artifacts as Sources of Wisdom and Wonder: Intersections between Ottoman Books on Architecture and European Travel Narratives in the 17th Century
Gül Kale (Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Mon 23 Nov 2015 | 16:00–18:00

Depicted Legitimacy among Text, Image, and Architecture: The British Library Shāhnāmeh manuscript (Or. 1403) reinterpreted in light of Sufi-sultan relations in 15th-century Deccan
Peyvand Firouzeh (Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Thu 19 Nov 2015 | 16:00–18:00

Mesopotamian Palatial Architecture: Part I – A Study of Space
Federico Buccellati (Assistant Director, IIMAS, Los Angeles/ Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Thu 05 Nov 2015 – Sat 07 Nov 2015

Global Modernisms: Contiguities, Infrastructures and Aesthetic Practices
Forum Transregionale Studien and Max Weber Stiftung in cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Convened by Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices
Tue 06 Oct 2015 – Thu 15 Oct 2015

Mon 06 Jul 2015 – Tue 07 Jul 2015

Writing Histories of Now: Modern and Contemporary Middle East Art and Architecture
Convened by Mohamed Elshahed and Clare Davies; organized jointly by the research programs “Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe” and “Art …