A workshop sponsored by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Federal Ministry of Education and Research, organized by Hannah Baader and Monica Juneja.
Art Histories Workshop
Fr. 06 Feb. 2015 – Sa. 07 Feb. 2015
Fr. 06 Feb. 2015 – Sa. 07 Feb. 2015
Art Histories and Terminologies II
In collaboration with Monica Juneja (University of Heidelberg/ Cluster of Excellence, Asia and Europe in a Global Context)
Universität Heidelberg, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies
Participants:
Saima Akhtar (University of California, Berkeley/ Art Histories Fellow 2014/15)
Meeting on Terms: Aesthetics and the Fordist Economy
Chair: Mohamed Elshahed
Isabel Ching (GPTS, Cluster of Excellence, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg)
Conceptualism: Translating a Modernist Term in Asian Contexts
Chair: Katharina Rode
David Colmenares (Columbia University, NY/ CAHIM Fellow 2015)
Antiquity and Immediacy in the Advent of the New World
Chair: William Kynan-Wilson
Lewis Doney (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2014/15, Berlin)
The “Tibetan Artist,” Identity, Religion and Politics
Chair: Hajnalka Kovacs
Mohamed Elshahed (Art Histories Fellow 2014/15)
On the Utility of Paul Rabinow’s “Middling Modernism”
Chair: Roxana Nakashima
Michael Falser (Global Art History, Cluster of Excellence, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg)
The Picturesque in Architectural History
Chair: Yu Yusen
Corinna Forberg (Global Art History, Cluster of Excellence. Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg)
The ‘Copy’ Then and Now: Formation and Shifts in the Meaning of a Concept
Chair: Michael Falser
Hajnalka Kovacs (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2014/15, Berlin)
Arts and Metaphysics: Art Terminology and Imagery in the Works of the Indo-Persian Poet Bedil (1644–1720)
Chair: Lewis Doney
William Kynan-Wilson (Art Histories Fellow 2014/15)
Religious Rhetoric in Ottoman Costume Albums
Chair: Peter Webb
Manfred Metzner (Wunderhorn Verlag, Heidelberg)
Heidelberg on Literary Space, Independent Publishing Houses and the Arts of Translation
Chair: Hannah Baader
Roxana Nakashima (Art Histories Fellow 2014/15)
Documents of English Iconoclasm in the Caribbean
Chair: David Colmenares
Jennifer Pochodzalla (GPTS, Cluster of Excellence, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg)
Elusive Terminologies in an ‘Unwieldy’ Field: Islamic Art History and Terminologies
Chair: Corinna Forberg
Katharina Rode (GPTS, Cluster of Excellence, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg)
Eloquent Terminology: Reproductive Practices in Early Modern Japanese Painting
Chair: Isabel Ching
Yudong Wang (Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou)
“Wet Drapery” as a Descriptive Term: The Case of Medieval Chinese sculpture
Chair: Ittai Weinryb
Peter Webb (SOAS University of London/ Art Histories Fellow 2014/15)
Rasm vs. Kitaba - Arabic Calligraphy between Image and Word
Chair: Saima Akhtar
Ittai Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center, New York/ Art Histories Fellow 2014/15)
Technology, Form, World: Open Questions in Medieval Globalism
Chair: Yudong Wang
Yu Yusen (GPTS, Cluster of Excellence, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg)
Khitai: A Persianate Version of Chinoiserie?
Chair: Jennifer Pochodzalla
