30.05.2016—31.05.2016

The Spectacle of the Flesh. Iconic Living Bodies in Late Antiquity and Beyond

Konferenz, Roma

Intro

Program

Dates
30.05.2016
31.05.2016
Location
Roma
Category
Konferenz

International conference curated by Bibliotheca Hertziana.

 

Monday, 30.06.2016
Istituto Svizzero
Via Ludovisi 48

H11:00
Welcome: Tanja Michalsky
Introduction: Michele Bacci

I. Negotiating iconicity with the ancient heritage
Moderation: Michele Bacci (Fribourg)

H11:20
Stylization of the body and embodied values in Classical Antiquity
Maria Luisa Catoni (Lucca)

H11:50
Images as people and people as images: Concomitant themes from Homer to Christian Antiquity
James A. Francis (Kentucky)

H12:40
L’imperatore come icona vivente nelle rappresentazioni letterarie della tarda antichità
Valerio Neri (Bologna)

H13:10
Discussion

II. Constructing iconicity in the late antiquity
Moderation: Barbara Bruderer-Eichberg (Rome)

H15:00
Embodying one’s god: Initiation and iconicity in Late Antiquity
Vladimir Ivanovici (Rome/Mendrisio)

H15:30
Spectacula turpitudinum: Dancing bodies between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Donatella Tronca (Bologna)

H16:00
Late Antique Syria: The body in text and community
Hannah Hunt (Leeds)

H16:30
Discussion

H17:30
Monks as living statues in Late Antiquity
Georgia Frank (New York)

Tuesday, 31.05.2016
Villino Stroganoff
Via Gregoriana 22

III. The materiality of sanctity in late antiquity
Moderation: Daniela Mondini (Mendrisio)

H09:30
Mise en scène du corps du Christ dans l’Antiquité tardive paléochrétienne
Jean-Michel Spieser (Fribourg)

H10:00
Distributing the iconic body: Qal’at Sem’an and the agency of Symeon Stylites the Elder
Heather Hunter-Crawley (Swansea)

H10:30
Iconic sacred substances: Material expressions of imperial space and body
Maria Cristina Carile (Bologna)

H11:00
Discussion

IV. Medieval and Middle Byzantine heritage
Moderation: Tanja Michalsky (Rome)

H11:40
Hidden in plain sight: The clerical body as vanishing point
Warren T. Woodfin (New York)

H12:10
Healing severed limbs: Loss, restoration, and transformation of corporeal integrity in the Later Middle Ages
Pierre-Yves Theler (Fribourg)

H14:00
Real and yet spiritual, fleshly and yet fictional, bodily and yet iconic: The aesthetics of figura in Late Medieval Art
Klaus Krüger (Berlin)

H14:30
Discussion

H15:00
Conclusion: Vladimir Ivanovici (Rome/Mendrisio)

Concept and organization
Michele Bacci and Vladimir Ivanovici in collaboration with Tanja Michalsky