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