The Spectacle of the Flesh. Iconic Living Bodies in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Introduzione
Programma
Conferenza internazionale curata dalla Bibliotheca Hertziana.
Lunedì, 30.06.2016
Istituto Svizzero
Via Ludovisi 48
H11:00
Benvenuto: Tanja Michalsky
Introduzione: Michele Bacci
I. Negotiating iconicity with the ancient heritage
Modera: 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
Discussione
II. Constructing iconicity in the late antiquity
Modera: 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
Discussione
H17:30
Monks as living statues in Late Antiquity
Georgia Frank (New York)
Martedì, 31.05.2016
Villino Stroganoff
Via Gregoriana 22
III. The materiality of sanctity in late antiquity
Modera: 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
Discussione
IV. Medieval and Middle Byzantine heritage
Modera: 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
Discussione
H15:00
Conclusioni: Vladimir Ivanovici (Rome/Mendrisio)
Progetto e organizzazione
Michele Bacci e Vladimir Ivanovici in collaborazione con Tanja Michalsky