The CIHA World Congress (Comité International d'Histoire de l’Art) returns to Italy after 40 years since its last appointment and will be held in Florence, from September 1st to 6th, 2019.
"Motion: Tranformation" is the title of the 35th CIHA Congress which has been proposed as an invitation to study the specific “life” of artworks, artifacts and images: animation, “lifelyness”, efficacy or “emanation” are phenomena that in many cultures, since prehistoric times, are linked to crafted objects, images or rites.
One figure the Florentine initiative wants to rethink is that of the artist or “maker”, seen in a transcultural perspective. The combination of art historical and anthropological expertise is a strong point of the Congress, to better understand the position of the “animated” object in the formation and transformation of collective identities and in transcultural negotiations.
The Congress invites comparative approaches or explorations of dynamics of connectivity. In its broad chronological and geographical range it is specifically interested in epochal changes and the processes of globalization under colonial or postcolonial premises.
For further details about the nine sessions and the over one hundred speakers please visit this link http://www.ciha-italia.it/florence2019/2018/04/07/sessions-papers/
The Congress, organized by CIHA Italia in collaboration with Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, will take place in Firenze Fiera, in Villa Vittoria’s halls and in some of the most prestigious historical buildings of the town able to host the 1,000 expected participants, such as Palazzo Vecchio and others.

The extensive programme offers more than one hundred speeches by scholars from all over the world. Visits to well- known and less known museums and florentine collections will also be arranged, with thematic tours connected to the Congress, thanks to the special collaboration with the Directors of the different institutions.


REGISTRATION
http://noemacongressi.onlinecongress.it/MotionTransformation2019


PROGRAM

Sunday, September 1st

Opening at the Teatro dell'Opera Firenze
Registration is possible from 2.00 pm onward.


Monday, September 2nd

Session 1
The Mystical Mind as a Divine Artist: Visions, Artistic Production, Creation of Images through Empathy

CHAIRS
Akira AKIYAMA
University of Tokyo

Giuseppe CAPRIOTTI
Università di Macerata

Valentina ŽIVKOVIĆ
Institute for Balkan Studies, Beograd

SPEAKERS
Alessandra BARTOLOMEI ROMAGNOLI
Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma
The Painted Word. Forms of the Mystic Language in XIII-XV Centuries

Claudia CIERI VIA
Sapienza Università di Roma
Beyond the Visible. Aby Warburg and his Last Considerations about Images

Michele BACCI
Université de Fribourg
Holy Sites, Ecstatic Experience, and Icon-Generating Visions

Gia TOUSSAINT
Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
Heart and Cross in the Works of Henry Suso

Sergi Sancho FIBLA
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Representing the Trinity in Circles. Between Iconography and Theology in the Beatrice d'Ornacieux's (1303) Visions

Teruaki MATSUZAKI
Tokyo Kasei Gakuin University
Kake-zukuri: A Japanese Building Type of Mountain Religion for the Mystical Experience

Lamia BALAFREJ
University of California, Los Angeles
Mystical Visions in the Desert

Philippe MOREL
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
An Introduction to Spiritual Contemplation: the San Bernardo's Vision from Filippino Lippi to Fra Bartolomeo

Raffaele ARGENZIANO
Università degli Studi di Siena
The "Represented" World of Colomba da Rieti and Domenica da Paradiso

Lauro MAGNANI
Università degli Studi di Genova
Imaginative Vision and Artistic Image: from Meditation Tool to Post-Experience Testimony


Session 7
Artist, Power, Public

CHAIRS
Giovanna CAPITELLI
Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma

Christina STRUNCK
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

SPEAKERS

Panel 1. The Agency of the Image

Gaetano CURZI
Università di Chieti-Pescara
The Power of Images and Images of Power: the Replicas of the Lateran Saviour in Central Italy

Hannah BAADER
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
The King's Finger and the Mermaid's Body. Gender, Power and the Sea

Panel 2. Power Relations and the Early Modern Court

Guido REBECCHINI
Courtauld Institute, London
Art and Persuasion in Paul III's Rome

Carlotta PALTRINIERI
Medici Archive Project, Firenze
The Social and Spatial Dimensions of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno

Panel 3. Negotiation and Translation

Priyani ROY CHOUDHURY
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Architecture as Visual Language of Imperial Identity in Fatehpur Sikri

Friederike WEIS
Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin
Unprecedented Images of Self-confident Women in Mughal India

Marco FOLIN/ Monica PRETI
Università degli Studi di Genova/ Musée du Louvre, Paris – Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), Firenze
The Wonders of the Ancient World: a Western Imagery in Translation

Roslyn LEE HAMMERS
University of Hong Kong
The Power of Transformation: Qianlong's Command of his Empire and its Cultural Traditions in the Garden of the Clear Ripples

Panel 4. Border-Crossings

Stefano CRACOLICI
Durham University
Lost in Darkness: The Hazy Origins of National Art in Mexico

Leonardo SANTAMARÍA-MONTERO
Universidad de Costa Rica, Alajuela
From Colony to Republic: Political Images and Ceremonies in Costa Rica (1809- 1858)

Alex BREMNER
University of Edinburgh
Propagating Power: Gender, Language, and Empire in the English Baroque Revival (1885-1920)

Giulia MURACE
Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Art and Diplomacy. Projects for a South American Academy in Rome (1896-1911)

Panel 5. Artist, power and public today

Zhuge YI
Hangzhou Normal University
Chinese Contemporary New Media Art

Katarzyna JAGODZIŃSKA
Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków
Between Museum as a Symbol and Museum as a Forum. Power Relations in Building Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

[Beatrice VON BORMANN
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Decolonizing the Collection: a Challenge for the 21st Century Museum]


Tuesday, September 3rd

Session 3
Art and nature. Cultures of Collecting

CHAIRS
Marco COLLARETA
Università di Pisa

Avinoam SHALEM
Columbia University, New York

SPEAKERS

Panel 1. Taxonomies

Dimitrios LATSIS
Ryerson University, Toronto
Aby Warburg in Arizona: The Denkraum [Thinking Space] of Nature and Art

Eva-Maria TROELENBERG
Universiteit Utrecht
"No quill and no brush can describe this splendor": Art, Nature and Developmental Vision in the Age of the Suez Canal

Anja GREBE
Danube University Krems
Art, Nature, Metamorphosis: Maria Sibylla Merian as Artist and Collector

Emmelyn BUTTERFIELD-ROSEN
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Taxonomies of Art and Nature after Darwin

Joao OLIVEIRA DUARTE
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Archiving nature. From Vandelli's Curiosity Cabinet to the Natural History Cabinet

Panel 2. Against (and pro) Nature?

Elizabeth J. PETCU
University of Edinburgh
Form Does Not Follow Function: Bernard Palissy Imitates Natural Processes

Matthew MARTIN
University of Melbourne
The Philosopher's Stone – Art and Nature in Eighteenth-Century European Porcelain Production

Stefan LAUBE
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Collecting the Other Way Round: From Collecting to Being Collected

Christopher HEUER
University of Rochester
Art of/as Inundation: Dürer's 1525 Flood

Dipti KHERA
New York University, Institute of Fine Art
The Season for Art


Session 4
Art and Religions

CHAIRS
Mateusz KAPUSTKA
Universität Zürich – Kunsthistorisches Institut

Andrea PINOTTI
Università degli Studi di Milano

SPEAKERS
Carlo SEVERI
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
'Parer vivo'. An Epistemology of the Semblance of Life in Renaissance Perspective

Ewa RYBALT
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin
When and Why the Light becomes Flesh. More about Titian's "Annunciations"

Zuzanna SARNECKA
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa
Divine Sculptural Encounters in the Fifteenth-Century Italian Household

Caroline VAN ECK
University of Cambridge
Sacrifices Material and Immaterial. The Survival of Graeco-Roman Candelabra

León GARCÍA GARAGARZA
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
NECUEPALIZTLI: Metamorphosis and Transformation in Mesoamerican Art and Epistemology

Naman AHUJA
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ābhāsa (again)- External Images for Self-Reflection and Capturing an Inner Essence

Pamela D. WINFIELD
Elon University
Visual Mimesis, Textual Nemesis: Animation and Alienation in Medieval Japanese Zen Master Portraits

Jeehee HONG
McGill University, Montréal
The Meditating Monkey: Animation and Agency in Chan Buddhist Art


Wednesday, September 4th

OFFSITE

Visit the conference website for complete information about onsite registration hours, options and fees.
Florence
1) Renaissance Sculpture Bargello & Orsanmichele
2) Renaissance Picture, Santa Maria Novella
3) The Stibbert experience
4) The Opificio delle Pietre Dure Museum and Workshop
5) Museo di Storia Naturale, Antropologia ed Etnologia
6) Biblioteca Laurenziana and Medici Chapels
7) The Galleria dell'Accademia
8) Opera del Duomo, the Cathedral Museum
9) Uffizi Galleries
10) Treasury of the Grand Dukes in the Pitti Palace
11) San Marco Museum
12) Museo Novecento

Other destinations in Tuscany
Prato: Cathedral, Palazzo Pretorio and Centro Pecci
Pisa: The Camposanto recently restored, the Museum of Ancient Ships of Pisa, the Museum of Human Anatomy "Filippo Civinini"
Siena: Cathedral, Palazzo Pubblico, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Lucca: Cathedral, Villa Giunigi, Palazzo Mansi


Thursday, September 5th

Session 5
De-Sign and Writing

CHAIRS
Lihong LIU
University of Rochester

Marco MUSILLO
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut

SPEAKERS
Sanja SAVKIC / Erik VELASQUEZ GARCIA
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México
Arts in Letters: the Aesthetics of Ancient Maya Script

Chen LIANG
Universität Wien
Signs from the "Celestial Thearch": Talismans in the Tomb-quelling Texts of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Margaret GRAVES
Indiana University Bloomington
Articulating the Medieval Islamic Object: Making Space, Movement, and Sound through Epigraphy

Béla Zsolt SZAKÁCS
Central European University, Budapest
Written on the Wall: Script and Decoration in Medieval Central Europe

Jens BAUMGARTEN
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
From Signs, Letters and Hidden Paintings: Creative Processes in Colonial Context in Iberoamerica

Rebecca DUFENDACH et al
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Moteuczoma Xocoyotzin Transformed in the "Three Texts" of the Florentine Codex

Huiping PANG
The Art Institute of Chicago
Nine Drafts for One Stroke (jiuxiu yiba): A Mural Painter's Underdrawings on Handscrolls

Yu-Chi LAI
Academia Sinica, Taipei
The Literati Baimiao Tradition Encountering European Drawings

Eugenia BOGDANOVA-KUMMER
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich
Modern Zen Calligraphy: Nantenbo Toju between Past and Present

Tutta PALIN
Turun Yliopisto, Turku
Modern Disegno: Embodied Splendor of Lines

Virve SARAPIK
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Tallinn
In-between: Image, Picture, and Sound-picture

Arthur VALLE
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian Pontos Riscados: Spiritual Invocation, Nomination, Geometric Thought


Session 8
The Ghost in the Machine: The Disappearance of Artists, Critics, Viewers?

CHAIRS
Rakhee BALARAM
University at Albany

Flavio FERGONZI
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

SPEAKERS
Kwan Kiu LEUNG
Royal College of Art, London
Visibility and Criticism in the Public Sphere

Nadia RADWAN
Institut für Kunstgeschichte Universität Bern
Invisible Stories: The other Criteria of Art Criticism in the Middle East

Ling MIN
Fine Arts Academy of Shanghai University
What is Lost in the Transformation of Art Criticism in China?

José Antonio GONZÁLEZ ZARANDONA
Deakin University, Melbourne
Destruction of Images; Images of Destruction: Critical Stances of Contemporary Heritage

Francesco GUZZETTI
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
The Standard: Questioning Subjectivity in the Early 1970s

Lola LORANT
Université Rennes 2
From Art Criticism to Art History, Challenging the Environmental Denial in the Writings of the Nouveau Réalisme in the Transatlantic World

Maria de Fátima MORETHY COUTO
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Bringing the Spectator to the Foreground: Julio Le Parc and Lygia Clark at the Venice Biennials (1966 and 1968)

Peter BELL / Leonardo IMPETT
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma
The Choreography of the Annunciation: Reverse Engineering Baxandall's Pictorial Plot

Pamela BIANCHI
Université Paris 8
The Digital Presence of the Ephemeral: Three Study Cases

Sara DE CHIARA
Sapienza Università di Roma
Edmond de Belamy or Bel Ami: the Rise of the "Non-Artist" vs the Artist's Retreat


Friday, September 6th

Session 6
Building an Icon: Architecture from Project to Product

CHAIRS
Filiz ÇAKIR PHILLIP
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

Dario DONETTI
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut

SPEAKERS
Sharon SMITH
Arizona State University, Tempe
Of Architecture, Icons and Meaning: Encountering the pre-modern City

Yu YANG
Kyushu University, Fukuoka
Shadows of Bright Houses: Photographs of Architecture in Colonial Manchuria (1900-1945)

Elena O'NEILL
Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Montevideo
The Architecture of Eladio Dieste: Challenging Technology, Structure and Beauty

Roberto GARGIANI
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

TBC


Session 2
Matter and Materiality in Art and Aesthetics: from Time to Deep Time

CHAIRS
Francesca BORGO
University of St Andrews

Riccardo VENTURI
Villa Medici - Accademia di Francia a Roma

SPEAKERS
Fabian JONIETZ
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Renaissance Dust

Nicolas CORDON
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
The Lifelyness of Stucco: Materiality and Human Presence in Early Modern Decorative Systems

Bronwen WILSON
University of California, Los Angeles
Lithic Images, Jacopo Ligozzi, and the Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Verna (1612)

Amy OGATA
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Making Iron Matter in the French Second Empire

Siobhan ANGUS
York University, Toronto
The Labor of Photography: a Materialist Analysis of Occupational Portraits

Jeanette KOHL
University of California, Riverside
'Matters' of Life and Death – From San Gennaro to Marc Quinn

Liliane EHRHART
Princeton University
Freezing Time: Marc Quinn's Self Series

Jing YANG
Jyväskylän Yliopisto, Jyväskylä
Chinese Art in the Age of the Anthropocene: The Interconnectedness between Humans and Non-human Entities

Nicole SULLY
University of Queensland, Brisbane
By the Silvery Light of the Monument: Lucency and the Dematerialising of the Memorial

Stefania PORTINARI
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Venice Biennale as World Map: Cartographies, Geological Interventions, Landmark Layers


Session 9
Voyage

CHAIRS
Marzia FAIETTI
Gallerie degli Uffizi/ Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut

Ana GONÇALVES MAGALHÃES
MAC USP - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo

SPEAKERS
Luiz MARQUES
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Italian Works of Art from XVI to XVIII Century Introduced in Brazil, Unknown or Less Known in Italy (and Brazil)

Sabina DE CAVI
Universidad de Cordoba
Portolano "normale": Western Circulations and Identities despite the Atlantic Worlds

David YOUNG KIM
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Giorgio Vasari and Antonio Vieira: the Travels of Transatlantic Art Theory

Maria BERBARA
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Representations of Brazil in Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries: between Domestication and Ferocity

Alexander GAIOTTO MIYOSHI
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
The Emigrants (1910) by Antonio Rocco: Voyage of a Painting and its Painter

Miyuki AOKI GIRARDELLI
Istanbul Technical University
The "Orient" in the West: Japanese Architect Ito Chuta's Travels in the Ottoman Empire and its Challenge to the Oriental Narrative

Paolo RUSCONI
Università degli Studi di Milano
"Un'idea del Brasile". Pietro Maria Bardi's Second Life

Gerhard WOLF
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Beyond the Voyage


Poster presentation throughout the Congress

Participants (in alphabetical order)
Jefferson DE ALBUQUERQUE MENDES (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Tatiane DE OLIVEIRA ELIAS (Universidade do Porto- Universidade Federal de Santa Maria)
Pedro LUENGO (Universidad de Sevilla)
Renato MENEZES RAMOS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
Hiroko NAGAI (Kyushu University)
Haoxue NIE (Guangzhou Academy of Fine arts)
Izumi Florence OTA (University of Tokyo)
Larissa SOUSA DE CARVALHO (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Jaqueline SOUZA VELOSO (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Yuning TENG (Center for Visual Studies Peking University)
Yoko TSUCHIYAMA (Waseda University)


Saturday, September 7th

Offsite out of Tuscany
Bologna: Pinacoteca, San Petronio, Oratorio Santa Maria della Vita, San Giacomo Maggiore, MAMbo
Venezia: Biennale Arte 2019
Roma: TBC


Executive Board CIHA
Marzia Faietti (President), Gallerie degli Uffizi/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Tommaso Casini, Libera Università di Lingue and Comunicazione IULM Milano
Giovanni Maria Fara, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Elena Fumagalli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Massimiliano Rossi, Università del Salento
Congress Scientific Committee
Claudia Cieri Via, Università di Roma La Sapienza; Marco Collareta, Università di Pisa; Claudia Conforti, Università di Tor Vergata Roma; Marzia Faietti, Gallerie degli Uffizi/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut; Giuliana Ericani, Ex Museo Civico di Bassano; Maria Grazia Messina, già Università di Firenze; Antonio Pinelli, Università di Firenze; Massimiliano Rossi, Università del Salento; Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistoriches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut

Coordination of the Organizing Secretariat and Executive Secretariat of the Scientific Committee
Firenze Città Nascosta, Marcella Cangioli and Alice Rossi
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