Testing the Limits:
Absence, Presence, and the Bounds of the Medieval and Early Modern Image


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

Thursday, March 12

10:00 Coffee

10:30 Welcome + Introduction to Conference
Ralph Ubl (Universität Basel/eikones)
Nancy Thebaut (Universität Basel/eikones)

Chair: Lucas Burkart (Universität Basel)

11:00 Christopher Heuer (University of Rochester)
Dürer/Evaporation

12:00 Amy Knight Powell (University of Southern California)
Boxes and Strings

1:00 Lunch Break

Chair: Barbara Schellewald (Universität Basel)

2:30 Nancy Thebaut (Universität Basel/eikones)
Elliptical Images of Christ

3:30 Meseret Oldjira (Princeton University)
Present but not Seen: The Image of Christ in Ethiopian Gospels

4:30 Coffee Break

5:00 Beate Fricke (Universität Bern)
Color and Chaos

6:00 Apéritif


Friday, March 13

10:00 Visit to Historisches Museum Basel, Barfüsserkirche (Barfüsserplatz 7)

12:30 Lunch at eikones

Chair: Henriette Hofmann (Universität Basel/eikones)

2:00 David Ganz (Universität Zurich)
Behind the Curtain of Silence: Imagining the Threshold between Divine and Human Words

3:00 Nicole Pulichene (Harvard University)
Ivory Palimpsests in the Early Medieval Liturgy

4:00 Coffee Break

4:30 Markus Rath (Universität Basel)
Substantial Transgressions: Color as prima materia in Early Modern Painting

5:30 End

Conference sponsored by eikones and the NOMIS Foundation. If you have questions about the event, please contact Nancy Thebaut, NOMIS fellow at eikones (nancy.thebautunibas.ch)