JERUSALEM AS NARRATIVE SPACE / ERZÄHLRAUM JERUSALEM

6th - 8th December 2007
Organized by Annette Hoffmann and Gerhard Wolf

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut

Jerusalem is a site of historical events and eschatological expectation.
It could be experienced in its "real" place, but it was also handed down
through collective memory and belief, or "merely" imagined. Over the
centuries, in its central role for the Jewish, Christian and Islamic
cultures, Jerusalem became the setting or motif of oral, written and
pictorial narratives. These narratives range from the Bible and Apocryphal
legends, historiographical texts and novels to "real", fictional or
spiritual pilgrim's reports. Jerusalem thus became a narrated space as
well as a "narrating" space, or a continuous origin of narratives.

The terms "narrative" and "space" are in themselves multi-layered and
their conflation built a highly complex concept. The colloquium will look
at the latter not only in the sense of the Bakhtinian chronotopos, but
also by inviting a broader approach to the study of narrative space. Basic
questions that could be addressed are: How and on what levels has
Jerusalem been transformed into a narrative space? What correlations can
be observed between narrative and iconic dimensions regarding the holy
place(s)? What role do different media (text and image), authors/artists
and the public play, and what are their dynamics? How do pictorial and
textual narratives contribute to the construction and transmission of an
image of Jerusalem? How is Jerusalem portrayed in narrative pictures
(scenes of the Passion, for example) and in illustrated books such as the
Bible and the Haggadah? How are places specified in and by the narrative?
How does the narrative become associated with places? How does the
narrative create and/or transfer places? In the colloquium, the study of
the "translocation" of Jerusalem (in texts, images, architecture,
landscape or relics) will try to overcome the isolated notion of a "copy"
or topographical resemblance.

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Program:

THURSDAY 6TH DECEMBER

15.00
Gerhard Wolf and Annette Hoffmann
Introduction

Displacement, dissemination, reenactment

15.20
Shulamit Laderman (Jerusalem / Ramat-Gan)
Jerusalem as Narrative and Symbolic Space for Jews and Christians of the
Fourth Century.

16.00
Gustav Kühnel (Tel Aviv)
Architectural mis-en-scenes and Pictorial Turns in Jerusalem

break

17.00
George Gagoshidze (Tbilisi)
Mtskheta - Georgian Jerusalem or Jerusalemian Toponymy of Mtskheta and
Svetitskhovel

17.40
Alexei Lidov (Moscow)
Narrative and Iconic in the Byzantine Spatial Imagery of Jerusalem

18.30 Evening lecture
Bianca Kühnel (Jerusalem)
Jerusalem between Narrative and Iconic

FRIDAY 7TH DECEMBER

Site, memory, authentification

9.20
Serge Ruzer (Jerusalem)
Jerusalem as Place of the Remote Exile: An Inverted Sacred Geography in
the Syriac Cave of Treasures

10.00
Ariane Westphälinger (Paderborn)
Realgeographische Gegenwart und biblische Vergangenheit. Die Beschreibung
Jerusalems in früh- und hochmittelalterlichen Pilgerberichten

10.40
Robert Ousterhout (Philadelphia) The Memory of Jerusalem: Text,
Architecture, and the Craft of Thought

break

11.40
Eva Frojmovic (Leeds)
Jewish Authenticators Around the Cross

12.20
Katrin Kogman-Appel (Beer Sheva)
The Temple of Jerusalem and the Hebrew Millenium in a Thirteenth-Century
Jewish Prayer Book

lunch

Textual space 1

16.00
Silvan Wagner (Bayreuth)
Irdisches und himmlisches Jerusalem als Auslagerungsort einer
Minnereligion im 'Herzmaere' Konrads von Würzburg

16.40
Claudia Olk (Berlin / München)
Die Poetik Jerusalems in Mandeville's Travel

break

Mapping

17.40
Ingrid Baumgärtner (Kassel)
Kartieren von Erinnerung. Jerusalem in mittelalterlichen Kartenräumen

18.20
Pnina Arad (Jerusalem)
Mapping Divinity

SATURDAY 8TH DECEMBER

Between absence and presence

09.20
Gunnar Mikosch (Basel)
Von der Anwesenheit einer Abwesenden - Jerusalem in der jüdischen
Bildkultur des Mittelalter

10.00
Barbara Baert (Leuven)
In touch with Jerusalem. Narrative space and Noli me tangere. With
15th-century case-studies between North and South of the Alps

Buildings, objects, reification

10.40
Robert Edwin Schick (Bamberg)
Christian Identifications of Muslim Buildings in Jerusalem

break

11.40
Yamit Rachman-Schrire (Jerusalem)
"Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae". Stones telling the story of Jerusalem

12.20
Rachel Milstein (Jerusalem)
Jerusalem as an object in Islamic narrative paintings.

lunch

Pictorial space

15.00
Iris Grötecke (Bochum / Dresden)
Orte und Zeiten der Passion: Ewigkeit, Gegenwart, Ferne - Die
Jerusalemdarstellung im Kalvarienberg um 1400

15.40
Tim Urban (Karlsruhe / Florence):
Topographien der Erzählung. Hans Memlings "Turiner Passion"

break

16.20
Mila Horký (Florence)
Jerusalem im Bild - Bilder von Jerusalem? Die Pilgerfahrt von Kurfürst
Friedrich III. ins Heilige Land 1493 und ihre Darstellungen

Textual space 2

17.20
Anastasia Keshman (Jerusalem)
Night Flight to Jerusalem - a Narrative for a Far-Away Holy Place

18.00
Kai Nonnenmacher (Regensburg)
Gefährdete Einheit: Zur Raumkonzeption in Tassos Gerusalemme liberata

18.40
Final discussion

Location:

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut
Via Giuseppe Giusti 38
50121 Florence ? Italy

Contact

Annette Hoffmann
Tel. (+39) 055-2491173
e-mail: hoffmannkhi.fi.it

Maja Häderli
Tel. (+39) 055-2491122
e-mail: haederlikhi.fi.it