On Ruins. Constructing Otherness through Mediterranean Antiquities between the 19th and 20th centuries
Program
9:30: Introduction: Simona Troilo (Università dell’Aquila)
10:00 – 12:00 : Men (and woman) at work
Chair: Laura Lulli (Università dell’Aquila)
Paolo del Vesco (Museo Egizio, Torino): Condemned to the Past. Peasants, Egyptologists and Anthropologists in early 20th century Egypt
Sarah Irving (Staffordshire University, Staffordshire): Archaeological labour and gender in Late Ottoman Palestine
Break
Simona Troilo (Università dell’Aquila): Digging in Crete: local labour in the Italian archaeological gaze
Fedra A. Pizzato (Università di Verona): A Mediterranean imagery. How archaeological materials influenced Giuseppe Sergi’s racial theory
12:00: Discussion
14:00 - 16:00: Contested ruins
Chair: Ilaria Porciani (Università di Bologna)
Yuri Marano (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia): A Tale of Two Cities. Athens, Thessaloniki and the Incorporation of the Byzantine Past in the Greek Historical Imagination
George L. Vlachos (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens), The Land of Many Strangers: The alienating encounters of Greek archeologists in interwar Macedonia
Break
Pınar Üre (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), Nikodim Kondakov and Imperial Russian appropriation of the Byzantine heritage in the late 19th century
Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar (Museum für Islamische Kunst im Pergamonmuseum, Berlin), The Untold Story of Ottoman Archaeologists: The Curious Case of Theodore Macridy
16:00: Discussion
16:30 - 17:10: Confidence Men and the Invention of Authenticity
Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University, New York), Soldiers of Fortune: Two Brothers and the Adventures of Antiquities from the Ottoman Mediterranean to Gilded Age New York
17:10 - 18:10: Final Discussion
Organized by: simona.troilounivaq.it
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Quellennachweis:
CONF: On Ruins (online, 2 Dec 21). In: ArtHist.net, 25.11.2021. Letzter Zugriff 19.04.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/35413>.