Art, Space and Mobility
International Workshop

Organized by Ashley Jones, Mattia Guidetti and Emanuele Lugli

Funded by the Getty Foundation, the workshop of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut is designed as a platform for young scholars coming from all over the world to present their research as well as to exchange ideas on issues of globalization in the pre-modern world, cultural exchanges, the construction of topography and historiography, and stylistic transformations - all themes that are at the core of the "Art, Space, and Mobility" project.

Besides the keynote lecture, the workshop is open to a limited number of auditors.
For information and to register, please contact Mirela Ljevakovic at asmkhi.fi.it.

Program

STYLE AND IDENTITY
Thursday, 8 September 2011

9.00
Introductory Remarks

9.30
Elizabeth Williams
Wearing Silver in the Medieval Middle East

Clemente Beghi
At the End of the Silk Road: Continental Influences in the Art of Asuka and Nara Japan

Yuka Kadoi
The Iconography of the Lotus

11.00
Break

11.30
Norio Shinohara
Considerations Concerning the Production Technique of Buddhist Clay Figures in Central Asia and Western Regions

Ruggero Longo
Opus Sectile Decoration in Norman South Italy and the Language of Ornament in the Medieval Mediterranean

Serena Martucci di Scarfizzi
Wall-Painting Decoration in the Medieval Middle East: Highlights from the Citadel of Shayzar

13.00
Lunch

14.30
Roundtable Discussion
(Moderator: Ashley Jones)

16.00
Break

16.30
Florence in Etruria
A Visit to the Museo Archeologico

TOPOGRAPHIES AND MOBILITIES
Friday, 9 September 2011

9.30
Kristoffer Damgaard
Globalizing Structures – Structuring Globalization: Mobility and Exchange in the Early Islamic Red Sea (650-1100 CE)

Serena Autiero:
Indian Ocean Routes: Trade and Cultural Exchange

Rebecca Gould
The Circulation of Twelfth-Century Persian Prison Poetry

11.00
Break

11.30
Jesse Howell
From Adriatic to Marmara: Ragusan Agents in the Ottoman Balkans

Galia Halpern
"Fetch a Few Good Sailors to Explain the Mappamundi": Vernacular Geography in the Time of Charles V of France

13.00
Lunch

14.30
Roundtable discussion
(Moderator: Mattia Guidetti)

16.00
Break

18.00
Keynote Lecture
Ines G. Zupanov
The Circulation of Talents in Asia. People, Objects, Ideas (XVI-XVIIIth centuries)

CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
Saturday, 10 September 2011

9.00
Tolga Erkan
Celestial Bodies in Anatolian Seljuq Art

Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz
From Prophets to Philosophers to Kings: The Interpretation and Fabrication of Knowledge in the Ottoman Court of the Sixteenth Century

Jessica Keating
Cupid, the Kaiser, and the Shah: Allegorical Portraiture and the Origins of a Cosmopolitan Global Community in 1600

10.30
Break

11.00
Denis Ribouillault
"Imago Urbis": the Politics of City Views in the Mediterranean in the age of the Great Ottoman Empire

Laura L. Schmidt
Rational Representations: The Dissemination of al-Jazari's Automata 1106-1821

Sara Mondini
Construction of Identity and Construction of Authority in Islamic India

12.30
Lunch

13.30
Roundtable discussion
(Moderator: Emanuele Lugli)

15.00
Concluding Remarks
by Hannah Baader, Avinoam Shalem, and Gerhard Wolf

Location
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Palazzo Grifoni
Via dei Servi 51
50122 Firenze
Italy