Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft,
Seminarraum,
Amalienstraße 38,
80539 München,
April 11 – 12, 2014
Seminarraum,
Amalienstraße 38,
80539 München,
April 11 – 12, 2014
Organizers :
Urte Krass (Institut für Kunstgeschichte der LMU München)
Romedio Schmitz-Esser (Historisches Seminar der LMU München)
Münchner Forschungszentrum Fundamente der Moderne
According to Jean-Claude Schmitt, « the dead have no existence other than that which the living imagine for them » – and sometimes, the living not only force them to exist in their memory but also to persist materially. By keeping the mortal remains above the earth, by dividing them, manipulating them and moving them to different places, the deceased are assigned a very active role within the world of the living. The title of this workshop includes, however, also a second « species » of migrating bodily fragments, namely body parts that are imagined to be moving by themselves. This workshop asks for the reasons why body parts were moved, in which way this happened, how they were visualized, and what the nature, both visual and material, of their transport media was. It asks for the benefits of body parts transcending space and time, and which body parts could be imagined to be moving.
Program
Friday, April 11
1.15-2 pm : Romedio Schmitz-Esser and Urte Krass (LMU Munich) – Introduction
2-2.30 pm : Kristin Marek (Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe) – Body Parts in / as Pictures
2.30-3pm : Discussion
Coffee break
3.45-4.30pm : Immo Warntjes (Queen’s University, Belfast, UK) – Moving Hearts and the Rise of Individualism in the 13th Century
Estella Weiss-Krejci (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) – Heart Burials in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
4.30-5pm : Discussion
Coffee break
5.30-6.15pm : Kay Peter Jankrift (TU Munich, Germany) – Dead Leg Walking. A Miraculous Transplantation and its Medico-Ethical Dimension
Sergius Kodera (New Design University, St. Pölten, Austria) – Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Shady Hands and Feet of Executed Criminals
6.15-6.45pm : Discussion
Break
19.30 : Public Lecture: Ann Marie Rasmussen (Duke University, USA) – Wandering Genitalia
Saturday, April 12
9.15-10am : Hester Schadee (LMU Munich, Germany)– Reviving the Corpse of Quintilian: Humanist Texts and the Language of Relics
Noria Litaker (University of Pennsylvania, USA) – Migrating Martyrs: The Visual Presentation of Whole-Body Roman Catacomb Saints in Counter-Reformation Bavaria
10-10.30am : Discussion
Coffee break
11-11.45am : Masza Sitek (Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland) – The Triple Movement of St Adalbert’s Head Masza Sitek (Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland)
Henrike Haug (TU Berlin, Germany) – Moving the Saints Through Texts
11.45-12.15 : Discussion
Source de l’information : ArtHist.net
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