3 July 2025
Aarhus University, Kasernen

Programme :

9.30 Coffee

10.00 Welcome – Mads Heilskov, Aarhus Universitet

10.15 Keynote – Cynthia Hahn, Hunter College & The Graduate Center : The Place of Reliquaries and Relics in the Order of the Created World: Thiofrid of Echternach’s Flores epytaphii sanctorum

11.15 Session 1

David J Govantes-Edwards, Universidad de Córdoba : Out of natron and back again: mineral fluxes in glassmaking during the Middle Ages and in Early Colonial America

Mads Heilskov, Aarhus Universitet : Animated Stone: Vegetal Ornamentation in Pre-Romanesque Asturian Church Architecture

12.15 Lunch

13.15 Session 2

Iris Wenderholm, Universität Hamburg : The Modified Image of Natura in the 16 th century

Vera-Simone Schlutz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz- Max-Planck-Institut : Material Ecologies: Architecture, Objects, and Ornamentation along the East African Coast

Lisa Owen, University of North Texas : Environmental Art Practices in Early Medieval India

14.45 Coffee break

15.15 Keynote – David Morgan, Duke University : ‘Magic in the Web of It’: On the Agency of mens, Totems, and Relics

16.15 Concluding remarks – Mads Heilskov, Aarhus Universitet

16.20 Reception

Practical information:

There is no attendance fee but registration is required.

Please sign up before 24 June 2025 here: https://events.au.dk/conferenceartandecology/signup

Registration includes coffee breaks and reception; lunch is at the participants’ own discretion.

The conference will take place at Kasernen, Building
1584, Door B, Room 124, Langelandsgade 124, 8000
Aarhus C

For further information, please contact Mads Heilskov, madsheilskov@cc.au.dk