Conference

Images of the other In medIeval and early modern tImesThursday, June 17, to Saturday, June 19, 2010

Karl Jaspers Centrevoßstraße 2, Building 4400, heidelbergConference room 212 (second floor)

the conference is funded by the Cluster of excellence „asia and europe in a global Context“ at heidelberg University and organized by Lieselotte E. Saurma and Anja Eisenbeiß (Project D3: Images of Alterity)

CONTACTanja eisenbeißeisenbeiss@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

CONFERENCE VENUEKarl Jaspers Centrevoßstraße 2, Building 4400Conference room 212 (second floor)69115 heidelberg

for further information please visitwww.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de.

Cover picture: Universitätsbibliothek heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 142, Werkstatt Ludwig Henfflin, Pontus und Sidonia, Stuttgart (?), um 1475, fol. 106v.

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Karl Jaspers CentreInstitut für europäische Kunstgeschichte

Thursday, June 17, 2010evening lectureInstitut für europäische Kunstgeschichte, seminarstraße 4, hörsaal

7.30 to 8.45 pmSuzanne Conklin Akbari (University of Toronto)the other’s Images. Christian Iconoclasm and the Charge of muslim Idolatry in medieval europe

Friday, June 18, 2010KJC, voßstraße 2, Building 4400, room 212

9 to 9.15 amLieselotte E. Saurma (Heidelberg University)Welcome and Introductory remarks

Panel I: The Role of Images in Defining Otherness

9.15 to 10 am Joyce Kubiski (Western Michigan University)the emperor’s new Clothes. dressing the other in Palaeologan Court Costume in Quattrocento florentine Painting10 to 10.45 am Mika Natif (College of the Holy Cross) depicting the ‘other’ in the shah-nama (Book of Kings) from the 14th Century to the first half of the 16th Century10.45 to 11.15 amCoffee Break11.15 to 12 pmEva Frojmovic (University of Leeds)fictions of self and difference12 to 2 pm lunch Break

Panel II: the role of Images in the Practice of exclusion

2 to 2.45 pmNancy Bisaha (Vassar College)Inventing europe with aeneas silvius Piccolomini2.45 to 3.30 pmAnnette Hoffmann (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz)metamorphoses of the other: the Confrontation ofaaron and moses with Pharaoh’s magicians

3.30 to 4 pmCoffee Break4 to 4.45 pmLieselotte E. Saurma (Heidelberg University)sublime marks of Inferiority4.45 to 5.30 pmJohn Victor Tolan (Université de Nantes)tra il diavolo di rustico e il ninferno d’alibech: muslims and Jews in Boccaccio’s decameron

Saturday, June 19, 2010

9 to 9.15 amAnja Eisenbeiß (Heidelberg University)Introductory remarks

Panel III: assimilating the other. strategies and meanings

9.15 to 10 amLucy-Anne Hunt (Manchester Metropolitan University)outward and visible signs. medieval eastern Christian visual Constructions of Identity10 to 10.30 amCoffee Break10.30 to 11.15 amAnja Eisenbeiß (Heidelberg University)Between heaven and hell. Pagan Knowledge Cherished and demonized11.15 to 12 pmMaurizio Peleggi (National University of Singapore)Jin, khaek, farang. early modern thai representations of alterity12 to 2 pmlunch Break2 to 2.45 pmAnthony Cutler (The Pennsylvania State University)Identity, alterity, Community. theory and Practice in the study of medieval Cultures

Reflections on Images of the Other: Concluding DebateFelicitas Schmieder (Fernuniversität Hagen)

Images of the other In medIevaland early modern tImes