Department of Art History, University of Vienna, 02. - 03.11.2018
Deadline: Jun 1, 2018
Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond
“It is always dramatic to cross a frontier, even though the frontier is only a brook”
(V. S. Pritchett, Geographical Magazine, December, 1942)
This workshop is organized as part of the project “Byzantine Stone Bridges: Material Evidence and Cultural Meaning,” managed by Dr. Galina Fingarova at the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna. It is generously funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Elise-Richter-Program. For further information, see http://bridges.univie.ac.at/.
This project focuses on a long-overlooked aspect of architectural and cultural history – Byzantine stone bridges. It investigates the particularities of this type of architectural monuments built from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries on territories under imperial Byzantine rule. It addresses the following enquiries: 1) reconstructing the significance of Byzantine stone bridges in the context of architectural history by analyzing the structural and technical innovations that are evident in the preserved monuments; and 2) understanding the importance of bridges as sources for a Byzantine cultural and social history, in particular, on a political, symbolic, and metaphorical level.
This workshop will expand on the project’s research questions and methodological approaches by placing these in a broader context. The workshop encourages an interdisciplinary discourse on the unique characteristic of rivers to define territories and boundaries and on their crossing as a means of connection in a real and figurative sense. It seeks to transcend both the territorial and chronological limits of the Byzantine Empire.
Confirmed Keynote: Professor Jim Crow (University of Edinburgh)
Scholars working in the fields of Roman, Late Antique, Byzantine, Medieval, Ottoman, and Middle Eastern Studies
are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute papers connected with but not limited to the following topics:
• Riverine landscapes;
• River crossings as political, social, military, or commercial events;
• Urban and rural communities on and along rivers;
• Architectural and engineering achievements in hydrology;
• Ford and ferry;
• Pontoon, wooden, and stone bridges;
• Related structures such as aqueducts, mills, etc.;
• Mythological and religious aspects of river crossings;
• Emotional experiences at or traversing rivers.
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words, including a title and an abstract, together with a short CV to Dr. Galina Fingarova (galina.fingarova@univie.ac.at) by June 1, 2018.
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond (Vienna, 2-3 Nov 18). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 14, 2018. <https://arthist.net/archive/17862>.
Guillermo Altares, El País, 10 de mayo de 2018.
Una de ellas, la investigadora principal de este proyecto, Petrifying Wealth.
Lee artículo completo aquí.
TESTIMONIO Y VERDAD EN LA ESPAÑA MODERNA
- Fernando Rodríguez Mediano (ILC-CCHS, CSIC), "Entre el corazón y la lengua. La relación entre historia y verdad en el siglo XVI".
- Juan Pimentel (IH-CCHS, CSIC), "Visto y no visto. Retóricas de la presencia y la ausencia en la vida experimental".
- Felipe Pereda (Harvard University), "Yo lo vi. Goya, el testimonio de la memoria".
Lunes 7 de mayo 2018 de 10h–14h.
Sala 0E Menéndez Pidal (planta baja)
CCHS-CSIC
C/ Albasanz 26-28
28037 Madrid
Un joven investigador español, Enrique Jiménez, especialista en asirio, que fue becario en el ILC-CSIC, ha obtenido una de estas becas con un proyecto de Humanidades Digitales, MF SOFJA KOVALEVSKAJA AWARD FOR YOUNG RESEARCH TALENTS
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 31 JULY 2018
Valuable seed capital and the best conditions for junior researchers from
abroad: with the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes outstanding talent and creative approaches to research.
Award winners receive up to €1.65 million each, enabling them to spend five years establishing and heading their own research groups at a research institution in Germany.
Junior academics of all disciplines from abroad with outstanding qualifications, who completed their doctorates within the last six years, are eligible to apply for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award. Applications may also be submitted on completion of doctoral studies. Six awards are scheduled to be granted.
Visit www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp_en[2] for further information and a link to the online application package.
ADVICE AND CONTACT
If you have any questions about the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award or would like individual guidance, please contact us at info@avh.de.
You will find examples of previous award winners in the humanities, social and natural sciences in the Sofja Kovalevskaja dossier at www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/dossier-kovalevskaja-award.html[3].
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[2] http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp_en
[3] http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/dossier-kovalevskaja-award.html
[4] http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp
[5] http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/dossier-kovalevskaja-preis.html
La Fundación Santa Maria la Real: un proyecto de desarrollo a partir del Patrimonio.
Jaime Nuño González
Director del Centro de Estudios del Románico
Fundación Santa Maria la Real del Patrimonio Histórico
Martes, 17 abril 2018, 12h
Sala Juan Cabré
CCHS-CSIC
C/ Albasanz 26-28
28037 Madrid
Organizado por, Ana Rodríguez.
The year 1999 saw the publication of a collection of articles that was to have a major impact on the study of interreligious polemics and apologetics: The Majlis. Interreligious Encounters in Medieval Islam, edited by Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, Mark R. Cohen, Sasson Somekh and Sidney H. Griffith (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz). The nine articles in this volume dealt with true or fictitious reports of religious, philosophical and even literary disputations and exchanges said to have taken place at scholarly sessions or literary salons hosted by political or religious leaders in some of the main centres of the Muslim world. Since then, much work has been done on this genre and many new texts have been unearthed that deserve to be edited and analysed.
Apart from presenting new insights into texts that were already known, the specific aim of the proposed conference is to explore such newly discovered texts. And whereas the study of majlis debates has so far dealt mainly with the so-called religions of the Book, that is, besides Islam: Judaism and Christianity,we aim to broaden the scope by including Zoroastrianism as well as Buddhism. However, the conference will not only deal with polemical and apologetical exchanges between members of different communities, but also with intra-religious disputations. We have therefore also solicited papers focusing on exchanges between members of different branches or schools within the same religion that existed in the Islamicate world (e.g. Ismāʿīlī vs. Sunni, Melkite vs. “Nestorian”, Karaite vs. Rabbanite and Samaritan, Mālikī vs. Ḥanafī).
Nadine Schibille and Jorge de Juan Ares
IRAMAT-CEB, UMR 5060, CNRS (Orleans, Francia)
Glass supply in medieval Spain:an emerging Iberian glass industry
Miércoles, 14 de Marzo de 2018, 12:00h
Sala Juan Cabré
Instituto de Historia, CCHS-CSIC
Organiza: Eduardo Manzano
Seminario Internacional al-Muwahhidūn. El despertar del califato almohade
que tendrá lugar los días 12, 13, 14 y 15 de Marzo de 2018, en el Conjunto Monumental de la Alhambra y el Generalife, Palacio de Carlos V.
MATRICULACIÓN
Plazo de solicitud, hasta 72 horas antes del comienzo de la actividad académica, siempre que queden plazas disponibles.
Código del seminario: 3757
PROCEDIMIENTO
El número de plazas es limitado. Se cubrirán por riguroso orden de entrada de matrículas.
Se adjunta folleto informativo en donde aparece el programa del evento y se especifica el procedimiento de matriculación.
Fabio Giovannini (IH-CSIC)
Leer la piedra: un método para conocer la historia a través de la arqueología de la arquitectura
6 de Marzo 2018, 12 hrs.
Sala Juan Cabré
CCHS-CSIC
C/ Albasanz 26-28
28037 Madrid
Organizado por, Ana Rodríguez.
La implantación de nuevos fenómenos religiosos en la península ibérica (Siglos III-XI)
Aceptaciones, rechazos y compromisos
5-6 de Marzo
Lugar de celebración:
Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
