Datum/Zeit
Date(s) - 30/05/2023 - 31/05/2023
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Veranstaltungsort
Grimm Zentrum
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Contact: Transcultural Techniques and Metaphors of Imprinting
International Conference
Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Auditorium
Geschwister–Scholl–Straße 1-3, 10117 Berlin
Imprinting can be broadly defined as the result of the contact between two surfaces or two bodies. Throughout different civilizations, imprints involve reflections on issues of presence and absence, reproduction and imitation, identity and difference. Cutting across time and space, this conference investigates imprinting and its multifarious aspects, offering new avenues for the study of its transcultural and transhistorical dimensions. The meeting, organized by Stefano de Bosio, Kathleen Christian and Ralph Dekoninck, was made possible by a generous grant from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and is part of the activities of the international research network Logiques du négatif.
Registration recommended by 28.05.2023 AT imprintconference@gmail.com
For more information on the conference and the research network: www.census.de/forschung/contact
Contact: Dr. Stefano de Bosio (stefano.de.bosio@hu-berlin.de)
May 30, 2023
10:00-10:30 Kathleen Christian, Stefano de Bosio and Ralph Dekoninck
Welcome and Introduction
Session 1 – Techniques and Technologies
Chair: Kathleen Christian, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
10:30-11:00 Jeffrey Moser, Brown University
The specular mode in medieval chinese art
11:00-11:30 Ruth Noyes, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
Cera, cartapesta, and pasta di reliquie: impressing and imprinting corpisanti
relic-sculptures in 18th-century Rome
11:30-12:00 Jennifer Chuong, Harvard University / Humboldt-Universität
Printing with Nature in Early America
12:00-12:30 Break
12:30-13:00 Steffen Siegel, Folkwang Universität der Künste
Feathers, butterflies, and some prussian kings: Johann Carl Enslen and the beginning of photographic imprinting
13:00-13:30 Buket Altinoba, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hands-free? Machines for reproducing sculpture and the question of the authentic imprint
13:30-15:00 Lunch (for speakers only)
Session 2 – Discourses
Chair: Jérémie Koering, Université de Fribourg
15:00-15:30 Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
Technologies of imprinting and containing: conjoined strategies for structural objects
15:30-16:00 Verity Platt, Cornell University
Sponge, foam, and the truth in painting
16:00-16:30 Kathleen Christian, Humboldt-Universität
The compass and the cast: contact as rhetoric in the Early Modern reception of Antiquity
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-17:30 Ralph Dekoninck, Université Catholique de Louvain
Homo in imagine [impressa] ambulat: the proof of the (engraved) image
17:30-18:00 Stefano de Bosio, Humboldt-Universität
The logic of the negative: on engraved gems and their Early-Modern (im)prints
20:00 Dinner (for speakers only)
May 31, 2023
Session 3 – (Trans-)cultural metaphors and imaginaries I
Chair: Ralph Dekoninck, Université Catholique de Louvain
10:00-10:30 Markus Späth, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Bodily impression and legal authentication. Dimensions of materiality in sealing culture of medieval Europe
10:30-11:00 Nicolas Sarzeaud, Université Lyon II-Lumière
Holy stains in print culture? On the imprints of the body of Christ
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Patricia Falguières, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Animal typographies: on life casting
12:00-12:30 Jérémie Koering, Université de Fribourg
Imprints to swallow: instituting community in Early Modern Europe
12:30-14:00 Lunch (for speakers only)
Session 4 – (Trans-)cultural metaphors and imaginaries II
Chair: Stefano de Bosio, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
14:00-14:30 Jakub Stejskal, Masaryk University, Brno
What do rubbings preserve? A foray into the aesthetics of a technique
14:30-15:00 Johanna Malt, King’s College
The Thing and the Hole
15:00-15:30 Chari Larsson, Griffith University
Breathing, erasing, dripping: imprinting in contemporary aboriginal art
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Matthias Mansen, Berlin
On making matrices (and woodcuts), in conversation with Stefano de Bosio
16:30-17:00 Veronika Tocha, Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Critical perspectives on anthropological casts from colonial contexts
17:00-17:30 Final discussion
18:00-19:30 Aperitif
