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THE PLEASURE OF CHALLENGING REPRESENTATIONWRITING GLOBAL (ART) HISTORY

INSTITUT FÜREUROPÄISCHEKUNSTGESCHICHTE

WEDNESDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2016ORGANISATIONCluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” and Heidelberg Institute for European Art History, Heidelberg University

VENUE Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies Voßstr. 2, Building 4400, R 212 69115 Heidelberg

The symposium The pleasure of challenging representation – writing global (art) history takes stock of current research approaches in the related fields of global (art) history focusing on comparative and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Seven years after the foundation of the first chair of global art history in the German-speaking countries, held by Monica Juneja at Heidelberg University, the symposium invites prominent scholars and collaborators to critically revisit the local and global reception as well as the methodological relevance of its transcultural research agenda. They dialogically explore the “pleasure of challenging representation” in its double sense: the (art) historian’s methodological task to challenge representation – be it textual or visual – and the additional demands that result from representations of artifacts, concepts, and cultural practices that do challenge historiography because they circulate and take on new meanings across time and cultural divides. Thus, a more flexible and reflexive definition of conventional research units when addressing the “global” in (art) history is being called for.

REGISTRATIONPlease register informally via e-mail to the coordinators.

COORDINATIONFranziska Koch koch@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.deJennifer Pochodzalla pochodzalla@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

09.00 Welcome Address by Peter Schmidt, Head of the Heidelberg Institute for Euro-pean Art History (Heidelberg University)

Opening Remarks by Franziska Koch (Heidelberg University)

09.30 TALK & RESPONSE PANEL I Chair: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg University)

Franz Mauelshagen (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam) Nature as an Artifact in the Anthropocene

response by Michael Falser (Heidelberg University)

10.30 TALK & RESPONSE PANEL II Chair: Antje Flüchter (University of Bielefeld)

Kirsten Rüther (Vienna University) Pleasures, Burdens and Bereavement: Representations in Globalized African Biographies

response by Kim Siebenhüner (Bern University)

11.30 coffee break

11.45 TALK & RESPONSE PANEL III Chair: Melanie Trede (Heidelberg University)

Hans Belting (em. Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design) Migrating Images: From Istanbul to India

response by Henry Keazor (Heidelberg University)

12.45 lunch break

14.00 TALK & RESPONSE PANEL IV Chair: Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg University)

Tristan Weddigen (Zurich University) Transcultural Formalism in the Study of Indian Art

response by Birgit Hopfener (Free University Berlin)

15.00 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION Moderator: Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)

15.45 coffee break

16.15 CELEBRATION Chair: Axel Michaels, Acting Director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (Heidelberg University)

Surprise program by colleagues, students, and friends celebrating the academic achievements of Monica Juneja, Chair of Global Art History at Heidelberg University, on the occasion of her 60th birthday

RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM – PROGRAM

THE PLEASURE OF CHALLENGING REPRESENTATIONWRITING GLOBAL (ART) HISTORY