Program:

I. Bildpraxis und Bilderverbot in der Gegenwart (04-06/2010)

Silvia Naef, Genf (22. April 2010)

Vom Bilderverbot zur Bilderflut - islamische Positionen zu einem globalen Phänomen

 

Gabriel Hanganu, Oxford (6. Mai 2010)

Social lives of Orthodox Christian icons - biography and politics

 

David Morgan, Duke University (20. Mai 2010

)Media and Mediation: Protestantism and the Power of Sacred Information

 

Margaret Olin, Yale University (17. Juni 2010)

Visible/Invisible: What do Jewish visual practices look like?

 

II. Bildpraxis und Bilderverbot zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter  (10-12/2010)

Barbara Schellewald, Basel (28. Oktober 2010)

Bilderverbot ohne Bildersturm - Der byzantinische Bilderstreit

 

Steven Fine, Yeshiva University (11. November 2010)

God's Artisan:  Bezalel the Tabernacle Builder and the History of Jewish Art in Late Antiquity

 

Finbarr Barry Flood, New York University (2. Dezember 2010)

Rethinking Representation: Islamic Law as a Source for Image Theory

 

Thomas Lentes, Münster (16. Dezember 2010)

Wer Bilder stürmt, tötet Religion. Ein Blick aus dem christlichen Mittelalter

 

The Lectures will be held at 7 pm at the Mschatta Hall at the Museum of Islamic Art ine the Building of the Pergamon Museum. Entrance is free by showing this program and announcing the visit of the lectures.

 Concept: Prof. Dr. Barbara Schellewald, Art History Department at the University of Basel and Dr. Vera Beyer ;DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group "Kosmos/Ornatus. Ornament as a Form of Cognition - A Comparison of Persia and France c. 1400“, Institute of Art History of the FU Berlin in cooperation with the „Nationaler Forschungsschwerpunkt Bildkritik – eikones“, Basel and the Museum of Islamic Art.Contact: vera.beyer@fu-berlin.de / barbara.schellewald@unibas.ch