Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin
19 Jan 2017 – 20 Jan 2017

Iconic Presence, Real Presence and Sacred Art

Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, various venues
Contact: Johanna Abel, and Henry Kaap, hkaap@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Program

Thursday, 19 Jan 2017
Venue:
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Room 163

14.30
Klaus Krüger: Welcome
Hans Belting: Introduction

What is Presence?
Chair: Henry Kaap

15.00
Anna Marazuela Kim: Real Presence, Iconic Presence and the Transubstantiation of Viewing

15.45
Peter J. Bräunlein: What if Christ is Really Present? Anthropological Fieldwork on Philippine Passion Rituals and the Problem of Real Presence

16.50
Isabella Augart: Frames of Veneration. Altarpieces with embedded miraculous images in Early Modern Italy

17.35
Klaus Krüger: Buchvorstellung »Grazia«

18.15
Evening Lecture organized by Karin Gludovatz
Venue: Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Auditorium B (ground floor)

Assaf Pinkus: Verkörperte Imagination, imaginierte Körper. Die Martyrien des hl. Bartholomäus und der hl. Katharina in der rheinischen Kunst des Spätmittelalters


Friday, 20 Jan 2017
Venue: Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin, Room 1.2051

Rituals with Images I
Chair: Zuzana Frantová

9.30
Annalisa Butticci: An Unstable Image in a Stable Presence. The Iconic Image of Saint Anthony of Padua in Africa

10.15
Matthew Engelke: Presence of the Dead



Chair: Johanna Abel

11.20
Karl-Heinz Kohl: Ayelala-Voodoo-Schreine in Benin-City. Bild, Schwur, Vertrag

12.05
Martin Treml: Fritz Kramer’s Anthropological Theory of Ritual and Art

Iconic Presence Now?
Chair: Ivan Foletti

14.15
Christina Zück: Making the Sacred Present. Photographs from Rituals in Europe, India and Pakistan

15.00
Christiane Kruse: Inkarnationskunst. Verlust und Wiederkehr der Religion in Houellebecqs Soumission

15.45
Susanne Lanwerd: Theorie und Praxis der Ausstellung ›The Urban Sacred‹

16.15
Birgit Meyer: Iconic Religion


Rituals with Images II
Chair: Friederike Wille

16.50
Thomas Hauschild: Geist, Bild, Ritual: Bildpraktiken bei Antipoden der westlichen Welt

17.35
Thomas Lentes: Bildweihe im Mittelalter oder: Die Neutralisierung von Präsenz durch Sakralisierung
 
Images in Religious Studies and the Response of Art History
Chair: Hans Belting & Birgit Meyer
 
18.25 Final Discussion

with the Participation of Heike Behrend, Ralph Dekoninck, Beatrice Trînca and Sigrid Weigel