Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity

Troels Myrup Kristensen will participate in “Constructions of Memory in Periods of Transformation”, a seminar organized by the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals at the University of Copenhagen, 13 March 2008. The title of his paper is “Iconoclasm, Forgetting, and the Life Histories of Roman Statues.” Full programme below the fold.

CONSTRUCTING MEMORY
– Remembrance and oblivion in times of transition

March 13th 2008
St. Kannikestræde 19, 2.floor
Copenhagen

With this seminar we aim to explore how the concept of memory behaves in periods of radical transition – especially in the Late Antique/Early Byzantine Era and in the Reformation period. We wish to examine how remembering and its counterpart forgetting are manifested in material and social culture. Furthermore, the seminar raises the question of how remembrance and oblivion are used as tools in the creation of new identities, norms and traditions in times of rupture and new beginnings. It is our hope that the dialogue between these two distinct periods will give rise to new perspectives – historically, materially as well as theoretically.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

For further information on the seminar see upcoming events on homepage: http://www.teol.ku.dk/kulturarv/

For participation in the lunch buffet at Riz Raz (100 Dkr.) please sign up via mail before 1 March to mwj@teol.ku.dk or gl@teo.au.dk .

PROGRAM:

10.00-10.15: Welcome

10.15-10.55: Dr. PAUL CONNERTON, Cambridge University: Memory and Oblivion

10.55-11.15: Response by Dr. Sven Rune Havsteen, University of Copenhagen, followed by discussion

11.15-11.40: Ph.D.-fellow Troels M. Kristensen, Aarhus University: Iconoclasm, Forgetting, and the Life Histories of Roman Statues

11.40-12.00: Coffee break

12.00-12.40: Dr. JAMES M. BRADBURNE, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze: Local Heros – Memory in action in the Late Renaissance Garden

12.40-13.00: Response by Curator & Ph.D. Margrethe Floryan, Thorvaldsens Museum, followed by discussion

13.00-14.30: Lunch buffet at Riz Raz next door to the conference room

14.30-15.10: Dr. CHARLES HEDRICK Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz: Conversion: Remembering, Forgetting, and Transformation in Late Antiquity

15.10-15.30: Response by Dr. Mette B. Bruun, University of Copenhagen, followed by discussion

15.30-15.55: Ph.D.-fellow Gitte Lønstrup, Aarhus University: Comparing Late Antique Rome and Constantinople: Constructions of memory in the Old and New Rome

15.55-16.15: Coffee break

16.15-16.55: Dr. ANDREW SPICER, Brookes University, Oxford: Reordering the Religious Landscape

16.55-17.15: Response by Editor & Mag.art. Birgitte Bøggild Johannsen, The National Museum of Copenhagen, followed by discussion

17.15-17.40: Ph.D.-fellow Martin W. Jürgensen, University of Copenhagen: Out of sight, out of mind – On the altar in Post-Reformation village churches

17.40-18.00: Concluding remarks and questions

18.00-19.30: Reception

The seminar is sponsored by The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals.