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International Conference
Archaeology, Colonialism, and the History of Tourism
1, 2, 3, 6 & 13 December 2021
Online
This online symposium discusses the role of archaeological expeditions, the staging, communication, instrumentalization, and touristification of archaeological sites during and after colonial rule. It interrogates intersections between natural and cultural heritage, the role of infrastructure, accessibility, and the interplay between sites nearby cities and in remote locations.
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Doctoral and Early Career Researchers Conference
Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy
9 – 10 December 2021
Florence and online
Even though use of the term ‘identity’ has increased exponentially in the field of art history, it remains a fluid, controversial, and potentially toxic category. Considering the specificities of Italian art and visual culture, the workshop will focus on the concept of ‘identity’, investigating its definitions, its uses, and the problems they pose, by analyzing works of art and artistic phenomena across the centuries (from the Middle Ages to Modernity) in relation to historiographical and methodological discourses.
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Matinée
LUCIA Festival 2021
Collaboration between the LUCIA Festival Firenze and the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
11 December 2021, 10.30am
LUCIA is an international festival dedicated to the listening of radio works and podcasts. Now in its third edition, the festival presents audio narratives from all over the world, and does so thanks to the curated production of subtitled videos, which make the content accessible to all.
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Georgia Project Lecture Series Part II
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Lecture
Bell Towers in Medieval Georgia: Architecture and Ritual
Natia Natsvlishvili
14 December 2021, 3:00pm
This talk will discuss the development of the religious soundscape in Medieval Georgia and give a general overview of the architecture of bell towers, focusing in particular on the typology, design, and decoration of bell-towers in Georgia from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
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The KHI Amerindian Lecture Series
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Lecture
Fragments of Empire: The Afterlife of a Colonial Inca Tunic
Andrew Hamilton
2 December 2021, 5:30pm
This lecture will focus on two small, unusual fragments of cloth cut from a colonial-era Inca tunic in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago which help us to understand the significance of earlier, imperial Inca tunics, as well as the transformations of their designs—and Indigenous identities—under colonial rule.
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Lecture
Amerindian Abstract Chimeras: Relational Aesthetics in a Transformational Universe
Els Lagrou
16 December 2021, 5:30pm
This lecture will examine how Amerindian people think about images and patterns as fluid processes of veiling and unveiling form and connectedness, allowing us to discover a specific aesthetic – one that the speaker proposes to call an ‘Amerindian relational aesthetics’.
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Seminar
The Poetics of Incense: Making, Becoming, and Experiencing
Ning Yao
6 December 2021, 4:00pm
Taking James Gibson’s theory of affordance as the starting point, Ning Yao explores how incense is a meaningful component in the processes of making, becoming, and experiencing. She discusses how natural raw aromatics or wood are blended and transformed into powder incense, incense paste, and incense sticks (the process of making), as well as incense smoke and incense ash (the process of becoming).
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Seminar
The Forest Cons: Sylvan Reflections within Architectural Imaginaries
Dan Handel
13 December 2021, 4:00pm
This presentation will trace the appearances and resonance of forests within the architectural professions and suggest that, by working with and tinkering its metaphors, we can change the way we experience and design our environment.
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Lecture
Gedanken sichtbar machen: Gustav Oscar Rejlander und die viktorianische Fotografie
Bernd Stiegler
10 January 2022, 3.00pm
Florence and online
Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813-1875) ist der vielleicht bemerkenswerteste Fotograf im viktorianischen England. Der Vortrag stellt Rejlanders Beitrag zur Geschichte der Fotografie und Kunst der viktorianischen Zeit vor.
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Online Exhibition
ART HISTORY WITH A CAMERA. The photography of Ralph Lieberman
Beginning on 29 November 2021
In this online exhibition, we present photographs by Ralph Lieberman primarily from the Photothek's holdings. Lieberman’s photographic career began when he produced his own images for his dissertation. Since then, he has continuously contemplated both the possibilities and limitations of photography in the field of art history. This is reflected also in his teaching activities and in many of his publications. The Photothek holds more than 2,000 prints of his photographs that – in keeping with the focus of the Florentine collection – mainly show buildings and artworks from North and Central Italy.
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Please note that the Institute will be closed on Wednesday, 8 December 2021, for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. In addition, the Institute will be closed from 24 December 2021 to 9 January 2022 for the annual winter break. We wish you happy holidays!
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Library and Photo Library limited opening
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To access the Library (Via Giusti 44), users are required to make an online reservation: https://reserve.khi.fi.it
The Photo Library (and the Ya section of the Library) in Palazzo Grifoni is accessible on request by email: fototeca@khi.fi.it
Access to the Library and Photo Library is only possible on presentation of a European Covid Certificate (digital or printed).
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