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05/19/2010 - 05/19/2010 | Berlin
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Anthropologists, scholars of comparative religion, historians of science and of art, and sociologists have recently been interested in what Lorraine Daston calls "things that talk"--that is, objects that become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality. At one extreme are the theories of art historians who understand the power of objects anthropomorphically and argue that the closer they come to appearing human the more apt they are to animate. At the other extreme are the theories of sociologists and anthropologists for whom any object may become culturally charged, fusing matter and meaning. Without attempting to devise a universal theory of the agency of things, medievalist Caroline Bynum will describe the sort of objects that were claimed to "live" (that is, bleed, glow, fly, weep, etc.) in the later Middle Ages, situating them in their own cultural context. She will thereby suggest some of the limits of modern theorizing and try to raise new questions about how and why "things talk."
Moderation: Heike Schlie (ZfL)
Zur Person
Caroline Walker Bynum ist Professorin für die Geschichte des Europäischen Mittelalters am Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (seit 2003); Fellow der American Philosophical Society und der Medieval Academy of America; Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bynums Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Körpers sind für die kultur¬historische Forschung zum Mittelalter weit über die Grenze ihres Faches hinaus grundlegend. Parallel zu ihren material¬basierten Studien entwickelt sie Theorien der Geschichtsschreibung und betont die Relevanz der Erforschung mittelalterlicher religiöser und materieller Kultur für das Verständnis von Moderne und Postmoderne.
Publikationen (Auswahl)
Christian Materiality (im Erscheinen); Wonderful blood. Theology and practice in late medieval northern Germany and beyond (Philadelphia 2007); Metamorphosis and Identity (New York 2001); The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity 200-1336 (New York 1995); Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (New York 1991).
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
05/19/2010 20:00 - 05/19/2010 22:00
Event venue:
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin-Mitte (U-Bhf. Stadtmitte, Kochstraße oder Spittelmarkt), 3. Etage, Trajekte-Tagungsraum 308
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Relevance:
local
Subject areas:
Art / design, Cultural sciences, Language / literature, Media and communication sciences
Types of events:
Entry:
04/19/2010
Sender/author:
Sabine Zimmermann
Department:
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZFL)
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event31002
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