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Das Forschungs- und Fellowshipprogramm Art The research and fellowship program Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Kunst Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Kunst geschichte und ästhetische Praktiken am Forum geschichte und ästhetische Praktiken at the Transregionale Studien diskutiert die Perspektiven Forum Transregionale Studien discusses the und Konturen einer pluralen Geschichte der Kunst. potential and contours of a plural history of art. Es untersucht die Konnektivität historischer Räume, It analyzes the connectivity of larger historical sowie Kontaktzonen und verfolgt komparative Frage- spaces as well as contact zones and investigates stellungen in transkultureller bis postglobaler artistic phenomena in a comparative, transcultural Perspektive. Dies ermöglicht zugleich das Arbeiten approach, experimenting with new metho in neuen Formaten und Experimentieren mit neuen dologies and forms of collaborative research. Formen von Kooperation. With up to ten annual postdoctoral fellow- Durch die Einrichtung von bis zu zehn Jahressti- ships Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices aims pendien schafft das Programm einen Dialograum für to create a space of dialog for scholars from all Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus allen continents and neighboring disciplines. Kontinenten sowie benachbarter Disziplinen. Das Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin ist eine The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien Forschungsorganisation zur inhaltlichen Internatio- is a research organization that promotes the nalisierung der Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften. internationalization of research in the Humani- Das Forum eröffnet Freiräume für die Zusam- ties and Social Sciences. menarbeit von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissen- The Forum provides scope for collaboration schaftlern mit unterschiedlichen regionalen und among researchers with different regional and disziplinären Perspektiven und bietet die Möglich- disciplinary perspectives and appoints resear- keit, Forschungsideen und -vorhaben zu erproben chers from all over the world as Fellows. und zu entwickeln. Es beruft Wissenschaftlerinnen In cooperation with universities and und Wissenschaftler aus aller Welt als Fellows. research institutions in and outside of Berlin, it In Kooperation mit Universitäten und For- carries out research projects and initiatives that schungseinrichtungen aus Berlin und dem examine other regions of the world and their Bundesgebiet führt das Forum transregionale For- relationship to Germany and Europe systemati- schungsprogramme und Initiativen durch, die neue cally and with new questions. Fragestellungen aus der Perspektive unterschiedli- The Forum is sponsored by the Senate cher Weltregionen vergleichend und in ihrer gegen- Department for Economy, Technology and seitigen Verknüpfung bearbeiten. Research. In the area of internationalization it Das Forum wird von der Berliner Senatsver- cooperates with the Max Weber Foundation – waltung für Wirtschaft, Technologie und Forschung German Humanities Institutes Abroad. As of gefördert und kooperiert im Bereich der Internatio- April 2013, the Federal Ministry of Education nalisierung mit der Max-Weber-Stiftung – Deutsche and Research (BMBF) has been supporting this Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Seit cooperation. April 2013 unterstützt das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) diese Kooperation im Rahmen der Projektförderung. 8 The Research Program Studies ein. kunsthistorische Ökologie hin und schließt Museum überwinden. In diesem Sinn auf arbeitet es eine zu Objektkonstellationen oder Artefakten von Analyse kontextuellen einer versus formalen einer Raum. und Ort lität und Übersetzung; 3. Narrative und Display; 4. tische Felder: 1. Materialität und Technik; 2. Mobi und kulturellen Dynamiken zu verstehen. zu Dynamiken kulturellen und oder Partizipanten als Akteure in sozialen Artefakte schung ästhetischer Praktiken mit ein. Dies erlaubt, schaftshistorische Fragen in die transregionale Erfor linguistische, geografische, ökolgische wissenund philologische, technische, wissenschaftliche, spezifische, historische,rechts- religionsund befassen. Kulturen visuellen der Gegenwart und Geschichte der mit sich die Disziplinen, anderer sowie Archäologie der Kunstgeschichte, süd- zentralamerikanischen und euro australischen, afrikanischen, asiatischen, der Forscher innen und globalen Horizont. storische Forschung in einem trans Forschungs- und Stipendienprogramm für kunsthi geschichte Praktiken und ästhetische Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Kunst Neuinszenierung oder Zerstörung. Zerstörung. oder Neuinszenierung stellung, Überarbeitung, musealen Aufbewahrung, Aus ihrer Geschichte der inklusive Architekturen, und der Wahrnehmung von Dingen, Bildern und Erzeugens des Dynamiken den gelten Fragen Diese post bis tureller Transfer- und Transformationsprozesse in transkul einladen, mitdazu ihren Biographien Artefakte sowie Das Programm zielt darauf, die Dichotomie darauf, Dichotomie die zielt Programm Das Art Histories der Begriff Der Art Histories

globaler Perspektive zu untersuchen. untersuchen. zu Perspektive globaler bezieht soziologische, gender soziologische, bezieht p Es wendet sich an Forscher “ strukturiert sich in vier thema vier in sich strukturiert äischen, islamischen, der nord-, islamischen, der äischen, ästhetischen Praktiken ästhetischen ku lturellen bzw. ist ein ” - soll soll - - - - - - - from histories well of the scholars as Americas, as European, Islamic histories, art and the art Transfer and Translation; 3. Narratives and Display; lines: 1. Materiality and Techniques; 2. Mobility, 4. scientific Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices specific social and culturaldynamics. or in participants actors as understand artifacts cultures. and other fields dealingwithvisual of the history embraces Museum Studies. Museum embraces the concept of an art-historical and ecology constellations or It promotes objects. of artifacts towards approaches versus contextual formal destruction. their display, storage, oppression, or reworking, apprehensions up to the present, also including the time of their creation to their subsequent ception of things, images, and architectures from includes the dynamics of the and production per cultural, This postcolonial, perspective. andglobal cesses of transfer and transformation in atrans with their biographiesartifacts well pro as as duced the by program, is an invitation to study logical, linguistic, geographical, ecological, and cific, historical, legal,religious, technical, philo program invites scholars in transcultural, a horizon. global program The and transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries research and fellowship which program questions geschichte Praktiken und ästhetische

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- - - - - - Planck-Institut/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) und wird CAHIM Programm Programm Studien regionale Bildung und Forschung als am Forum Projekt Trans Website: Contact: Florenz von Hannah und Baader abor. Mit dem Cluster of Excellence Kultur der Humboldt-Universität sowiedem ICI Berlin, Freien Universität, der Museen, Staatlichen den mit Art Histories kooperiert Berlins sich halb die Forschungseinrichtungen, und ionen Inner befassen. Fragestellungen transkulturellen mit Institu eine intensivierte Zusammenarbeit kunsthistorischer tiken in transkultureller Perspektive anzunähern. Perspektive tiken transkultureller in Geschichte visueller Kulturen Prak und ästhetischer der sich experimentieren, zu Möglichkeiten mit erlaubt, community scientific der und Fellows den es das angesiedelt, Umfeld wissenschaftlichen geographischen Beschränkungen. Esist in einem Welt richtete Welt richtete realisiert. München, in Kunstgeschichte wurden Kunstgeschichte, Paris und dem Zentralinstitut für dem mit beispielsweise wie mit aus Partnern dem Bundesgebiet und Europa, initiiert Kunstgeschichte ten ausgerichte- transregional einer Sprachfähigkeit und Sprache der Problem das über Veranstaltungsreihe eine Bundesebene auf Programm das hat Heidelberg and Europe in Global a Context und realisiert. realisiert. und 2015 Fellow Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam vorbereitet ling Seminar in den Iran wurde gemeinsam mit dem Zeitschrift ARTMargins mit organisiert. Das Travel tices Contiguities, Infrastructures and Aesthetic Prac Forums zum Thema ” Art Histories ProgrammDas versteht sich als Angebot für Art Histories In Kooperation mit dem Haus der Kulturen der aus und hat u.a. den Annual Workshop der l t ” — (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz –Max-

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gefördert. Es ist assoziiert mit Esist assoziiert dem gefördert. w [email protected] wird vom Bundesministerium für ww.arthistories.de hat keine chronologischen oder “Global Modernities: G erhard Wolf, beide KHI in die Jahreskonferenz des des Jahreskonferenz die Deutschen Forum für für Forum Deutschen . Weitere Kooperationen Kooperationen Weitere . ” der Universität Universität der re re insbeson “ Asia Asia de - - - - - visual cultures and aesthetic practices. refine transregional approaches of to the history and the wider community to experiment and is designed to enable and encourage fellows both constraints.graphical scholarly environment Its Munich. and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris Germany and Europe were realized, among them throughout partners with cooperation Further art. nologies in atransregionally oriented of history concerning the problem of language and termi Histories “ Excellence of Cluster University’s Heidelberg with Cultural Inquiry. At the federal level and together versität zu Berlin and the ICI Berlin Humboldt-Uni the ums, Freie the Universität, primarily cooperates with the Berlin State Muse questions. Among facilities in Berlin research institutions dealing with trans sive collaboration between art historicalsive and collaboration art between Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam. realizedIran was together with the 2015 Fellow journal ARTMargins. Travelling The Seminar to It also co-organized the annual of workshop the cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. guities, Infrastructure and Aesthetic Practices ence of the Forum on MPI. andBaader Gerhard Wolf, KHI both in Florenz che Museen zu Berlin Institut in Florenz —Max-Planck-Institut/Staatli ries in the Museum/ CAHIM associated to the program at theproject Forum Transregionale Studien. It is Federal Ministry of Education and Research a as Asia and Europe in aGlobal Context The program is program The designed means as of inten Art Histories The program convened the program annualThe confer Art Histories program initiated program aseries of events, has no has chronological or geo is funded the by German ) and is Hannah by directed “ Global Modernities: Conti “ Connecting Art HistoConnecting Art ” ( Kunsthistorisches — Art Histories Art Art ” the Institute for c ultural - in ” in - — ------

The Research Program Research The 9 10 Art Histories Staff Gerhard Wolf Gerhard Hannah cademic Program Directors Program cademic Baader

is Permanent Senior Research Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Flo renz The Mediterranean,The Centraland Indian Asia, Subcontinent, FoundationGetty for Delhi. She obtained grants the by Gerda-Henkel-Stiftungas wellby as the Max-Planck Group Partner 1200–1650. Head of the Researchwas Minerva Group historicalat department the of Freie art Universität. From 2007 to 2012, she friendship and held research positions at Bibliotheca Rome, Hertziana, and Freiefrom Universität Berlin with athesis and languages on portraiture of “ and fellowship programs authored book project of a transcultural art history before Modernity. of atransculturalauthored before project history book art on maritime project inwell Modern Timesaco-book Early as Iconology as Research Institute,the Getty Angeles. Los Currently, she is working on a Avinoam Shalem and Gerhard Wolf. In 2014 and 2016, Fellow she was at tut i graphies in an interreligious perspective. globalizations, theories of the image well and sacred the topo as object as fieldsinclude and projects Mediterranean histories andart pre-modern Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat, since 2013). His mainresearch der Wissenschaften (since 2009) and member of the German Council of zu Berlin. He is amember of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie University). Since 2008, at professor Humboldt-Universität he is honorary Lugano, Chicago, Istanbul (Boğaziçi University), and Delhi Nehru (Jawaharlal Jerusalem, Mendrisio (Accademia di Architettura), University, Harvard to Rome (Bibliotheca Hertziana), Vienna, Basel, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, (1998–2003). His numerous guest professorships him took to Paris (EHESS), (1995), he followed the acall for at chair the History Universität in Trier Art Philosophy (PhD 1989). After his habilitation at Freie Universität Berlinin the Universität Heidelberg History, studying Art Christian Archaeology, and Histories inArt the Museum/CAHIM. lowship programs lowship programs s Director of thes Director Connecting Art HistoriesConnecting in Art the Museum/CAHIM. (since 2003), and Academic of the Program Director research and fel — Max-Planck-Institut and Academic of the Program Director research ” Since 2009, she developed together has withSingh Kavita the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz — Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices “ Art, Space and Mobility inArt, Ages of Globalization. Early Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices “ The TempleThe and the Museum, He started his scientific” He started career at “ Art and the CultivationNature the and of Art ” She holds a doctorate She holds doctorate a Max-Planck-Insti ” ” and “ and at JNU, New JNU, New at together with with together Connecting Connecting and and - - - - Helene Bongers Geisler Philip Illigen Luise Kaptain Katrin Program Student

udied Art History, Sciences,udied Art Literary and English Philology at Freie Uni ssistants st talks coveringtalks topics of culture and art. music management. Working ajournalist, as he produces content and hosts andtecture branding strategies in Dubai. aconsultant as He also works in EmpireOttoman during the 16th well archi on contemporary centuryas as images onfocuses city and imperial architecture of the architect Sinan in the at Freie Universität Berlin (BA in 2013), University. and at Harvard His work (2010), History, and now studies Art Islamic Studies and Political Science obtained aBachelor in degree Media Studies at Medienakademie Berlin and the Dissolution Limits of Artistic 2013, she worked at the collaborative research centre with afocuson Jusepe de Ribera’s vision of Saint Jerome. 2012 Between and a thesis on clouds medium as in depictions of visions in the Modern, Early boldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2012, she completed her Magister with degree and Media History Studiesstudied Art at Freie Universität Berlin and Hum leg zu Berlin, and since 2014, at Forum Transregionale Studien. exhibitions.temporary From 2001 to 2013, she worked at Wissenschaftskol Hamburg and Berlin. Since 1996, she givesguided at tours museums and at the Museum in a.M. Frankfurt Modernand Art for later in galleries in RaumDeutschland nach öffentlichen in 1945 Trier and Pisa. In 1998, she her wrote thesis on History,studied and Italian Art Archaeology Philology at the universities of Dark Age Dark historian isfoci an art approach to pop-cultural superhero comics of the in Global a Context History Kunstgeschichte, Paris. Currently, she is studying to receive her MA in “Art research assistant at Freie Universität and interned at Deutsches Forum für representation and trace-theory. of history Previously, she a worked as academic and modern painting of the 19th century, addressing issues of versität Berlin and Université Sorbonne I. Her BA-thesis compared French Universität. Since 2013, at she Forum works Transregionale Studien. thefor Chair of Prof. Dr. Klaus department of KrügerFreie History at the Art at Freie Universität. 2006 Between and 2012, research she assistant was ssistants . from the Freie” from Universität. One of her research ” and the research center . Besides her studies she worked Ulrich Rückriem. Kunst im “ Aesthetic Experience Experience Aesthetic “ BildEvidenz - -

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CAHIM – The Research Program Research The – CAHIM 27 28 CAHIM Fellows City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Vat. Cod. 3738 Vaticana, 7v fol. A, Apostolica City, Biblioteca 16th Ríos, in: Moses, Codex Vatican century. as Fig.: Quetzalcoatl Material CrossoversinEarlyModernAntiquarianism The EgyptianConjecture: Colmenares Horacio David Fellow of: focuses upontheworkofPaduan antiquarian explored newculturalgeographies.Theproject ted traditionalformsandfieldsofknowledge ques andrespectivehypothesesornarratives.By led toaneedforinnovativescholarlytechni- beyond theconfinesofGreco-Roman world tion. Theexpansionoftheantiquarian’sarchives in theirtimessitesofrichintellectualspecula- forerunners ofmoderncriticalmethodsandwere and materialartifacts—canbeunderstoodasthe including thecollectingandstudyingofimages the notionofAntiquarianism.Thesepractices— tices intheearlymodernperiod,subsumedunder The projectexaminesavarietyofscholarlyprac of visualpracticesanddiscourses. from theNewWorld —withinanEuropeanmatrix artifacts andimages—especiallythosecoming culture. Theprojectaimstothere-situationof in thecontinuousexchangeofoverseasmaterial various objectives,allofwhichenteredintodialog within diverseintellectualframeworksandwith engravers, printers,etc.Theseagentsworkedfrom collaborators, suchasmissionaries,tradesmen, that dependeduponaninternationalnetworkof circle pioneeredaformofcomparativeresearch East andWest Indies.Pignoriaandhisscientific paths forthestudyofmaterialcultures ing Egyptianantiquitiesopenedunexpected Lorenzo Pignoria(1571–1631)forwhominspect follow the overseas territoriesthe of the overseas Spanish Empire. antiquarianism modern early of intersections and Kunstbibliothek, SMB. His research focusses on atof the the and CAHIM based research project versity. Since January2014 Colmenares is fellow andAmerican Iberian Cultures at Columbia Uni CandidateDoctoral at the of Latin Department Belgium, and Spain. Currently, Colmenares is a studied Philosophy and Literature in Mexico, Based at: Based ing thetrailofartifacts,Antiquariansrevisi - - Fellow of: Kunst. Asiatische für Museum zuBerlin, Museen che 14th the © Staatli from in Bezeklik. Fig.: cave fragments Mural July–September2016) Fellow (shortterm Uighur period Uighur Study on the Avalokiteśvara imagery of Turfan in the Qočo Aifeng Cheng - Hubei Province. Hubei pursuing at his degree Wuhan doctoral University, Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. He is presently golia, and at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Mongolian National University, Ulaanbaatar, Mon Gansu Province. visiting He was scholar at the Nationalities, University for Northwest Lanzhou, Research Research Academy. He is Editor of is appointed Associate Professor at the Turfan Based at: Based them. between discussing interactions ing area, comparisons with similar images of the surround Avalokiteśvara image painting for will serve style tions of the of Avalokiteśvara. observations The depic traditional other with combined images Avalokiteśvara Sutra paintings and research graphic research, Iwill also work with similar and composition of the cave. (Bezeklik Cave 14) analyzing by the subject matter comparing them to the main Avalokiteśvara cave of Avalokiteśvara imagesdency in the grottoes, Avalokiteśvara. Iseek to confirm the interdepen closer dating the for of the imagery female of form more, these Iwill images classify to determine a (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China). Further around Turfan theof Avalokiteśvara grottoes from the Turfan area, and with focuson the paintings regardingabroad the Avalokiteśvara from imagery I intend to investigate collections within China and Using the methodology of iconoUsing of the methodology . Chen studied and Culture History at the Turfanological Turfanological - - - -

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Avant-Garde Decolonizing the Modern: Rakhee Balaram “Feeling ofaSpace”:AnArtHistoryPraiseandPlace in18th-CenturyIndia Dipti Khera The SudaneseObjectsinGermanCollections Ahmed Adam History inTurkey Tracing Absence:MissingProvenance,‘Lost’Works, andtheBlind-SpotsofArt Banu Karaca Continuities andAmbiguities Traditional and Catholicism Roman Annalisa Butticci Subhashini Kaligotla SMB Africa, collection atAfrican the Ethnological Art Museum the collection South, Southeast and Central Asia, SMB The at Buddhist the Dahlem Art Museums on Architecture and EuropeanBooks Travel Narratives in the 17th century Sources of Wisdom and as Wonder: Ottoman IntersectionsArtifacts between Gül Kale 15th-century Deccan Shāhnāmeh manuscript (Or. 1403) reinterpreted in light of Sufi-Sultan relations in LegitimacyDepicted among Text, Image and Architecture: the British Library Peyvand Firouzeh I PalatialMesopotamian Part Architecture: Federico Buccellati Berlin, withProf. CharlotteKlonk,Ann-CathrinDrewsandStefanieGerke The Small ModelsofLargeBuildings?:OntheMiniatureTemple inMedievalIndia “ Art andVisualHistory”

Amrita Sher-Gil,Rabindranath Tagore andtheGlobal departmentatHumboldt-Universtitätzu Religions intheGoldCoast:AestheticClashes, — AStudy of Space with Dr. Paola Ivanov, curator of the with Dr. Martina Stoye, curator of

Events 2015–2016 Events 35 36 Events 2015–2016 10557Berlin Vargas Museum,Manila) Kunsthistorisches InstitutinFlorenz—Max-Planck-Institut),Patrick Flores(UniversityofthePhilippinesand Convened by:AtreyeeGupta(ArtHistoriesFellow 2015–2016),HannahBaader(ArtHistories/ Berlin Welt, der Kulturen der Haus with Nov 5–7 |Annual Conference of Forum Transregionale Studien in cooperation Aesthetic Practices Global Modernisms: Contiguities, Infrastructures and Year 2015–2016 Academic Excursions Conferences, Workhops Histories & Art Venue: Venue: John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 Annual Annual For more information: For information: more Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kulturen der Haus der www.forum-transregionale-studien.de www.forum-transregionale-studien.de 5 –7November 2015 Conference [email protected]

Yet, conceptualizations of avantgardism and formal innovation articulated in in articulated innovation formal and avantgardism of Yet,conceptualizations Taking the years between 1905 and 1965 as the temporal frame, this this frame, temporal the 1965 as 1905and between years the Taking Modernity of aDecolonized Popular Making Cinema the in Indian with Paris, New York, Weimar, or Moscow continue to inform Global Modernisms’ the recent past, the term Global Modernisms has gained significant currency. currency. significant gained has Modernisms Global term the past, recent the new form of Westernism that masquerades as the universal. universal. the as masquerades that Westernism of form new intellectual field. Global Modernisms, then, risks becoming a symptom of a Anselm Franke, Nicola Müllerschön, Stefan Weber RoundtableNov, |6 7pm Arjun Appadurai (New York) Keynote |5Nov, 7pm Curating Global Modernisms in the 21stCurating the Globalin Modernisms Century Contiguities, Infrastructures and Aesthetic Practices conference seeks to rethink Modernism from a transregional perspective. In Global ModernismsGlobal Catherine David, Clementine Deliss, Patrick Flores,

and others and Merel van Tilburg (Paris) Ming Tiampo (Ottawa) Romuald Tchibozo (Abomey) Elena (Salt Shtromberg Lake City) Nada Shabout (Denton) Dhruv Raina (New Delhi) Harsha Ram (Berkeley) Tehran) Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam (Berlin/ KirchnerThomas (Paris) Atreyee (Berlin/Oakland) Gupta Patrick Flores (Manila) (Berlin) Costa Sérgio (Berlin/Albany) RakheeBalaram (Berlin/Florenz) HannahBaader Adajania(Mumbai) Nancy

(Photos: LuiseIlligenandSaschaBachmann) Manila), andHannahBaader Patrick Flores(UniversityofthePhilippines,Vargas Museum, (Musée Nationald’ Müllerschön (KfW-Stiftung, Frankfurt a.M.),CatherineDavid Modernisms inthe21stCentury”withAtreyeeGupta,Nicola kolleg Berlin)attheroundtablediscussion“CuratingGlobal conference |Fig.5and6:ClémentineDeliss(Wissenschafts- rence |Fig.4:AtreyeeGuptaintroducingthefirstdayof Fig. 3:HannahBaaderintroducingthefirstdayofconfe- Fig. 1:ArjunAppadurai|2:Poster oftheconference| Art Moderne,CentrePompidou, Paris), and HannahBaader Moderated byAtreyeeGupta,PatrickFlores Final Discussion the QuestionofAlternativeModernism Modern trendsinPre-Revolutionary Iranian Artand Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam (Tehran/Berlin), contexts a studyoftheconceptinAfricanintricateandplural Romuald Tchibozo (Cotonou),GlobalModernism, Chair: SèrgioCosta(Berlin) French modernisttapestries versalism, francitéandNegritudeinSenegalese nialism” toacreolizedaesthetic:negotiatinguni- Merel vanTilburg(Paris), From“aestheticcolo- of Modernism:SituatingAmritaSher-Gil’sTwo Girls Rakhee Balaram(Berlin/Albany), Chair: MonicaJuneja(Heidelberg) 7 Nov Baader Moderated byAtreyeeGuptaandHannah Stefan Weber (Berlin) Franke (Berlin),NicolaMüllerschön (Frankfurt), PatrickFlores(Manila),Anselm Catherine David(Paris), ClementineDeliss with Curating GlobalModernismsinthe21stCentury Roundtable (Berlin) Annett Busch(Berlin)andAnselmFranke Curating After Year Zerowith Project Presentation Modernisms: Imperial,Regional, National,Local Harsha Ram(Berkeley),TheScaleofGlobal Moment throughCulturalArabism Nada Shabout(Denton),ProclaimingtheModern Chair: SaleemAl-Bahooly(Berlin) Infrastructure (1950s–1980s) Modernists: ExperimentswithPrecarious Nancy Adajania(Mumbai),TheFunambular and theImplicationsofIrredenta Patrick Flores(Manila),“Asiatic Complications” Chair: ZaalAndronikashvili(Berlin) Perspective ofBrazilianArt Elena Stromberg(SaltLakeCity),ASystems The CaseofBerlinafter1945 Thomas Kirchner (Paris), CompetingModernisms. Black Madonna Black Madonna

Events 2015–2016 Events 37 38 Events 2015–2016 Basilica diSant’ renz —MPI)andBrotherStephenOllethazhathuinfrontofthe Fig.:The ArtHistoriesgroup,JessicaRichardson(KHIinFlo- Padua Dec 11–13 Histories |Art Histories,Art Ecology, and Religious Practices Antonio, Padua. Photo:LucyJarman Excursion and Exploratory Workshop | Florence and Florence and | Workshop Exploratory and Excursion aspects of aesthetic practiceswere addressed.aspects aestheticized sciences, and the epistemological religioustation of the human between rites, body excursion, overall questions about the re-presen at the Basilica di Sant’Antonio. Throughout the Bo, and together with Annalisa Butticci the relics Specola, theLa anatomical theater at the Palazzo models at the Natural wax cal Museum History visited anatomi of among the collection others cultural and of the urban cities, history the group and Padua in December 2015. While discussing the ArtHistoriesFellowsthe travelled to Florence Hannah and Baader Aesthetics, of Art” and History of theOn occasion conference “Ecologies, - - Photo: HeleneBongers,LucyJarman Fig.2: AudienceattheConference Fig. 1:Robert Smithon,“Asphalt Rundown” Rome, Oct1969 Participants: Florence Dec 14–15 |International Conference at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art University), University), Stories We Tell: Nature and Narrative in the Age Global of Lecture Evening 2015–16), Meha Priyadarshini, Caraffa Brigitte Sölch and Costanza (all KHI in Florence — MPI) University), (Ambedkar try, Vitoria-Gasteiz), NationalVisual Washington, Arts, of Art, Gallery DC), Margarete Pratschke Margarete Adam Herring — MPI |Organized by Hannah Baader, Sugata Ray and Gerhard Wolf Felix Pirson Felix Dipesh Chakrabarty Chakrabarty Dipesh (University of Aberdeen), of Timothy Ingold (University Peter Schneemann Peter (ETH Zürich), (ETH Sandy Prita Meier (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Istanbul), (Southern Methodist University), (University of Chicago) of (University (Universität Bern), Subhashini Kaligotla (ArtHistoriesFellow Michael Marder to the present day. human interaction with the natural environment transcultural the earliest from known perspective thetic studies, envisaged here in ahistorical and in ecological the and conversationaes between conference acrucial aims as to act interpolation processes, into this emerging conversation. The of landscape, nature, materiality, and aesthetic that long for has concerned been with notions ference thus aims to bring history, art adiscipline culture studies is still at early stage. its con The over the decades, last the ecological turn in visual ecocriticism afield become has of intense debate scale. the micro Whilefrom to aplanetary literary zoological, astronomical, and climatic formations botanical, geographical, geological, with teraction ecological and aesthetic dimensions of human in an intellectualceived as to address the laboratory “Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art (University of Illinois), of (University Lihong Liu Spyros Papapetros Papapetros Spyros

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Our Geocultural Categories: Latin American 1933-1945 Art, Niko Vicario (Amherst College) Colonial Modernism (Iraq, 1950s) 'Awakening to Color': Heritage, Abstraction, and the Forms of Haytham Bahoora (University of Colorado Boulder) June 23, 6.30 p.m. Evening Lecture capitalism. ofglobal scope totalizing the before production critical art and of artistic historicity the with terms to come to us allow that tools methodological and questions in We interested are ofart. margins or theoretical) historical, social, (geopolitical, the about and from write to askhow to want we specifically, More it. within place our and art contemporary and global of state the on reflection sustained and critical, collective, foster will that ofconversations aseries inaugurate to is workshop this in task Our Writing the Margins

| Dietrich WildungattheEgyptianMuseuminMunich Photos: PhilipGeisler, HeleneBongers Lenbachhaus, Munich Fig. 4:ThemembersoftheArtHistories Program infrontof at GoldeneBar, HausderKunst, Munich Fig. 3:HannahBaaderwithDiptiKhera andFederico Buccellati institut fürKunstgeschichte atthearchivesofZI Fig. 2:HannahBaaderandUlrichPfisterer(directorofZentral Fig.1: The München (ZI), in cooperation with Egytian Museum and Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte June 29–30 Histories |Art Sudanese Objects in German Collections –Images at Work Art HistoriesFellows with Hannah Baaderand Excursion and Workshop Workshop and Excursion superiority bymeansofarchitecture andmapping. terms oftheclaimworld dominanceandracial the NationalSocialistideology wasaddressedin visit ofHausderKunst and Goldene Bar, where Painting andSculpture,NewSubjectivity)a (Head ofCollectionandCurator19thCentury guided touratLenbachhauswithKarinAlthaus 1–19). Interpretations” (inrepresentations133,2016,pp. article “ImagesatWork: OnEfficacyandHistorical Seminar onHannahBaader’sandIttaiWeinrib’s Art Histories,thegrouptookpartinaReading presentations ofthejoinedFellows ofZIand members andfellowsofZI.Apartfromresearch tor ofZI),MatteoBurioni(ZI),andseveralother ries Fellows gatheredwithUlrichPfisterer(direc- was ofparticularinterest. Excavation intheSoutheastofKhartoum,Sudan, overall presentationofthemuseum.TheNaga the museum’sphilosophyofacquisition,and as wellaspectsofthehistorycollection, knowledge transferwithintheexhibitionspace Kunstareal, theuseofnewmediaasatoolfor of thecurrentmuseumbuildingatMunich Histories Programdiscussedthearchitecture Excavation Project),themembersofArt and DietrichWildung(scientificheadofNaga (deputy directorofEgyptianMuseumMunich), head ofNagaExcavationProject),ArnulfSchlüter Schoske (directorofEgyptianMuseumMunich, collection oftheMuseum.Together withSylvia on theartsandarchitecturesofSudanwithin talked about“ImagesatWork” the ZentralinstitutfürKunstgeschichte (ZI)they “Sudanese ObjectsinGermanCollections”andat shops; intheEgyptianMuseumtheydiscussed and theArtHistoriesFellows realizedtwowork- During anexcursiontoMunich,HannahBaader The workshopsinMunichwereframedbya At theZI,HannahBaaderandArtHisto At theEgyptianMuseum,groupfocused

Events 2015–2016 Events 41 42 Events 2015–2016 Apr 30–May 12 |The The Architectures, Aesthetic Practices, and of Iran Arts Peter Haase(Freie Universität,Berlin) Guest Scholars:HeliaDarabi(UniversityofArtTehran), SaeidKhaghani(Tehran University),and Claus- University ofTehran), andseveralartistsfromTehran participation ofDrJabra’ Hannah Baader, CombizMoussavi-Aghdam (UniversityofArtTehran), andGerhardWolf withthe il Nokandeh(DirectoroftheNationalMuseum)andDrJamalArabzadeh(Art Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Aesthetic and Histories Art Tower Silence of Water museum and Golshan Mill Weaving Ateshkadeh (Fire temple) Jafar Imamzadeh Chaqmaq Tekiyeh Amir Mosque Chaqmaq Amir Badgir or Towers) (Windcatchers Abanbar Water Reservoir Tekiyeh Taraz and Qasem aldin Sheikh Medreseh-ie Mausoleum of Rokn-od Din Jame’ Congregational Masjed– Mosque Elaheh Alvandian with Mr Olumi (Cultural Heritage Association) and 3 May |Yazd Tan, Mosque Great bad-e Ali, Ali Naqi, Seyyedoon-e Gonbad-e Se-ye Abarkouh: Tower Gonbad-e Seyyedoon, Gon of Pasargadae: Palace, Tomb of Cyrus Darius, Rock Relief Carvings Naqsh-e Rostam: Tombs of the Kings Xerxes, Darius of Palace Xerxes, Palace, of Palace Apadana Persepolis: Abarkouh 2 May |Persepolis – Pasargadae – Gate City Koran Vesaal Gallery Madreseh Khan: Tomb of Sa’di Gardens: Eram Khera)Dipti Haft Tanan (Presentation: of Hafez, poetry The Tomb of Hafez with Gardens Chehel Tanan and Mosque Nasr-ol-Molk Masjed-e Jame’ Atiq (Old Mosque) Aramgah-e Shah Cheragh Vakil Mosque, Bath, andBazaar Karim Khan Citadel 1 May |Shiraz Travelling Seminar 2016 Seminar Travelling - All photos: Helene Bongers/Philip Geisler/LucyJarman Bongers/Philip Helene photos: All Soltaniyeh of Dome at the muqarnas of Fig. 8: Detail Fig. 7: Bridge, Isfahan Khan (FU Berlin)al. Allāhverdi at Si-o-seh pol, et Haase Peter Claus- Moussavi-Aghdam, Combiz (Tehran University), Khaghani Tehran), University Saeid (Art Fig. Darabi Helia 6: with Group Fig. in Naein 5: mosque old at the Mihrab at Persepolis bearers gift the of relief the of Fig. 4: Parts in Shiraz Mosque Old the Mosque, Fig. Atiq Jame 3:the of In front ran, Teh University (Art Moussavi-Aghdam Combiz Firouzeh, Peyvand Wolf, Baader, Hannah Gerhard with Discussion Fig. 2: Roundtable inFig. Shiraz Pink 1: or Mosque Mosque Molk ol Nasir The porary Art with the museum the with Art porary Fellow 2014–15) Fellow Histories Art in Shiraz Gallery al. at Vesaal et At the storage space of the Tehran the of space Contem of Museum storage At the ’ s director, Dr Jabra’il Dr s director, Nokandeh - - Dr JamalDr Arabzadeh Seminar University of Tehran at the Art with 11 Tehran May| Kharaqan Towers mosque) yeh Fridayplex, (Masjed al-Nabi) mosque and Heydari (Bagh-e constructions Safavid com Safavi Qazvin: Soltaniyeh: Tomb of Oljeitu 10 May |Soltaniyeh –Qazvin PalaceSaadabad Carpet Museum Honarha-ie Tehran) Moaser-e Tehran (Muzeh-ie Museum Art of Contemporary and GraffitiStreet Art MuseumReza Abbasi National Museum with Jabra’il Dr Nokandeh Palace Golestan tour Tehran: of MonumentsCity Martyrs’ Tehran May| 8–9 House,basian Bagh-e Fin Tabatabai, Ameriha, Hamam-e SultanAhmad, Ab Kashan: 19th Houses Century Khaneh-ie Borujerdi Abyaneh leum Natanz: Great Mosque and ’Abd al-Samad Mauso 7 May |Natanz –Abyaneh –Kashan Imamzadeh Ja’far (Kelisa-ie Church Armenian Vank) (Palace) Sotun Chehel Kakhe-e Bridges: Si-o-se Pol and Khaju Kakh-e Hasht Beheshet Chahar Bagh Street: Medreses Velayat Harun-e Sanctuary soleum Jame’Masjed (Old Mosque) andShahjahan mau Kakh-e Qapu(Palace) Ali (Mosque) Lotfullah Masjid (Mosque) Masjid-Imam Qeysariyeh Meydan-e Imam (or Shah Square) andBazar 5–6 May |Isfahan mosque Naein: Jama Masjid, Pirnia Palace, ’Abdullah Baba NarenjiMeybod: Qaleh, Yakhchal, Friday Mosque 4 May |Meybod –Naein -

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Events 2015–2016 Events 43 On the Cover From the top left to the bottom right: The Art Histories group in the Egyptian Museum, Munich; Photo: Philip Geisler | Detail from ‘Mirza Mumin Beg with Mian Shah Khuballah and Mian Muhammad Shakir’, Mughal, 17th century, British Museum (2001,0616,0.1) | Shiva Temple, 7th century, Siddhanakolla, Karnataka; Photo: Subhashini Kaligotla | ‘Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah II venerates Sufi’, Deccan, ca. 1620–1627, British Museum (1997,1108,0.1) | The AP Palace uncovered at Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh, dating to 2250 BC | Statue of Saint Anthony. Gesso, 20th century, Museum of Roman Catholic Art and Missions in the Gold Coast, Elmina, Ghana; Photo: Annalisa Butticci | Roundtable discussion with Hannah Baader, Gerhard Wolf, Peyvand Firouzeh, Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam et. al. at Vesall Gallery in Shiraz; May 1, 2016; Photo: Lucy Jarman | Lectern inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ca. 17th century, The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul; Photo: Gül Kale | “Wealth Tax” Source: http://yenisafak. com.tr/. Licensed under Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Varlik Vergisi via Wikipedia – http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Varlik_vergisi.gif#mediaviewer/File:Varlik_vergisi.gif; Picture taken during an auction of household items held under duress to cover the wealth tax imposed on Non-Muslims (1942–43) | Rana Amar Singh II in Udaipur during a monsoon downpour, ca. 1700. 109.2 x 175.2 cm. Purchase and partial gift made in 2012 from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, Accession Number: F2012.4.2. Courtesy of Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution | Gold of Meroitic Queen Kandake Amanishakheto, Meroitic Kingdom (350 BC–350 AD). Neues Museum, Berlin; Photo: Ahmed Adam | R. Tagore, Untitled, ca. 1928–30, Bibliothèque National de France | The Art Histories group in front of the Lenbachhaus, Munich; Photo: Philip Geisler

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© 2016 www.arthistories.de Das Forschungs- und Fellowshipprogramm A The research and fellowship program A H A P . K H A P . K P am Forum P at the Transregionale Studien diskutiert die Perspektiven Forum Trans regionale Studien discusses the und Konturen einer pluralen Geschichte der Kunst. potential and contours of a plural history of art. Es untersucht die Konnektivität historischer Räume, It analyzes the connectivity of larger historical sowie Kontaktzonen und verfolgt komparative Frage- spaces as well as contact zones and investigates stellungen in transkultureller bis postglobaler artistic phenomena in a com parative, transcultural Perspektive. Dies ermöglicht zugleich das Arbeiten approach, experimenting with new metho- in neuen Formaten und Experimentieren mit neuen dologies and forms of collaborative research. Formen von Kooperation. With up to ten annual postdoctoral fellow- Durch die Einrichtung von bis zu zehn Jahressti- ships A H A P aims pendien schat das Programm einen Dialog raum für to create a space of dialog for scholars from all Wissenschalerinnen und Wissenschaler aus allen continents and neighboring disciplines. Kontinenten sowie benachbarter Disziplinen. Das Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin ist eine The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien Forschungsorganisation zur inhaltlichen Internatio- is a research organization that promotes the nalisierung der Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaen. internationalization of research in the Humani- Das Forum erönet Freiräume für die Zusam- ties and Social Sciences. menarbeit von Wissenschalerinnen und Wissen- The Forum provides scope for collaboration schalern mit unterschiedlichen regionalen und among researchers with dierent regional and disziplinären Perspektiven und bietet die Möglich- disciplinary perspectives and appoints resear- keit, Forschungsideen und -vorhaben zu erproben chers from all over the world as Fellows. und zu entwickeln. Es beru Wissenschalerinnen In cooperation with universities and und Wissenschaler aus aller Welt als Fellows. research institutions in and outside of Berlin, it In Kooperation mit Universitäten und For- carries out research projects and initiatives that schungseinrichtungen aus Berlin und dem examine other regions of the world and their Bundesgebiet führt das Forum transregionale For- relationship to Germany and Europe systemati- schungsprogramme und Initiativen durch, die neue cally and with new questions. Fragestellungen aus der Perspektive unterschiedli- The Forum is sponsored by the Senate cher Weltregionen vergleichend und in ihrer gegen- Department for Economy, Technology and seitigen Verknüpfung bearbeiten. Research. In the area of internationalization it Das Forum wird von der Berliner Senatsver- cooperates with the Max Weber Foundation – waltung für Wirtscha, Technologie und Forschung German Humanities Institutes Abroad. As of gefördert und kooperiert im Bereich der Internatio- April 2013, the Federal Ministry of Education nalisierung mit der Max-Weber-Stiung – Deutsche and Research (BMBF) has been supporting this Geisteswissenschaliche Institute im Ausland. Seit cooperation. April 2013 unterstützt das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) diese Kooperation im Rahmen der Projektförderung. 8 The Research Program Studiesein. kunsthistorische Ökologie hin und schließt Museum überwinden. In diesem Sinn auf arbeitet es eine oder Objektkonstellationenvon Artefakten zu einer formalen versus einer kontextuellen Analyse und Raum.Ort lität und Übersetzung; 3. Narrative und Display; 4. tische Felder: 1. Materialität und Technik; 2. Mobi- und kulturellen Dynamiken zu verstehen. oder Partizipanten als Akteure in sozialen Artefakte schung ästhetischer Praktiken mit ein. Dies erlaubt, schashistorische Fragen in die transregionale Erfor linguistische, geograﬁsche, ökolgische und wissen philologische, technische, wissenschaliche, speziﬁsche, historische, rechts- und religions befassen. Kulturen mit der Geschichte und der Gegenwart visuellen der Archäologie sowieanderer Disziplinen, die sich süd- und zentralamerikanischen Kunstgeschichte, australischen, euro innen und Forscher der asiatischen, afrikanischen, Horizont. globalen storische Forschung in einem trans kulturellen bzw. Forschungs- und Stipendienprogramm für kunsthi- P ist ein A H A P . K Neuinszenierung oder Zerstörung. Zerstörung. oder Neuinszenierung stellung, Überarbeitung, musealen Au²ewahrung, Architekturen, inklusive der Geschichte ihrer Aus und der Wahrnehmung von Dingen, Bildern und Diese Fragen gelten den Dynamiken desErzeugens tureller bis zu postglobaler Perspektive untersuchen. Transfer- und Transformationsprozesse in transkul einladen, mitdazu ihren Biographien Artefakte sowie Das ProgrammDas zielt darauf, die Dichotomie A H sichstrukturiert in vier thema- Der Begri der A H bezieht soziologische, gender

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gefördert. Es ist assoziiert mit Esist assoziiert dem gefördert. www.arthistories.de [email protected] “Global Modernities: Gerhard Wolf, beide KHI in ” der Universität insbeson “ Asia Asia dere dere - - - - - visual cultures and aesthetic practices. reﬁne transregional approaches of to the history and the wider community to experiment and is designed to enable and encourage fellows both graphical constraints. scholarly Its environment Munich. and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris Germany and Europe were realized, among them Further throughoutart. cooperation with partners nologies in atransregionally oriented of history concerning the problem of language and termi- H “Asia and Europe in the aGlobalA Context” with Heidelberg University’s Cluster of Excellence Cultural Inquiry. At the federal level and together versität zu Berlin and the ICI Berlin¿Institute for ums, the Freie Universität, the Humboldt-Uni- primarily cooperates with the Berlin State Muse- questions. Among facilities in Berlin A H research institutions dealing with trans historicalsive and collaboration art between CombizMoussavi-Aghdam. realizedIran was together with the 2015 Fellow journal ARTMargins. Travelling The Seminar to It also co-organized the annual of workshop the cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. guities, Infrastructure and Aesthetic Practices” in ence of the Forum on “ MPI. andBaader Gerhard Wolf, KHI both in Florenz— che Museen zu Berlin) and is Hannah by directed Institut in FlorenzMax-Planck-Institut/Staatli — ries in the Museum/ CAHIM” (Kunsthistorisches associated to the“Connecting program Histo- Art at theproject Forum Transregionale Studien. It is Federal Ministry of Education and Research a as The program is program The designed means as of inten- A H no has chronological or geo- The program convened program The the annual confer- A H is funded the by German program initiated program aseries of events, GlobalModernities: Conti cultural cultural

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The Mediterranean,The Central Asia, and Indian Subcontinent, is Permanent Senior Research Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Flo authored book project of a transcultural art history before Modernity. of atransculturalauthored before project history book art on maritime project inwell Modern Timesaco-book Early as Iconology as Research Institute,the Getty Angeles. Los Currently, she is working on a Avinoam Shalem and Gerhard Wolf. In 2014 and 2016, Fellow she was at FoundationGetty for Delhi. She obtained grants the by Gerda-Henkel-Stiung well the by as as Max-Planck Partner Group 1200–1650. Head of the Researchwas Minerva Group historicalat department the of Freie art Universität. From 2007 to 2012, she friendship and held research positions at Bibliotheca Rome, Hertziana, and Freiefrom Universität Berlin with athesis and languages on portraiture of “ and fellowship programs A H A P renz — tut is of the Director graphies in an interreligious perspective. globalizations, theories of the image well and sacred the topo- as object as includeﬁelds and projects Mediterranean histories and art pre-modern Science and Humanities (Wissenschasrat, since 2013). His main research der Wissenschaen (since 2009) and member of the German Council of zu Berlin. He is amember of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie University). Since 2008, at professor Humboldt-Universität he is honorary Nehru Lugano, University), Delhi and (Jawaharlal Chicago, (Boğaziçi Istanbul Jerusalem, Mendrisio (Accademia di Architettura), University, Harvard to Rome (Bibliotheca Hertziana), Vienna, Basel, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, (1998–2003). His numerous guest professorships him took to Paris (EHESS), (1995), he followed the acall for at chair the History Universität in Trier Art Philosophy (PhD 1989). Aer his habilitation at Freie Universität in Berlin the Universität Heidelberg History, studying Art Christian Archaeology, and Histories inArt the Museum/CAHIM.” his scientiﬁc He started at career lowship programs A H A P and “ Connecting Art HistoriesConnecting in Art the Museum/CAHIM. (since 2003), and Academic of the Program Director research and fel- Max-Planck-Institut and Academic of the Program Director research ” Since 2009, she developed together has withSingh Kavita the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz — “ Art, Space and Mobility inArt, Ages of Globalization. Early “ The TempleThe and the Museum, “ Art and the CultivationArt of Nature ” She holds adoctorate Max-Planck-Insti ” ” at JNU, New together with with together Connecting Connecting and and - - Helene Bongers Helene Geisler Philip Luise Illigen Kaptain Katrin Program Student

studied Art History, Sciences, studied Art Literary and English Philology at Freie Uni- ssistants Dark Age historian isfoci an art approach to pop-cultural superhero comics of the the in Freie from aGlobalHistory Context” Universität. One of her research Kunstgeschichte, Paris. Currently, she is studying to receive her MA in “Art research assistant at Freie Universität and interned at Deutsches Forum für representation and trace-theory. of history Previously, she a worked as academic and modern painting of the 19th century, addressing issues of versität Berlin and Université Sorbonne I. Her BA-thesis compared French talks coveringtalks topics of culture and art. music management. Working ajournalist, as he produces content and hosts andtecture branding strategies in Dubai. aconsultant as He also works in EmpireOttoman during the 16th well archi- on contemporary centuryas as images onfocuses city and imperial architecture of the architect Sinan in the at Freie Universität Berlin (BA in 2013), University. and at Harvard His work (2010), History, and now studies Art Islamic Studies and Political Science obtained aBachelor in degree Media Studies at Medienakademie Berlin and the Dissolution Limits of Artistic 2013, she worked at the collaborative research centre with afocuson Jusepe de Ribera’s vision of Saint Jerome. 2012 Between and a thesis on clouds medium as in depictions of visions in the Modern, Early boldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2012, she completed her Magister with degree and Media History Studiesstudied Art at Freie Universität Berlin and Hum leg zu Berlin, and since 2014, at Forum Transregionale Studien. exhibitions.temporary From 2001 to 2013, she worked at Wissenschaskol Hamburg and Berlin. Since 1996, she givesguided at tours museums and at the Museum in a.M. Frankfurt Modernand Art for later in galleries in ö entlichen Raum in Deutschland nach 1945 Trier and Pisa. In 1998, she her wrote thesis on History,studied and Italian Art Archaeology Philology at the universities of Universität. Since 2013, at she Forum works Transregionale Studien. thefor Chair of Prof. Dr. Klaus department of KrügerFreie History at the Art at Freie Universität. 2006 Between and 2012, research she assistant was ssistants . ” and the research center . Besides her studies she worked Ulrich Rückriem. Kunst im “ Aesthetic Experience Experience Aesthetic “ BildEvidenz -

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- - - - intel - Fellowship to Fellowship to account for the account to — 20th-Century Indian Art A H A s 1932 visit to the country and its country and the to visit s 1932 ’ , Balaram looked at two at looked canoni , Balaram dranath Tagore dranath discourse nationalist of formation the in impact of exchange the in involved stakes political the and year, course the Over of the arthis dignitaries. with economic, further to integrate begun has also she project the to into discourses legal and scientific, art. Asian South of field the in newreveal insights way in which these practices developed over time time over practices developed these which in way H A the During regions. dierent in and Rabin studied Balaram Iran, in Seminar Travelling lectual, artistic and corporeal artistic and lectual, sidered the ways in which a canon of Indian art was a canon Indian of which ways in the sidered context by a gen a post-Independence formed in a in Research critics. and art of eration historians has archives individual and institutional of number configura new geopolitical surprising in resulted Indian modern of development the to led that tions practices aesthetic art. highlighted also Balaram — diverse mobilities on emphasis an through cal figures in Indian art history, Amrita Sher-Gil Amrita Sher-Gil art history, Indian in cal figures (1861–1941), Tagore Rabindranath and (1913–1941) network a and who were artists of world the around con She practice. their of formation the to integral reconsider the foundations of Indian modernism. modernism. Indian of foundations the reconsider Modern: the new book, the Decolonizing writing In Global the and Sher-Gil Amrita Tagore, Rabindranath Avant-Garde Hosted by: Hosted Balaram used the the used Balaram is Assistant Professor of Art of Professor Assistant is & Art History Uni at versity at Albany, State University of New York. She She New of York. University State versity Albany, at history art of of School taught has the previously at University, Nehru Arts Jawaharlal Aesthetics, and is Warwick. of She University the at and New Delhi, Dave- Parul and Mitter Partha with along co-editor, survey and modern of a comprehensive of Mukherji, art, contemporary Indian doctor double holds Balaram Skira). (forthcoming, University from Cambridge Literature French in ates Historyand of Art of from Courtauld Institute the Art,London. of University Decolonizing the Modern: Amrita Sher-Gil, Rabindranath Rabindranath Sher-Gil, Amrita Modern: the Decolonizing Avant-Garde Global the and Tagore paper. on Ink 1929–1930. c. Untitled, Tagore, Rabindranath Fig.: Courtesy: Rabindra Bhavana, Santiniketan Rakhee Balaram - - - fellowship Adab Journal. and Adam collected as much information as pos information collected asAdam much sible through the use of Sudanese archives and pub and archives Sudanese of use the through sible libraries. German various the in Sudan on lications museol on research his to material this relates He of University ogy Department Archaeology, of the at records of development the investigates Khartoum, links promotes and Museology, of Science the in and institutions international corresponding with Sudan. in museums and Germany, in museums Hosted by: Hosted is Assistant Professor and Head of the Department the of Head and Professor Assistant is Khartoum. of University Archaeologyof the at Suakin and Sea Red Director the the of also is He establish wants to a project leads that Project and Aba and Island. University Khartoum at museums University the at Fellow wasAhmed a Research a Honorary and Research (2012) Cambridge of His (2011–2013). Exeter of University the at Fellow and Sudan archaeology on in centers research and sites preservation the on archaeological of this on extensively has objects. He published their Sudan and like Nubia, Nyame journals in subject of Sudanese Bulletin Journal, Adumantu Akumme, Studies H A 2015–2016 the During of collections Sudanese the studied Adam year, housed contents objects, and material, heritage Germany, in institutions and museums the in important most the of some represent these since artifacts archaeological be to Sudanese systemati- status current the investigated He cally studied. collections. historical and archaeological these of cast to projectattempt an is light this Therefore, Ber- of collections objects the in Sudanese the on their evaluate to and elsewhere and Munich, lin, to aims research this Moreover, situation. current objects can Sudanese vital the role that highlight others. and culture, research, in play

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Art Histories Fellows 2015–2016 Fellows Histories Art 16 Art Histories Fellows 2015–2016 19 - - the ancestral stone located at the located at stone ancestral the is Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropol- Sociocultural of Professor Assistant is ogy Department Anthropology of the the at of from MA her received She Utrecht. of University from the PhD her and Padua, of University the areas of Her Italy. Milan, of University Catholic of culture material and visual include research Roman politics, and aesthetics religious religions, West of societies and religions and Catholicism focus a special Africa African and diasporas (with Nigeria). and Ghana on Hosted by: Hosted In the 1880s, two French Catholic missionaries missionaries Catholic two French 1880s, the In to and Coast, Gold Ghana, the in Elmina, reached called a shrine discovered they surprise great their of Temple the means Fanti in which Buw, Ntona old an of remains are the shrine the At Anthony. Portuguese by the brought Anthony Saint of statue Nana renamed Anthony, Saint of The statue 1632. in venerated Elmina, years in hundred four spent Ntona, local the above even and among as saint holy the was (Elmina slaves was He runaway to gods. a refuge a trade), slave ports major the of one Atlantic the of the and Dutch the warrior against powerful spiritual authority spiritual only the and colonizers, British local the of enstoolment the veto to power the with is Anthony Saint authority. political highest the chief, shares He Shrine. the at power spiritual only the not objects sacramental intriguing several with space the twoand gods — god mysterious another and shrine the of entrance Ntona. base altar Nana little of the located the of at sys and aesthetics The project looks religious the at Afro-Catholic an born of out regime, aesthetic tural and religious, social, produces encounter, aesthetic history of and control the about discourses political memory. tem of relations between the remains of the statue of statue the of between remains relations of the tem objects other preserved the and the at Anthony Saint transcul this how investigate to is The aim shrine. Fig.: StatueFig.: of Saint Anthony. Gesso, 20th century, Museum of Roman Catholic Art and Missions in the Ghana. Photo by Gold Annalisa Butticci (2015). Coast, Elmina, Annalisa Butticci and Continuities of Regime Aesthetic Afro-Catholic an Buw: Ntona Ambiguities - - - — Three-dimensional Vorderasiatisches Museum Hosted by: Hosted began his university studies in Philosophy, obtain- Philosophy, in university studies began his Having (Annapolis). College John’s from a BA St. ing archaeologi- the on summers the during worked went he Urkesh, ancient Mozan, Tell of cal site in a Magister pursue to Germany, Tübingen, to Eastern Near Eastern in Archaeology;Near a PhD Frankfurt Archaeology from Goethe University, dissertation His followed. a.M., Context: The Archaeological an in Analysis Volumetric its and Representation at Urkesh of Tupkish Palace construction energy the the in used quantified as Monu- such concepts link to order process in archaeologi- directly the to Prestige mentality and cal record. A major trend in current archaeology is to recover archaeology to is current in trend A major The aim ancients. the of dimension perceptual the factuality important data, beyond the go to the of is and arguable through recover, to and is, that though dimension. human the procedures, documentable eort, this factor and in a major is Architecture volumes and its of spaces impact full the exploring as archi expressed in task. Space, intriguing an is tectural volumes, can as seem abstract, distant an tectural volumes, lacking and understood, not but visible concept, carry a deeper however, These volumes, interaction. were and aected they conditioned by the meaning: a remote in lost is which a civilization of life daily between haptic, optic, past. The relationship together, olfactory and contribute, senses acoustic, space social condition buildings that way the to space the to relationships interactors’ impacting as institutions as the interactors well other itself, as examined Authorship, space. that inhabiting but voice, a single of examination an not is here, a plu reveals record oen archaeological the rather data This structure. a single to rality tied authors of typological, reflects only also not but is choices the the within made actors; choices ancient specific of factors, of context tech a web of be practical, they level. some on symbolic or nological

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Postwar–Art (Bönen: Verlag Kettler, November November Kettler, Verlag (Bönen: (Berkeley: University of California Press, Press, California of University (Berkeley: Postdate: Photography and Inherited History Inherited and Photography Postdate: ’s book project examines anti-illusionism book anti-illusionism project examines ’s and abstraction (in painting, sculpture, photog- sculpture, painting, (in abstraction and infrastructure art’s film), experimental and raphy, supporting and exhibitions, ekphrasis, (critical War Cold flows (through aesthetic and structures), Movement). networks Non-Aligned the across and Excerpts from book her project as appeared chap- ters in in India a Cool in Store Potnis: Prajakta and 2015) March Dryand Place coediting completed also She 2014). 1945–1965 Atlantic, between the and Pacific the is Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and and South of Curator Assistant Emison Jane is Institute art Asian Minneapolis Southeast the at art, visual include Art.of interests research Her 20th-century of histories intellectual and cultures, between intersections the Cold Asia; the South artistic and Movement, Non-Aligned the War, in trained She Modernisms. Global and practices, US the in art Minnesota of University history the at More at: India. Baroda University in M.S. the and www.atreyeegupta.com. Gupta a volume Wilmes), Ulrich and Okwui(with Enwezor focus both dier- sharp into bring essaysof that postwar shaped that interconnections and ences Africa, the Rim, Pacific the Asia, art Europe, in North America South America, and Mediterranean, World Second the decades the following during Tran- Forum of conference annual The 2015 War. Contigui- Modernisms: “Global Studien sregionale and Practices,” Aesthetic and Infrastructures ties, has co-conceptu- she project that a publication to Gupta has allowed Baader, Hannah with alized and contiguities of idea the with further engage infrastructures as gener- immaterial) and (material of field global the new for methods engaging ating modernism. Fig.: Fig.: Blue Print for a Central Institution for Modern Art in New Delhi, ca. image 1936, source: Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi Atreyee Gupta Atreyee (aÍliated Fellow) and Abstraction, Anti-illusionism, Modern: the of Promise The 1937–1968) ca. (India, Modernism Inter-cultural Architecture, SanctityArchitecture, Power: and a. Firouzeh was the acting curator curator was acting the a. Firouzeh The focus of her project in the past months past project the The her focus of months in Hosted by: Hosted specialises in the art and material culture of the the of culture art the material in and specialises Iran modern early on a focus with world, Islamic the in interested particularly is She India. and and culture between material interconnections art of patronage and authority, socio-political obtained She studies. museum and architecture, from architecture in (2007) MA and (2004) BA her and (2011) MPhil her and Art, of University Tehran, a with from Cambridge of University (2015) PhD dissertation titled fieenth–cen- in khanqahs and shrines Ne’matollahi Indi and tury Iran Museum British the at collections Islamic of 2015. and between 2014 focused on H project A at Firouzeh’s dynastic authority and sacred of visualization the interconnections the studied She legitimacy. an through between spiritual and temporal the or real depict the that paintings of examination between — generally encounters Sufis imaginary figures, ruling — and mystics” asdefined “Islamic In 1700. and between 1400 India and Iran in materiality, the was aim unfold to her so doing, as history as the and well iconography aesthetics, “encounter.” the of politics manu- century illustrated has been a fieenth on kept now Kings), of (Book Shahnameh the of script frontispiece the Library (Or.1403), British the at The encounters. depicts such of one which of the of illustrations the of contextualization visual holdings for which its frontispiece, and manuscript have Europe and Berlin in collections several of as as a close well provided for a basis comparison, text the preface, and the of marginalia of reading contemporary prefaces the of a variation is which con- the rethink to her has enabled epic, the of this in textual and genealogies struction visual of manuscript.

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Art Histories Fellows 2015–2016 Fellows Histories Art 20 Art Histories Fellows 2015–2016 23 ------, no. 8 (2016). 8 (2016). , no. Beyond Border “ A Temple Without a Name: Deccan a Name: Without A Temple “ in the Getty the in Journal Research ” completed in Berlin, is forthcoming in a Getty in forthcoming is Berlin, in completed , presents an integrated approach to the hetero the to approach integrated an , presents ,” geneous built spaces of the early medieval Deccan, medieval early the of spaces built geneous the through material understudied this examining courtly analytical framework cosmopolitanism, of power. and place of ideas and culture, and values Art in History a PhD Archaeology earned and Kaligotla 2015. in University from Columbia Hosted by: Hosted specializes in the art and architectural history art the South of architectural in and specializes mobility the encompass interests research Her Asia. lin visual, the forms in transregional of reception and guistic, ritual, and political domains, landscape history landscape domains, political and ritual, guistic, book Her manuscript, historiography. and culture, and of Architecture Deccan the in Ornament and Argument India land: Claiming a Conceptual Space for Early Deccan Space a Conceptual Claiming land: Buildings, A second article, article, A second Publications’ edited volume on global canons. The lat canons. global on volume edited Publications’ inform that epistemologies and values the and ent, Museum the to access Additionally, categories. these shrines miniature of collection Kunst’s Asiatische für transregional the of expansion an stupas to led and the into project, further the of and insights component pos made architecture miniature that functions social Deccan beyond. medieval and the in sible ter publication examines the conceptual categories for categories conceptual the examines publication ter colonial in beginnings from their temples, Asian South pres the to production through modes knowledge of Kaligotla’s research challenges the canonical binary canonical the challenges research Kaligotla’s Early Deccan strands which temples, view Indian of position, outsider an in centuries) (6th–8th buildings landscapes the and from another one segregated from Departing the them. sustain and situate that history, architectural to approach monument-based emphasizing projectthe clusters, looks temple to and buildings between buildings, interrelationships as as phenomenological well worlds, built and natural fellowship the perspectives. During experiential and article, an published Kaligotla term, Architecture and the Canon for Sacred Indian Build Canon for Indian Sacred the and Architecture ings Subhashini Kaligotla Subhashini Fig.: Fig.: Bhutanatha Temple Group and Environs,Badami, Karnataka. Caleb Photo: Smith ca. 8th century, A River Runs Through: Sacred Spaces in the Landscape of the the of Landscape the in Spaces Sacred Through: Runs A River Early Medieval Deccan Hosted by: Hosted Kale’s project explores the public display and and display project public explores the Kale’s artworks of reception early the in cross-cultural intersecting on by focusing Istanbul, modern Ottoman in conveyed experiences transcultural travel European and architecture on writings philo- and scientific comparative and narratives, of means and sources the on discourses sophical Ottoman how examines research Her knowledge. artworks on narratives depic- the with overlapped due sources Ottoman of tion objects European in mutual and spaces public of experiences shared to work artifacts. her in presented interests She on conferences the in and lecture series the at Ottoman Berlin. and art in architecture and Islamic and collections European to trips research Her Kunstkammer included which sites, architectural gis enriched and instruments, objects, scientific a new oer to her led and work cross-cultural her between perspective and relation wonder the on exchanges artifacts cultural of intersection the at curiosi- modern early of notion the through and ties. holds a PhD from McGill University’s Architectural Architectural University’s from McGill a PhD holds received She History Theory and (2014). Program Techni- degrees from March Istanbul and BArch her post-professional a obtaining Aer cal University. doctoral began her she MArch degree (McGill), intel- and cultural the understand to seeking studies from lectual context architecture modern early of perspective. cross-cultural and interdisciplinary an Harvard at Univer- scholar has been a visiting She the examined dissertation Her 2008). sity (Spring and artistic, betweenintersections architectural, mod- early the practices in and concepts scientific fellow- of recipient the is Ottoman She ern world. as Max such van Berchem from organizations ships and Society Historians, Architectural of Foundation, Art Association. Islamic of Historians -

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Contact: Contact: Prof. Dr. Wullen Moritz Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber Dr. Lilla Russell-Smith Dr.Lilla Konzepte fürdieAusstellungspraxismitarbeiten. torisch begleitensowiebeiderEntwicklungneuer können darüberhinauseinzelneAusstellungenkura- der Museen.DieStipendiatinnenundStipendiaten Forschungen indenArchivenundSammlungen eigenständige undqualiﬁzierendewissenschaliche weiteres Jahrverlängertwerdenkönnen,umfassen auf einJahrangelegtenStipendien,dieum das Stipendienprogrammzubewerben.Diezunächst benachbarter Disziplinensindeingeladen,sichfür randen sowiePostdocs derKunstgeschichte und und wissens schiedlichster Kulturen undZivilisationeninkunst- Möglichkeit zurErforschungvonArtefaktenunter- an diesemProzessteil.Siebieteneineeinzigartige salen SammlungennehmeninbesondererWeise Die StaatlichenMuseenzuBerlinmitihrenuniver- den globalenPerspektiven des21.Jahrhunderts. zwischen Ästhetik,AnthropologieundPolitik in der NeubestimmungvonKunst undKunstgeschichte auch außermusealerEbeneoptimalgefördert. liche AustauschunddieForschung aufmusealerwie Exkursionen undTagungen werdenderwissenscha - Prof. Dr. Ruitenbeek Klaas Prof. Dr. Viola König PD Dr. Paola Ivanov In Cooporationwith: Lucy Jarman,B.A. Prof. Dr. GerhardWolf Dr. HannahBaader Dr. JörgVöllnagel Director-General,Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Prof. Dr. MichaelEissenhauer Program DirectorsandCoordination Durch gemeinsameSeminare,Workshops, Museen spielenheuteeinewichtigeRolle bei Internationale DoktorandinnenundDokto-

historischer Perspektive.

Director Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin zu Kunstbibliothek, Director Museen Staatliche MuseumDirector Berlin für Islamischezu Museen Kunst, Staatliche cahim@khi.ﬁ.it Curator Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Director MuseumDirector für Asiatische Kunst, Director EthnologischesDirector Museum, Curator Ethnologisches Museum, Coordinator, Head of Exhibitions, Research, Staatliche Projects, Museen zu Berlin Program DirectorandManagingDirector, KHIin Florenz—MPI Program DirectorandSeniorResearch Scholar, KHI inFlorenz— KHI inFlorenz—MPI nars, workshops,excursions,andconferences. activities oftheresearchgroup,suchassemi- are optimallyencouragedthroughthejoint ration, bothwithinandbeyondthemuseum, of newconceptsforexhibitionpractices. ons aswelltocontributethedevelopment vide curatorialassistanceforindividualexhibiti- program. Fellows havetheopportunitytopro- disciplines areinvitedtoapplyforthefellowship doctoral researchersinarthistoryandrelated from dierentculturesandcivilizations. using multidisciplinaryapproachestoartifacts way, oeringauniqueopportunityforresearch Berlin participateinthisprocessadistinctive ‘universal’ collections,StaatlicheMuseenzu decentralized, globalized21stcentury. Withtheir aesthetics, anthropology, andpoliticsinthe re deﬁnition ofartandhistoryinrelationto Academic exchangeandresearchcollabo- International doctoralstudentsandpost- Museums playakeyroleintheongoing Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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CAHIM – The Research Program Research The – CAHIM 27 28 CAHIM Fellows City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Vat. Cod. 3738 Vaticana, 7v fol. A, Apostolica City, Biblioteca Vatican 16th century. Ríos, Codex in: Moses, as Fig.:Quetzalcoatl Material CrossoversinEarlyModernAntiquarianism The EgyptianConjecture: Colmenares Horacio David Fellow of: of visualpracticesanddiscourses. from theNewWorld —withinanEuropeanmatrix artifacts andimages—especiallythosecoming culture. Theprojectaimstothere-situationof in thecontinuousexchangeofoverseasmaterial various objectives,allofwhichenteredintodialog within diverseintellectualframeworksandwith engravers, printers,etc.Theseagentsworkedfrom collaborators, suchasmissionaries,tradesmen, that dependeduponaninternationalnetworkof circle pioneeredaformofcomparativeresearch East andWest Indies.Pignoriaandhisscientific paths forthestudyofmaterialcultures ing Egyptianantiquitiesopenedunexpected Lorenzo Pignoria(1571–1631)forwhominspect- focuses upontheworkofPaduan antiquarian explored newculturalgeographies.Theproject ted traditionalformsandfieldsofknowledge follow ing thetrailofartifacts,Antiquariansrevisi- ques andrespectivehypothesesornarratives.By led toaneedforinnovativescholarlytechni- beyond theconfinesofGreco-Roman world tion. Theexpansionoftheantiquarian’sarchives in theirtimessitesofrichintellectualspecula- forerunners ofmoderncriticalmethodsandwere and materialartifacts—canbeunderstoodasthe including thecollectingandstudyingofimages the notionofAntiquarianism.Thesepractices— tices intheearlymodernperiod,subsumedunder The projectexaminesavarietyofscholarlyprac- the overseas territoriesthe of the overseas Spanish Empire. intersections of early modern antiquarianism and Kunstbibliothek, SMB. His research focusses on atof the the and CAHIM based research project versity. Since January2014 Colmenares is fellow andAmerican Iberian Cultures at Columbia Uni- CandidateDoctoral at the of Latin Department Belgium, and Spain. Currently, Colmenares is a studied Philosophy and Literature in Mexico, Based at: Based che Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst. Asiatische für Museum zuBerlin, Museen che 14ththe from © Fig.:Staatli- in Bezeklik. cave fragments Mural Fellow(shortterm July–September2016) Uighur period Study on the Avalokiteśvara imagery of Turfan in the Qočo Fellow of: Aifeng Cheng Hubei Province. pursuing at his degree Wuhan doctoral University, Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. He is presently golia, and at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Mongolian National University, Ulaanbaatar, Mon- Gansu Province. visiting He was scholar at the Nationalities, University for Northwest Lanzhou, Research Research Academy. He is Editor of is appointed Associate Professor at the Turfan Based at: Based ing area, discussing interactions them. between comparisons with similar images of the surround- Avalokiteśvara image painting for will serve style tions of the of Avalokiteśvara. observations The images combined with other traditional depic- Avalokiteśvara Sutra paintings and research graphic research, Iwill also work with similar and composition of the cave. (Bezeklik Cave 14) analyzing by the subject matter comparing them to the main Avalokiteśvara cave of Avalokiteśvara imagesdency in the grottoes, Avalokiteśvara. Iseek to confirm the interdepen- closer dating the for of the imagery female of form more, these Iwill images classify to determine a (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China). Further- around Turfan theof Avalokiteśvara grottoes from the Turfan area, and with focuson the paintings regardingabroad the Avalokiteśvara from imagery I intend to investigate collections within China and Using of icono- the methodology . Chen studied and Culture History at the

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CAHIM Fellows CAHIM 29 30 CAHIM Fellows Survey and Study of the Rock Monasteries of Kucha Fellow(shortterm July–August 2016) Giuseppe Vignato Fellow of: Fig.: 15, Simsim Cave ceiling. the of Photo: G. Vignato detail archaeological information research for at home. involved in fieldwork and the provide necessary it tool will areference as ideally assist scholars developingbeen through my studies. Intended data around an interpretive model which Ihave an archaeologicalfrom organizing perspective, the audience. will book The introduce over 600 caves format to makea book them accessible to alarger prompted has me todecades organize my notes in investigation will possible not be in the next ness that systematic fieldwork and archaeological have the been basis of my research. aware- The 2014, extensive notes Itook and drawings which fieldwork in the Kucha 2000 area, between and logical investigation behind. lagged has During my history,art linguistics and Buddhology. Archaeo- giving to afield birth of studies mainly focused on ies mainly has concerned been with the paintings tions (1902–1914), the study of the monaster- rock material the by recovered German Turfan Expedi- principally monasteries. of rock on the Based to China. Buddhist Extant monuments consist Road the for transmission of Buddhism India from occupied astrategic Silk of the section Northern ancientThe kingdom of Kucha (China, Xinjiang) Pakistan. studies the by Italian Archaeological team in Swat, Chinese, including Tucci’s Indo-Tibetica (7vols) and he coordinated the translation of Italian into works monasteries of Kucha. Beside his publications own of research is of the archaeology Buddhist rock Road, and Xinjiang Buddhist Archaeology. His field he teaches on Roman, courses Mediterranean, Silk Museology, Peking University (P.R. China), where is aProfessor at and the School of Archaeology Based at: Based Fashioning of aMughal City: Fatehpur Sikri mosque complex. Photo: Priyani Roy Choudhury,2015 Photo: Priyani complex. mosque at Fatehpur inside Fig.: the from seen Sikri Buland The Darwaza Priyani Roy Choudhury Fellow of: Based at: Based zu Berlin. Her current research titled Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, at Humboldt-Universität is pursuing at degree the her Institut doctoral für afellow been has of CAHIM since 2013. October She Islamische Kunst, SMB, in 2016. and Holy Men Ascetics Sufis, the co-curator of the exhibition Travellers: Mystic empire in the sixteenth centuryin India. She was relationships architecture, between landscape, and ing of aMughal Fatehpur City: Sikri 16th-century world order. experience, and an emerging consciousness of the imagination, knowledge, memory, history, lived articulation within of the city the matrix of cultural heteroglossia and the to locate attempts material “Mughal”a new cultural, intellectual, and political Sikri an both atelier as of well aproduct as for as of Hindustan. thus project The treats Fatehpur articulate territories rootedness to anew the vast and dissemination of knowledge which sought to emphasisa new on creating, archiving, ordering, materialization convergent was of the city with to them. that also proposes project The this distant Timurid homelands responses and local architectural on inherited reflections memories of historical dialogs, apparent as instance for through werestructures shaped trans-regional, by trans- the aesthetic new idioms exhibited in the city’s rial power in the 16th century. that It proposes that facilitated the emergence impe- of anew of aesthetics, cultures, people, and geographies fashioning within the interstices of large networks the Mughal Emperor Akbar, and to study the city’s the ceremonial imperial (1571–1585) capital under tural of Fatehpur program Sikri which built was as to closely the architec- seeks analyze project The , staged at, staged Museum für ” explores the explores “ Fashion

CAHIM Fellows CAHIM 31 34 Events 2015–2016 Ù× Nov ÖØÙÚ Ö× ÖØÙÚ Oct Academic Year ¬®¯°–¬®¯± HistoriesArt Seminar ÖÞ June ÖØÙ× ÖØ June ÖØÙ× ÙÛ June ÖØÙ× ÛØ April ÖØÙ× ÖÛ May ÖØÙ× ÙÙ April ÖØÙ× Öß Febr ÖØÙ× ØÞ ÖØÙÚ Dec ÛØ Nov ÖØÙÚ ÖÛ Nov ÖØÙÚ Subhashini Kaligotla Mesopotamian Palatial Architecture:— AStudy I Part of Space Federico Buccellati Berlin, withProf. CharlotteKlonk,Ann-CathrinDrewsandStefanieGerke The “ Avant-Garde Decolonizing the Modern:Amrita Sher-Gil,Rabindranath Tagore andtheGlobal Rakhee Balaram “Feeling ofaSpace”:AnArtHistoryPraiseandPlace in18th-CenturyIndia Dipti Khera The SudaneseObjectsinGermanCollections Ahmed Adam History inTurkey Tracing Absence:MissingProvenance,‘Lost’Works, andtheBlind-SpotsofArt Banu Karaca Continuities andAmbiguities Roman Catholicism and TraditionalReligions intheGoldCoast:AestheticClashes, Annalisa Butticci Small ModelsofLargeBuildings?:OntheMiniatureTemple inMedievalIndia collection SMB Africa, African Art atAfrican the Ethnological Art Museum the collection South, Southeast and Central Asia, SMB The at Buddhist the Dahlem Art Museums on Architecture and EuropeanBooks Travel Narratives in the ÙÞth century Sources of Wisdom and as Wonder: Ottoman IntersectionsArtifacts between Gül Kale ÙÚth-centuryDeccan Shāhnāmeh manuscript (Or. ÙÝØÛ) reinterpreted in light of Sufi-Sultan relations in LegitimacyDepicted among Text, Image and Architecture: the British Library Peyvand Firouzeh Art andVisualHistory”

departmentatHumboldt-Universtitätzu with Dr. Paola Ivanov, curator of the with Dr. Martina Stoye, curator of

Events 2015–2016 Events 35 36 Events 2015–2016 10557Berlin Vargas Museum,Manila) Kunsthistorisches InstitutinFlorenz—Max-Planck-Institut),Patrick Flores(UniversityofthePhilippinesand Convened by:AtreyeeGupta(A H Fellow 2015–2016),HannahBaader(A H / with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Nov Ú–Þ |Annual Conference of Forum Transregionale Studien in cooperation Aesthetic Practices Global Modernisms: Contiguities, Infrastructures and Academic Year ¬®¯°–¬®¯± Excursions WorkhopsConferences,& Histories Art Venue: Venue: John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 Annual Annual For more information: For information: more Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kulturen der Haus der www.forum-transregionale-studien.de www.forum-transregionale-studien.de 5 –7November 2015 Conference [email protected]

Yet, conceptualizations of avantgardism and formal innovation articulated in in articulated innovation formal and avantgardism of Yet,conceptualizations Taking the years between 1905 and 1965 as the temporal frame, this this frame, temporal the 1965 as 1905and between years the Taking Modernity of aDecolonized Popular Making Cinema the in Indian with Paris, New York, Weimar, or Moscow continue to inform Global Modernisms’ the recent past, the term Global Modernisms has gained significant currency. currency. significant gained has Modernisms Global term the past, recent the new form of Westernism that masquerades as the universal. universal. the as masquerades that Westernism of form new intellectual field. Global Modernisms, then, risks becoming a symptom of a Anselm Franke, Nicola Müllerschön, Stefan Weber RoundtableNov, | pm Arjun Appadurai (New York) Keynote |Nov, pm Curating Global Modernisms in the stCurating the Globalin Modernisms Century Contiguities, Infrastructures and Aesthetic Practices conference seeks to rethink Modernism from a transregional perspective. In Global ModernismsGlobal Catherine David, Clementine Deliss, Patrick Flores,

Architect Habib Rahman explains the details of the plans of Rabindra Bhavan and the Lalit Kala Akademi buildings to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on May 7th 1961, New Delhi, India. Photo © Ram Rahman/Sukanya Rahman Chair: Kerstin Schankweiler(Berlin) Ming Tiampo(Ottawa),infra/structure/paris and Modernism The EncounterbetweenScientificInternationalism Conversations duringtheInterwaryears: Dhruv Raina(NewDelhi),TheCastleofCrossed Chair: BarbaraWittmann(Berlin) (San Francisco/Berlin) Hannah Baader(Berlin)andAtreyeeGupta Welcome andIntroduction 6 Nov by avant-gardeart,literatureorpolitics. the song,dialogandlanguageofBollywoodthan city ornationarefarmorestronglyinfluencedby dent, modernIndianimagery. Theideasoffamily, Appadurai, isoneofthemainsourcesindepen- aesthetic form.Bollywoodcinema,accordingto this cinemashouldbeseenasanemancipatory researcher ArjunAppadurai,however, reasonsthat entertainment. Ethnologistandglobalization of Hollywood;asanapoliticalvehiclemass cinema, isseenbymanyasaninferiorimitation Indian cinema,particularlypopular“Bollywood” Decolonized Modernity Indian Popular CinemaintheMakingofa Arjun Appadurai(NewYork) 5 NovKeynote (Photos: LuiseIlligenandSaschaBachmann) Manila), andHannahBaader Patrick Flores(UniversityofthePhilippines,Vargas Museum, (Musée Nationald’Art Moderne,CentrePompidou, Paris), Müllerschön (KfW-Stiung, Frankfurt a.M.),CatherineDavid Modernisms inthe21stCentury”withAtreyeeGupta,Nicola kolleg Berlin)attheroundtablediscussion“CuratingGlobal conference |Fig.5and6:ClémentineDeliss(Wissenschas- rence |Fig.4:AtreyeeGuptaintroducingthefirstdayof Fig. 3:HannahBaaderintroducingthefirstdayofconfe- Fig. 1:ArjunAppadurai|2:Poster oftheconference| and HannahBaader Moderated byAtreyeeGupta,PatrickFlores Final Discussion the QuestionofAlternativeModernism Modern trendsinPre-Revolutionary Iranian Artand Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam (Tehran/Berlin), contexts a studyoftheconceptinAfricanintricateandplural Romuald Tchibozo (Cotonou),GlobalModernism, Chair: SèrgioCosta(Berlin) French modernisttapestries versalism, francitéandNegritudeinSenegalese nialism” toacreolizedaesthetic:negotiatinguni- Merel vanTilburg(Paris), From“aestheticcolo- of Modernism:SituatingAmritaSher-Gil’sTwo Girls Rakhee Balaram(Berlin/Albany), BlackMadonna Chair: MonicaJuneja(Heidelberg) 7 Nov Baader Moderated byAtreyeeGuptaandHannah Stefan Weber (Berlin) Franke (Berlin),NicolaMüllerschön (Frankfurt), PatrickFlores(Manila),Anselm Catherine David(Paris), ClementineDeliss with Curating GlobalModernismsinthe21stCentury Roundtable (Berlin) Annett Busch(Berlin)andAnselmFranke Curating AerYear Zerowith Project Presentation Modernisms: Imperial,Regional, National,Local Harsha Ram(Berkeley),TheScaleofGlobal Moment throughCulturalArabism Nada Shabout(Denton),ProclaimingtheModern Chair: SaleemAl-Bahooly(Berlin) Infrastructure (1950s–1980s) Modernists: ExperimentswithPrecarious Nancy Adajania(Mumbai),TheFunambular and theImplicationsofIrredenta Patrick Flores(Manila),“Asiatic Complications” Chair: ZaalAndronikashvili(Berlin) Perspective ofBrazilianArt Elena Stromberg(SaltLakeCity),ASystems The CaseofBerlinaer1945 Thomas Kirchner(Paris), CompetingModernisms.

Events 2015–2016 Events 37 38 Events 2015–2016 Basilica diSant’Antonio, Padua. Photo:Lucy Jarman renz —MPI)andBrotherStephenOllethazhathuinfrontofthe Fig.:The A H group,JessicaRichardson(KHIinFlo- Padua Dec ÙÙ–ÙÛ | Histories,Art Ecology, and Religious Practices A H A Excursion and Exploratory Workshop |Florence and aspects of aesthetic practiceswere addressed.aspects aestheticized sciences, and the epistemological religioustation of the human between rites, body excursion, overall questions about the re-presen- at the Basilica di Sant’Antonio. Throughout the Bo, and together with Annalisa Butticci the relics Specola, theLa anatomical theater at the Palazzo models at the Natural wax cal Museum History visited among the others collection of anatomi- cultural and of the urban cities, history the group and Padua in December ÖØÙÚ. While discussing the the Hannah and Baader Aesthetics, of Art” and History of theOn occasion conference “Ecologies, A H Fellows travelled to Florence Photo: HeleneBongers,LucyJarman Fig.2: AudienceattheConference Fig. 1:Robert Smithon,“Asphalt Rundown” Rome, Oct1969 University), Participants: Florence Dec ÙÝ–ÙÚ |International Conference at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art Evening Lecture ÖØÙÚ–Ù×), Meha Priyadarshini, (all Caraa Brigitte Sölch and Costanza KHI in Florence —MPI) University), (Ambedkar try, Vitoria-Gasteiz), NationalVisual Washington, Arts, of Art, Gallery DC), Stories We Tell: Nature and Narrative in the Age Global of Margarete Pratschke Margarete Adam Herring — MPI |Organized by Hannah Baader, Sugata Ray and Gerhard Wolf Felix Pirson Felix Dipesh Chakrabarty (University Dipesh Chakrabarty of Chicago) Timothy Ingold (University of Aberdeen), Peter Schneemann Peter (ETH Zürich), (ETH Sandy Prita Meier (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Istanbul), (Southern Methodist University), (Universität Bern), Subhashini Kaligotla (A H Fellow MichaelMarder to the present day. human interaction with the natural environment transcultural the earliest from known perspective thetic studies, envisaged here in ahistorical and in ecological the and conversationaes- between conference acrucial aims as to act interpolation processes, into this emerging conversation. The of landscape, nature, materiality, and aesthetic that long for has concerned been with notions ference thus aims to bring history, art adiscipline culture studies is still at early stage. its con- The over the decades, last the ecological turn in visual ecocriticism aﬁeld become has of intense debate scale. the micro Whilefrom to aplanetary literary zoological, astronomical, and climatic formations teraction with geographical, geological, botanical, ecological and aesthetic dimensions of human in- an intellectualceived as to address the laboratory “Ecologies, is Aesthetics, con- and Histories of Art” (University of Illinois), Lihong Liu Spyros Papapetros Papapetros Spyros

Warming (The University of the Coun- Basque (The (Center Study Advanced for in the MimiYiengpruksawan Venugopal Maddipati (Princeton University),

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Events 2015–2016 Events 39 40 Events 2015–2016 Photo: PhilipGeilser, HeleneBongers Fig. 2:Poster oftheAnnualMeeting Fig.1: Audienceatthemeeting June ÖÛ–ÖÝ |ARTMargins Annual Workshop Writing (in) the Margins 14193 Berlin Wallotstraße 14 Wallotstraße a.m. -p.m. Workshop www.forum-transregionale-studien.de www.art-histories Forum Transregionale Studien Studien Transregionale Forum / - AnnualWorkshop RSVP [email protected]

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Our Geocultural Categories: Latin American 1933-1945 Art, Niko Vicario (Amherst College) Colonial Modernism (Iraq, 1950s) 'Awakening to Color': Heritage, Abstraction, and the Forms of Haytham Bahoora (University of Colorado Boulder) June 23, 6.30 p.m. Evening Lecture capitalism. ofglobal scope totalizing the before production critical art and of artistic historicity the with terms to come to us allow that tools methodological and questions in We interested are ofart. margins or theoretical) historical, social, (geopolitical, the about and from write to how ask to want we speciﬁcally, More it. within place our and art contemporary and ofglobal state on the reﬂection sustained and critical, collective, foster will that ofconversations aseries inaugurate to is workshop this in task Our Writing the Margins

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Events 2015–2016 Events 41 42 Events 2015–2016 Apr ÛØ–May ÙÖ |The The Architectures, Aesthetic Practices, and of Iran Arts Peter Haase(Freie Universität,Berlin) Guest Scholars:HeliaDarabi(UniversityofArtTehran), SaeidKhaghani(Tehran University),and Claus- University ofTehran), andseveralartistsfromTehran participation ofDrJabra’ Hannah Baader, CombizMoussavi-Aghdam (UniversityofArtTehran), andGerhardWolf withthe il Nokandeh(DirectoroftheNationalMuseum)andDrJamalArabzadeh(Art A H A P Travelling Seminar ÖØÙ× Tower of Silence Water museum and Golshan Weaving Mill Ateshkadeh (Fire temple) Jafar Imamzadeh Tekiyeh Amir Chaqmaq Mosque Chaqmaq Amir Badgir or Towers) (Windcatchers Water Reservoir Abanbar Medreseh-ie Sheikh aldin Taraz Qasem and Tekiyeh Mausoleum of Rokn-od Din Jame’ Masjed –Congregational Mosque ElahehAlvandian with Mr Olumi (Cultural Heritage Association) and ¶ May |Yazd Tan, Great Mosque bad-e Ali, Ali Naqi, Seyyedoon-e Gonbad-e Se-ye Abarkouh: Gonbad-e Tower Seyyedoon, of Gon- Pasargadae: Palace, Tomb of Cyrus Darius, Rock Relief Carvings Naqsh-e Rostam: Tombs of the Kings Xerxes, Palace of Darius Persepolis: Apadana Palace, Palace of Xerxes, Abarkouh ¬ May |Persepolis – Pasargadae – Koran Gate City Gallery Vesaal Madreseh Khan: Tomb of Sa’di Gardens: Eram Dipti Khera) Ha Tanan (Presentation: of Hafez, poetry The Tomb of Hafez with Gardens Chehel Tanan and Mosque Nasr-ol-Molk Masjed-e Jame’ Atiq (Old Mosque) Aramgah-e Shah Cheragh Vakil Mosque, Bath, and Bazaar Karim Khan Citadel ¯ May |Shiraz All photos: Helene Bongers/Philip Geisler/LucyJarman Bongers/Philip Helene photos: All Soltaniyeh of Dome at the muqarnas of Fig. 8: Detail 7:Fig. Bridge, Isfahan Khan (FU Berlin)al. Allāhverdi at Si-o-seh pol, et Haase Peter Claus- Moussavi-Aghdam, Combiz (Tehran University), Khaghani Tehran), University Saeid (Art Fig. Darabi Helia 6: with Group Fig. in Naein 5: mosque old at the Mihrab at Persepolis bearers gi the of relief the of Fig. 4: Parts in Shiraz Mosque Old the Mosque, Fig. Atiq Jame 3:the of In front ran, Teh University (Art Moussavi-Aghdam Combiz Firouzeh, Peyvand Wolf, Gerhard Baader, Hannah with Discussion Roundtable 2: Fig. inFig. Shiraz Pink 1: or Mosque Mosque Molk ol Nasir The porary Art with the museum’s the with Jabra’il Dr director, Nokandeh Art porary A H H A At the storage space of the Tehran Museum of Contem- of Museum Tehran the of space storage the At Fellow 2014–15) et al. at Vesaal Gallery in Shiraz Shiraz in Gallery 2014–15) Vesaal at al. Fellow et -

Dr JamalDr Arabzadeh Seminar University of Tehran at the Art with ¯¯ May| Tehran Towers Kharaqan yeh mosque) plex, Friday mosque (Masjed al-Nabi) and Heydari- Safavid constructionsQazvin: (Bagh-e Safavicom- Soltaniyeh: Tomb of Oljeitu ¯® May |Soltaniyeh –Qazvin Palace Saadabad MuseumCarpet Honarha-ie Moaser-e Tehran) Tehran (Muzeh-ie Museum Art of Contemporary and GraÍtiStreet Art MuseumReza Abbasi National Museum with Jabra’il Dr Nokandeh Palace Golestan tourCity of Tehran: Monuments Martyrs’ ¹–º May| Tehran basian House, Bagh-e Fin Tabatabai, Ameriha, Hamam-e Sultan Ahmad, Ab- Kashan: Ùßth Houses Century Khaneh-ie Borujerdi Abyaneh leum Natanz: Great Mosque and ’Abd al-Samad Mauso- ¸ May |Natanz –Abyaneh –Kashan Ja’far Imamzadeh Armenian Church (Kelisa-ie Vank) (Palace)Chehel Sotun Kakhe-e Bridges: Si-o-se Pol and Khaju Kakh-e Hasht Beheshet Chahar Street: Bagh Medreses Harun-e Velayat Sanctuary soleum Masjed Jame’ (Old Mosque) and Shahjahan mau- Kakh-e Ali Qapu (Palace) Masjid Lotfullah (Mosque) (Mosque) Masjid-Imam Qeysariyeh Meydan-e Imam (or Shah Square) and Bazar °–± May |Isfahan mosque Naein: Jama Masjid, Pirnia Palace, ’Abdullah Baba Meybod: Narenji Qaleh, Yakhchal, Friday Mosque · May |Meybod –Naein

Events 2015–2016 Events 43 On the Cover From the top le to the bottom right: The A H group in the Egyptian Museum, Munich; Photo: Philip Geisler | Detail from ‘Mirza Mumin Beg with Mian Shah Khuballah and Mian Muhammad Shakir’, Mughal, 17th century, British Museum (2001,0616,0.1) | Shiva Temple, 7th century, Siddhanakolla, Karnataka; Photo: Subhashini Kaligotla | ‘Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah II venerates Suﬁ’, Deccan, ca. 1620–1627, British Museum (1997,1108,0.1) | The AP Palace uncovered at Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh, dating to 2250 BC | Statue of Saint Anthony. Gesso, 20th century, Museum of Roman Catholic Art and Missions in the Gold Coast, Elmina, Ghana; Photo: Annalisa Butticci | Roundtable discussion with Hannah Baader, Gerhard Wolf, Peyvand Firouzeh, Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam et. al. at Vesall Gallery in Shiraz; May 1, 2016; Photo: Lucy Jarman | Lectern inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ca. 17th century, The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul; Photo: Gül Kale | “Wealth Tax” Source: http://yenisafak. com.tr/. Licensed under Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Varlik Vergisi via Wikipedia – http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Varlik_vergisi.gif#mediaviewer/File:Varlik_vergisi.gif; Picture taken during an auction of household items held under duress to cover the wealth tax imposed on Non-Muslims (1942–43) | Rana Amar Singh II in Udaipur during a monsoon downpour, ca. 1700. 109.2 x 175.2 cm. Purchase and partial gi made in 2012 from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, Accession Number: F2012.4.2. Courtesy of Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution | Gold of Meroitic Queen Kandake Amanishakheto, Meroitic Kingdom (350 BC–350 AD). Neues Museum, Berlin; Photo: Ahmed Adam | R. Tagore, Untitled, ca. 1928–30, Bibliothèque National de France | The A H group in front of the Lenbachhaus, Munich; Photo: Philip Geisler

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