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Stylistic analysis is an essential tool for the Please register to attend the conference. interpretation of the origins and date of Attendance is open for all interested and free artifacts and the reconstruction of contacts of charge. and relations. However, in the broader disciplines of art history and archaeology, there has been a long-running debate about Registration can be made via an informal the concept of style that has challenged many email: of the assumptions underlying stylistic analysis. [email protected] Recently, Near Eastern art history has also or begun to wrestle with these important [email protected] theoretical and methodological problems, questioning the methods of connoisseurship and attribution studies and the debatable equation of style with ethnicity or local identity. Emerging perspectives interpret stylistic You will receive all information needed to similarities and differences as denoting attend the online event via email. historically contingent communities or Please note that access is granted SFB 1070 networks of practice that could be dispersed, individually. RessourcenKulturen shifting, and overlapping, rather than discrete socio-cultural groups. Shared stylistic Registration deadline: 10th of April 2021 Beyond Attribution?! practices are considered not as passive reflections of these communities, but as an active means of social boundary and identity Style and Communication construction and negotiation. in Visual Media of the Late Bronze and Iron Age Near East It is the goal of this conference to explore and define the emerging paradigm shift in ancient Near Eastern art history and archaeology in Also funded by the International Virtual Conference the treatment of style and stylistic analysis, with special reference to the highly 12th-14th of April 2021 interconnected visual cultures of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Universität Tübingen Universität Freiburg Vorderasiatische Archäologie Vorderasiatische Archäologie/ IANES IAW Schloss Hohentübingen Platz der Universität 3 Burgsteige 11 (KG III) 72070 Tübingen 79085 Freiburg Day 1, 12th of April Day 2, 13th of April Day 3, 14th of April 14:00 Introduction and Welcome Section II: Style–Iconography–Medium Section IV: Style as a Performance of Herrmann / Wagner-Durand Chair: Peter Pfälzner Identity (Part I) Section I: Theories of Style (Part I) 13:00 Virginia R. Herrmann Chair: Martin Bartelheim Chair: Martin Dorka Moreno Style Across Media: What Cross- 13:00 Ido Koch 14:15 Davide Nadali Medium Interaction Tells Us about Art Egyptian-Levantine Entangled Style: A Manner of Making or Way Worlds in the Iron Age Northern Iconography: The Case of Stamp- of Being? On the Implications and Levant. Seals during the Late Second Properties of Style in Creating and 13:35 Aslı Özyar Millennium Shaping Visual Culture Content in the Guise of Style: 13:35 Megan Cifarelli 14:50 Silvana di Paolo Unraveling Meaning at Azatiwataya Style, Multivocality, and Resistance Style as 'Brand': Mimesis as 14:10 Steve Faust in Artistic Production at Hasanlu, Iran Performance of Sameness/ Issues of Stylistic Attribution of 14:10 Dirk Wicke Difference Middle Bronze-Iron Age Cylinder Seals Emulation or Adaptation as 15:25 Coffee break in the Levant Phenomena in the Iron Age Section I: Theories of Style (Part II) 14:45 Coffee break Kleinkunst in the Northern Levant Chair: Andrea Worm Section III: Comparative Perspectives 14:45 Coffee break 16:00 Elisabeth Wagner-Durand Chair: Richard Posamentir Section IV: Style as a Performance of The Style of a Smile. Style and 15:30 Christoph Huth Identity (Part II) Emotions Beyond Attribution?! Slow Motion. Style, Performance and Chair: Jens Kamlah 16:35 Christoph Uehlinger Materiality in Prehistoric Temperate 15:30 Dominik Bonatz Does Habitus Communicate? Europe Iron Age City-State Styles in the Style, Technique, Habitus and 16:05 Ann Gunter Northern Levant and What Makes Other Aspects Defining ‘Orientalizing’ Styles them Different from the Assyrian 17:10 Giuliana Paradiso Across Media, ca. 1880-1914 Imperial Style Visualizing Stylistic Networks: 16.40 Martin Kovacs 16:05 Claudia Suter Patterns of Interactions among Early Style as a Heuristic Category in Stylistic Variation in Levantine Ivory Iron Age Artisans of Southeastern Classical Archaeology. Necessity, Carving of the Iron Age: Possible Anatolia and Northern Syria Criticism and Perspectives Temporal Developments 17:45 (Coffee) break Evening Lecture 16.40 Holly Pittman Evening Lecture 18:15 Irene Winter Style in the Mercantile Environment 18:15 Marian Feldman The Baby and the Bath Water, or the of Bronze Age Iran Can There Be a General Theory of Necessity of Multi-variate Analysis: 17:15 Coffee break Style? Another Look at Stylistic Attributes Table Ronde 20:00 Virtual Reception 20:00 Virtual Apéro 17:45 Sarah Lange-Weber Alexander Heinemann