Davide Ferri, Wissenschaftliche Koordination und Kommunikation, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Thursday, January 25th 2024
10:30 Welcome (Gerhard Wolf)
10:40–11:10 Introduction (Christine Kleiter and Lianming Wang)
Panel I: Animals in Architecture
Chair: Hana Gründler
11.10-11.40 Anna Blume (New York), The Creative Practice of Spiders
11.40-12.10 Mary Danisi (Cornell/Rome), Obscure Architecture: Boukrania, Fillets, and Light Effects of the Mysteries
12.10-12.40 Sanja Savkić Šebek (London), The Significance of Animals in the Artistic and Architectural Traditions of the Ancient Maya
12.40-13.00 Discussion
Lunch Break
Panel II: Spaces of Symbiosis
Chair: Hannah Baader
14.00-14.30 Elizabeth Tavella (Chicago/Rome), The Biopolitical (Un)making of the Wild: Liminal Ecologies in the Zoo
14.30-15.00 Tairan An (Princeton), Incidental Artifacts: Aquatic Epistemologies and the Architecture of Water-Biology at the Bay of Naples, c. 1870s (online)
15.00-15.30 Gianlorenzo Chiaraluce (Rome), Relational Hives: Artistic Practices of Interconnection between Bees and Humans
15.30-15.45 Discussion
15:45–16:00 – Coffee Break
Panel III: Animals in Pictorial Space
Chair: Lianming Wang
16.00-16.30 Chloé Pluchon-Riera (Grenoble), Margins: Specific Spatial Settings for Animals in Early Modern Italian Paintings (online)
16.30-17.00 Dingding Wang (San Diego), Coving Whales: The Poetics and Visuality of Japanese Traditional Whaling
17.00-17.30 Mei Mei Rado (New York), Woven Animals: the Tenture des Indes for the Qing emperor
17.30-17.45 Discussion
18.00-18.45 Troy Vettese (Florence), Half-Earth Socialism in One Country
Friday, January 26th January
Panel IV: Spaces of Livestock
Chair: Christine Kleiter
14.00-14.30 Zhengfeng Wang (Leiden), A City of Three Abattoirs
14.30-15.00 Sofia Nannini (Turin), Architects and the Design of Animal Farming: Cedric Price’s Research Documents for Westpen (1977-79)
15.00-15.30 Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar (Berlin), Of Horses and Men: Archaeology of Stables in Medieval Cappadocia
15.30-15.45 Discussion
15:45–16:00 – Coffee Break
Panel V: Animals and Urbanism
Chair: Gerhard Wolf
16.00-16.30 Noemi Quagliati (Venice), Flying Visions, Atmospheres, Chicken Eggs: The Bird Space in the History of Photography
16.30-17.00 Nathalie Kerschen (Rome), Urbs animalis: a Situated Case Study of Rome’s Animals as Co-habitants, Dwellers & Agents
17.00-17.30 Anna Caramuru Aubert & Laura Pappalardo (Münster/Sao Paolo), Reimagining Interspecies Relations: Challenging Human Exceptionalism through Artistic, Architectural, and Place-Making Animal Agency (online)
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Conclusion (Gerhard Wolf)