BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.7//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news682@daw.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230223T100150 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230309T181500 SUMMARY:Know your place: (Re)Constructing Spaces in Premodern Visual Cultur es DESCRIPTION:Visual means construct spaces by defining their character and p urpose\, and dictating human behaviours within them. Medieval monuments su ch as choir screens or market crosses divided ecclesiastic interiors and j uridical topographies\, and denoted hierarchies. Wall paintings shaped dom estic environments in ancient Roman houses\, formed inter-medial dialogues by alluding to textile hangings in pre-modern Central Asian residences\, and established idealised ancestor identities in ancient Egyptian tombs. Y et the study of these examples – as well as any of the chimaeric entitie s we here call “premodern spaces” or objects that were experienced wit hin them – poses a challenge familiar and common to all disciplines that focus on material culture\, namely the challenge of recontextualization.   \\r\\nDisciplines concerned with the study of premodern cultures face particularly harsh conditions in attempting to engage with these types of visual spaces\, due to loss of evidence\, misleading photo reproductions\, and decontextualized museum displays. Yet the growing awareness of the si gnificance of the spatial context in the visual cultures we study\, and th e introduction of novel approaches\, tools and technologies for the recons truction of premodern spaces\, has opened new horizons for researchers see king to take up the task of reconstructing the experience of past physical environments. In this workshop we will therefore collect a series of earl y career researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds\, to bring together different and new ways of approaching premodern spaces\, discern ing the goals of their creation\, discovering the tactics utilized in thei r construction\, and sharing our own attempts to reconstructing them – i n our minds through writing\, in digital virtual and augmented realities\, and in physical reconstructions. Through such an interdisciplinary discus sion\, we hope to bring forward new ways of combining the unique facets of our research in order to advance our collective approaches towards unders tanding the multifaceted experiences of premodern spaces. X-ALT-DESC:

Visual means construct spaces by defining their cha racter and purpose\, and dictating human behaviours within them. Medieval monuments such as choir screens or market crosses divided ecclesiastic int eriors and juridical topographies\, and denoted hierarchies. Wall painting s shaped domestic environments in ancient Roman houses\, formed inter-medi al dialogues by alluding to textile hangings in pre-modern Central Asian r esidences\, and established idealised ancestor identities in ancient Egypt ian tombs. Yet the study of these examples – as well as any of the chima eric entities we here call “premodern spaces” or objects that were exp erienced within them – poses a challenge familiar and common to all disc iplines that focus on material culture\, namely the challenge of recontext ualization. \; \;

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Disciplines concerned with the study of premodern cultures face particularly harsh conditions in attempt ing to engage with these types of visual spaces\, due to loss of evidence\ , misleading photo reproductions\, and decontextualized museum displays. Y et the growing awareness of the significance of the spatial context in the visual cultures we study\, and the introduction of novel approaches\, too ls and technologies for the reconstruction of premodern spaces\, has opene d new horizons for researchers seeking to take up the task of reconstructi ng the experience of past physical environments. In this workshop we will therefore collect a series of early career researchers from a variety of d isciplinary backgrounds\, to bring together different and new ways of appr oaching premodern spaces\, discerning the goals of their creation\, discov ering the tactics utilized in their construction\, and sharing our own att empts to reconstructing them – in our minds through writing\, in digital virtual and augmented realities\, and in physical reconstructions. Throug h such an interdisciplinary discussion\, we hope to bring forward new ways of combining the unique facets of our research in order to advance our co llective approaches towards understanding the multifaceted experiences of premodern spaces.

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