THE ICONOGRAPHY OF DEPENDENCY, SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND ‘OTHERNESS’ IN PRE-MODERN VISUAL ART: A CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE JULY 11–13, 2024
THE BONN CENTER FOR DEPENDENCY AND SLAVERY STUDIES
hosts the Cluster of Excellence “Beyond Slavery and Freedom”, which aims to overcome the binary opposition of “slavery versus freedom”. We approach the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependency from methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives.
In the past, most iconographical studies on slavery and similar phenomena focused on specific regions, cultures and periods. The aim of this conference is to look at a broad range of dependent and marginalized social groups and ‘others’ and to compare the results of iconographical studies on different pre-modern societies (prior to 1800 CE) around the globe. Therefore, we invited scholars from a wide variety of disciplines (Near Eastern Archaeology, Egyptology, Classical Archaeology, European Art History, Asian Art History, Anthropology of the Americas) in order to gain new insights by using diachronic and cross-cultural comparisons.
University of Bonn Bonner Universitätsforum Heussallee 18-24 D-53113 Bonn
Contact:
Conference Organizers: Martin Bentz, BCDSS, University of Bonn Patrick Zeidler, BCDSS, University of Bonn
Jan Hörber, Event Coordinator events@dependency.uni-bonn.de +49 228 73 62945
Please register for the conference by June 20, 2024 via events@dependency.uni-bonn.de.
For more information, please visit https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/the-iconographyof-dependency-social-inequality-and-othernes