Events

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Future Events

February 19, 2025

Incorporations: Human Remains Entering Novel Constellations in Early Modern European Collections

Hybrid Event. To participate online please register via Zoom in advance

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Firenze (IT), 5 p.m.

March 17, 2025

Lecture “Sacred Bones and Shining Silver. Colonial Body Politics and Extractivism in the Viceroyalty of New Spain” by Alberto Saviello. As part of the lecture series “Bodies that matter: menschliche Überreste und deren Nachleben”

Universität Basel, Kollegienhaus, Amphiteather 102, 6–8 p.m.

 

Past Events

January 21, 2025

Lecture “Christliche Reliquien in der globalen Mission der Frühen Neuzeit” by Alberto Saviello. Session in the lecture Sakrale "Bilder und Artefakte. Einführung in die 'materiale Religion'“ by Prof Dr Catherina Wenzel at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, room 1.701, 10–12 a.m.

June 14–15, 2024

Workshop “Incorporations: Christian Relics and Reliquaries from Overseas in European Collections (16/17th Centuries)”
University of Bern, Institute of Art History

May 3, 2024

Lecture “Der Asienapostel Franz Xaver und seine Reliquien – eine transkontinentale Reisegeschichte”
by Prof Dr Urte Krass at the Seniorenuniversität Bern

April 24–25, 2024

Workshop “Holy Bones and Relics in the Early Modern Christian Missions in Asia”
University of Bern, Institute of Art History

 

March 6–9, 2024

Research trip to Lisbon and meeting with the partner project “reliquiarum”

https://globo.hypotheses.org/

January 22, 2024

Panel Discussion, Collegium Helveticum, Zürich (with Urte Krass et al.)
“Corpses, Casts, and Copyrights. Displaying Human Remains”