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”
January 22, 2024
Panel Discussion, Collegium Helveticum, Zürich (with Urte Krass et al.)
“Corpses, Casts, and Copyrights. Displaying Human Remains”