[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Conference on footprints, feet and shoes in Asian Art, Bonn, April 2018

George Thompson gthomgt at gmail.com
Thu Jan 11 21:59:08 UTC 2018


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From: George Thompson <gthomgt at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Conference on footprints, feet and shoes in Asian
Art, Bonn, April 2018
To: Julia Hegewald <julia.hegewald at uni-bonn.de>


Dear List,

I agree with colleagues who have welcomed this conference on footprints. I
wish that I could attend.  I have noticed, however, that there is no
reference among the conference papers to footprints in the Vedas.  If any
of you are interested in footprints in the Vedas, may I recommend to you
two papers that I wrote in 1995:

"The Pursuit of Hidden Tracks in Vedic", published in Indo-Iranian Journal,
vol. 38: pp. 1-30

"From 'footstep' to 'word' in Sanskrit", published in Semiotica, vol.
106-1/2: pp. 77-98.

"Semiotics" is the science of signs, and in this science there is much
literature on the footprint as a highly polyvalent sign.

Best wishes,

George Thompson

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Julia Hegewald via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> this is to inform you about a conference on representations of feet, foot
> imprints and shoes in Asian and Islamic art to be held at the University of
> Bonn in April 2018. Further details and the abstracts can be found on our
> webpage which will be updated regularly as we approach the dates of the
> conference:
>
> https://www.ioa.uni-bonn.de/de/abteilungen/aik/Konferenzen/
> in-the-footsteps-of-the-masters
>
> A provisional timetable can be found below and attached. All are welcome
> to attend.
>
> In case you have fascinating material on foot images from an Asian or
> Islamic context and would like a chapter to be considered for inclusion in
> our extended conference publication, then please get in touch with me
> directly.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Julia Hegewald.
>
>
> *In the Footsteps of the Masters:*
>
> *Footprints, Feet and Shoes as Objects of Veneration in the Arts of Asia*
>
>
>
>
>
> International conference
>
> Department of Asian and Islamic Art History (AIK), The University of Bonn
>
> Prof. Dr. Julia A. B. Hegewald
>
> 19th to 21st April 2018
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Provisional Timetable*
>
>
>
>
>
> *Thursday, 19th April 2018*
>
> From 16:00: *tea*
>
> 17:00-18:30: keynote address           *Prof. Dr. Susan L. Huntington*,
> Columbus
>
>                                                           Footprints in
> the Early Buddhist Art of India:
>
> An Examination of Art Historical Methodology
>
>
>
>
>
> *Friday, 20th April 2018*
>
> 10:00-11:00                                       *Buddhist footprints
> from Nepal and Tibet*:
>
>                                                           *Prof. Dr.
> Gudrun Bühnemann*, Wisconsin-Madison
>
>                                                           The Feet of
> Mañjuśrī
>
>
>
>                                                           *Dr. Elisabeth
> Haderer*, Hamburg and Bonn
>                                                           Enlightened
> Presence—On the Representation of
>
> Footprints in Tibetan Buddhist Painted Scrolls
>
>
>
> 11:00-11:30
>
> *Coffee break *
>
> 11:30-12:30                                       *Jaina foot imprints in
> India*:
>
> Prof. Dr. Nalini Balbir, Paris
>
>                                                           Religious
> Issues Regarding the *Pādukā*s of Jain Teachers
>
>
>
> *                                                          Prof. Dr. Julia
> A. B. Hegewald*, Bonn
>                                                           Foot Images (
> *Pādukā*s) as Multivariate Symbols in Jaina
>
> Religious Practices in India
>
>
>
> 12:30-14:30 *Lunch break*
>
> 14:30-16:00                                       *Hindu footprints and
> Lingayat sandals from India*:
>
> *                                                          Dr. Jutta
> Jain-Neubauer*, New Delhi and Berlin
>                                                           Feet and
> Footmarks in Indian Culture and their Visual Representation
>
>
> *                                                          Nick Barnard*,
> London
>                                                           Footprints of
> Hindu Deities in Indian Jewellery
>
>
> * Prof. Dr. Tiziana Lorenzetti*, Rome
>
>                                                           The Cult of
> Footwear in the Liṅgāyat Tradition:
>
> Peculiarities and Symbologies
>
>
>
> 16:00-16:30 *Tea break*
>
>
>
> 16:30-17:30                                       *Buddhist foot imprints
> in Southeast and East Asia*:
>
>                                                           *Dr. Sarah Shaw*,
> Oxford
>
>                                                           The Buddha’s
> Footprint and the Southeast Asian Imaginaire
>
>
>
>                                                           *Dr. Claudia
> Wenzel*, Heidelberg
>
>                                                           The Buddha’s
> Footprints in China
>
>
>
>
>
> *Saturday, 21st April 2018*
>
> 10:00-11:00                                       *Feet and sandals in
> the Islamic world (5 papers)*:
>
>                                                           *Prof. Dr. **Lorenz
> Korn*, Bamberg
>                                                            Footprints as
> Relics and as Symbols of Veneration in Islamic Art
>
>
>
> *                                                          Dr. Deniz
> Erduman-Calis*, Munich
>                                                           Kadem-i
> Saadet—Foot Imprints of the Prophet
>
> Muhammad in the Collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul
>
>
>
> 11:00-11:30 *Coffee break*
>
>
>
> 11:30-13:00                                       *Iman R. Abdulfattah*,
> New York and Bonn
>                                                           Footprints of
> the Prophet as Modes of Dissemination and Modes of Control
>
>
>
>                                                           *Waheeda Bano
> Baloch*, Jamshoro and Bonn
>                                                                     The
> Holy Footprints Across Sindh (Pakistan)
>
>
>
> *                                                          Karin Adrian
> von Roques*, Bonn
>                                                           Footprints of
> the Prophet Mohamed (*pbuh*) in Contemporary Art
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Prof. Dr. Julia A. B. Hegewald
> Professor of Oriental Art History
> Head of Department
> University of Bonn
> Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies (IOA)
> Department of Asian and Islamic Art History
> Adenauerallee 10
> 53113 Bonn
> Germany
>
> Email: julia.hegewald at uni-bonn.de
> www.aik.uni-bonn.de
> Tel. 0049-228-73 7213
> Fax. 0049-228-73 4042
>
>
>
>
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