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:

 

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

19^th to 21^st April 2018

 

 

 

Provisional Timetable

 

 

Thursday, 19^th 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, 20^th 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 Pādukās of Jain Teachers

 

                                                          Prof. Dr. Julia A. B. Hegewald, Bonn
                                                          Foot Images (Pādukās) 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, 21^st 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