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.
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
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, 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