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Text & Image in Religious Cosmography: Reading Ilanot and Parallel Artifacts<\/p>\nA RESEARCH WORKSHOP, TEXT & IMAGE IN RELIGIOUS COSMOGRAPHY: READING ILANOT AND PARALLEL ARTIFACTS, TOOK PLACE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA FROM 25-27 JULY 2011.<\/p>\n
Text & Image in Religious Cosmography: Reading Ilanot and Parallel Artifacts<\/p>\n
9:45-10:45 Greetings & Introduction<\/p>\n
Prof. Daniel Gutwein, Chair, Dept. of Jewish History<\/p>\n
Introduction to Ilanot & Presentation on current ISF Research by Dr. Chajes:<\/p>\n
Cosmological Forests: A Cultural History of Kabbalistic Cartography<\/p>\n
10:45-12:45 Session I – Chair: Prof. Jonathan Schorsch<\/p>\n
Prof. Daniel Abrams: Text & Paratext in Early Kabbalah<\/p>\n
Prof. Hartley Lachter: Mapping Divine Territory: Commentaries on the Ten Sefirot from Late 13th Century Castile<\/p>\n
Dr. Ronit Meroz: They Said it Before: On Systematic Visual Thinking Before the ARI<\/p>\n
14:00-15:00 Session II – Keynote Presentation – Chair: Dr. Adam Afterman<\/p>\n
Prof. Moshe Idel: “A Kabbalistic Mandala: From David ben Yehudah he-Hasid to Luria”<\/p>\n
16:15-18:45 Session III: The Gross Family Ilanot<\/p>\n
Practicum devoted to studying the original scrolls in this collection<\/p>\n
Day Two – Tuesday July 26<\/p>\n
9:00-11:00 Session IV – Chair: Prof. Chaim Hames<\/p>\n
Prof. Marc M. Epstein: Maps and Memes: Visible and Invisible Universes in Jewish Visual Culture<\/p>\n
Prof. Abraham Melamed: Divine King, Human King: Representations of Monarchy in Illuminated Manuscripts<\/p>\n
Prof. Daniel Stein Kokin: The Jericho Labyrinth: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Visual Trope<\/p>\n
11:15-13:15 Session V – Chair: Dr. Zur Shalev<\/p>\n
Prof. Marla Segol: Text, Form and Image: Considering Method<\/p>\n
Dr. Ayala Meir: The Cosmic Circle of Ibn al-Sid al-Batalyawsi: The Representation of a Humanistic World View<\/p>\n
Prof. Tzvi Langerman: Circles of Reality: Illustrations Accompanying Philosophical Texts, From the Early Ismailis to Haydar Amoli<\/p>\n
14:30-16:30 Session VI – Chair: Prof. Hartley Lachter<\/p>\n
Prof. Chaim Hames: Connecting Heaven and Earth: Joachim of Fiore’s Liber figurarum<\/p>\n
Dr. Zur Shalev: Maps, Pilgrimage, and Devotion<\/p>\n
Prof. Catherine Harding: Cosmos, Creation and Self: The Religious Diagrams of Opicinus Canistris<\/p>\n
16:45-18:45 Session VII – Chair: Prof. Boaz Huss<\/p>\n
Dr. Evelien Chayes: Earthly Stones, Heavenly Stones: From the Priestly Breastplate and Christian Architecture to a Christian Kabbalistic Diagram<\/p>\n
Prof. Daniel Stolzenberg: The Hybrid Image and the Christian Kabbalah: The Roots of Kircher’s Trees<\/p>\n
Prof. Fabrizio Lelli: The Sephirotic Tree of Elijah Menahem Halfan<\/p>\n
Day Three – Wednesday July 27<\/p>\n
9:00-11:00 Session VIII – Chair: Prof. Daniel Stolzenberg<\/p>\n
Prof. Amos Megged: Time & Space in Mesoamerican Cosmology<\/p>\n
Dr. Dan Martin: The Cosmic Purusha and the Body Mandala: A Unique Example from 11th Century Tibet<\/p>\n
Dr. Naama Vilozny:\u00a0 “This is the Image of Evil…” – Text-Image Relationship in the Babylonian Incantation Bowls”<\/p>\n
11:15-12:45 Session IX – Chair: Prof. Fabrizio Lelli<\/p>\n
Dr. Raz Chen: Images of Nothing Around 1600<\/p>\n
Dr. Yael Justus-Segal: “Pure verity understanding and recovering of divers secret” in John Dee’s Diagrams and Maps<\/p>\n
14:15-16:15 Session X – Chair: Prof. Catherine Harding<\/p>\n
Dr. Menachem Kallus: The Truly Great Parchment: Oxford 1949<\/p>\n
Prof. Jonathan Schorsch: Jewish Angels in the Light of Comparative (Art) History<\/p>\n
Prof. Boaz Huss: “The first official government medal which can also be seen as an amulet”: Contemporary Representation and Reproduction of Kabbalah in an Official Medal of the State of Israel<\/p>\n
16:35-17:30 Session XI – Chair: Dr. Yossi Chajes<\/p>\n
Open discussion about lessons learned, next steps, publication, etc..<\/p>\n
Funding provided by the Israel Science Foundation and the University of Haifa, with additional funding from the Dean of the Humanities, Rector and President of the University, the City of Haifa, and The Wolfson Chair for the Study of Jewish Cultural Heritage. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of William & Lisa Gross.<\/p>\n