Humboldt-Kolleg – Vincennes, Oktober 2012

Colloquium – Pera Museum, Istanbul, 18‒20 October 2012
The Emperor’s House: Palaces from Augustus to the Age of Absolutism
18 October
18:00 Opening of Colloquium
M. Baha Tanman, İstanbul Research Institute
Felix Pirson, DAI-Istanbul
Opening Lecture
Tülay Artan
The Politics of Ottoman Imperial Palaces: Ownership, Sites, Patronage.
19 October
9:30 – 11:00 Pres. Anthony Cutler
Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt
The Palace of the Roman Emperors on the Palatine in Rome.
Manfred Luchterhand
From the Bishop‟s House to a European Locus Sanctus: History, Cult and Memory in the
Medieval Lateran Palace
Jean-Michel Spieser
Remarques sur le palais de Galère à Thessalonique.
11:00– 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 Pres. J. Herrin
Hansgerd Hellenkemper
Zentren der Macht? Sommerpaläste in Konstantinopel.
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Philipp Niewöhner
From Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Transformation of Palatial Architecture in Anatolia,
6th-10th Century.
Scott Redford
Anatolian Seljuk Palaces & Gardens.
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 – 16:30 Pres. M. Untermann
Staffan Wahlgren
Imaginary Palaces: The Palace in Fiction.
Michael Featherstone
The Everyday Palace in the 10th Century.
Ruth Macrides
The „Other‟ Palace in Constantinople: The Blachernai.
Albrecht Berger
Ludwig II and the Great Palace of Constantinople.
16:30 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 19:00 Pres. Annie Renoux
Paul Magdalino
The People and the Palace.
Claudia Sode
Der (tote) Kaiser in seinem Palast.
Holger Klein
The Crown of His Kingdom: Imperial Ideology, Palace Ritual, and the Relics of Christ‟s
Passion.
Mabi Angar
My Home is My Castle: Furniture in the Great Palace of Constantinople.
20 October
9:30 – 11:00 Pres. J.-M. Spieser
Javier Arce
The So-Called Visigothic „Palatium„ of Recopolis (Spain): An Archaeological and Historical
Analysis.
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Judith Herrin
The Palace of the Emperor, King and Exarch in Ravenna.
Bisserka Penkova
Die bulgarischen Tzarenpaläste in Preslav und Tarnovo.
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 Pres. Holger Klein
Annie Renoux
Les Palais carolingiens (VIIIe-Xe siècles) du royaume de France et leurs prolongements au
XIe siècle.
Mathias Untermann
Karolingisch-ottonische Pfalzen im deutschen Reich: Verluste durch Forschung?
Judith Ley
Aquis palatium: Spätantiker Palast oder frühmittelalterliche Pfalz?
13:00 – 14:15 LUNCH
14:15 – 16:15 Pres. Ulrike Wulf
Sabine Frommel
The Reconstruction of the Louvre by Pierre Lescot : Henri II's Vision of A New Imperial
Palace.
Kent Rawlinson
Tudor Palaces 1485-1603: Renewal and Redundancy?
Martin Olin
The Palace of Charles XII: Architecture and Absolutism in Sweden around 1700.
Katharina Krause
“Vous y verrez l'Ancienne et la Nouvelle Rome”: Versailles als Summe aller Paläste.
16:15 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 18:45 Pres. Paul Magdalino
Herbert Karner
The Palace of the Habsburgs in Vienna in Early Modern Times: Imperial Elements in
Architecture and Ceremonial.
Ekaterina Boltunova
Russian Palaces of Moscow and St Petersburg of the late 17th‒18th Centuries.
Sussan Babaie
Between the Palace and the City: Practices of Seeing in Safavid Isfahan (17th Century)
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Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu
The Topkapı Palace: Medieval Connections and New Configurations in Space and Imagery.
18:45 Final Remarks
Anthony Cutler
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