Eastern Coins in the Early Modern World - Antiquarianism and the Oriental Artefact 1500-1800Conference in Trujillo, Spain (Sept. 26-29, 2017)

8 August 2017

The conference "Eastern Coins in the Early Modern World - Antiquarianism and the Oriental Artefact 1500-1800" will take place in Trujillo, Spain from September 26-29, 2017 and is organized by Stefan Heidemann (Universität Hamburg) and Martin Mulsow (Universität Erfurt/ Gotha). It is part of the "Spanish-German Academic Conversations" (Spanisch-Deutsche Arbeitsgespräche) that are the result of a joint initiative of the Fundación Xavier de Salas (Trujillo), the Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel) and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

Based on recent scholarship on early modern antiquarianism and the genesis of Oriental philologies in the 17th century, the organisers and participants of this conference intend to contribute new insights into the rise of antiquarianism with respect to Oriental objects and to consider the different scholarly attitudes towards the material culture of the Orient and vice versa. Thus, the conference also brings numismatists and historians of numismatics and historians of intellectual history and antiquarianism together and allows for a interdisciplinary discussion.

TIME SCHEDULE

Tuesday, Sept. 26th, 2017

Arrival and bus transfer from Madrid Barajas Airport

8.00 pm – Dinner

 

Wednesday, Sept. 27th, 2017

9.00 am – Jaime de Salas (Trujillo): Welcoming Speech

9.20 am – Sina Rauschenbach (Wolfenbüttel): Welcoming Speech

9.45 am – Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg ) and Martin Mulsow (Erfurt/Gotha): “Objects of Curiosity, Antiquarianism and Study of Oriental Coins”

10.30 am – Coffee Break

Chair Stefan Heidemann

11.00 am – Alain Schnapp (Paris): “The Birth of Archaeological Illustration and the Vision of the East from Ciriaco to Volney”

11.45 am – Fátima Martín Escudero and Lara Nebreda Martín (Madrid): “Casiri, the First Researcher of Andalusian Coins”

12.30 pm – Lunch Break

Chair Martin Mulsow

2.00 pm – John Cunnally (Ames): “Figured Islamic Coins in Renaissance Collections”

2.45 pm – Asaph Ben Tov (Erfurt/Gotha): “Ottoman Coins, Oriental Studies, and Patronage: the Case of the Breslau Orientalist Andreas Acoluthus (1654-1704).”

3.30 pm – Coffee Break

Chair Fátima Martín Escudero

4.00 pm – Martin Mulsow (Erfurt/Gotha): “Georg Jacob Kehr on Coins from the East”

4.45 pm – Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg): “Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834) and the Sources of his Interest in Oriental Coins”

7.30 pm – Dinner

 

Thursday, Sept. 28th, 2017

Chair François de Callataÿ

9.00 am – Alberto J. Canto García (Madrid): “Arab Antiques, Coins and Collections in Spain: A Long Way”

9.45 am – Jorge Maier Allende and Antonio Almagro Gorbea (Madrid): “The Royal Academies of History and Fine Arts and the Antigüedades Árabes de España”

10.30 am – Coffee Break

Chair Alberto J. Canto García

11.00 am – François de Callataÿ (Brussels): “Samaritan, Phoenician and Punic Coins in the Third Quarter of the 18th Century (Berthélemy, Swinton, Pellerin, Séguier, Dutens, and the Others)”

11.45 am – Tobias Mörike (Erfurt/Gotha): “Icons of Biblical Orientalism? Coins and the Geography of the ‘Holy Land’”

12.30 pm – Sina Rauschenbach (Wolfenbüttel), Final Discussion: “Future Venues”

1.00 pm – Lunch Break

2.00 pm – Excursion to Cáceres

7.30 pm – Dinner

 

Friday, Sept. 29th, 2017

Departure and bus transfer to Madrid Barajas Airport




For further information on this conference, please download the full program (pdf).