Ernst-Herzfeld-Society
Ernst-Herzfeld-Society
for the Research of Islamic Art and Archaeology
Tenth Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld-Society
Islamic Archaeology, Material Culture, and Art History
-Intersections and Research Aims-
The conference wanted first of all present new and current research in the fields of Archaeology, Material Culture, and Art History. Secondly, it will continue and stimulate the necessary discussion on the different directions and challenges of our field, which appears to be in change in universities as well as in museums. Due to recent political developments, excavations do face more significant problems than they ever did before. During the past year several discussions illustrated that the definition of our field itself remains an exciting and controversial topic. Since we all come from different scholarly backgrounds and approach our common subjects with rather diverse methods and research questions, we all should benefit from that methodological plurality.
Due to its history Universität Hamburg turned out to be a most suitable place for such discussions: from its founding years onwards it was connected with Carl Heinrich Becker, one of the pioneers of Material Culture. He was a close friend of Ernst Herzfeld, and opened the journal "Der Islam" up for preliminary excavation reports of Samarra as well as for several publications on Art History by Fritz Saxl. Further, Hamburg was one of the places where Kurt Erdmann, later director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, taught.
Conference Report by Rosalind Haddon-Wade, Victoria and Alber Museum, London
Impressions of the Colloquium
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Organisation:
Prof Dr Stefan Heidemann and Simon Gundelfinger, M.A.
stefan.heidemann@uni-hamburg.de
simon.gundelfinger@uni-hamburg.de
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