Real Spaces - Virtual Spaces (?)

Starting with the theoretical framework as developed by the art historian, David Summers, this interdisciplinary workshop is designed to explore the manifold ways in which “real’ and “virtual’ spaces interact: the processes of constructing and transforming knowledge of ancient spaces in architecture, art, and literature in (post-)ancient times that generate, depend on, or defy what is considered to be “real’ or “virtual’; the kinds of notions of “real’ and “virtual’ spaces that emerge through these processes; and how these processes have influenced ideas of “real’ and “virtual’ spaces.

Post-docs and doctoral students of Egyptology, Archaeology, Art History, and Literary Studies will present selected finds of their current projects. These papers will form the basis for a critical discussion about D. Summers’s terminology and the relationships between “real’ and “virtual’ spaces as outlined above.

For further information and registration please contact Katalin Schober: katalin.schober@topoi.org

Recommended reading: David Summers. Real Spaces. World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism. London, New York 2003, pp. 15-60.

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