16 Sept. 2022
Day 1, 09:00–16:50h, CET)

09:00–09:30h
Introduction
David Ganz (UZH)

09:30–10:20h
Striving for Authenticity: The Rabbinic Conception of a Kosher Torah Scroll as a Matter of Purity and Holiness
Annett Martini (FU Berlin)

Coffee Break

10:50–11:40h
Gender, Luxury Critique and the Make-Up of Sacred Scripture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Thomas Rainer (UZH)

11: 40–12:30h
Distract or Engage? The Ornamented Qur’an in the Hands of Its Beholder
Alya Karame (Orient-Institut Beirut)

Lunch Break

14:00–14:50h
Notis ornare libellos: Manuscript Illumination as a Sumptuary Art in the Middle Ages
Stefanos Kroustallis (ESCRBC, Madrid)

14:50–15:40h
Liturgical Luxury as the Devil’s Bait: Church Ornaments as Objects of Temptation in Western European Manuscript Painting c. 1025–1275
Sommer Hallquist (University of Cambridge)

Coffee Break

16:00–16:50h
Material Semantics of Monastic Reform: Austerity and Ostentation in Twelfh-century Cistercian Bookbindings
Nancy K. Turner (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

17 Sept. 2022
(Day 2, 09:00–12:40h, CET)

09:00–09:50h
Mind the Gap: Silentium in Insular Gospels and Book-Shrines
Heather Pulliam (University of Edinburgh)

09:50–10:40h
Between the Text and the Image: Micrography, Its Critique and Actual Practices in Medieval Ashkenaz
Ilona Steimann (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg)

Coffee Break

11:00–11:50h
Semantic Interpretation of the Decorations and Layouts of the Paris Kitāb al-Diryāq in Light of Cultural Graphology
Farnaz Masoumzadeh (Art University of Isfahan - AUI)

11:50–12:40h
Non-Gilded Islamic Devotional Manuscripts: Towards a History of Non-Luxury Materiality in the Islamic World
Nadirah Mansour (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)