Friday, June 29th, 2012
15:00
Gerhard Wolf: Welcome speech
Herbert L. Kessler: Introduction
Objects on the move
Chair: Avinoam Shalem
15:30
Holger Klein: Byzantium, Amalfi, and the Vexed Question of Artistic Influence
16:10
Karen Mathews: Objects on the Loose: The Salerno/Amalfi Ivories as Luxury Commodities in Mediterranean Trade and Cultural Exchange
16:50
Mariam Rosser-Owen: "Diverse Precious Merchandise": Amalfitan Relations with Umayyad Córdoba and their Implications for the Ivory Trade
17:30 Coffee Break
The East, Grado and Amalfi
Chair: Anthony Cutler
18:00
Gudrun Buehl: The 'Grado Chair Story' Revisited
18:40
Antonio Milone: Nuove acquisizioni documentarie sugli avori di Grado e di Salerno
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
Before and around the Salerno Ivories
Chair: Herbert L. Kessler
09:30
Fabrizio Crivello: Alle origini degli avori del "gruppo Amalfi/Salerno." Considerazioni sui presupposti, sulla cronologia e la localizzazione
10:10
Anthony Cutler: Fabric and Facture of the Salerno Ivories
10:50
Pietro Baraldi: La policromia superstite di avori medievali di Salerno e oltre
11:30
Gabriella Bernardi – Giovanni Gasbarri: "Tavolette quadrae bislonghe". Note critiche sugli avori salernitani del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna
12:15 Lunch Break
In the Salerno Ivories
Chair: Beat Brenk
15:00
Francesca Dell’Acqua: The 'B-Side' of the Salerno Ivories and a Hypothetical Reconstruction of the Original Programme
15:40
Herbert L. Kessler: "Veteris Testamenti typos Evangelicae veritati profecisse monstravimus": Realia and Spiritualia on the Salerno Ivories
16:20
Natalia Teteriatnikov: When Art and Ritual Clashed: the Case of the Salerno Plaque with the Women at the Tomb
17:00
Maria Evangelatou: God is in the (Botanical) Details: on the Representation of Plants in the Salerno Ivories
17:40
Maria Cristina Carile: Architectural Illusions and Architectural Representations: Space in the Salerno Ivories
Sunday, July 1st, 2012
Functions and Contexts
Chair: Giusi Zanichelli
09:30
Ruggero Longo – Elisabetta Scirocco: A Scenario for the Salerno Ivories: the Liturgical Furnishings of the Salerno Cathedral
10:10
Jill Caskey: The Salerno Ivories and Church Furnishings: The Cathedral of Salerno and Beyond
10:50
Philippe Cordez: Playing with Images in Norman Italy: the 'Charlemagne' Chess Set before Saint-Denis
11:30 Coffee break
12:00
Gerhard Wolf: Final remarks
12:20
Round table and general discussion
Gudrun Buehl (coordinator)