Friday 21 October 2022
14.00–14.30
Welcome Addresses
Christoph K. Neumann
Richard Wittmann, Deputy director of the Orient-Institut Istanbul
Julia Samp, Margret Scharrer, Judith I. Haug, Conference organizers
14.30–15.30 Keynote Speech
Chair: Julia Samp (RWTH Aachen University)
Nikolas Jaspert (Heidelberg University): Mobility – Alterity – Acoustics: The Challenges and Potentials of an Epistemological Area of Intersection
15.30–16.00 Coffee Break
16.00–17.30 Sources from Latin Europe
Chair: Margret Scharrer (University of Bern)
Julia Samp (RWTH Aachen University): I came, I saw, I touched, and I heard?! Felix Fabri’s Pilgrimage as an Auditory Experience
Christoph Schanze (University of Giessen): dâ von ich niht mê besunder kan gesagen als ein kint. Multisensory Perception and Imagination of the “Holy Land” in Walther von der Vogelweide’s “Palästinalied”
Daniel Jütte (New York University): Jews and the Politics of Music in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
17.30–19.00 Apéro
19.00–20.00 Focus on Performance
Chair: Nihan Tahtaişleyen (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Thilo Hirsch (University of Bern /University of the Arts Bern) and Mehtap Demir (Istanbul University State Conservatory): The Skin of the Others: Skin-Covered Bowed String Instruments Between Central Asia and Europe
Saturday 22 October 2022
10.00–12.00 Byzantine Soundspaces
Chair: Will Sumits (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Flora Kritikou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): The Latin Communions in Local Repertories of the Venetian Eastern Mediterannean: A first Evidence of the Musical Syncretism in Crete and Cyprus during the 15th Century
Michael Grünbart (University of Münster): The Silence of the Emperor – A Ruling Principle at the Byzantine Court (9th – 12th Centuries)
Nina-Maria Wanek (University of Vienna): When Gestures Become Music: The Practice of Cheironomy in Byzantine Chant
Koray Durak (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul): Sights and Sounds from the Bilad al-Rum: Representation of the Byzantine World Through the Senses in Medieval Arabic Sources
12.00–13.00 Lunch break
13.00–14.30 Arabic and Anatolian Perceptions
Chair: Salih Demirtaş (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Yehoshua Frenkel (University of Haifa): Sonic Expression and Community in Mamluk Cairo
Eyad Abuali (Humboldt-University of Berlin): Music and Meditation: Sound, Visions, and Belonging in Medieval Sufism
Ulaş Özdemir (Istanbul University State Conservatory): Tracing the Sound of Singer-Poets: Reflections on Music, Poetry, and Performance in Medieval Anatolia
14.30–15.00 Coffee break
16.00–18.00 Participation in the Vespers service at the Ecumenical Patriarchate Followed by a lecture and conversation with Archon Protopsaltis Panagiotis Neochoritis (live participants only)
19.00 Conference dinner
Sunday 23 October 2022
09.00–10.30 Imaginations of the “Other”: “Alien” Soundspaces and their Reception in Poetry, Ritual, and Music
Chair: Martin Greve (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Margret Scharrer (University of Bern): “Singing Hebrews” and “Saracen Giants”: Imaginations of the “Other” in 15th Century Burgundian Court Festivals
Dinko Fabris (University of Basilicata): The Renaissance Recovery of Ideas on Sound and Moral Importance of Music in the Pseudo-Plutarch De musica in the Commentary by Andrea Matteo Acquaviva (Naples, 1526)
Judith I. Haug (Orient-Institut Istanbul): Travels Reimagined: Modern Reconstructions of Musical Encounters
10.30–11.30
Conference resumé
Jan-Friedrich Missfelder (University of Basel)
11.30–12.30
Closing discussion
Chair: Judith I. Haug (Orient-Institut Istanbul)