Program Overview

Introduction to the Ringvorlesung am IKB: One Object Lessons (WS 2025/26)

The Ringvorlesung am IKB: One Object Lessons (WS 2025/26) is a lecture series presented by the Institut f³r Kunst- und Bildgeschichte at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The series focuses on individual objects and their materiality, exploring the relationship between the singular and the general in art-historical research.

Objectives and Methodology

The lecture series aims to discuss methodological approaches to understanding individual objects, from monumental and large-scale to small and fragile artifacts. Each object presented enables its interlocutor to illuminate different aspects of a specific historical context and throws up its own methodological challenges.

Lecture Schedule

The lectures take place on Wednesdays from 14:15 to 15:45 at room 3075 HS (Unter den Linden 6). The schedule includes:

• 29 Oct: Introduction by Annette Dorgerloh; Juliette Calvarin, Johanna Fugger-Vagts: Object-Lessons, Lehrmodell und Spielzeug
• 05 Nov: Judith Dreiling: Schere, Stein, Papier. SM 44d.173, Lageplan mit Grundrissvarianten (1824)
• 12 Nov: Johanna Fugger-Vagts: Abstraktion und Alltag. Kitty van der Mijll Dekker, Glasdoek, no. 400
• 19 Nov: Juliette Calvarin: Dressed in linen, silk and sunlight. Textile metaphors on a fifteenth-century embroidered vestment from the Kunstgewerbemuseum
• 03 Dec: LucĒa Rodriguez Navarro: Reliquary of San Millan (Saint Emilian)
• 10 Dec: Annette Dorgerloh: Le Sacre d Edouard VII von Georges MķliĶs (1902)
• 17 Dec: Franz Engel: Ein Tag im Leben der Heiligen Cacilie von Raffael
• 14 Jan: Robert Schl³cker: Fotografie als Gegenstand. Timm Rauterts bildanalytische Praxis
• 21 Jan: Fidel Hennerici: Materialitat und Symbolkraft: Ein neu zu erfassender Korpus verzierter Geweihschaufeln
• 28 Jan: Tanya Talwar: and through Portraiture: Framing the Native Lady
• 04 Feb: Michail Chatzidakis: Byzanz an der Spree. Das Ravennatische Mosaik aus San Michele in Africisco revisited
• 11 Feb: Katharina Bedenbender: Federico Borromeos bronzener Palmbrunnen fur die Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Mailand (1618)

Language

The talks and discussions will be held in German or English.