First byvanck symposium
Style between Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, and Art history
- Date
- Friday 26 May 2017
- Time
- Location
- National Museum of Antiquities
Rapenburg 28
2311 EW Leiden - Room
- Leemanszaal

Style is a fundamental concept shared by anthropology, archaeology, classics and art history. After a period of eclipse from agendas of inquiry, it has now become central again in discussions of globalization, culture transfer or design analysis. The Byvanck Chair in Leiden was endowed to foster the study of the art and archaeology of the classical world, and to mark the new tenure of Caroline van Eck as Byvanck Professor and of Marike van Aerde as Byvanck Fellow, this symposium is organized to address the concept of style, developed originally in classical rhetoric, to explore a new common ground for the four disciplines that are all concerned with the material, visual and textual culture of the Graeco-Roman world.
Programme
12.30 |
Introduction |
12.45 |
Keynote by Professor Jas Elsner (Oxford/Chicago: Style, Archaism and the the Sacred in the European Visual Tradition’ |
13.45-14.15 |
Miguel John Versluys (Leiden): Style as agency. Hellenistic koine beyond semantics |
14.15-14.45 |
Casper de Jonge (Leiden): Greek Rhetoricians in Rome on Classical Style and Sculpture |
14.45-15.15 |
Tea Break |
15.15-15.45 |
Marike van Aerde (Leiden): Gandhara in Context: a new approach to the Greco-Buddhist archaeological record. |
15.45-16.15 |
Caroline van Eck (Cambridge/Leiden): The Material Turn Took Place in 1800: Style Formation and Object-Attachment in Rome |
16.15-16.45 |
Stijn Bussels and Bram van Oostveldt (Leiden/Amsterdam): 'What Does Style Do? Neoclassicism and Reviving Antiquity'. |
16.45-17.15 |
Pieter ter Keurs (Leiden/National Museum of Antiquities): Style and Anthropology: Struggling with the Meaning of Form |
17.15-17.45 |
Discussion led by Pieter ter Keurs |