İSTANBUL SURLARI – The Land Walls of Istanbul

Workshop

Event canceled, new date to be defined!
Datum: 25.03.2020
Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 17:30
Ort: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
Kontakt: sanchez@biblhertz.it

İSTANBUL SURLARI – The Land Walls of Istanbul

The Land Walls of Constantinople, built by emperor Theodosius II at the beginning of the fifth century, are – with the Aurelian Walls of Rome – the largest preserved city walls of antiquity. For centuries they protected the capital of the Byzantine, and then the Ottoman Empire, from external attacks.

The interdisciplinary workshop approaches the monument from different perspectives and addresses its shape, use and perception by locals and strangers in different epochs. It precedes the opening of the exhibition of photographs by Roman photographer Domenico Ventura, who shows the monument in the context of today's urban changes and focuses in particular on the transitions between the urban space and rural areas: https://www.biblhertz.it/2921146/exhibition-and-vernissage-i-stanbul-surlari-the-land-walls-of-istanbul.html

Program
Wednesday, March 25

14:00
Tanja Michalsky (BHMPI)
Welcome

14:05
Tatjana Bartsch (BHMPI)
Introduzione

14:15
Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
The Land Walls of Constantinople – Architecture, Topography and History

15:00
Silvia Pedone (Roma, Gallerie Nazionali Barberini e Corsini)
Cingere la città. Le mura e la loro immagine nei disegni dei viaggiatori e artisti dell’età moderna

15:40 Coffee break

16:10
Silvia Ronchey (Università Roma Tre)
Le Mura di Terra nelle memorie degli scrittori ottocenteschi

16:50
Aleksandar Shopov (Berlin, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
From Elite Residences to Agricultural Space. Land Use around Istanbul’s Theodosian Walls

Scientific organization: Tatjana Bartsch, Johannes Röll