Extra Ordinary - unique and common artifacts as social actors
Monday December 3rd | Mandel Building, Room 530
09:00-09:30 Convening
09:30-10:00 Greetings
Michael Segal (Dean of Humanities, HUJI)
Israel Yuval (Academic Head of Mandel School, HUJI)
10:00-12:00 Transformations of the Ordinary
Chair: Tamar Elor (HUJI)
Leore Grosman and Timna Raz (“Materials for Change”):
On Turning the Mundane into the Extraordinary: A Case in Point from Nahal
Ein Gev II
Yael Young (HUJI and Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art):
Pins, Pestles, and the Concept of Affordance: Female Violence and Mundane Objects in Classical Athens
John Styles (University of Hertfordshire):
The London Foundling Textiles: The Extraordinary Power of Ordinary Things
12:00-13:30 Lunch break and tour of the Mt. Scopus campus
13:30-15:30 Artifacts as Agents of Change
Chair: Anna Belfer-Cohen (HUJI)
Nathan Schlanger (École nationale des chartes): The Tin Cans of Marcel Mauss
Steven Mithen (University of Reading):
Found Objects and Lost Words from PPNA WF16, Southern Jordan: Extra-Ordinary Objects as Drivers of Linguistic and Cognitive Change in the Early Neolithic
Rina Talgam (“Materials for Change”): The Transformative Power of Ceremonial Objects: The Decorated Stones from Magdala and Horvat Kur
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-18:45 Extra-Extraordinary
Chair: Valentine Roux (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Tamar Hodos (University of Bristol):
Eggs-traordinary Artifacts: Decorated Ostrich Eggs in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Qin Ling (Peking University):
Shaping Order: Jades in Neolithic Liangzhu Society of China and Beyond
15 minutes break
Idit Ben Or (“Materials for Change”):
“The Big Problem of Small Change”: Is Non-Governmental Money Extraordinary?
Dror Wahrman and Ray Schrire (HUJI):
Fragile Uniqueness, Perhaps Common Practices: Some Paradoxes of an Eighteenth-Century Porcelain Figurine
Tuesday December 4th
08:30-10:30 Archaeological Tour of the Old City of Jerusalem
(Shlomit Weksler Bdolah, Israel Antiquities Authority)
10:30-13:00 Culinary Tour of the Old City of Jerusalem
(Nir Avieli, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and “Materials for Change”)
Mandel Building, Room 530
14:00 – 16:00 Designing the Public Space: From the Extraordinary to the Mundane
Chair: Michael Shenkar (HUJI)
Katheryn Linduff (University of Pittsburgh):
Pazyryk in Its Landscape Setting: The Materials and Materiality of Cultural Contacts
Naomi Simhoni (“Materials for Change”):
The Central Synagogue of Nazareth Illit: An Exceptional Building Facing Nazareth's Christian Landmarks
Min Zhang (National University of Singapore):
Seating Order as a Critical Tool for Achieving Educational Success in China’s Public Schools: Bridging the Binary between Mundane and Extraordinary
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:30 Beyond the Walls: Space, People and Movement
Chair: Ronnie Ellenblum (HUJI)
Gideon Shelach (“Materials for Change”):
Does Extra-Large = Extra-Ordinary? The “Great Wall” of Jin from Multidimensional Perspectives
Tawfiq Da'adli (HUJI):
Central vs. Peripheral Urban Landscapes
Tal Ulus (“Materials for Change”):
A Unique or Common Phenomenon? An Environmental Perspective on the Last Decade's Immigration Wave from Sub-Saharan Africa
Wednesday December 5th | Mandel building, Room 530
9:00-09:30 Convening
09:30-12:00 Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat
Chair: Meir Shahar (Tel Aviv University)
Nir Avieli (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and “Materials for Change”): Massai on the Phone: Black Male Bodies, Ethnicity, and Tourism in Zanzibar
Assa Doron (Australian National University): Ordinary Lives and Extraordinary Bacteria: Notes on the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance in India
15 minutes break
Jimmy Yu (Florida State University): Blood Writings as Extraordinary Artifacts and Social Actors (lecture + documentary film)
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:30-17:00 Workshop with Senior Curators in the Israel Museum
17:30-19:00 Hanukkah Menorah tour in Nachlaot neighborhood
Thursday December 6th | Mandel Building, Room 530
09:00-09:30 Convening
10:00-12:30 Art and Non-Art
Chair: Gal Ventura (HUJI)
Margaret Olin (Yale University): Making Mountains out of Molehills
Elad Yaron (“Materials for Change”): Israeli Salesmen of Oil Paintings Abroad: Turning the Cheapest Paintings into an Ever-Rising Investment
15 minutes break
Amit Zoran (HUJI): Dynamic Aspects of Making and Personal Style
Dov Ganchrow (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design): Destroying the Ordinary for the Extraordinary
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Closing Session: Nir Avieli, Leore Grosman, Gideon Shelach, Rina Talgam ("Materials for Change")