The Hebrew Stones of Basel: Appropriation and melancholy after the Black Death
Talk
Dr Eva Frojmovic, University of Leeds
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Event date
Wednesday 15 November 2023, 6pm to 7pm
Location
In-person only
Room BS/005, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Room BS/005, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
Admission
Free admission, booking required
Event details
History of Art Research Seminar
This research in progress takes as its starting point the ultimately Freudian distinction between the work of mourning and melancholia, Eva Frojmovic is proposing to read ruins and artefacts that come after the anti-Jewish massacres of the Black Death (1348-9) in central Europe as signs of melancholia, as an impossibility of truly mourning the murdered Jewish neighbours. Her exploration will weave between recycled Jewish tombstones and Konrad Witz' oil painting of Synagoga, between the late fourteenth, the fifteenth, the sixteenth century and modern/contemporary encounters with this difficult heritage.