ANAMED LIBRARY COMMUNITY LECTURES

Koç Üniversitesi Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations - ANAMED)

Tarih : 13-03-2024 19:00 - 13-03-2024 20:00

Superfluous Signs? Sacred Architecture in Greek Visual Culture

Müge Arseven, PhD, Columbia University / Sadberk Hanım Museum

Date & Time: 13 March, 6.00-7.00 p.m

Location: ANAMED Library

 

Müge Arseven’s research engages with a large group of such symbols – architectural elements that feature in scenes of worship, daily life, and mytho-history – to parse their visual and semiotic functions within the framework of the highly coded yet simultaneously innovative medium of vase painting. Through images that reflect both traditional and singular instances of sacred structures as conceived by Greek artists, her talk will aim to demonstrate the multivalent roles architecture assumes in images and what this may reveal to us about the processes behind the creation of visual language.

Müge Arseven

She specialized in the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, Anatolia, and the Near East. She received her degree in 2022 with a dissertation entitled "Sacred Architecture in Ancient Greek Vase Painting: Between Reality and Representation" in which she examined architectural motifs in the Greek visual arts within a semiotic and aesthetic framework. Müge is currently an associate curator at the Department of Antiquities at Sadberk Hanım Museum in Istanbul and continues her work as a field architect and archaeologist at the Onchestos Excavation Project (Thiva, Greece) under the auspices of Columbia University. Her other research interests include artistic interactions in the ancient Mediterranean, the history of archaeology in Europe and (the former territories of) the Ottoman Empire, and the afterlife of antiquities in socio-political propaganda, heritage studies, and pop culture.