Pigments, Colors and Ideas Symposium
On the occasion of the 100th year of the Turkish Republic
November 23, 2023 – Thursday
| Place | Hour/Slots | Content |
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations | 18.00 | Opening speeches |
| 18.10 | Inaugural lecture Professor Dr. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu (Koç University, Director of VEKAM, Ankara) Color: The Perception of an Image / Renk: İmgenin Algısı | |
| 19.15 | Concert by İpek Dereli and her Ensemble | |
| 19.50 | Opening of the Exhibition / Cocktail |
November 24, 2023 – Friday
| Place | Hour/Slots | Content |
| Bilkent University Faculty of Humanities and Lettersm C Block Amphi or Zoom Registration: sinopiasymposium@gmail.com | Morning Session | |
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Welcoming speeches | |
| Moderator: Jorge Lopez Quiroga | ||
| 10.15 – 10.35 | Dominique Kassab Tezgör (Bilkent University, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Department of Archaeology) Miltos, Sinopis and Sinopia over the Centuries | |
| 10.35 – 10.50 | Selim Yılmaz Erdal (Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Anthropology) Dyes and Dead Bodies in Early Neolithic People | |
| 10.50 – 11.10 | Dyes and Spices, a film by Cécile Michel and Vanessa Tubiana-Brun, CNRS, Nanterre, France, 2017. Film prepared within the International Research Network “Ancient Textiles from the Orient to the Mediterranean” | |
| 11.10 – 11.30 | Cécile Michel (CNRS ArScAn, Nanterre-CSMC Hamburg) Philippe Abrahami (Université de Lille) Nicole Brisch (Universität Hamburg & CSMC) Louise Quillien (CNRS, ArScAn, Nanterre) Red Textiles and Dyes in Cuneiform Sources from the Third to the First Millennium BCE | |
| 11.30 – 11.50 | Hariclia Brecoulaki (Institute of Historical Research, Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens) Which Colours for which Purposes? Selection and Applications of Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting. | |
| 11.50 | Discussion | |
| Snack Break | ||
| Afternoon Session | ||
| Moderator: Gülsu Şimşek Franci | ||
| 13.30 – 13.50 | Brigitte Bourgeois (Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, C2RMF) Violaine Jeammet (Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Louvre Museum) Yannick Vandenberghe (Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, C2RMF) Small is Beautiful. Painters at Work on Greek Terracotta Figurines. | |
| 13.50 – 14.10 | Tuna Şare (University of Oxford/ Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University) The Colors of Imperial Power in Late Roman Anatolia | |
| 14.10 – 14.30 | Thomas Zimmermann (Bilkent University, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Department of Archaeology) From Hallucinogens to Hazards – The Lycurgus Cup and the Long Deep History of Metals as Coloring Agents | |
| 14.30 – 14.50 | Anaïs Lamesa (Head of the Archaeological Unit at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies, İstanbul) Red Ochre in Cappadocia: from Technical to Decorative Uses | |
| 15.10 | Discussion | |
| Coffee break | ||
| Moderator: Brigitte Bourgeois | ||
| 15.50 – 16.10 | Jorge Lopez Quiroga (University Complutense Madrid) Natalia Figueiras (University Complutense Madrid) The Red and White Colors in the Medieval Rock Wall Painting of the World Map of San Pedro de Rocas (Galicia, Spain): Artistic Materials and Pictorial Techniques | |
| 16.10 – 16.30 | Umberto Brogi (Restorer at Opera Primaziale Pisana, Pisa) Drawing on the Wall. The Sinopias of the Pisan Cemetery | |
| 16.30 – 16.50 | Gülsu Şimşek Franci (Doctoral Researcher at Koç University Surface Science and Technology Center – KUYTAM) Identification of Tiles via Color | |
| 16.50 – 17.10 | Sibel Ertez Ural (Bilkent University, FADA, Department of interior Architecture and Environmental Design) Red and White in Architectural Context | |
| 17.10 | Discussion | |
| Bilkent University FADA Art Gallery | 18.00 | Exploring Sinopia (Mentor Beata Zalewska) Pigments, Colors and Textures (Mentor Ekin Kılıç Ezer) Workshop Student Works Exhibition Opening |
| 19.30 | Closing Reception |