Curriculum Vitae Pnina Arad
Research Fellow
ERC research project ‘Spectrum’
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (European Forum)
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 9190501 Israel
[email protected]
Academic and Professional Employment History
2014/2015
Adjunct Lecturer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Department of the Arts.
2014/2015
Instructor, The Open University of Israel.
2007/2013
Editor of publications, European Forum at the Hebrew University.
2007/2013
Editor of “The European Forum Annual Newsletter”, European Forum at the
Hebrew University.
2004/2007
Research assistant, European Forum at the Hebrew University.
1994/2007
Illustrator of archeological artifacts, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Education
2006/2012
PhD. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, European Forum (European studies:
history of art and visual culture); grades no longer offered.
Dissertation: ‘The Map as Icon: The Map of the Holy Land in European
Context’.
Advisors: Prof. Bianca Kühnel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Prof.
Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck-Institut).
2002/2006
MA. Hebrew University of Jerusalem (individual graduate studies in history of
art and medieval history). Magna cum laude.
Thesis: ‘The Conquest of Jerusalem in Crusader Art’.
Supervisors: Prof. Bianca Kühnel and Prof. B.Z. Kedar
1994/1998
BA. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Archeology and general studies in the
Humanities.
Postdoctoral Research
4-10/2013
École Pratique des Hautes Études (Section des sciences historiques et
philologiques), Paris.
Research Project: ‘The Map of the Holy Land as a Cultural Instrument: An
Intercultural Study’.
Host: Prof. Patrick Gautier Dalché
2012/2015
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ERC research project ‘Spectrum: Visual
Translations of Jerusalem’.
Research Project: ‘The Holy Land in France’.
Curriculum Vitae Fellowships, Grants & Awards
2012/2015
Post-doctoral Fellowship as a team member in the ERC research project:
‘Spectrum: Visual Translations of Jerusalem’, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2013
Fritz Thyssen Foundation Research Grant for the project: ‘The Map of the Holy
Land as a Cultural Instrument: An Intercultural Study’.
2011
The Francis Günter Award for Jerusalem Studies.
2011
The Faculty of Social Sciences Travel Grant, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
for conducting research at the British Library (London).
2010/2012
PhD Scholarship as a team member in the ERC research project: ‘Spectrum:
Visual Translations of Jerusalem’, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2009
The Robert H. and Claris Smith Fund Travel Grant, Department of History of
Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for conducting research at the Bodleian
Library (Oxford); the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris); the Biblioteca
Medicea Laurenziana, and Archivio di Stato di Firenze (Florence).
2006/2009
PhD Scholarship as a team member in the research project ‘Sites of Memory
and Memory of Sites: Positioning the Holy Land in Europe’, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation).
2006
Research Grant for outstanding students from the Paul Demarais Center for the
Study of French Culture, The European Forum at the Hebrew University.
2005
The Robert H. and Claris Smith Fund Travel Grant, Department of History of
Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for conducting research in the
Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris) and the Bibliothèque Municipale
(Lyon).
2004/2006
The Robert H. and Claris Smith Fund Research Scholarship for outstanding
students, Department of History of Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Membership in Research Groups
2010/2015
ERC research project ‘Spectrum: Visual Translations of Jerusalem’, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
2012/2013
AHRC Research Network workshop ‘Remembered Places and Invented
Traditions: Thinking about the Holy Land in the Later Middle Ages’, Birkbeck,
University of London, School of Arts.
Head of doctoral study group ‘Jerusalem in European Culture’, Chevruta
Project: Study and Discussion Groups for Research Students at the Hebrew
University.
2009/2010
Publications
Articles
“An Unpublished Map of the Holy Land: Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, MS Lat. X 116
(=3783)”, Imago Mundi 65/1 (2013): 80–86.
Curriculum Vitae “Pilgrimage, Cartography and Devotion: William Wey’s Map of the Holy Land”, Viator:
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 43/1 (2012): 301–322.
“The Proskynetarion from the Monastery of the Holy Cross and the Map of the Holy Land”,
Eastern Christian Art 6 (2009): 1–5.
“The Crusader Madonna: A Twelfth-century Fresco, Recently Revealed in Jerusalem”, Israel
Museum Studies in Archaeology 6 (2007): 21–25.
“Thanks to a Neighbour’s Bad Reputation: Reconstructing an Area of Thirteenth-century
Acre”, Crusades 5 (2006): 193–197.
Book Chapters
“Is Calvary Worth Restoring? The Way of the Cross in Romans-sur-Isère, France”, in: In
Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kϋhnel, ed. Renana Bartal and
Hanna Vorholt (Leiden: Brill, 2015).
“‘As if You Were There’: The Cultural Impact of Two Pilgrims’ Maps of the Holy Land”, in:
Visual Constructs of Jerusalem, ed. Bianca Kühnel, Galit Noga‐Banai, Hanna Vorholt
(Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 18; Turnhout: Brepols, 2014),
307–316.
“Le modèle des Croisés: trois conquêtes de Jérusalem par le texte et par l’image”, in: Quand
l'image relit le texte, ed. Maud Pérez-Simon and Sandrine Hériché Pradeau (Paris: Presses
Universitaires de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013), 173–183.
“Mapping Divinity: Holy Landscape in Maps of the Holy Land”, in: Jerusalem as Narrative
Space, ed. Annette Hoffmann and Gerhard Wolf (Visualising the Middle Ages, 6; Leiden:
Brill, 2012), 263–276.
Edited Book
Together with Bianca Kühnel, Jerusalem Elsewhere: The German Recensions. Proceedings of
the Minerva-Gentner Mobile Symposium, October 2011 (Jerusalem: Spectrum, 2014).
International Conferences and Workshops
“Iconicity and Evidence: Christian and Jewish Maps of Palestine”, in: Maps and Travel:
Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture, International Conference, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev, Beersheba, 31.5-4.6.2015
“The Cultural Mechanism of Holiness-Transportation: The Cases of Romans-sur-Isère and
Bétharram (France)”, in: Representations of the Holy Land: Challenging the Phenomenon
through New Case Studies, International Workshop, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 12.12.2014
“Maps of the Holy Land: Objects of Devotion”, in: The Leverhulme Network ‘Cartography
between Europe and the Islamic World 1100-1600’, International Conference, Queen Mary
University of London, 8-9.9.2014
“From Madaba to Padua: The Holy Land in Maps”, in: East & West in Medieval and Early
Modern Art, International Conference, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba,
9.1.2014
Curriculum Vitae “Real and Imaginative Visits to the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century”, in: Imagination:
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Social Practices, 4th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities
Symposium, Interdisciplinary Binational Conference co-organized by the Israel Academy of
Sciences and Humanities (IASH) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Potsdam 912.9.2012
“The Map of the Holy Land and Late Medieval European Spirituality”, in: Remembered
Places and Invented Traditions: Thinking about the Holy Land in the Later Middle Ages,
AHRC Research Network Workshop, Birkbeck, London, 25-26.6.2012
“Narrative and Meta-narrative in the Map of the Holy Land (Oxford, Bodl. MS Douce 389)”,
in: The Language of Maps: Communicating through Cartography during the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, International Conference, The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2325.6.2011
“‘Made in the Likeness of the Holy Sepulchre’: A Fifteenth-Century Holy Land at Edington
Priory”, in: Last Orders? The Art and Architecture of Religious Orders in England, c. 13501450, International Conference, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 17.5.2011
“The Crusader Conquest of Jerusalem – A Matter of Image: Text and Illumination in the
French Chronicle of Guillaume de Tyr”, in: Quand l’image relit le texte, International
Conference, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle and Université Paris 4 Sorbonne, Paris, 1516.3.2011
“Devotional Geography: William Wey’s Map of the Holy Land”, in: Visual Constructs of
Jerusalem, International Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 14-20.11.2010
“The Map as Icon”, in: The Holy Land and Europe, International Workshop, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, 29.4-1.5.2008
“Mapping Divinity”, in: Jerusalem as Narrative Space, International Conference,
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Plunck-Institut, Florence, 6-8.12.2007
Invited Lectures
“Visualization of Pilgrimage Experience in Maps of the Holy Land”, in: Visualization of
Knowledge in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods, Research seminar, Israel Institute for
Advanced Studies, 16.6.15
“Architectural Models of Holy Places in Christian and Jewish Cultures”, in: The Power of
Objects: Architectural Models, MA seminar, Department of Archeology, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem (Prof. Tallay Ornan and Prof. Yossi Garfinkel), 17.5.15 (Hebrew).
“Medieval Elements in Eighteenth-century Proskynetaria from Jerusalem”, in: Art &
Architecture in Medieval Jerusalem, MA seminar, Department of History of Art , Hebrew
University of Jerusalem (Dr. Galit Noga-Banai), 22.1.15 (Hebrew).
“Jerusalem and the Holy Land in Maps – 6th to 16th Century”, in: Jerusalem in Christian
Thought – 4th to 16th Century, BA seminar, Department of Comparative Religion, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem (Prof. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony), 2.6.14 (Hebrew).
“The Jewish Map of Eretz Israel vs. the Christian Map of the Holy Land”, Departmental
Colloquium, The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar
ILan University, 13.5.14 (Hebrew).
Curriculum Vitae “Pilgrimage Art: The Map of the Holy Land”, Departmental Colloquium, Department of
History of Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 27.11.12 (Hebrew).
“Maps of Jerusalem from the 12th and the 13th Centuries”, in: Crusader Art, BA seminar,
Department of History of Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dr. Galit Noga-Banai),
13.1.11 (Hebrew).
“Illuminated Manuscripts from the Crusader Scriptorium of Acre”, in: Crusader Art, BA
seminar, Department of History of Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dr. Galit NogaBanai), 6.1.11 (Hebrew).
Teaching
‘Cultural Landscape in Maps of the Holy Land / the Promised Land’; BA course, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev, Department of the Arts.
Instructing undergraduate students; courses: ‘Crusades: History and Historiography’;
‘Pilgrimage: Jews, Christians, Muslims’, The Open University of Israel.