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LOOKING BEYOND,
Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval Art and History
A TWO DAY CONFERENCE
Sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
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The Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California
Friday and Saturday March 14th and 15th 2008
Both days will be held at Princeton University, in McCormick Hall, room 101. There is no conference fee but all intending delegates are requested to register before March 7th 2008 . Admission is by registration only and attendance is limited. To register please write, or email Robin Dunham, Index of Christian Art, A8 McCormick Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (email – rdunham@princeton.edu) giving name(s), institutional affiliation if any and contact telephone numbers and day(s) of attendance.
Friday, March 14th 2008
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9.00-9.15
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Introduction and Welcome
Colum Hourihane, Princeton University
Lisa Bitel, University of Southern California
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9.15-10.15
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St. Francis and the body as image
Hans Belting, Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
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10.15-11.0
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Finding Faith Underground: Visions of the Forty Martyrs Oratory at Syracuse
Glenn Peers, University of Texas at Austin
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11.00-11.30
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Coffee and Questions
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11.30-12.15
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Imagining Community: Visions and the Dead at Twelfth-Century Peterhausen
Alison Beach, College of William & Mary
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12.15-1.00
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Scenes and Sites of Religious Visions in the Earliest Middle Ages
Lisa Bitel, University of Southern California
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1.00-1.15
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Questions
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| The moderator for the morning session will be Colum Hourihane |
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1.15-2.30
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Lunch
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2.30-3.15
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Visions and the Soul’s Ascent to God in Spanish Mysticism
Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas
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3.15-4.00
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Making Use of Paradise: Heavenly Visions and the Late Antique Commemorative Imagination
Ann Marie Yasin, University of Southern California
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4.00-4.15
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Questions
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4.15-5.00
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A Faithful Witness in Heaven: Keeping Vigil with St. Apollinaris
Peter Jeffery, Princeton University
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5.00-5.20
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Apocalyptic Visions and Marginal Images
Peter Klein, University of Tubingen
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| The moderator for the afternoon session will be Michael Curschmann, Princeton University |
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5.30-7.00
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Reception
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| Saturday, March 15th 2008 |
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9.30-10.15
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Looking Beyond the Modern Bubble: Medieval Art and the Study of Modern Visual Culture.
David Morgan, Valparaiso University
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10.15-11.00
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Visualizing the Visionary: John in his Apocalypse
Richard Emmerson, Florida State University
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11.00-11.30
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Questions & Coffee
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11.30-12.15
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Visions experiences and the Liturgy in the early Middle Ages
Eric Palazzo, University of Poitiers
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12.15-1.00
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What to see? The Vision of God in some medieval images
Nino Zchomelidse, Princeton University
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1.00-1.15
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Questions
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| The moderator for the morning session will be Maria Mavroudi, Princeton University. |
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1.15-2.30
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Lunch
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2.30-3.15
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Death in the Flesh: Encountering Death Personified in the Middle Ages
Georgia Frank, Colgate University
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3.15-4.00
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“Ecce angelus Domini apparuit in somnis Ioseph”: Seeing the Dreams of Joseph the Carpenter
Pamela Sheingorn, City University of New York, Baruch College and The Graduate Center
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4.00-4.15
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Questions
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4.15-5.00
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The Tactile and the Visionary: Notes on the Place of Sculpture in the Medieval Religious Imaginary
Jacqueline Jung, Yale University
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5.00-5.30
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Round Table Discussion led by William Christian Jr.
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| The moderator for the afternoon session will be AnneMarie Luijendijk, Princeton University. |
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5.30-6.30
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Reception for all attendees
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Past Conferences
March 23rd and 24th, 1990
Iconography at the Crossroads
April 22, 1995
Art and Ritual at the Threshold: The Imagery of Portals in Medieval Europe
February 16, 1996
Devotions for Women: Books of Hours from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries
October 28th and 29th, 1997
Iconography at the Index – Celebrating Eighty Years of the Index of Christian Art
March 5th and 6th, 1999
From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Periods and its Context within Europe
March 23rd and 24th, 2001
Objects, Images and the Word: Art in the Service of Liturgy
October 24th, 2003
St. Denis Revisited: The Man, The Art and the Architecture
March 27, 2004
Between the Picture and the Word: The Book of Kings (Morgan 638) in Focus:
A Colloquium in Honor of John Plummer
October 1, 2004
The Index of Christian Art – An Afternoon of Medieval Art at Princeton University
April 8th and 9th, 2005
Interactions: Artistic Interchange between the Eastern and Western Worlds in the Medieval Period
April 29th, 2006
Spanish Medieval Art: New Approaches and Studies
October 26th and 27th, 2006
Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century
February 2nd, 2007
The Medieval Arts of North Africa and the Near East
April 20th, 2007
Matters Iconographical – Celebrating Ninety Years of the Index of Christian Art
May 8th, 2007
The Cross in Image and Text: A Celebration of the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Index of Christian Art
June 12th, 2007
Databases and Medieval Scholarship
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