Religion Matters Symposium |
Religion Matters: Art, Piety, Destruction and the Politics of Display
Sunday February 26, 2006
Rehm Library, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA
The Symposium will follow the College Art Association’s Annual Meeting, Boston , February, 22-25. It is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Catholic Collecting, Catholic Reflection 1538-1850: Objects as a measure of reflection on a Catholic past and the construction of Recusant Catholic identity, February 22-April 13 in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, College of the Holy Cross.
There is no charge for the symposium. Seating is limited and reservations are encouraged.
Please e-mail Patricia Hinchliffe (phinchli@holycross.edu) for additional information.
9:30 - 10:00 |
Registration and continental breakfast |
10:00 - 11:45 |
Virginia Chieffo Raguin, College of the Holy Cross, Introduction and Overview Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas Austin: Salvaging Saints, the Rescue and Display of Relics in Reformation Times Sarah Brown, English Heritage: England ’s Iconoclasm and the Survival of the ca. 1500-1510 Stained Glass Cycle at St Mary’s, Fairford Gail McMurray Gibson, Davidson College: The Towneley Plays, a Recusant Family, and the Survival of English Medieval Drama |
11:45-1:00 |
Lunch (opportunity to visit the Cantor Gallery) |
1:00 - 2:30 |
Roderick O’Donnell, English Heritage, London: “The Real Thing”: A. W. N. Pugin and the Reintegration of Works of Art in the Architecture of the Catholic Revival Charlene Villaseñor Black, University of California at Los Angeles, Inquisitorial Practices of Hispanic Past and Present: Artistic Censorship and The Virgin Mary Elisabeth Cameron, University of California, Santa Cruz: Dueling Designs: Catholics, Presbyterians, and the Visual Culture of the Kuba Kingdom ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ) |
2:30-2:45 |
Break |
2:45 - 4:45 |
Tom Freudenheim, former director of the Museum Program at the National Endowment for the Arts and former Deputy Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin: The Challenge of Jewish Context within the Object-Oriented Museum Ena Heller, Director, Museum of Biblical Art, New York: A Delicate Balance: Modernism and Religion in Museums Today Dina Bangdel, Virginia Commonwealth University, Pleasures of Viewing: Agency, Power, and the Politics of Display in Buddhist Art Tiffany Jenkins, Institute of Ideas, London: From the Profane to the Sacred: The Rise of Reverence in Secular Institutions |
4:45 - 6:00 |
Closing Reception (opportunity to visit the Cantor Gallery) |