arco Annual Symposium
The Marco Institute is planning its 6th annual symposium for November 15-16, 2007, as part of the fall Medieval and Renaissance Semester.
Saints and Citizens: Religion and Politics in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Religion can define community in ways that ease tension between groups, encouraging compassion, cohesion and cooperation; it can also define community in ways that marginalize some for the benefit of others. This academic symposium will bring together an international panel of scholars to share recent research on how the concept of sainthood was used to create, define, negotiate, reform and/or circumscribe communities as varied as the cloister, convent, city or state.
Schedule for Saints & Citizens Symposium
Hodges Library Auditorium
Thursday, November 15
- 9:00am-10:30am – Thomas Noble (Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute and Professor of History, University of Notre Dame) “The Public and the Private in Carolingian Saints, Sanctity, and Hagiography”
- 10:30am-11:00am – Coffee break
- 11:00am-12:30pm – Maura Lafferty (Assistant Professor of Classics, UT) “The Trickster Bishop and St Andrew's Beard: Relics and Politics in Sixth-Century Ravenna”
- 12:30pm-2:00pm – Lunch break
- 2:00pm-3:30pm – Carol Symes (Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)“Piety, Power, and Political Agency in Medieval Arras: The Confraternity of Jongleurs and the Cult of the Virgin”
- 3:30pm-4:00pm – Coffee break
- 4:00pm-5:30pm – Greg Kaplan (Associate Professor of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature, UT)“Sculpting the Visigothic "Micro-Christendom": The Cult of San Millán in the Cave Churches of Valderredible (Cantabria, Spain)”
Friday, November 16
- 9:00am-10:30am – David Defries (Lecturer in History, UT) “Communities of Saint Winnoc: Memory and Mutation in Flanders from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century”
- 10:30am-11:00am – coffee break
- 11:00am-12:30pm – Lorenzo Polizzotto (Professor of Italian Studies, University of Western Australia) “Politics and Confraternities in Renaissance Florence”
- 12:30pm-2:00pm – Lunch break
- 2:00pm-3:30pm – Nancy Warren (Associate Professor of English and Courtesy Associate Professor of Religion, Florida State University) “Words Made Flesh, Flesh Made Words: Julian of Norwich and Her Legacies in Early Modern English Religious Cultures”
- 3:30pm-4:00pm – Coffee break
- 4:00pm-5:30pm – Comment and Roundtable with Susan Ridyard (Professor and Chair of History and Director of the Sewanne Medieval Colloquium, University of the South)
CLICK HERE to view the poster for symposium.