Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 4 Spaces of Sacrality

A conference at the Clark Library directed by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08

Friday, March 14

 

 

9:30 A.M.

Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Session 1: Architectures of Sacrality

Evonne Levy, University of Toronto
The Architecture of Confession in Post-Tridentine Churches

Esther Meier, Universität Dortmund
Joachim von Sandrart's Self-Portraits in Altarpieces: Communication in a Catholic Sacral Room

Barbara R. Woshinsky, University of Miami
Crossing the Convent Threshold: the 'Grand Carmel' de la rue St-Jacques

1:00 P.M.

Lunch

2:30 P.M.

Session 2: Sacred Spaces and Inner Selves

Susan Boettcher, University of Texas, Austin
The Fate of the 'Inner House of Conscience' in the Reformation: Churches, Preaching, and Lutheran Interiority

Frédéric Gabriel, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow
'Loci theologici': Rhetoric, Meditation, Casuistry and Politics of the Self in the Puritan Tradition

4:30 P.M.

Reception
   

Saturday, March 15

 

 

9:30 A.M

Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Session 3: Outward Movement

Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin
Exile in the Reformation

Howard Louthan, University of Florida
Pilgrimage, Space and the 'Self' in Early Modern Bohemia (1620-1750)

Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA
The Sacred Topography of Piedmont, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries. Popular Devotions and Dynastic Shrines

 

1:00 P.M.

Lunch

2:00 P.M.

Session 4: Sacred Spaces of Holy Empires

Peter Burschel, Universität Rostock
Topkapı Sarayı

Joseph F. Patrouch, Florida International University
In Pursuit of the Holy Roman Empire. On its Trail in 1570


 



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