Description
This symposium explores early modern representations of and debates about the concepts of concord and tolerance. It addresses how images (e.g., allegories and emblems) and texts (such as religious and political treatises) promoted and codified systems of pacification and ideal communities. How did images and texts forge individual and collective visions of perfection and happiness? Did these materials play a role in political thought, religious policies, and moral philosophy? How did they challenge or legitimize social inclusion or exclusion, military campaigns, and imperialistic propaganda?
This program is organized in collaboration with the Department of the Arts, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna.
Schedule
Thursday April 18
2:00-3:00 pm Collection Presentation (ITW Seminar Room)
4:15-5:30 pm Opening Roundtable (Rettinger Hall)
Maria Vittoria Spissu (University of Bologna)
Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola University Chicago)
Walter Melion (Emory University)
Friday April 19
All sessions take place in Rettinger Hall.
9:30-9:45 am Welcome and Coffee
9:45-11:15 am Session 1
Chair: Javier Villa-Flores (Emory University)
J. Michelle Molina (Northwestern University), “A Mournful Mode of Sociability: Necrocommunity among Mexican ex-Jesuits in 18th-century Bologna”
Lucila Iglesias (Centro de Investigación en Arte Materia y Cultura, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero / Universidad de Buenos Aires), “Useful Wonders. The Political Efficacy of a Miraculous Image in Viceroyalty of Peru”
Michael Schreffler (University of Notre Dame), “Communities and Social Formations at the Cathedral of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)”
11:15-11:30 am Break
11:30 am-1:00 pm Session 2
Chair: Fabien Montcher (Saint Louis University)
Daniela D'Eugenio (University of Arkansas), “Il principe perfetto: Moral Lessons and Politics in Italian Collections of Emblems and Illustrated Proverbs”
Yunning Zhang (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago), “Orientating/Ornamentalizing New Spanish Religiosity: El mejor blasón de México (1729), a Play on San Felipe de Jesús, the Protomartyr of Japan”
Pedro Germano Leal (The John Carter Brown Library), “Reading the Guarani Edition of Nieremberg’s De la Diferencia (1705): Indigenous Agency and Jesuit Propaganda”
1:00-2:30 pm Lunch
2:30-4:00 pm Session 3
Chair: Jessica Goethals (University of Alabama)
Tanya J. Tiffany (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “Diego Velázquez’s Portrait of Cristóbal Suárez de Ribera: Religious Conversion and Millenarianism in Early Modern Seville”
Marisa Bass (Yale University), “Accoutrementality: The Sexed Work of Dutch Women Artists”
Heather Graham (California State University, Long Beach), “Pontormo’s Capponi Chapel Altarpiece: Maniera and Mourning”
4:00-5:00 pm Concluding Discussion
Led by Maria Vittoria Spissu and Lia Markey
Registration Information
This event will be free and open to the public. No registration is required.
