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Upcoming Events 2008
All events are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Please be advised that event details such as location, contact, and RSVP information are specific for each program. Due to the popularity of our programs, seating is on a first come, first serve basis. Check back here often for updates and additions to our schedule.
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Seeing the Medieval: Realms of Faith- Visions for Today
Europe’s Middle Ages were a time of violence, persecution, clashing cultures, economic metamorphoses and astounding breakthroughs in ideas and imagination—in other words, a time like today. But medieval men and women inhabited a world permeated by faith and populated by spiritual forces, from demons to miraculous objects. For many people today, religion no longer saturates their lives. They may admire the art of that earlier world for aesthetic reasons but scarcely understand its religious meaning and uses.
In a two-day symposium co-sponsored by the Museum of Biblical Art and the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture, scholars from diverse perspectives will reconsider the connections between art, religion and culture in the Middle Ages while asserting the era’s relevance to the present day.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
To R.S.V.P. for Friday and/or Saturday: CRCevent@fordham.edu, 212-636-7347
Friday, May 30, 2008 | 4:00 pm-7:30 pm
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
Pope Auditorium, 113 West 60th St.
4:00 p.m.: Panel discussion, Why the Medieval Matters. How do the Middle Ages, in all their creativity, diversity, faith and, yes, violence, speak to 21st-century humanity?
Moderator:
Peter Steinfels, Co-director, Fordham Center on Religion and Culture
Discussants:
Francis Oakley, President Emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Williams College, author of The Conciliarist Tradition, and other studies of medieval governance in church and state.
Kathryn Kueny, director religious studies program and clinical associate professor of theology, Fordham University, author of The Rhetoric of Sobriety, Wine in Early Islam, and comparative studies of Islam and other religions.
Charles Reid, Jr., professor of law, University of St. Thomas Law School, author of Power over the Body: Equality in the Family and other studies of the medieval sources of family law and individual rights.
Nina Rowe, assistant professor of art history, Fordham University, specialist in Christian representations of Jews and Judaism in the high Middle Ages.
6:00 p.m.: Keynote address, Thomas Cahill, acclaimed author of Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe and How the Irish Saved Civilization.
Saturday, May 31 | 10:00 am-3:00 pm
Museum of Biblical Art
1865 Broadway at 61st Street
10:00 a.m.: Panel discussion, Medieval Objects from Different Viewpoints. What happens when scholars from different disciplines look at the same works of art?
Moderator:
Ena Heller, Executive Director, MOBIA
Discussants:
Margot Fassler, Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History and Liturgy, Yale University
C. Griffith Mann, Director, Curatorial Division, Walters Art Museum
Mary C. Moorman, PhD Candidate in Systematic Theology, Southern Methodist University
Xavier Seubert, Professor of Art and Theology, St. Bonaventure University
2:00 p.m.: Panel discussion, Teaching Techniques for Medieval Studies. From the museum to the divinity school to the university classroom, how do we present the Middle Ages?
Moderator:
Eric Ramírez-Weaver, Curator, MOBIA
Discussants:
Dirk Breiding, Assistant Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor's Professor of the History of Christian Worship and Art, Vanderbilt Divinity School
Laura Weigert, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Nancy Wu, Museum Educator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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