This symposium, presented by CARe’s Dillenberger Lecture in Art History program, centers on the functional aspects of art and material religion, and the way that late medieval devotional visual culture inspired embodied experience physically, emotionally, and intellectually.
The event features keynote speakers Dr. Katryn Rudy (University of St. Andrews) and Dr. Reindert Falkenburg (NYU-Abu Dhabi), with panelists Dr. Fiona Griffiths (Stanford), Dr. Kathryn Barush (GTU), Dr. Olga Yunak (GTU alum), and Justin Grosnick (GTU PhD student), moderated by Dr. Christopher Ocker (GTU).
The symposium is linked to the Doug Adams Gallery exhibition Moveable Sanctity: Home Shrines and the Journey of Sacred Forms. This exhibition expands the topic of art and embodiment to explore how contemporary home shrines from the Eastern Christian and Hindu traditions recontextualize sacred art and artifacts and establish new, living relationships with viewers and practitioners. Guest co-curated by Olga Yunak and Justin Grosnick, who will lead a tour of the exhibition at 5pm following the symposium.