This conference explores the expanded cultural context of medieval Conques through the work of internationally renowned scholars.
This conference explores the expanded cultural context that made Conques a major crossroads of premodern Europe. As one of the fundamental stops on the road to Compostela, Conques flourished during the 11th and 12th centuries and has maintained an important role for the region and for European culture ever since. Primarily, this conference attempts to frame the “Conques phenomenon” within a broad cultural horizon, with a focus on the constitutive elements that can be observed in Conques itself. The conference is financed by the MSCA-RISE Horizon 2020 project scheme of the European Union, Conques in the Global World.
Tickets are available for both in-person attendance and webinar format.
We would love to see you in person!
From Global to Local: Conques as a Crossroads (9th–13th c.) Schedule:
Conference, Hunter College (1527 North Building): 11th-12th July, 2022.
11th July
Introduction
10.00 → Ivan Foletti, Cynthia Hahn, Kristen N. Racaniello, Cécile Voyer
Session I. Chair: Ivan Foletti
10.20 AM → Kirk Ambrose (University of Colorado), The Tautological Inscriptions of the Conques Tympanum
11.00 AM → Kristen N. Racaniello (Graduate Center, City University of New York), The “Iron Man”: Islamic Materiality and Arabic Inscriptions in the Shrine of Sainte-Foy
Lunch break
Session II. Chair: Cécile Voyer
2.00 PM → Éric Sparhubert (University of Limoges, National Centre for Scientific Research CESCM-Poitiers), Sainte-Foy of Conques and Beyond: Making the Holy Body Visible and Promotional Strategies in Romanesque Architecture
2.40 PM → Martin F. Lešák (Masaryk University, Brno), Landscape, Liturgy, and Sainte-Foy: Rituals in and Around Medieval Conques
Coffee break
3.40 PM → Sabina Rosenbergová (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte): Conques’ Monastic Landscape: From Geological Reality to Hagiographic Imagination
4.20 PM → Michele Luigi Vescovi (University of Lincoln), Conques: Monastic Network, Artistic Practices
Reception on the Terrace, open to all conference attendants
12th July
Conques and Its Networks
Session III. Chair: Cynthia Hahn
10.00 AM → Vincent Debiais (Centre for Historical Research, EHESS/CNRS, Paris), Portals as Epigraphic Pages. Describing the Path of Light in Conques and Beyond
10.40 AM → Zuzana Frantová (Masaryk University, Brno), The Virgin of Beaulieu: The Engagement of Silver and Vermeil in the Liturgical Drama
11.20 AM → Bissera V. Pentcheva (Stanford University), Audiovision: Image and Chant at Sainte
Foy in Conques
Lunch break
Session IV. Chair: Herbert Kessler
2.00 PM → Lei Huang (HiCSA, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Memory Between Tradition and Modernity: Odolric’s Historicism and Bégon’s Promotion of Image in Romanesque Conques
2.40 PM → Adrien Palladino (Masaryk University, Brno), The Myth of Byzantium on the Way to Conques
Coffee break
3.40 PM → Janet T. Marquardt (Eastern Illinois University), Rouergue Roman: Zodiaque’s Conques
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