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Annual Conference: "From Buddha's Belly to St. Bridget's Head: Sacred and Devotional Objects East/West"
February 14-15, 2008 (British Studies Room - 5th Floor Norlin Library)

Thursday, February 14th
8:30-9:00Tea and coffee
Opening remarks:
Elizabeth Robertson, Director, CMEMS
Graham Oddie, Associate Dean of Humanities
Session One
9:00-9:25 John Strong, Bates College, Relics and the Life of the Buddha
9:30-9:55 Stephen Bokenkamp, Arizona State University, "Script as Sacred Object in Early Medieval Daoism"
10:00-10:25 Diliana Angelova, University of Colorado at Boulder, "The Empress Helena and the Finding of the True Cross"
10:25-10:45 Questions
10:45-11:15 Tea and coffee
Session Two
11:15-11:40 Elizabeth Robertson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Dilatory Julian of Norwich
11:45-12:10Sarah Stanbury, Holy Cross, "Chaucer's Constance: Translations of a Roman Relic"
12:40-1:00 Questions
Session Three
2:30-2:55 Catherine McKenna, Harvard University, Gone to Ground: The Holy Well in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
3:00-3:25 Richard McCoy, CUNY, The Object Poisons Sight: Theatrical Recoil from Violence and the Sacred
3:30-3:55 Jen Jahner, University of Pennsylvania, "Law's Sacred Objects: Legal Records and the Historical Imagination"
4:00-4:15 Questions
4:15-4:45Tea and coffee
Session Four
4:45-5:10Katarzyna Rutkowski, University of Colorado at Boulder, Renaissance Saint-Fashioning: Milton's Re-formation of Lydgate's St. Edmund
5:15-5:40Thomas Williams, University of South Florida, Credo ut mirer: Anselm on Sacred Beauty
5:45-6:00 Questions
6:00-7:00Reception
Friday, February 15th
8:30-9:00Tea and coffee
Session Five:
9:00-9:25Mary Elizabeth Perry, Occidental, Moriscos and the Sacralization of Stories in Early Modern Spain
9:30-9:40Diane Sieber, University of Colorado at Boulder, Response to Mary Elizabeth Perry
9:45-10:10Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California at Santa Barbara, Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body: Guadalupe's tilma and Other Relic-Textiles
10:15-10:40Andres Prieto, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Christianizing Demonic Knowledge: Piety and Healing in the Jesuit Reductions in Paraguay"
10:45-11:00 Questions
11:00-11:15Tea and coffee
Session Six
11:15-11:40 Claire Farago, University of Colorado at Boulder, The Sacred, the Secret, and the Ethics of Historical Interpretation: What I Learned from the Santos of New Mexico
11:45-12:10 Christopher Braider, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Image, Relics, Effigy: Poussin's Self-Portrait for Chantelou"
12:15-12:30Questions
12:30-1:15Response:
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado at Boulder