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Imagining Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (New York, 24-25 Apr 20)
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, The Duke House, 1 East 78th Street, New York, New York 10075, Apr 24–25, 2020
Robert Maxwell, Institute of Fine Arts
In collaboration with the government of Galicia, the Institute of Fine Arts is helping to inaugurate yearlong activities for “Xacobeo 2021,” the Jacobean holy year. Papers for “Imagining Pilgrimage to Santiago: Itineraries, Narratives, Myths” will address the confrontation of real and imagined pil- grimage - visionary and eschatological implications of spiritual travel, spatial and material agency, phenomenological and sensorial markers, landscape and cartographic geographies of pilgrimage, among others. Speakers include: Kathryn Brush, Thomas Deswarte, James D’Emilio, Elvira Fidal- go, Elina Gertsman, Melanie Hanan, Patrick Henriet, Dominique Iogna-Prat, F. López Alsina, Wendy Pullan, Rocio Sánchez Ameijeiras, Alison Stones, Stefan Trinks, Michele Vescovi, Rose Walker.
Program Friday (24 April)
10.00–10.30 – Welcome
Session A – Presided by Paula Gerson (Florida State University, emerita) 10.30–11.00
James D’Emilio (Associate Professor of Humanities, University of South Florida, Tampa)
“‘From every nation under heaven...’: Apostolic Mission, Pilgrimage and Cultural Eclecticism in the Compostelan Cult of St. James”
11.30–12.00
F. López Alsina (Professor of Medieval History, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
“From the Way to the Ways of St. James: The First Ten Centuries and Beyond”
12.00–12.30
Dominique Iogna-Prat (Directeur d’études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
“En route to Building Christendom”
12.30–1.00 – Discussion 1.00–2.00 – Lunch
Session B – Presided by Ramón Yzquierdo Peiró (Museo de la Catedral de Santiago)
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2.00–2.30
Rose Walker (Honorary Research Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
“Networks of Liturgical Imagination and the Myth of the Camino in the Twelfth Century”
2.30–3.00
Rocio Sánchez Ameijeiras (Professor of Art History, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
“On Geographical Imagination: Rivers, Bridges and Saints’ Tombs”
3.00–3.15 – Discussion
Session C – Presided by Robert A. Maxwell (Institute of Fine Arts) 3.30–4.00
Manuel Castiñeiras (Professor of Medieval Art History, Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona)
“The Two Roads: Charlemagne, Roland and Oliveros Expanding and Shaping the Pilgrimage Ways to Santiago and Jerusalem”
4.00–4.30
Elvira Fidalgo (Professor or Romance Philology, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
“Local Pilgrimage vs. Long-Distance Pilgrimage: The Case of Santiago de Compostela in the
‘Cantigas de Santa Maria’”
4.30–5.00
Thomas Deswarte (Professor of Medieval History, Université de Angers, France)
“The Montesacro, a New Sacred Site along the Camino”
5.00–5.30 – Discussion Saturday (25 April)
Session D – Presided by Charles Little (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) 10.00–10.30
Alison Stones (Professor emerita, University of Pittsburgh)
“The Santiago Camino, the Relics of St. James, and the Italian Expansion”
10.30–11.00
Patrick Henriet (Directeur d’Études, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
“Isidore, Successor of St. James, and León in the 12th-13th centuries”
11.00–11.15 – Discussion 11.15–11.30 – Coffee
Session E – Presided by Julia Perratore (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) 11.30–12.00
Stefan Trinks (Assistant Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
“Sense and Sensibility: Sensorial Aspects in Romanesque Churches of the Pilgrimage Road to San- tiago”
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12.00–12.30
Elina Gertsman (Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II, Professor of Medie- val Art, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland)
“From Trondheim to Santiago”
12.30–1.00 - Discussion 1.00–2.00 – Lunch
Session F – Presided by Cynthia Hahn (City University of New York, New York) 2.00–2.30
Michele Luigi Vescovi (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln, UK)
“Beyond the Shrine: The Material Landscape along the Camino to Santiago”
2.30–3.00
Melanie Hanan (Independent Scholar and Lecturer, The Cloisters, New York)
“On Pilgrimage with the Saints: Worship and Monumental Heavenly Jerusalem Reliquaries”
3.00–3.15 – Discussion
Session G – Presided by Manuel Castiñeiras (Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona) 3.30–4.00
Wendy Pullan (Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, Cambridge University, UK)
“From Symbol to Emancipation: Pilgrimage and the Representation of the Christian Holy Places”
4.00–4.30
Kathryn Brush (Professor of Art History, emerita, University of Western Ontario, Canada)
“Constructing Knowledge between Idea and Experience: Arthur Kingsley Porter and the Road to Santiago in the Early Twentieth Century”
4.30–5.00 – Discussion & Conclusion Organizers:
Robert A. Maxwell (Institute of Fine Arts)
Manuel Castiñeiras (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona) Sponsors:
Institute of Fine Arts Xunta de Galicia Xacobeo 2021
No registration necessary, but please reserve a seat on the IFA's website closer to the event https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/index.htm
Reference:
CONF: Imagining Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (New York, 24-25 Apr 20). In: ArtHist.net, Feb 28, 2020 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/22726>.
