Mobile Matters of Religion: Devotional Objects in the Early Modern Era, 21 – 23 April 2022, University of Regensburg
Thursday, 21 April
14.00 KLAUS UNTERBURGER (Regensburg)
Welcome
14.15 ANNE MARISS (Regensburg)
Opening Remarks
Panel I: Times & Spaces of Devotional Objects (chair ANNE MARISS)
14.45 MATTHEW CHAMPION (Melbourne)
A Devotion to Time: Towards a Mobile and Material History of the Premodern Sandglass
15.45 Walk / bus ride to the Old town
16.30 DANIEL RIMSL (Regensburg)
Presentation of the ‘Timecapsule’ found in a Roman Ashlar (1679) at the Diocesan Museum of Regensburg
19.00 Dinner
Friday, 22 April
Panel II: Material Sanctity & Female Devotion (chair DANIEL RIMSL)
9.00 IRENE GALANDRA (Cambridge)
Possessing Devotion and Preventing Death: Margherita of Austria and her religious materiality
10.00 MINOU SCHRAVEN (Amsterdam/Leiden)
Materiality, Agency and Anxiety: The Blessed Beads of the Failed saint and mystic Juana de la Cruz (d. 1534)
11.00 Short Coffee Break
11.15 MIRELLA MARINI (Brest)
The Transformative Power of the Relic of Saint Coleta at the 17th century Brussels Court
12.15 Lunch
Panel III: Changing Beliefs – Devotional Objects on the Move (chair KLAUS UNTERBURGER)
14.00 SUSANNA IVANIC (Kent)
Early Modern Prague at the Crossroads of Catholicism
15.00 CORINNA GRAMATKE (Düsseldorf)
"La portátil Europa". Devotional Objects from Europe for the Jesuit Province of Paracuaria (1608–1667)
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 DANIEL HERSHENZON (Connecticut)
Captive Objects: Catholic Artifacts Across the Early Modern Mediterranean
19.00 Dinner
Saturday, 23 April
Panel IV: Collecting & Viewing Religious Objects (chair MARKUS DIEPOLD)
9.00 RÓISÍN WATSON (Oxford)
Viewing Catholic objects through the ‘glasses of the Holy Ghost’: The case of the Lutheran church in Kirchheim unter Teck
10.00 KIM SIEBENHÜNER (Jena)
Collected (Un-)Belief. Res Sacrae in Cabinets of Curiosity in South and Central Germany
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 EVA DOLEZEL (Berlin)
Cracking the Frame. A Portable Shrine of Vishnu in the Kunstkammer of the Franckesche Stiftungen in Halle
12.30 ANNE MARISS (Regensburg)
Afterword & time for further discussions