Dear list members,
The deadline for abstract submission for the Soul of Empire conference [see
below] is October 31st 2005.
Best wishes,
Marta Bustillo
National College of Art and Design
100 Thomas Street
Dublin 8
Ph: 00-353-1-6364259
Fax: 00-353-1-6364387
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Soul of Empire:
Visualising Religion in Early Modern Spain and the New World
A two day conference to be held at the
National Gallery and King¹s College London.
Friday 3rd of November & Saturday 4th November 2006
Organisers: Kathy Adler, Marta Bustillo, Jeremy Roe, Julian Weiss
& ARTES Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group
The conference accompanies the National Gallery¹s exhibition of paintings by
Velázquez and one afternoon, organised by the National Gallery, will be
dedicated to lectures on Velázquez¹s paintings followed by a private view of
the exhibition.
To frame the study of this celebrated master, the other sessions of the
conference focus on religion as a means to explore the social, ideological
and cultural complexities of visual culture in an age of imperial
expansion. As well as shifting attention to the wider historical period of
c. 1500-1700, the conference examines a broader range of visual arts beyond
painting, such as sculpture, architecture, costume, the book arts or
tapestries.
Our aim is to create a forum for scholars whose work draws on an
interdisciplinary archive and a range of critical methodologies to the
cultural analysis of the visual. In addition to an interest in a range of
artistic media, we also welcome papers that address a variety of textual
sources and genres. The analysis of the relationships between texts and
images offers opportunities to re-think the significance of artworks outside
of their modern museological context, and examine their role as performative
and ideological Œspaces¹.
Themes for papers may include: the devotional, social and political
dimensions of religious art; re-thinking the religious image and its
spectators; the visual sermon; religious imagery in text; the religious
spectacle in funerals, pageants and drama; music and the image.
Each paper will be twenty minutes in length. We aim to publish the
proceedings of the conference.
For more information please contact Julian Weiss [[log in to unmask]],
Marta Bustillo [[log in to unmask]], Jeremy Roe [[log in to unmask]].
Please send abstracts of 250 words in English or Spanish to Jeremy Roe by
e-mail to: [log in to unmask] or by post to 77 A Brixton Hill, London SW2
1JE. The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 31st 2005.
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