A Symposium Sponsored by the

Claremont Consortium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies,

The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity

Claremont Graduate University

and

The Medieval Institute

University of Notre Dame


10-12 November 2005

Thursday, 10/10 Friday, 10/11 Saturday, 10/12


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$25 Registration Fee

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Thursday, 10 November 2005, 7:30 p.m.
IAC Library

Introduction to Conference & Speaker

Rafael Chodos, IAC

"Formerly the Mistress of the World:" Rome between Constantine and Avignon

Thomas F. X. Noble

The Medieval Institute

University of Notre Dame

Reception to follow in IAC Library


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Friday, 11 November 2005
Burkle Building, Room 16, CGU

9:00-9:30 -- Coffee and Registration
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Nancy van Deusen, Director, CCMEMS

SESSION I:  9:30-12:15

Rome's Grandeur

Claudia Rapp, Chair

University of California, Los Angeles

Bishops and Bedrooms in Late Antique Rome

Kristina Sessa

Claremont McKenna College

Rhetorical Strategies in the Architecture

of Early Medieval Rome

Caroline J. Goodson

Birbeck College, University of London

Architecture and Iconoclasm in Carolingian Rome

Charles McClendon

Brandeis University


12:30-1:45 pm — Lunch, IAC Library, $10
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SESSION II—2-5:15 PM

The Visible and the Enduring

Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Chair

Pomona College

Mediating the Holy: Pope Leo III’s Reliquary Altars

Judson Emerick

Pomona College

At the Feet of Christ: Seeing the Sacred Image on the Lateran Icon

Kirsten Noreen

Louisiana State University

The Miraculous Icon and the Family Chapel: Sculpture and Devotion in Trecento Rome

Claudia Bolgia

Pembroke College, Cambridge


5:30-7:00 PM — Reception
INSTITUTE FOR ANTIQUITY AND CHRISTIANITY LIBRARY


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Saturday, 12 November 2005
Michael J. Johnston Board of Trustees Room, CGU

9:00-9:30 — Coffee and Registration

SESSION III—9:30-12:00 PM

Rome: Capital of the World

George Gorse, Chair

Pomona College

Rome "Descending"

Leonard M. Koff

University of California, Los Angeles

The Peculiarities of Pilgrimage in Rome in the Middle Ages

Theresa Gross-Diaz

Loyola University, Chicago

The Fragment in the Landscape: the Cortile delle Statue

William Tronzo

Tulane University

1143 in Art History

Dale Kinney

Bryn Mawr College


12:15-1:45 pm — Lunch, IAC Library, $10
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SESSION IV—2:00-5:00 PM

Rome as Matrix

Lori Ann Ferrell, Chair

Claremont Graduate University

From the Imaginary to the Real: the Triumph of Rome

John Crossley

Monash University

The Eternal City and the Renaissance Epic Ideal: Petrarch’s Africa and Vida’s Christiad

Tobias Gregory

Claremont McKenna College

Lutes, Castrati, and Neapolitans in Rome, ca. 1600

(with musical performance)

John Griffiths

University of Melbourne

CLOSING REMARKS

Nancy van Deusen

Claremont Graduate University

CLOSING RECEPTION

Foyer, CGU Board of Trustees Room

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to register or for more information, contact iac@cgu.edu or 909.621.8066