Day One: Friday 24th October
Day Two: Saturday 25th October
Day Three: Sunday 26th October
| DAY ONE |
| 08:30 Registration |
| 09:00 Welcome by Visual Theology Madeleine Emerald Thiele and Dr. Flora Armetta |
| 09:30 – 11:00 Panel One: Devotion in Chaos Chair: Dr. Flora Armetta |
| Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Maple, Mount St. Mary College – Chaos in Clarity: An Abstract Language of Prayer at the Monastero Benedettino SS. Pietro e Paolo Whitney White, University of Vienna – A Woman’s Touch: Art, Beauty and the Woman Artist and Religious Revival in Medieval and Victorian England Ava Romano, CUNY Hunter College – Organized Chaos in the Liber Floridus: Practice and Production in the Benedictine Library and Scriptorium at the Abbey of Saint-Omer |
| 11:00 – 11:15 Break |
| 11:15 – 12:15 Artist Keynote Address Chair: Dr. Flora Armetta |
| Anthony Visco, Founder and Director, Atelier for the Sacred Arts – Fractured Beauty |
| 12:15 – 13:15 Lunch (on your own) |
| 13:15 – 15:15 Panel Two: Fractured Forms Chair: Dr. Margaretta Frederick |
| Kathleen Carr, President, Catholic Art Institute – Medieval Art, the Nineteenth Century, and a Return to Authenticity and Beauty During Uncertain Times Professor Conner David McCain, St. Joseph’s Seminary – An Image of the Invisible God: On Musical Paleography and the Spiritual Life Father Joseph Simmons, S.J., Marquette University – Capturing Hearts, Minds, and…Unicorns? Embracing Limits in an Age of Artificial Intelligence Dr. Anthony Santella, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center – The Last Lily: Reflections on Hope, Labour, and the Machine |
| 15:15 – 15:30 Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 Panel Three: Medievalism, Revival, and Reform Chair: Father Joseph Simmons, S.J. |
| Dr. Gregory Erickson, Gallatin School, New York University – Reframing Mary Magdalene Luci Frerichs Parrish, Nazarene Theological College, University of Manchester – The Anglo-Catholic Aesthetics of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Influence of Medievalism and Tractarianism in The Zeal of Thy House and The Devil to Pay Dr. Catherine Enwright, Boston Latin School – David Jones’s Neo-Medievalism After the ‘Break’ |
| 17:00 – 17:20 Break |
| 17:20 – 18:30 Keynote Address Chair: Dr. Flora Armetta |
| Dr. Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Sweet Briar College – Collecting and Curating Women Patrons and Artists: Fragments of the Past through Connections to the Present |
| 18:30 Cocktails, Wiggins Bar (on your own) |
| 19:00 Conference Dinner, Salmagundi Club Members’ Dining Room |
| DAY TWO |
| 08:30 Registration |
| 08:45 Welcome by Visual Theology |
| 09:00 – 10:30 Panel Four: Visual Exegesis Chair: Dr. Jaspreet Singh Boparai |
| Dr. Gareth Polmeer, Royal College of Art, London, and Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge – Disintegration and Creation: Technological Symbols and Sacred Images Professor Christine Perrin, Honors Program, Messiah University – Quickened Sight: Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Pull of Beauty and Brokenness |
| 10:30 – 11:00 Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 Artist Roundtable with Visual Theology |
| Maya Brodsky, Visions of the Past |
| 12:00 – 12:45 Lunch (on your own) |
| 12:45 – 13:45 Panel Five: Converting Forms and Faiths Chair: Nadezhda Gribkova |
| Dr. Elizabeth Greeniaus, Skidmore College – George Eliot’s Other Beauty Dr. Mitchell Kooh, Villanova University – Dunstan Thompson, Romantic Longing, and the Fragment as Form: Three Approaches, Two Poets, One Poem |
| 13:45 – 15:15 Panel Six: Reaping and Repairing Chair: Dr. Flora Armetta |
| Emily Maeda, Vice President and Creative Director, Tree of Life Landscapes – The Garden: Our End is Given in the Beginning Elizabeth Goings, Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts, University of St. Andrews – Beholding and Belonging: Thomas Cole’s American Landscapes as a Renewed Vision for Creation Care Dr. Margaretta Frederick, Curator Emerita, Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Collection, Delaware Art Museum – Frederic Shields: Preaching the Faith in the Victorian era, and the Lingua Franca of Renaissance Imagery |
| 15:15 – 15:30 Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 Panel Seven: Fragments of Crucifixion Chair: Dr. Gareth Polmeer |
| Nadezhda Gribkova, University of Chicago – Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Cruciform Aesthetic: Visual Theology and the Fragmented Form in the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel David Willey, Baylor University – “Leave me to my crucifix”: Representations of Spiritual Desire in Charles Ricketts’s and Oscar Wilde’s Edition of The Sphinx Dr. Jaspreet Singh Boparai, Senior Fellow, Pharos Foundation – From Connoisseurship to Conversion: Huysmans, Modern Art, Christian Tradition |
| 17:00 – 17:20 Break |
| 17:20 – 18:20 Keynote Address Chair: Madeleine Emerald Thiele |
| Julia Yost, Senior Editor, First Things – To Heaven, Through Hell: The Decadent Ekphrasis of J.K. Huysmans |
| 18:20 – 18:40 Closing Remarks and Special Speakers Gathering |
| DAY THREE |
| 10:30 Tour, Met Cloisters |
