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Symposium:

Soul of Empire: Visualising Religion in the Early Modern Hispanic World

3-4 Nov 2006
London, United Kingdom

Organization:
Iberian and Latin American visual culture group (ARTES)
The National Gallery
King´s College London

Organised by Kathy Adler, Marta Bustillo, Jeremy Roe and Julian Weiss for
ARTES Iberian and Latin American visual culture group, The National Gallery
and King´s College London

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Program Friday, 3rd November
National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre

10-10.20am Registration 10.20am
Welcome: Kathy Adler, Marta Bustillo, Jeremy Roe, Julian Weiss

10.30 - 11.45am Session 1: ART AND EMPIRE: VISIONS OF THE NEW WORLD
Chair: Dr. Jeremy Roe

- Dr. Michael J. Schreffler, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Empire and
Piety in Colonial Cuzco: Mollinedo, Santa Cruz, and the Virgins of Bethlehem
and Almudena"
- Dr. Gabriela Ramos, University of Cambridge "The Multiple Lives of an Andean
Marian Devotion: Ethnicity and Representation in Our Lady of Copacabana,
1580-1650"
- Dr. Kathryn Myers, Wake Forest University "Illusion and Ellision in the
Ekphrastic Imagery of the Poema Heroico a San Ignacio de Loyola"

11.45 - 12pm Coffee Break

12.00 - 1pm Session 2: ART AND IDEOLOGY: THE CULT OF THE IMAGE
Chair: Dr. Marta Bustillo

- Dr. Osvaldo F. Pardo, The University of Connecticut, "Images, Reverence and
the Symbolic Economy of Honour in Counter Reformation Spain"
- Dr. Laura Bass, University of Tulane, "Theatre and the Cult of the Imagen in
Velázquez's Madrid"

1 - 2.15pm Lunch
2.15 - 5.30pm Diego Velázquez Conference and Plenary Lecture by Jonathan Brown
(including a private view of Velázquez exhibition)

Saturday - King's College, London (St Davids Room, Strand Campus)

10.00am Late registration
10.20am Welcome to King's College by Julian Weiss

10.30 - 11.45am Session 3: POWER, WORD AND IMAGE
Chair: Dr. Julian Weiss

- Dr. Victoria Pineda, Universidad de Extremadura, "Iconotextos Devocionales y
Políticos de Benito Arias Montano"
- Italo Marconi, University of Naples Federico II "The Soul of the Emperor:
Representing Charles V's Abdication in Early Modern Political Culture"
- Helen Rawlings, University of Leicester, ""Auto de Fé", Madrid 1680: from
Text to Image"

11.45 - 12.00pm Coffee Break

12.05 - 1.00pm Session 4: WAYS OF SEEING: ICONOGRAPHY AND CONVENTION Chair:
TBA - Dr. Jean Andrews, University of Nottingham, "The Holy Trinity and
Paternal Love"

- Dr. Zahira Veliz, "The Authority of the Print in Seventeenth-Century Spain"

1 - 2.15pm Lunch

2.15 - 3.30pm Session 4: ART, DEVOTION AND THE SPANISH HAPSBURGS
Chair: Dr. Rosemarie Mulcahy

- Dr. Juan Luis González García, Universidad Complutense, "Painting, Prayer
and Sermons: the Visual and Verbal Rhetoric of Royal Private Piety in
Renaissance Spain"
- Dr. Patrick Williams, University of Portsmouth "Religious Spectacle and the
Birth of the Baroque Court in the Reign of Philip III of Spain (1598-1621)"
- Prof. Jeremy Robbins, University of Edinburgh "Making Space: Tintoretto,
Velázquez and Coello"

3.30 - 4.00pm Coffee Break

4 - 5.00pm CLOSING PLENARY Dr. Colin Thompson, University of Oxford (title TBA)
Chair: Dr Jeremy Roe

5.15pm Wine reception, hosted by Department of Spanish & Spanish American
Studies, King's College London

6.30pm Conference Dinner Sofra Restaurant, Covent Garden Contact Julian Weiss
for reservations by November 1st (expected cost £25 plus wine)

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Tickets: £30/£24 concessions/£10 students
Tickets may be booked through the National Gallery in person, by telephone on
0870 990 8453 or at the following web address:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/what/events/nov/0311_empire.htm

In the case of any further enquiries please contact one of the organisers -
Marta Bustillo: bustillomncad.ie Jeremy Roe: jmn_roeyahoo.com Julian Weiss:
Julian.Weisskcl.ac.uk