Mary Magdalene and the Noli me tangere in Interdisciplinary Context

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
Faculty of Theology and Faculty of Arts

December 17-19, 2009

Organized by Prof. dr. Reimund Bieringer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven),
Prof. dr. Barbara Baert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and Prof. dr.
Karlijn Demasure (Saint Paul University Ottawa)

Wednesday, December 16 (Museum Hall)
18.00: Welcome by Prof. dr. Mark Waer, Rector of Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven and Prof. dr. Chantal Beauvais, Rector of Saint Paul University Ottawa
18.20: Welcome reception

Thursday, December 17: Noli me tangere and the Textual Medium
Place: Faculty of Theology (MTC Kleine Aula)

08.30: Welcome and registration
09.15: Welcome by Prof. dr. Lieven Boeve, Dean of the Faculty of Theology,
Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven
09.30: Introduction by the project directors

10.00 - 11.30: Session 1: Noli me tangere: The Beginnings - Chair: Barbara
Baert
10.00 - 10.30: „I have not yet ascended to the Father.“ On Resurrection,
Bodies, and
Resurrection Bodies - Outi Lehtipuu, University of Helsinki
10.30 - 11.00: Are There Representations of Noli me tangere in Early
Christian Art? - Galit
Noga Banai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11.00 - 11.30: discussion

11.30 - 14.00: lunch break

14.00 - 16.00: Session 2: Noli me tangere: The Source Text - Chair:
Karlijn Demasure
14.00 - 14.30: Between the Insight of Easter and Preaching: Joh 20,17.
Relecture by John of the First Witness and Patristic Reception - Andrea
Taschl-Erber, Universität Graz
14.30 - 15.00: Rabbouni, Teacher and Lord: „Mê mou haptou“ (John 20:17) in
Light of the Relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene - Reimund
Bieringer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
15.00 - 15.30: The Magdalene, John 20:11-18, and „Touch“ in Manichaeism. -
Kevin Coyle, Saint Paul University, Ottawa
15.30 - 16.00: discussion

16.00 - 16.30: coffee break

16.30 - 18.00: Session 3: Noli me tangere: Literary Reception - Chair:
Reimund Bieringer
16.30 - 17.00: The Noli me tangere motive in Latin Biblical Versification
of the Later Middle Ages: Presence and Absence - Greti Dinkova-Bruun,
University of Toronto
17.00 - 17.30: Readings of the Noli me tangere in Contemporary Literature
: Narrative Richness of Silences in the Gospel According to St John. -
Katherine Rondou, Université Libre de Bruxelles; H.E.P.H. Condorcet
17.30 - 18.00: The Haptic as Aspect of Perception in the Literary - Hedwig
Schwall, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
18.00 - 18.30: discussion

19.00: dinner (only for speakers)

Friday, December 18: Noli me tangere in the Visual Medium and the Arts
Place: Faculty of Arts (Justus Lipsius Zaal)

08.45: Welcome by Prof. dr. Luk Draye, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven

09.00 - 11.00: Session 4: Noli me tangere and Vision - Chair: Marc De Kesel
09.00 - 09.30: The Pact Between Space and Gaze. The Narrative and the
Iconic in Noli me tangere - Barbara Baert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
09.30 - 10.00: „Corporal Sinful Seeing“ or „Physical Seeing“? - Ulrike
Müller-Hofstede,
Kunsthistorisches Institut Berlin
10.00 - 10.30: Levels of Reality in Depictions of the Noli me tangere
Theme in Renaissance Art - Bram de Klerck, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
10.30 - 11.00: discussion

11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00: Session 5: Noli me tangere and Sense Perception - Chair:
Hedwig Schwall
11.30 - 12.00: Michelangelo’s Noli Me Tangere for Vittoria Colonna, and
the Changing Status of Women in Renaissance Italy - Lisa Marie Rafanelli,
Manhattanville College
12.00 - 12.30: Problems in Representation: Federico Barocci’s Magdalene on
Easter Morning - Ulrike Tarnow, Freie Universität Berlin
12.30 - 13.00: discussion

13.00 - 15.00: lunch break

15.00 - 16.50: Papers of Junior Researchers (four parallel sessions)

Session 1: Noli me tangere in Bible and Early Christian Writings - Chair:
Reimund Bieringer (MSI1.02.0008)
15.00 - 15.20: „I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and
your God“ (John 20:17). Unfolding the Spirit's Role in a Threefold
Communion - Martijn Steegen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
15.20 - 15.40: The Latin Fathers on Mary Magdalene. The Presence of John
20: 17 in the Latin Patristic Literature - Ward De Pril and Anthony
Dupont, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
15.40 - 16.00: New Interpretations of John 20:17 in the Sixteenth Century?
- Gergely Juhász,
Lessius Hogeschool Antwerpen
16.00 - 16.20: 12th Century Commentaries on „Mê mou haptou“ in Relation
with Byzantine Paintings of the Period of Paleological Renaissance -
Gretta Nikitina, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
16.20 - 16.50: discussion

Session 2: Noli me tangere: Liturgy and Modernity - Chair: Lisa Marie
Rafanelli (MSI1.02.0018)
15.00 - 15.20: Touching the Untouchable in Easter Liturgy and Art - Britta
Dümpelmann,
Universität Zürich
15.20 - 15.40: Textile Perspectives. The Noli me tangere Motif on Medieval
Liturgical Vestments - Barbara Eggert, Berlin
15.40 - 16.00: Touch Me, Touch Me Not: The Noli me tangere and Doubting
Thomas in Later Renaissance Art - Erin Benay, Rutgers University, New
Jersey; Marlboro College, Vermont
16.00 - 16.20: The Noli me tangere: Artistic Representations in Medieval
and Baroque Painting - Francesca Müller-Fabbri, University of Jena, Jena
16.20 - 16.50: discussion

Session 3: Noli me tangere and Iconographic Aspects - Chair: Barbara Baert
(MSI1.02.0023)
15.00 - 15.20: ‘Do not touch me' in the Enclosed Garden. The Influence of
the Hortus conclusus on the Noli me tangere Motif - Veerle Speltincx,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
15.20 - 15.40: The Tree as Formal, Narrative and Allegorical Index in the
Noli me tangere - Liesbet Kusters, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
15.40 - 16.00: The Turn of the Soul. „Transgressing the Sacred and
Profane: The Portrayal of the Conversion of Mary Magdalene in Paintings“ -
Joy Kearney, Radboud University, Nijmegen; Erasmus University, Rotterdam
16.00 - 16.30: discussion

Session 4: Noli me tangere in Theatre and Mysticism - Chair: Karlijn
Demasure (MSI1.02.0028)
15.00 - 15.20:“Vestigias quaerere“ Elegiac topoi and their Christian
Functionalization in Late 16th and 17th Century Poetic Adaptations of the
Noli me tangere Scene - Jost Eickmeyer, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
15.20 - 15.40:“Trewe Louers“: Imagining Beyond Noli Me Tangere in Nicholas
Love’s Þe Mirroure of þe Blessede Life of Jesu Criste - Katie Buygis,
Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame
15.40 - 16.00: „She Throws Herself to the Ground as if She Wants to Touch
Him“. The tactile Result of the Noli me tangere Scene in the Liturgical
Easter Drama - Isabelle Vanden Hove, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
16.00 - 16.20: Medieval Mystical Women and the ‘Imitatio Mariae
Magdalenae' with a Focus on the Noli me tangere Scene - Hannelore
Devoldere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
16.20 - 16.50: discussion

Saturday, December 19: Noli me tangere and Practical Theology
Place: Faculty of Theology (MTC Kleine Aula)

08.45: Welcome by Prof. dr. Andrea Spatafora, Dean of the Faculty of
Theology, Saint Paul University, Ottawa

09.00 - 11.00: Session 6: Noli me tangere: Philosophy and Theology- Chair:
Reimund Bieringer
09.00 - 09.30: Touch and Transgression. The Libidinal Double Bind
Condition of Monotheism’s Noli Me Tangere - Marc De Kesel, Radboud
Universiteit Nijmegen
09.30 - 10.00: Touch, Transgression and Spirituality- Karlijn Demasure,
Saint Paul University Canada
10.00 - 10.30: ‘The Touch That Goes Beyond Touching’ (Luce Irigaray): A
Reflection on the Touching of Mary Magdalene in Theology and Art - Tina
Beattie, Digby Stuart College, Roehampton University, London
10.30 - 11.00: discussion

11.00 - 11.30: coffee break

11.30 - 13.30: Session 7: Noli me tangere and Pastoral Care - Chair: Susan
Roll
11.30 - 12.00: The (Im)Possibility of Male Touch. Jesus, Trauma and the
Deconstruction of Masculinity - Ruard Ganzevoort, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
12.00 - 12.30: Physical Touch in Pastoral Counseling. An Empowering or an
Abusive Act? - Axel Liégeois, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
12.30 - 13.00: Noli me tangere: The „Untouchability“ of Maternal:
Mortality as a Theological Issue - Eileen Kerwin Jones, Saint Paul
University, Ottawa
13.00 - 13.30: discussion

13.30 - 14.30: lunch break

14.30 - 16.00: Session 8: Noli me tangere and the Sacraments - Chair:
Anne-Marie Korte
14.30 - 15.00: Human Touch Initiated by Women on the Roman Catholic Liturgy
Today - Susan Roll, Saint Paul University, Ottawa
15.00 - 15.30: Liturgical Drama and the Gendering of Touch in Late
Medieval Monastic Culture - Margaret Pappano, Queen’s University, Kingston
15.30 - 16.00: discussion

16.00: Conclusion by the project directors

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MUSEUM HALL: Hall of University, Naamsestraat 22, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
MTC: Faculty of Theology, Maria Theresiacollege, Sint-Michielsstraat 6,
3000 Leuven, Belgium.
JUSTUS LIPSIUS ZAAL (Floor 8) MSI: Faculty of Arts, Erasmushuis, Blijde
Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

Professor dr. Barbara Baert

Medieval Art, History of Christian Art, Iconology Research Group (IRG)
Faculty of Arts Room 04.05
Blijde Inkomststraat 21/Postbus 3313
B-3000 Leuven

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