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BGC Symposium: Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

September 14, 2018
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place (on view September 14, 2018–January 6, 2019), this one-day symposium will explore how votives mark the most intimate moments in human existence and question the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship between people and things—the imbuing of objects with sentiment. 

11 am
Welcome 
Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center
Nina Stritzler-Levine, Bard Graduate Center
Introduction 
Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center

11:20 am
Remedial Options and Votive Culture in Early Modern Italy 
Fredrika Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University

11:40 am
Boons and Blessings in Early India
John Guy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

12:00 pm
Observations on a Tyrolean War Votive, Its Destination and Function 
Mitchell Merback, Johns Hopkins University

12:20 pm
Questions & Discussion

12:40 pm
Lunch Break

2 pm
How Some Yoruba Live Forever: Ẹbọ Arts as Living Votives 
Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University

2:20 pm
Votive Practice as Sacred Economy 
David Morgan, Duke University

2:40 pm
The Politics and Poetics of an Ex-voto in Lourdes 
Catrien Notermans, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

3 pm
Conclusions 
Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut - Max Planck Institute, Florence

3:20 pm
Questions & Discussion

3:40 pm

Reception