Transformations of Discourse

Thursday 14 June

9.00

Opening: Professor MD Ralf Hemmingsen, Rector (Vice-Chancellor) of the University of Copenhagen

9.15

Welcome: Nils Holger Petersen, Centre Leader

9.30–11.00

Professor Miri Rubin (University of London),
‘From Theotokos to Mater Dolorosa – continuity, rupture or change in the images of Mary’

11.00

Coffee break

11.30–13.00

Professor Stephen Bann (University of Bristol),
‘Reproducing the Mona Lisa in Nineteenth-Century France’

13.15

Lunch

15.00–17.00

Workshop I: Crucifixions

19.00

Dinner, Restaurant Sult, Vognmagergade 8B

Friday 15 June

9.15

Welcome
Chair for the morning session: Research fellow Mette B. Bruun (CHMR)

9.30–11.00

Professor Burcht Pranger (University of Amsterdam),
‘Quod infixum manet: Perseverance in Augustine and Heinrich von Kleist’

11.00

Coffee break

11.30–13.00

Professor Edward Muir (Northwestern University),
‘The Gesture and the Eye: Ritual Meanings without Words’

13.15

Lunch

14.00–c. 22

Excursion

19.00

Dinner at M/S Sagafjord, Roskilde Fjord

Saturday 16 June

9.15

Welcome
Chair for the morning session: Research fellow Andreas Bücker (CHMR)

9.30–11.00

Research fellow Eyolf Østrem (CHMR),
‘Humour, Memory, and the Transformation of Discourse’

11.00

Coffee break

11.30–13.00

Professor Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, ‘Kneeling in Front of the Emperor – Kneeling in Front of God: On the Discourse of Ritual in the Age of Reformation’

13.15

Lunch

15.00–17.00

Workshop II: Liturgy and Aesthetics

18.45

We meet for dinner at Rundetårn, Trinitatis Church, Købmagergade

Sunday 17 June

9.00

Welcome
Chair for the morning session: Research fellow Sven R. Havsteen (CHMR)

9.30–11.00

Professor Philippe Buc (Stanford University),
‘Martyrdom in the West: Vengeance, Salvation, and History’ (preliminary title)

11.00

Coffee break

11.30–13.00

Professor Rob Wegman (Princeton University),
‘Who’s Afraid of Long-Term History?’

13.15

Lunch

15.00–17.00

Roundtable discussion
Introduction: Professor Svein Aage Christoffersen (University of Oslo)

19.00

Dinner, Pasta Basta, Valkendorfsgade 2