Mount Athos in Context

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Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
@ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Symposium on the occasion of the Art History exhibition: “Holy Mountain: Icons from Mount Athos and Photographs by Frank Horlbeck”:

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

9:00-9:15
Dean Karl Scholz
Bp. Demetrios of Mokissos

9:15-9:45
Thomas Dale
Historical Perspectives on Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism

9:45-10:30
Leonora Neville

10:30-11:15
Alice-Mary Talbot

11:30-12:45
Lunch Break

Stillness on the Holy Mountain: Sacred Topography, Sacred Space and Liturgy

1:00-1:45
Christos Kakalis

1:45-2:30
Derek Krueger

2:30-3:00
LauraLee Brott

3:00-3:15
Coffee Break

Icons from Mount Athos

3:15-3:45
Kristin Edwards

3:45-4:15
Michelle Prestholt

4:15-5:00
Mateusz Ferens

 

Oscar F. and Louise Greiner Mayer Gallery
Chazen Museum of Art
University of Wisconsin – Madison

This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Department of Art History, the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science, the Medieval Studies Program, the Department of History, the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), the Religious Studies Program.