Objects of Devotion / Objetos de Devoción Conference
Friday, December 12, 2014 at 2:00 PM through Saturday, December 13, 2014 at 8:00 PM (PST)
General Admission to all conference paper sessions is FREE!!!
However you must register.
Riverside, California
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December 12-13, 2014 Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
This multidisciplinary conference engages historic and contemporary
Latin American and Latino visual, material, and ritual cultural
practice. Over thirty papers from national and international scholars
and artists will address many dimensions of religious materiality in the
Latin American and Latino context: relics, devotional practice,
borderlands religiosities, pilgrimage and iconography, visual and votive
culture, agentive objects, contemporary engagements with the Virgin of
Guadalupe, transgressive saints, colonial material cultures, and sacred
objects and materials of the pre-Hispanic period. Plenary sessions will
include conversations with the artist and national/international
scholars. One conference session will be held in Spanish for the larger
public.
The conference coincides with an exhibit of the work of Mexican-British artist,
Alinka Echeverría, at the California Museum of Photography (November
1, 2014–January 24, 2015). Echeverría’s photographs explore the
relationship of visual, religious, and material culture in Mexico,
considering in particular the power of the Guadalupe icon.
Organized by
Jennifer Nájera (Ethnic Studies, UCR) and
Jennifer Scheper Hughes (History, UCR).
Dec 11 – Thursday – Pre-Conference Events
4:00 pm UCR Campus Luis Leon: “The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez
7:00-9:00 pm “The Have-Little” by Migdalia Cruz (Teatro Latino Staged Reading, Culver Center of the Arts)
With Professor Tiffany A. López, Tomás Rivera Chair.
Dec 12 – Friday
CMP MUSEUM exhibition open (10am-7pm)
2:30 pm Conference check in and registration, Culver Center of the Arts
3:30-5:30 pm Opening Plenary: The Road to Tepeyac (Hammond Dance Studio)
5:30-7 pm Artists’ Reception
Film Discussion and Q&A: Annie O’Neil and Conrad Rudolph (Department of Art History, UCR)
(advance registration for complimentary tickets recommended)
7-8:30 pm Alinka Echeverria
Artist’s talk (Spanish language session)
Dec 13 – Saturday
8:00 am Continental Breakfast, Culver Center of the Arts
9:00-10:45 am Morning Plenary: Materiality Religion and the Power of Things (Atrium)
11:00-12:30 am Morning Sessions
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch break (on your own)
2:00-3:45 pm Afternoon Plenary: Vision of the Virgin in Southern California (Atrium)
4:00-5:30 pm Afternoon Session
5:30-7:00 pm Closing reception
OH THIS IS AMAZING I WISH I COULD ATTEND!
This multidisciplinary conference engages
historic and contemporary Latin American and Latino visual, material,
and ritual cultural practice. Over thirty papers from national and
international scholars and artists will address many dimensions of
religious materiality in the Latin American and Latino context: relics,
devotional practice, borderlands religiosities, pilgrimage and
iconography, visual and votive culture, agentive objects, contemporary
engagements with the Virgin of Guadalupe, transgressive saints, colonial
material cultures, and sacred objects and materials of the pre-Hispanic
period.
The conference coincides with an exhibit of the work of
Mexican-British artist, Alinka Echeverría, at the California Museum of
Photography (November 1, 2014–January 24, 2015). Echeverria’s
photographs explore the relationship of visual, religious, and material
culture in Mexico, considering in particular the power of the Guadalupe
icon. Plenary sessions will include conversations with the artist and
major national/international scholars. One conference session will be
held in Spanish for the larger public.
Conference Sessions free and open to the public. Film screening for conference participants requires additional registration.
Additional information at: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/conferences/objects-of-devotion-conference
Conference Sponsored by:
UC Humanities Research Institute; The College of Humantities, Arts
and Social Sciences, UC Riverside; UC Mexus; The Center for Ideas and
Society; Department of Ethnic Studies; Department of Latin American
Studies; Tomas Rivera Chair, Tiffany Lopez.
