Intersections: Current and Future Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies

8.45-9.00 Inauguration Isabel Durán Jiménez-Ri co Dean of the Faculty of Philology Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez Director of the Institute for Religious Studies Guadalupe Seijas de los Ríos Zarzosa Coordinator: PhD Programme in Religious Studies Panel I 9.00-9.40  The sensoriality and sensuality of the martyred princes Boris and Gleb in their earliest East Church Slavonic hagiographies. Enrique Santos Marinas (Complutense University, Spain) 9.40-10.20  (Chronic) pain experiences in Early and High Medieval hagiography: Strange temporalities, imagined futures, and emotional states. Bianca Frohne (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany) 10.20-10.50  Debate and coffee break Panel II 10.50-11.30 Lived religion, corporality and the experience of infirmity in early modern Italy. Jenni Kuuliala (Tampere University, Finland) 11.30-12.10 Hagiography in Visigothic Spain. Real lives and literary lives of church leaders. Isabel Velázquez Soriano (Complutense University, Spai

Traditionally, the study of hagiographic testimonies was based on the reconciliation of these texts with the historical "reality" in which they were written, often dismissing many as fictitious. However, recent scholarship has started to see these testimonies as fruitful sources of recognition for a community, and as processes continuously made and re-made throughout a process of (re)creation, development, and negotiation. In recent years, hagiographical studies have taken diverse and successful paths thanks to the methodological shift towards other disciplines and the development of own and thoughtful methodologies. Considering this new turn, the Institute of Religious Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid will foster an international seminar where international leading scholars present and examine current and future prospects for the study of hagiography.