Programme

8.45-9.00 Inauguration

Isabel Durán Jiménez-Rico

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, Spain)

12.10-15.00 Debate and lunch

                14.30 Faculty tour

                        An on-site and virtual tour of the Faculty of Philology

                         Santiago López-Ríos

                         (Complutense University, Spain)

Panel III

15.00-15.40

A radical appraisal of "hagiography" and its study.

Massimo Rondolino (Carroll University, USA) Online

15.40-16.20

Transgender Hagiography as Cross-Temporal Communion.

Blake Gutt (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Online

16.20-16.50 Debate and break

16.50-17.30

Wayward Life: Reading Mary of Egypt with Saidiya Hartman

Virginia Burrus (Syracuse University, USA)

17.30-18.10

The Queer Vita of Nikephoros Basilakes’s Bagoas

Roland Betancourt (University of California, Irving. USA) Online

18.10-18.30 Debate