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SUMMARY:Fall 2016 New England Renaissance Conference: Purity and Contami
 nation in Renaissance Art and Architecture
DESCRIPTION:Purity and contamination have long figured in the accounts o
 f the European Renaissance. Scholars\, in the last few decades alone\, h
 ave mapped the role these ideas have played in debates about godliness a
 nd sin\, cleanliness\, gender\, and ethnicity\, among other domains. Les
 s thoroughly studied\, though\, is how these two intertwined categories 
 informed European approaches to art and the built environment\, both as 
 it was created and experienced. It is precisely this lacuna that our con
 ference aims to address. This one-day conference plots some of the myria
 d ways in which concerns for material purity—and contamination—shape
 d the artistic and architectural pursuits of early modern Europeans. The
  aim is not to treat these phenomena comprehensively\, or to fit them wi
 thin a coherent framework\, but rather to recover historical instances i
 n which they assumed particular salience: in the materials that practiti
 oners adopted\; in how they manipulated them\; and in the responses (phy
 siological\, verbal\, textual) that such activity provoked. To this end\
 , participants will present case studies drawn from diverse periods and 
 places in multiple practices\, teasing out the contradictions and comple
 xities inherent in early modern approaches to matter\, but also the broa
 der conceptual and ideological conditions that determined how matter was
  defined and understood. A concluding roundtable brings together a disti
 nguished group of scholars and museum curators to debate the methodologi
 cal strengths and limitations of the two categories\, as well as their r
 elevance beyond the domain of Renaissance studies.Participants: Joseph A
 ckley\, Amy Bloch\, Rachel Boyd\, Lorenzo Buonanno\, Michael Cole\, Jodi
  Cranston\, Lauren Jacobi\,&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Caroline Jones\, David Karmon\,
  Joseph Leo Koerner\, Stephanie Leone\, Jessica Maier\, Carolina Mangone
 \, Christopher Nygren\,&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Pamela Smith\, Luke Syson\, Jane Ty
 lus\, Michael Waters\, Carolyn Yerkes\, and Daniel Zolli.&nbsp\;\n\n\n\n
 This event is the Fall 2016 New England Renaissance Conference. It is co
 -organized by Lauren Jacobi and Daniel Zolli. To register and for more i
 nformation\, click here or web search "MIT HTC Purity and Contamination
 ". The conference takes place from 9:30 am to 6pm in the Bartos Theatre 
 on the MIT campus.
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.italianartsociety.org/events/new-england-renai
 ssance-fall-2016/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161001T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161001T180000
LOCATION:Cambridge\, MA\, MIT\, Bartos Theatre
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