SYMPOSIUM
BRINGING THE HOLY LAND HOME
The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece
Saturday, March 25, 2023
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street, Worcester MA 01610
Registration
Program
8:30 - 9 a.m.: Check-in, coffee & pastries
9 - 10:30 a.m.: Welcome and Introduction | Bringing the Holy Land Home
· "Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece" | Guest Curator Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross
· "Paving Over Paradise: The Aristocratic Landscape and the Crusading Experience, 1187-1291" | Nicholas Paul, Fordham University
· Moderator: Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College
10:45 a.m. - Noon: Chertsey Abbey and England
· "The Middle Ages and the British Museum: Past, Present and Future" | Lloyd de Beer, British Museum
· "'So Much National Magnificence and National History': The Medieval Abbey at Chertsey, Then and Now" | Euan Roger, National Archives, Kew
· "The Chertsey Tiles and 'Art and Crusade' in England: Historical and Historiographical Contexts" | Matthew Reeve, Queen’s University
· Moderator: Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Noon - 1 p.m.: Lunch
1 - 2 p.m.: Sites
· "The Place of Relics in the Crusades" | Cynthia Hahn, Hunter College & Graduate Center of the City University of New York
· "The Visual Arts and the Shaping of the Frankish Experience of the Holy Land" | Eva Hoffman, Tufts University
· "The Galley as Display Space in the Fourth Crusade" | Paroma Chatterjee, University of Michigan
· Moderator: Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins University
2:15 - 3:30 p.m.: Objects
· "How to Move a Mountain: Visual Representations of the Pas Saladin" | Richard Leson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
· "Fragments and Wholes: Medieval Textiles across the Indian Ocean" | Elizabeth Williams, Dumbarton Oaks
· "Material Connections: The St. Eustace Head Relic Wrappings" | Naomi Speakman, British Museum
· "Ivories Come to England" | Sarah Guerin, University of Pennsylvania
· Moderator: Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College
4 - 5:30 p.m.: Crusades, Then and Now
· "A Clash of Civilizations? A Revisionist Reading of the History of Muslim-Frankish Encounters in the Crusader Period" | Suleiman Mourad, Smith College
· “A Clash of (Academic) Civilizations: The Politics of Studying the Crusades after 9/11” | Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech
· Closing Remarks | Paul Cobb, University of Pennsylvania
· Moderator: Sahar Bazzaz, College of the Holy Cross
5:30 - 7 p.m.: Exhibition Viewing & Reception | Cantor Art Gallery
Registration
Registration for the Symposium is $40 (plus processing) and includes all sessions, lunch, exhibition viewing and reception. Symposium sessions (excluding lunch) are free to Holy Cross faculty, staff and students. Register here by March 9.
Directions
Symposium sessions will be held in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. Free parking is available in the lots adjacent to the Hogan Campus Center and Prior Performing Arts Center. Directions to campus.
Accommodations
A limited number of hotel rooms have been set aside for symposium attendees at the AC Hotel Worcester Marriott, 125 Front St., Worcester, MA 01608. Reserve by February 22 to receive a special conference rate of $179 per night.
Review a list of other nearby hotels.
Exhibition website https://chertseytiles.holycross.edu
Conference registration https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-bringing-the-holy-land-home-registration-511802253317