Britaix 17-18 / IMEMS Workshop

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The Senses in Places and Spaces of Devotion, c. 1600-1800

Third and last workshop of the project Places and Spaces of Devotion c. 1600-1800 /

A partnership between IMEMS (Durham University) and
Britaix 17-18 (LERMA, AMU),

Friday 16 May 2025

 

Faculté ALLSH, 29 avenue Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence
Bâtiment Multimedia, Salle de colloque 1 

9.00 – 9.15: Welcome, Prof. S. Taylor (IMEMS, Durham University) and Dr L. Lux-Sterritt (LERMA, AMU)

9.15 – 11.00 The soundscapes of early modern devotional places
–  Prof. Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes University, UK), ‘Reformed preaching, acoustics and hearing in Scottish churches’
–  Prof. Pierre Dubois (Tours, France), ‘ “The Majestic Sweetness” of the Georgian Organ: the Conflict between Sensorial Seduction and Solemn Devotion in Eighteenth-Century Church Music’.
–  Dr Daniel Johnson (Independent scholar, UK), ‘The early tunes of Isaac Watts’ hymnody’ 

 11.15 – 12.30 Materiality and the senses in Catholic places and spaces of devotion
–  Mary Brooks (Durham University, UK), ‘The visual effects of early modern Catholic vestments’
–  Claire Schiano-Locurcio (AMU, France), ‘The English Poor Clares’ Spirituality: A sensorial poverty?’ 

14.30 – 16.45  Sensing the sacred experience of worship
– Lily Chadwick (Durham University, UK), ‘Silence in Quaker worship’
– Anne Page (AMU, France), ‘Visual and aural disturbances of Nonconformist worship: defining acceptability’
– John Craig (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada), ‘Choirs, Congregations and Ceremonial: the changing soundscapes of worship in English parish churches, 1559-1642’