The Idea of the Gothic Cathedral from the Post-Medieval to the Post-Modern

Date: June 17 – 19, 2005
Venue: University of Copenhagen

Preliminary Programme:

The Idea of the Gothic Cathedral from the Post-Medieval to the Post-Modern

University of Copenhagen
17-19 June 2005

Organized by
Stephanie A. Glaser
Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals
The Danish National Research Foundation
Faculty of Theology
University of Copenhagen
Købmagergade 46
DK-1150 Copenhagen K, Denmark

Friday, 17 June

12.45-14.15 Lunch

14.15-14.30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

14.30-15.30 Jean-Michel Leniaud (école pratique des hautes études, école nationale des chartes, Paris, à la Sorbonne)
Délires opiomanes et gothicomanes

15.30-15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-16.45 Matilde Mateo ( Syracuse University, New York)
The Moorish-Gothic Cathedral: Invention, Reality, or Weapon?

16.45-17.45 Luc Fraisse (Université Marc Bloc -Strasbourg)
Du symbolisme architectural au symbolisme littéraire : Proust à l’école d’émile Mâle

18.00-19.00 Vernissage
Bilder zur gotischen Kathedrale in der Recherche von Marcel Proust by Christel Bak-Stalter (Saarbrücken)

19.00 Dinner

20.30 Concert

Saturday, 18 June

9:30-10.30 Stephanie A. Glaser (University of Copenhagen, Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals)
The Cathedral as Music: Literary, Visual, and Musical Transpositions of Gothic Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Germany and France

10:30-11.30 Klaus Niehr (Universität Osnabrück)
Patterns of Behaviour. Medieval Architecture and the Body of Man

11:30-12.00 Coffee Break

12.00-13.00 Kevin D. Murphy (CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn College, New York)
The Historic Building in the Modernized City

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.30 Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University, New Jersey)
L’Histoire d’une cathédrale: Viollet-le-Duc as Nationalist Pedagogue?

15.30-15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-16.45 Joëlle Prungnaud ( Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3)
L’imaginaire de la cathédrale et ses dérives au tournant du XIXe siècle

16.45-17.00 Coffee Break

17.00-18.00 Ségolène Le Men (Université de Paris X-Nanterre, Ecole normale supérieure)
La cathédrale gothique et l’imaginaire de la verticale dans l’art et l’architecture de la période contemporaine

18.00-19.00 Closing Discussion

19.30 Dinner

Sunday, 19 June

10.00 Brunch

11.30 Visit to Roskilde Cathedral

16.30 Back in Copenhagen/End of Colloquium