Confessor, Truth, and Power: A Conversation

Time: May 3, 2019, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Location: 151 Eggers Hall

All interested students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend this day of papers and conversations. Please RSVP to Albrecht Diem.

Additional supporters:

History Department
Medieval-Renaissance Program of Syracuse University
Syracuse University Humanities Center

Program:
9:00 Breakfast
9: 15 Opening
9:30 Craige Champion: Religious Experience on the Interior, Subjective Plane: An Historian's Brief
10:00: Virginia Burrus: Confession, shame, and performativity in Augustine
10:30: Albrecht Diem: The Confessional Machine
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 William Robert: The Truth of Angela of Foligno’s Confession
11:45: Anne Leone: Confession in Dante and Boccaccio
1:30: Norman Kutcher: TBA
2:00: Celeste McNamara: Confession and Scandal in the Catholic Church
2:30 Coffee Break
2:45: Nadieszda Kizenko: Confession in Modern Russia
3:15: Amy Kallander: Modern Love and the Advice Column as Confession
3:45-4:15: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn: Confession without God
4:15: Final Discussion: Confession as a field of research

Albrech Diem, History