Program

Wednesday 24 September

15-15.30    Arrival, coffee

15.30-16     Clarissa Breu, Kasper Bro Larsen, Introduction: Approaches to Gesture in the New Testament

16-16.45     Jennifer Glancy (Le Moyne; via Zoom), Escaping Her Grasp: Joseph, Potiphar’s Wife, and the Interruption of Violence

16.45-17    Break

17-17.45     Kathrin Breimayer (University of Vienna), Turning Towards Freedom: Gestures in the Roman manumissio vindicta

18.30                         Dinner

Thursday 25 September

9-9.45         Kasper Bro Larsen (Aarhus University), Performative Prophets: Gestural Activism from Isaiah to Jesus

9.45-10.30   Anna Rebecca Solevåg (VID Specialized University), “Who Touched Me?” Gesture, Touch and Contagion in the Synoptic Gospels

10.30-10.45                Break

10.45-11.30 Marianne Bjelland Kartzow (University of Oslo), Can Anything Good Come from under the Fig Tree? Rethinking Entanglements in John 1:43-51

11.30-12.15 Jacob Munk Rosenlund (Aarhus University), Carrying Christ: A Gendered Approach to Mary Magdalene’s Carrying of Jesus’s Corpse in John 20:15

12.15-13.30                Lunch

13.30-14.15 Sarah Herzog (University of Vienna), In Your Face: Gestures of Shame in Pauline Epistles

14.15-15     Camilla Brokholm Pedersen (Aarhus University), The Language of Tears: Augustine on Trauma and Consolation

15-15.15    Break

15.15-16    Michelle Fletcher (King’s College; via Zoom), The Art of Looking:

Screening Gospel Gestures

16-16.15    Break

16.15-17.45 Clarissa Breu (University of Vienna), Workshop on Project Proposal “Bodies in Action: Gesture in the New Testament”

17.45-18    Conclusion and plans

18.30                         Dinner