SACRED ECOLOGY: Landscape Transformations for Ritual Practice
A Symposium Hosted by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

Friday, August 30, 2013 -- Sarratt/Rand 189, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

8:45 am -- opening remarks

9:00 am -- VERONICA DELLA DORA
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
“Mountains and Vision: From Mount of Temptation to Mont Blanc”
Introduction: Betsey Robinson
Associate Professor of History of Art and Classical Studies, 2011-12
Jacque Voegeli Fellow and co-director of the Warren Center Fellows Program

10: 45 am -- JAMES ROBSON
East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
“Confined in the Locus of the Sacred: From Sacred Sites
to Insane Asylums in East Asia”
Introduction: Rob Campany
Professor of Asian Studies and Religious Studies,
Fellow in the 2011-12 Warren Center Seminar

1:30 pm -- DEENA RAGAVAN
Independent scholar
“Constructed Landscapes: Sumerian Temples and the Natural World”
Introduction: Tracy Miller
Associate Professor of History of Art and Asian Studies, 2011-12 Rebecca
Webb Wilson Fellow, and co-director of the Warren Center Fellows Program

3:15 pm -- LINDSAY JONES
Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University
“A Southern Mexican ‘Cross of Miracles’: The Irony
of an Anti-Tourist Site’s Debt to Tourism”
Introduction: John Janusek
Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2011-12 Spence Wilson Fellow,
and co-director of the Warren Center Fellows Program

4:45 pm -- reception at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities