Mavcor - Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion

Join us Wednesday for Christian Lange of “Towards a History of the Senses in Islam”

MAVCOR Journal is pleased to announce the launch of a special issue curated by Laura S. Levitt and Oren Baruch Stier titled Tending to Holocaust Objects: Interrogating the Sacred. The special issue builds out of a 2023 workshop, “Interrogating the Sacred: Holocaust Objects and their Care,” co-facilitated by Levitt and Stier at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, under the auspices of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, a branch of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the USHMM. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

mavcor.yale.edu/mavcor-journal

New in the Digital Spaces Project, a tour of the Church of Chinchero, Peru, produced in collaboration with the municipality of Chinchero

Photography and editing by the MAVCOR team .c.floyd

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Proud of this collaboration with the Prelatura de Juli, digitizing the Cathedral of Juli for the Digital Spaces Project

Tuesday 15 April Yale Institute of Sacred Music fellow Harini Kumar will speak to the Sensory Cultures Research Group on the topic “A Chariot for Shahul Hamid: Ancestral Artisanship and Devotional Labor in South India”

https://mavcor.yale.edu/node/20040

In this new Constellation, Anna Blume asks, “Looking at Indigenous bannerstones from what is known as North America, their unique shapes and symmetrically drilled holes carved from an array of lithics, from sedimentary stone to quartz, I wonder what stories they are telling. Do their stories begin with the sculptors who made them east of the Mississippi Valley in 6,000 BCE or do they begin four billion years ago when volcanic heat from the earth’s core melted and congealed minerals to form the oldest terrestrial rocks?”



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In this new Essay, “In Search of Beijing’s Tibetan Buddhist Past and Present: Religious Heritage, History, and Identity in Modern Beijing,” Benjamin J. Nourse discusses the memory and presence of Tibetan Buddhist architecture in Beijing today, addressing the changing use and understanding of temple sites from the Qing period to the present.

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On March 4, Alexis Wang joins the Sensory Cultures Research Group for a talk titled “Reflecting the Divine in Giotto’s Arena Chapel” join us!

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Join us tomorrow for Tazeen Ali, “Performing Islamophobia: September 11th and the Specter of the Violent Muslim Man in Hulu’s Ramy”

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Hannah Zaves-Greene, “Able to Be American: Disability in U.S. Immigration Law and the American Jewish Response”

Join us Tuesday 18 Feb for the first Sensory Cultures Research Group talk of the year!

Hannah Zaves-Greene

Join us Tuesday, 8 October for the next in the Sensory Cultures Research Group series: Anthony Petro, “Wojnarowicz v. Wildmon: Between Q***r Imagination and the Aesthetics of Literalism”

https://mavcor.yale.edu/node/20013

Artworks:

David Wojnarowicz, Water, 1987
David Wojnarowicz, Self Portrait, 1983-84

Join us Tuesday Oct 1 @ 7pm for the next in the Sensory Cultures of Religion Research Group talks “Made Instrument: Cancer”

Ashon Crawley will be reading from his in-progress work, Made Instrument, about the AIDS crisis and the sound of the Black Church. Exploring the interrelation between landscape architecture, black sonic practices and black life, the chapter “Cancer,” argues that we must reconnect our lives to severed earth.

https://mavcor.yale.edu/node/20012