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Issue: 1126 Date: 3/22/2012
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International conference set in St. Louis on Pope Benedict XIV
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| This detailed figure of an arm constructed of colored wax and bone was made by Italian anatomist-sculptor, Anna Morandi Manzolini, who was supported by 18th-century Pope Benedict XIV. The work is seen in the Poggi Museum in Bologna, Italy. Pope Benedict XIV, who created the first anatomical museum in Italy, was an avid supporter of anatomists using human cadavers to create more accurate anatomical studies that would promote public health. |
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St. Louis University, Washington University and the Missouri History Museum will host an international conference on "The Enlightenment Pope: Benedict XIV, 1675-1758" Monday-Wednesday, April 30-May 2.
The conference will feature science and religion scholars from U.S. universities as well as international scholars from the University of Rome Tre, the University of Cagliari, the University of Bologna, Oxford and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The programs also will include speakers from the Getty Museum and the St. Louis Art Museum.
Each day of the conference will include morning sessions from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and afternoon sessions from 2-4:30 p.m.
The first day will include presentations on "The Place of Women; Faith and Medicine" and "Faith and the New Science" and will be held in room 300 of the Laboratory Sciences Building at Washington University.
St. Louis University will host the second day of the conference in the Pere Marquette Gallery on the second floor of DuBourg Hall, 221 N. Grand Blvd. Topics will include "Sanctity and Catholic Culture," "Benedict's Transformation of the Public Sphere" and "Patronage of Art and Architecture."
The conference wraps up at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park with a morning breakfast reception and roundtable discussion on "The Papacy: Influence and Contemporary Currency of Benedict XIV."
"Pope Benedict XIV's patronage of science and, in particular, of women scientists, challenges common stereotypes of the Catholic Church as anti-science and anti-woman, offering a more complex view of the relationship between religion and science in an increasingly secular age and opening a dialogue on the relationship of faith, science, and technology in the 21st century," said Philip Gavitt, chair of the history department and founder of SLU's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Rebecca Messbarger, professor of Italian at Washington University, said the conference will help provide both an increased and revised understanding of the history of the Church.
"The conference will gather - for the first time in the United States - leading international scholars who are experts on key facets of the life and influence of the Bolognese pope, who was a driving force of the Italian and broader European Enlightenment," Messbarger said.
"Among the expected outcomes of the conference are both increased and revised understanding of the general history of the Church and, more specifically, Pope Benedict XIV's engagement with and advancement of Enlightenment thought and cultural and social reforms, and fresh inquiries into defining issues of Benedict XIV's papacy that remain relevant today, such as the compatibility of faith and science, the role of women in the circulation of new knowledge, civic art and architecture projects as agents of the public good, and the role of the Church in the advancement of social and cultural reforms," Messbarger added.
For information on guest speakers and registration visit stlouisreview.com/16A.
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