Ithaca College

The Spring 2015 Jewish Studies Faculty Showcase Presents 

Cynthia A. Hogan

"The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Jewish Ceremonial Art"

Tuesday, April 28, 2015
12:10-1pm 
Handwerker Gallery

*Free and open to the public
 

This presentation will address the rise of public, secular art museums in the eighteenth century and the subsequent establishment of self-identified Jewish museums in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to ask the question:  In what ways have contemporary museum audiences been trained to accept Jewish ceremonial objects (ritual, liturgical, devotional, contemplative, funerary) as something called "fine art" to be consumed in a "fine art" museum? 

Cynthia A. Hogan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Religion and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her areas of academic interest include religion and museums; traditions of western esotericism; and material culture of new religious movements.

For more information about the Jewish Studies Faculty Showcase Series, please contact Annette Levine: alevine@ithaca.edu

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Annette Levine at alevine@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3252. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.