International Symposium • December 6–9, 2005 • Goethe-Institut São Paulo
Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp) • Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Tuesday, December 6

Opening Session

Opening (6.00 pm)
o Joachim Bernauer (Goethe-Institut São Paulo): Welcoming Address
o Jens Baumgarten (IFCH Unicamp), Introduction: “Concepts of Baroque – Baroque of concepts? Epochs and Systems between Europe and Latin America”

Baroque and Neo-Baroque – Unfoldings in Contemporary Art

Keynote Speech (7.00 pm)
o Walter Moser (University of Ottawa): “The Aesthetics of Ontological Instabilities in mass culture: from Baroque to Neo-Baroque”

Cello Recital (8.00 pm)
o Johannes Gramsch: Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009

Followed by a Welcoming Reception

Wednesday, December 7

Constructions of Identities – The Baroque in Latin America
Brazil and Mexico

Morning Panel (9:30 am – 12:00 noon)
o Adone Agnolin (FFLCH USP): “Negotiation of faith in the colonial and baroque society”
o Leandro Karnal (IFCH Unicamp): “Converting the New World: Jesuit and Juana Inés de la Cruz’ ‘autos’ – Brazil and Mexico in the 16th and 17th centuries”
o Jens Baumgarten (IFCH Unicamp): “Representations of Saint Francis: discourses of sanctity and image”

New Thought on the Baroque – Thoughts about the New Baroque
Representations and control

1st Afternoon Panel (2:00 pm – 4:30 pm)
o Tristan Weddigen (University of Bern): “Choreography of power. Anthropological aspects of early modern papal liturgy”
o Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto): “Space and play in the Florentine sacred plays”
o Luiz Marques (IFCH Unicamp): “Representations of the suicide of Cato in the 17th century”

New Thought on the Baroque – Thoughts about the New Baroque
Literature in the 17th Century

2nd Afternoon Panel (5:00 pm – 7:30 pm)
o Alcir Pécora (IEL Unicamp): “The ‘Índice das cousas mais notáveis’ of Vieira’s sermons”
o Kirsten Kramer (University of Erlangen): “Baroque optical magic. Remarks on the relation between portrait, mirror and writing in Góngora's poetry”
o João Adolfo Hansen (FFLCH USP): “Judgement and ingenium in preceptives of the 17th century”
Thursday, December 8

10.00 am
Possibility to visit the Museum for Sacred Art São Paulo (Museu de Arte Sacra)

New Thought on the Baroque – Thoughts about the New Baroque
Historiographical Approaches I

1st Afternoon Panel (2:00 pm – 4:30 pm)
o Claudia Valladão de Mattos (IA Unicamp): “The concept of allegory in the writings of Winckelmann and his interpretation of the Baroque”
o Evonne Levy (University of Toronto): “The Baroque 1880s: Cornelius Gurlitt and Heinrich Wölfflin”
o Joseph Imorde (University of Aachen): “Baroque: about the re-conquest of an aesthetic category”

Constructions of Identities – The Baroque in Latin America
Historiographical Approaches II

2nd Afternoon Panel (5:00 pm – 6:30 pm)
o Dalton Sala (São Paulo): “The ideology of the Brazilian Baroque”
o Percival Tirapeli (IA Unesp): “Baroque in Brazil: national and foreign researchers”

Constructions of Identities – The Baroque in Latin America
Historiographical Approaches III

3rd Afternoon Panel (6:45 pm – 8:15 pm)
o Myriam Andrade Ribeiro de Oliveira (EBA UFRJ): “The Baroque and the myth of identity”
o Marcos Tognon (IFCH Unicamp): “The ‘invention’ of Brazilian baroque architecture”

Friday, December 9

New Thought on the Baroque – Thoughts about the New Baroque
Transfers between Europe and Latin America

Morning Panel (9:30 am – 12:00 noon)
o Rudolf Preimesberger (Free University of Berlin): “A passion death for the Christianisation of America? Melchiorre Cafà’s sculpture of Saint Rosa de Lima”
o Luciano Migliaccio (FAU USP) / Maria Regina Emery Quites (CECOR UFMG): “Saints with clothes. The processional sculptures of the third orders of San Francisco in Brazil”
o Jorge Coli (IFCH Unicamp): “From Pedro Amércio to the Batalhistas”

New Thought on the Baroque – Thoughts about the New Baroque
The Portuguese World

1st Afternoon Panel (2:00 pm – 3:30 pm)
o Dejanirah Couto (EPHE Paris): “About the origins of Baroque: monsters and relics”
o Paulo Mugayar Kühl (IA Unicamp): “The Opera seria in Portugal: a genre and its limits”

Baroque and Neo-Baroque – Unfoldings in Contemporary Art

2nd Afternoon Panel (4:00 pm – 6:30 pm)
o Frieder Reininghaus (Berlin): “Baroque Music – Fresh Happiness in the Ancient Forms”
o Peter Krieger (UNAM Mexico): “Principles of baroque impression management in contemporary catholic church architecture - a case study of Mexico City”
o Nelson Aguilar (IFCH Unicamp): “Between Neo-Baroque and Neo-Rococo: the work of Solange Pessoa”

Organizing Committee
Jens Baumgarten, Claudia Valladão de Mattos, Marcos Tognon, Adone Agnolin
Joachim Bernauer, Carminha Góngora, Margit Gropper