RSA Conference 2014

The Society sponsors two panels at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting. The next RSA Conference will be held in New York on March 27-29, 2014.

Here are our two ACS sessions this year: 

Nicholas of Cusa and the Visual Arts I
Saturday, March 29, 3:30-4:30 (New York Hilton, Gibson Room)

Organizer: David Albertson
Chair: David Albertson

1. Thomas Leinkauf, University of Münster: “Cusanus and Art: On Human Productivity”

2. Elena Filippi, Alanus University: “The Heritage of Cusanus’s New Anthropology and Its Impact on Visual Culture in Fifteenth-Century Germany and Flanders”

3. Respondent: Il Kim, Pratt Institute

Nicholas of Cusa and the Visual Arts II
Saturday, March 29, 4:45-6:15 (New York Hilton, Gibson Room)

Organizer: David Albertson
Chair: Donald Duclow

1. Clyde Lee Miller, Stony Brook University: “The Metaphor of Light and the Light of Metaphor in Cusanus”

2. Jovino Miroy, Ateneo de Manila University: “Cusanus’s Neoplatonism and Philippine Baroque Churches”

3. David Albertson, University of Southern California: “Cusanus and Iconoclasm: the Aesthetics of Linearity”

For more information on this year’s ACS panels at RSA, please contact David Albertson. For past ACS conferences at RSA, see the Conferences page.