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Faculty of Divinity Lightfoot Room
Faculty of Divinity, Sidgwick Site, off West Road, Cambridge CB3 9BSThis will be an interactive session, with an introductory presentation from guest Professor Yvonne zu Dohna-Schlobitten followed by reflections on the experience of Seeing relations through art in the temporary exhibition and laboratory.
"Cosmic fish" by Marcello Silvestri copyright (c) 1980. Photograph courtesy of S Silvestri. Used with permission.
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Seeing relations through art: reflections on theory and practice
Together with guest speaker Professor Dr Yvonne zu Dohna-Schlobitten, we explore the potential for art to act as an intermediary in inter-religious encounter and dialogue.
Background to this event
This event is part of the Inter-Religious Research seminar series convened by Professor Esra Özyürek.
Guest speaker Prof Dohna-Schlobitten will also deliver an immersive masterclass—an exhibition-come-laboratory—building on work previously exhibited in Rome and Brussels.
About the speaker
Dr Yvonne zu Dohna-Schlobitten is Professor of History, Philosophy and Spirituality of Art and Culture at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where she teaches in the new Catholic Studies program. She is a cross-disciplinary scholar with a background that encompasses philosophy, theology, law, art history, and politics.
Her field of research is silence and the epistemology and phenomenology of seeing. She has been collaborating for several years on Romano Guardini with The McLean Center for the Study of Cultures and Values (MCSCV) at The Catholic University of America (CUA) and developed a recent joint project on The Ascesis of thinking for art: Socrates, Buddha, and Christ, with the patronage of the Rome Catholic Studies Program.
She is a member of the editorial board of Donne Chiesa Mondo of the Osservatore Romano, vice president of the Centro di Formazione alla Meditazione Cristiana (CFMC) in Rome.
Since 2023 Yvonne has been leading the Intercultural School of Silence (ISS), which she founded at the CFMC (Centre of Formation to the Christian Meditation), hosted at the Franciscan Church of San Giacomo alla Lungara in Rome. She is a spiritual guide of silence in the interreligious context with courses in China. In 2022, she received for her Opera Omnia the award of the Premio Basilicata di Letteratura Spirituale e Poesia Religiosa.
Her latest books are Verso nuovi occhi. L'arte dello sguardo sul tutto (Cittadella, 2023, Towards new eyes: the art of seeing on the whole) and Invocata redenzione: La Crocifissione di Picasso (Ancora, 2024, coauthored with Missaglia and Osto; Invoked redemption: Picasso’s Crucifixion).
She is a member Art Jury-Awards in the world as well as the Premio Bellarmino of the Pontifical Gregorian University, developing courses on “Exercises of Art Thinking”.