Reading Group - The role of empathy and experiencing religious life with Anna Dlabačová and Lieke Smits
The LUCAS research reading group The Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics is dedicated to examining affective, cognitive-enactive, and new materialist approaches to the arts, and open to all interested in the experiential interactions between the arts (in a broad sense) and viewers–readers–makers.
It's open to anyone interested in experiential interactions between art, its makers, and their audiences.
Anna Dlabačováand Lieke Smits will talk about the role of empathy and experiencing religious life for the benefit of their research. They’ll share their experience of participating in monastic life last summer, for their ERC project “PRAYER”, and Lieke will briefly discuss her earlier “research by performance event” about life in religious communities.
Text for reading
- Barbara Newman, “Coming Out of the (Sacristy) Closet,” Religion & Literature 42, no. 1/2 (2010): 279–97
- “Are you really sisters?” “No, we’re researchers!” via this link.
