Interdisciplinary Liturgy
Holy Mass, the most beautiful thing this side of heaven, is perhaps also the strangest and most difficult thing to understand. We invite you to a series of seminars.
Holy Mass, the most beautiful thing this side of heaven, is perhaps also the strangest and most difficult thing to understand. This year we will reflect on it in a series of seminars organized together with the editors of the quarterly Pressje.
In a series of monthly seminars we will try to look at the phenomenon of the Catholic liturgy from many different perspectives: theological, metaphysical, religious-studies, semiotic, psychoanalytical, theatrical, political and aesthetic. We will deal with sacrifice, ritual, transubstantiation, liturgical reforms and sacred art. The discussions will be based on texts published in the 2013 issue 32–33 of Pressje, “Corpus Christi”.
The first meeting will exceptionally take place in St. Thomas Hall at the Dominican Friary, 12 Stolarska Street, on Tuesday, 29.10.2013, at 6 p.m. Taking part in the discussion will be Tomasz Grabowski OP, Mateusz Przanowski OP, Fr. Robert Woźniak, Paweł Rojek and Michał Koza.
The following meetings will take place at 6 p.m. in the Stolarnia club at 6 Stolarska Street in Kraków. Those who register on our website will receive access to the electronic version of the texts discussed. Registration is not required to attend the meetings (admission free).
The meetings take place in the Stolarnia club at 6 Stolarska Street in Kraków (the first one exceptionally at the Dominican Friary, 12 Stolarska Street).
29 October 2013 – Fr. Mateusz Przanowski OP (UPJP2), Fr. Tomasz Grabowski OP (DLC), Fr. Robert Woźniak (UPJP2), Michał Koza (DLC, Jagiellonian University), Paweł Rojek (Pressje, UPJP2): Corpus Christi. A discussion of the new issue of Pressje (recording below).
12 November 2013 – Paweł Rojek (Pressje, UPJP2): Catholic fetishism. The Eucharist from a semiotic point of view
3 December 2013 – Tomasz Dekert (Ignatianum): The New Mass: ritual or anti-ritual? The liturgy from the perspective of religious studies
7 January 2014 – Jan Maciejewski (Pressje): The politics of the Mass
4 February 2014 – Jakub Moroz (Pressje, Jagiellonian University): Ritual and the new left. On Artur Żmijewski’s performance “Mass”
4 March 2014 – Michał Koza (DLC, Jagiellonian University): The effect of sacrifice. A hermeneutics of the Mass from a postmodern perspective
1 April 2014 – Adam Leszkiewicz (Pressje): The Pope as a total work of art. Must Christian art be realistic?
13 May 2014 – Błażej Skrzypulec (Pressje, Jagiellonian University): The problem of transubstantiation. Contemporary interpretations in analytic philosophy (G. E. M. Anscombe, M. Dummett)
3 June 2014 – Zbigniew Warpechowski, Janusz Krupiński (Academy of Fine Arts), Małgorzata Gadomska (DLC): Presence or transparency? A discussion on sacred art
After the end of the seminar series we are planning a trip together, led by the art historian Juliusz Gałkowski, to Wysocice to study the Eucharistic symbolism of its medieval tympanum.