1. Title of workshop: Nuns on the Move: Agency of Early Modern Nuns as Migrants 2. Summary: The workshop will seek answers to the following questions: How did early modern nuns find strength, power, and agency through their positions as migrants from one community to another, from one place to another, and from one social level to another? As scholars and teachers who focus attention on the lives and cultural production of early modern women, do we position ourselves as natives, migrants or colonizers? 3. Organizers K. Bevin Butler, Arizona State University, Ph. D. candidate, art historian,
[email protected] Elizabeth Goodwin, University of Sheffield, U.K., historian,
[email protected] Volker Schier, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, musicologist,
[email protected] Corine Schleif, Arizona State University, art historian,
[email protected] 4. Contact Person Corine Schleif School of Art Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, 85287-1505 480 965-3223
[email protected] 902 W. Moreland Phoenix AZ, 85007 602 254-2836 5. Description The title for this workshop, “Nuns on the Move,” comes from the recent work of one of our workshop leaders: Elizabeth Goodwin. To a greater or lesser extent, all nuns were migrants. No one was born a nun. Each migrated into a new community, which became her new family. Often communities migrated from an existing monastery in order to establish a new one. This meant transplanting one’s self, bringing material and immaterial necessities along – including of course dowries, household items, clothing and books (liturgical and devotional), but also training and experience.