Materiality, Religion, and the Senses
Leiden, 11 December 2025

Workshop programme
10.15 – 12.00 MA/RMA/PHD Masterclass/Workshop with Dr Jerry Toner (Cambridge)
(open to Leiden students of all programmes; please register here)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00 Keynote lecture by Dr Jerry Toner (Cambridge):
“Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality”
14.00 – 14.30 Paper 1: Patricia Kret, “Sensing Treatment? The Impact of Using Greco-Roman Amulets”
14.30 – 15.00 Paper 2: Camilla Marraccini, “Choreographed Creation: Gesture, Touch, and Theology in the Dogmatic Sarcophagus”
15.00 – 15.30 Paper 3: Joëlle Kraaijeveld, “‘Camera illa codex vester sit’: The Development of Christian Cultic Spaces as Traumascapes”
15.30 – 15.45 Closing remarks.
This event is made possible thanks to the valued support of
