Workshop 1

Materiality, Religion, and the Senses

Leiden, 11 December 2025

Venue: Huizinga Building · Conference Room (2.60)

Workshop programme

10.15 – 12.00 MA/RMA/PHD Masterclass with Dr Jerry Toner(Cambridge)
(open to Leiden students of all programmes)
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, “Visualizing Authority. The Sarcophagus of Adelfia and the Semantics of Female Commemoration.”
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.


READ the report by Wesley Schreurs

The success of this event was owed in no small part to the engaged audience, whose lively participation in the discussions allowed everyone to gain new perspectives and leave with a much richer appreciation of the issues discussed.
Photo © R. Matuszewski

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