[Gocamino] New Academic Discipline

Sun Feb 20 08:01:24 PST 2011

Representatives from more than 30 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada gathered this week at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. to form a new consortium for pilgrimage studies. 

Led by George Greenia of the College of William & Mary, a luminary in all things Pilgrimage, participants met in tightly organized plenary and small groups to determine what shape the new program should take. Organizational structure, finances, curriculum, and the granting of college credits were all hashed-over, with advice from study-abroad administrators and professors already involved in inter-collegiate credit-sharing programs. 

The initial vision has students preparing for the summer program at their home university, and congregating for the first two week at a study center at Santiago de Compostela for an intensive course in pilgrimage culture. Individual study goals and methods for their individual  program will be clarified. Students would then spend three weeks pursuing their academic goals -- walking the Camino, or heading out to Iona, Mecca, Canterbury, or Athens, with or without a professor along. Other students may stay in Santiago, where local academic institutions (and the cathedral) have already offered use of libraries, archives, museum collections, and classroom spaces for program participants.

Students will then re-convene in Santiago for a week-long summary seminar, to gather up the information gathered and wisdom learned and begin forming it into a coherent document, study, or report.  

The consortium is meant to be interdisciplinary, with faculty and students from disciplines as varied as architecture, kinesiology, business, filmmaking, classics, geography and musicology, as well as the expected history, sociology, Spanish, or religion fields. Professors will devise "packet courses" for students to choose from, giving a students from small colleges a chance to learn from big-campus programs -- and vice-versa.   

The consortium is so new it doesn't have a name yet; the group still is open to colleges and universities that offer pilgrimage-related classes or programs.  

Rebekah Scott 

www.moratinoslife.blogspot.com

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."     -- Albert Camus

--- On Sat, 2/19/11, Kathy Gower <kathygower at hotmail.com> wrote:

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Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!
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Date: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 12:55 PM

The screening event was every bit as wonderful as promised...the plan, as I understood it, was to be screened in several cities in February, but opening in September...

The cut was 2 hours, 8 minutes and packed full of lovely scenery and the gamut of emotions...both Martin and Emilio spoke individually with each guest...they indeed did it right!
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:10:56 
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Subject: [Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!

Hello you all, 
 Here's a reassuring article:
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 Professor's workshop to open with Hollywood screening
 by Suzanne Seurattan | February 17, 2011

 Hollywood stars Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen are screening their new movie, "The Way," Feb. 18 during a Workshop on Pilgrimage Studies co-hosted by the College of William & Mary and Georgetown University's department of Spanish and Portuguese. The ticketed event will open a two-day workshop for scholars of the Camino who are organizing a Consortium of American and Canadian universities to offer summer seminars in pilgrimage studies on site in Santiago starting in 2012.

 Both Sheen and Estevez will take part in the event to be held on the Georgetown campus. The screening is slated to be the largest of the film on the east coast of the United States prior to its national release in April. 

 "The Way" is a fictional account of one man's journey on the Camino de Santiago or Way of St. James. The movie was filmed entirely in Spain and France along the pilgrimage's actual historic route from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 

 "The picture's exploration of the Camino and its affect on its pilgrims make screening this film a natural opening for our Workshop," said William & Mary Professor George Greenia, lead scholar for the Workshop and international Consortium.  "We are looking forward to an evening with two great actors of Spanish heritage who knew the Camino intimately before they began writing and filming this movie."

 The story follows the journey of a grieving father's struggle to better understand his late son. Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to France to collect the remains of his adult son killed in a storm in the Pyrenees while walking the Camino. To learn more about the son's life, Tom decides to embark on the pilgrimage in his son's place. Estevez, the film's director, also plays Tom's son.
 Greenia has a passion for the Camino. He has taken William & Mary students to walk the 500-mile Camino francés route across Spain every year since 2005 and has, himself, logged more than 4,000 miles on the Camino. In 2007, Greenia received the Cross of Isabel the Catholic - Spain's highest cultural distinction for foreign nationals. He is the first person in the College's history to receive the honor, which is bestowed by the king of Spain and akin to the Order of the British Empire or France's Legion of Honor.
 1992.  Pilgrimage studies have been taught in some form at William & Mary by fsince The aculty in modern languages, history, English, religious studies, art history and classical studies Consortium will bring together more than 30 university programs from the U.S. and Canada.

 "As a professor of Spanish, medieval studies, and comparative literature I am very happy to be part of the workshop and excited by the many possibilities Pilgrimage Studies and the Camino de Santiago open up for future undergraduate research," says Emily Francomano, director of the comparative literature program at Georgetown University and an associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese.

 In addition to William & Mary and Georgetown, co-sponsors of the workshop are, to date, the Embassy of Spain; the Autonomous Government of Galicia; The Plaza Institute; Tiempo Latino; the Bank of Georgetown; and American Pilgrims on the Camino.  

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 Rosina

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