Weekly postgraduate seminar
ITIA postgraduates, faculty and guests meet each week during the academic year. A complete schedule of seminar topics and speakers is listed below.
Weekly ITIA seminars take place at 11:00 AM on Fridays during term time in St Mary's College Hall. The weekly seminars for Martinmas 2012 have ended. For a full list of previous seminars visit the past seminars archive. Candlemas 2013 seminars will be posted here in due time.
Schedule for Candlemas Term 2013
February
- 8 – Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin (independent scholar), ‘From the Abstract Spiritual to the Concrete Material: The Turn to Embodied Religion in Contemporary Postmodern Art’
- 15 – Timothy Bartel (ITIA), ‘“Between the Stars and the Fireflies”: The Theological Vision of Longfellow’s Evangeline’
- 22 – Jo Carruthers (Lancaster University), ‘Protestant Aesthetics and English Simplicity: The Problem of Ruskin’s Gothic’
March
- 1 – Douglas Hogg (Artist), ‘Darkly, through a Glass: Seeds and Stems / Roots and Shoots’
- 8 – Travis Buchanan (ITIA), ‘Truth Incarnate: Story as Sacrament in J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis’
- 15 – Joel D. S. Rasmussen (University of Oxford), ‘The Pilgrim's Progress in America’
Spring Break
April
- 5 – Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University), ‘Haunted Culture: The Persistence of Belief in the Paranormal’
- 12 – Jolyon Mitchell (University of Edinburgh), ‘Passion Play: The Mysterious Revivals of Religious Drama’
- 19 – Tim Gorringe (University of Exeter), ‘The Theological Significance of Peasants in Western Art from the 14th to the 19th Centuries’
- 26 – Michael O’Neill (Durham University), TBC
Browse the weekly seminar archives here.
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