Konferenzen, Tagungen

The Sacred in the Secular in European Literature

Beginn
13.10.2017
Deadline Anmeldung
22.09.2017
Modern Humanities Research Association Postgraduate and Early Career Conference

Programme

10:00 Registration/Coffee

10:30 MHRA Presidential Address and Keynote Lecture
Professor Judith Ryan (Harvard): Time, Space and Sacred-Secular Configurations in Modern European Poetry

11:30 Session 1

Panel 1: Moments of Mystery

Valeria Taddei (University of Oxford), The Sacred Mind: William James and Modernist Epiphany

Sara Helen Binney (University of East Anglia), Creating ‘a space for the mystery’: Resacralizing in the Twenty-First Century

Panel 2: Self and Other
Delphine Calle (Ghent University), The amour racinien: Between Self-Love and Divine Love

Marie C. Chabbert (University of Oxford), A (Post)secular Age? Thinking Religion Beyond Transcendence with Gilles Deleuze

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Session 2

Panel 3: Between Faith and Doubt

Nathan Llywelyn Munday (Cardiff University and Aberystwyth University), The Welsh Hymn: Sacred or Secular?

Ellen Pilsworth (University College London), ‘Dutschke shows the wounds / Eiffe heals’: Christianity and Anti-authoritarianism in West Germany, 1968

Steffie Van Neste (Ghent University), Between the Secular and the Sacred: Radical Scepticism in the Works of Alexandre Dumas

Panel 4: Political Poetry

Esther van Raamsdonk (University of Exeter), The Secular in the Sacred: Milton’s Dutch Satan

Anneleen Van Hertbruggen (University of Antwerp), Religious Discourse in the Propaganda Poetry of Gerhard Schumann: A Reinterpretation of Christian Faith of Nazi Purposes

Sam La Védrine (University of Nottingham), A Bit of Faith in Ecology: Sublime Paradoxes in Michel Deguy’s (Trans)Figurations

15:00 Tea/Coffee

15:30 Session 3

Panel 5: Living in the Sacred

Rey Conquer (University of Oxford), Liturgy and Architecture: Dom Sylvester Houédard and Hugo Ball

Emily Holman (University of Oxford), ‘No great statement about reality […] can be static, like simple information’: Reality through Language in Marilynne Robinson (and Beyond)

Michael D. Rose (University of Exeter), Living with the Inexpressible: A Literary Wittgenstein

17:00 Close
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Forschungsgebiete

Literatur und Theologie/Religionswissenschaften
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Einrichtungen

University of London (UL)
Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR)
Datum der Veröffentlichung: 12.12.2018
Letzte Änderung: 12.12.2018