Programme
Unknowing: Perspectives on Premodern Religion and Theology (May 22-24, 2009)
Queen’s University Belfast
Friday May 22, 2009
0900-1055: Registration
1100-1115: Welcome
1115-1215: Session 1 - Approaches to Mysticism I
Elizabeth Scarborough (Queen’s University Belfast):
“An English Apophatic Tradition? Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls in England.”
Louise Wasson (Queen’s University Belfast):
“”He oonli is my God that noon ne kan o word of seie”: Unsaying as Knowing in Marguerite Porete’s The Mirror of Simple Souls.”
1215-1315: Session 2 - Approaches to Mysticism II
Gabriel Ford (Pennsylvania State University):
“Richard Rolle’s Vernacular Psalter, Violence, and Mystical Psychomachia in his Commentary.”
Sarah MacMillan (University of Birmingham):
“Mysticism and Misinterpretation: Asceticism in the Life of Marie of Oignies.”
1315-1415: Lunch
1415-1615: Presentation
Ryan Perry and Allan Westphall report on the AHRC-funded Geographies of Orthodoxy project
1615-1630: Coffee
1630-1745: Session 3 - Religious Encounter
Asya Bereznyak (Hebrew University, Jerusalem):
“Unknowing Medieval Conversion: Bulgaria as a Case Study.”
Joshua Hollman (McGill University, Montreal):
“Knowing and Unknowing God as Method of Christian – Muslim Dialogue: Nicholas of Cusa’s On Learned Ignorance and The Peace of Faith.”
David Kim (University of Sydney):
“Mystical Thomasine Logia: Heretical or Sapiental?”
1800-1900: Wine Reception in Postgraduate Centre
Saturday May 23, 2009
0930-1045: Session 4 - Theology, Instruction and Reception
Anna Gottschall (University of Birmingham):
“Clergy as Teacher, Laity as Learner: How did the Church Disseminate the Theology of the Pater Noster during the Late Medieval Period?”
Amy Kieran (Queen’s University Belfast):
“Reassessing the “Orthodox-Heterodox Divide: The Figure of the Heretic in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries.”
Joanna Milk (Courtauld Institute):
“Towards a Vernacular Theology of Vision in Late Medieval Italy: The Role of Images.”
1045-1100: Coffee
1100-1215: Session 5 - Religious Writing in Context
Edina Eszenyi (University of Kent):
“A Renaissance Perspective on Medieval Angelology: The Fall of the Angels in Vincenzo Cicogna’s Angelorvm et daemonvm nomina et attribvta.”
David Falls (Queen’s University Belfast):
“The Carthusian Milieu of Love’s Mirror.”
Sean Otto (Wycliffe College, University of Toronto):
“The Morphology of Ideas: The Augustinian Basis of John Wyclif’s Anti-Papalism in the De Potestate Pape.”
1215-1315: Session 6 - Literary Inheritances
Linda Greenwood (University of St. Andrews):
“‘This also is Thou; neither is this Thou’: The Influence of Medieval Spiritual Literature on the Poetic Imagination of Charles Williams.”
Timothy Irish Watt (University of Massachusetts at Amherst):
“Negative Theology and its Effects in English Renaissance Literature: Three Examples.”
1315-1415: Lunch
1415-1615: Workshop - Genealogies of European Heresy
Facilitator: Dr Andrew Cole (University of Georgia)
1615-1630: Coffee
1630-1745: Session 7 - Locating the Premodern Subject
Michael Eisenberg (City University of New York):
“Unknowing the Passion: Spiritual Embodiment in the Eastertide Labyrinth.”
Michael Raby (University of Toronto):
“The Infinite Hermeneutic of Julian of Norwich.”
Daniel McCann (Queen’s University Belfast):
“Treating Confession: Psychopathology, Power, and the Technologies of Medieval Selfhood.”
1900: Conference Dinner for speakers
Sunday May 24, 2009
1000-1200: Workshop: Reading Ecclesiastical Spaces
Facilitator: Dr Anthony Masinton (University of York)
1200-1215: Coffee
1215: Roundtable and Conference close
1400: Film Screening in Queen’s Film Theatre
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