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The Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English

Inaugural Workshop 2016

Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English (QMCRLE)

Inaugural Research Workshop

Saturday 23 April 2016, Lock-Keeper’s Cottage

10am: Registration and coffee

10.20: Welcome

 

10.30-11.15: Paper 1

Anthony Bale (Birkbeck), ‘Religion, literature, and the history of emotions: some lessons from medieval pilgrimage’

Chair: Tessa Whitehouse

 

11.15-12: Paper 2

Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Aix-Marseille), ‘Whatever happened to the history of the English nun?’

Chair: Caroline Bowden

 

12-12.15: Short break

 

12.15-1: Paper 3

Douglas Hedley (Cambridge), ‘The poetic legacy of the Cambridge Platonists’

Chair: James Vigus

 

1-2:   LUNCH

 

2-2.45: Paper 4

Neil Keeble (Stirling), ‘“What shall I do to be saved?”: literature and religion in the seventeenth century’

Chair: Isabel Rivers

 

2.45-3: Short break

 

3-4: Roundtable

Emma Mason (Warwick)

James Kelly (Durham)

Anne Page (Aix-Marseille)

David Colclough (QMUL)

Chair: Tessa Whitehouse

Questions discussed:

1)    What can interdisciplinary centres bring to the study of religion and literature?

2)    What do you as a researcher understand by religion and literature?

 

4-4.15: TEA

 

4.15-5: Open forum: future directions

Chair: Isabel Rivers

All participants pose questions, make comments, suggest ideas

 

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