Related: The Future of the Humanities Project
Over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Campion Hall and Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The Christian Literary Imagination series will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society.
The series features talks by distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic discussing authors or works from Shakespeare to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each speaker aims to examine the term "the Christian imagination" through a discussion of a particular writer or an aspect of the term. The hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & A chaired by Professor Michael Scott. All events will take place at 11:00 a.m. ET/4:00 p.m. UK.
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Rev. Joe Simmons, S.J., Campion Hall, "Identifying the Christian Imagination"
Peter Davidson, Campion Hall, Oxford, "Robert Southwell and the Revitalization of English Writing"
Michael Collins, Georgetown University, "The Ignatian Spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins"
Molly Clark, Merton College, Oxford, "Christopher Smart's Alphabetical Imagination"
John Drakakis, University of Stirling, "Dramatizing Atheism in Cyril Tourneur's 'The Atheist's Tragedy'”
Clare Broome Saunders, Blackfriars Hall, "Transformative Conversation: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Literary Imagination"
Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, "Consolation for Catholics in Michael Drayton's Early Poems"
Rev. Mark Bosco, S.J., Georgetown University, "Flannery O’Connor the Hillbilly Thomist: Charting A Catholic Modernist Aesthetics"
Noël Sugimura, Oxford University, "Early Readings of Milton's Eden and the Erotics in Conjugal Chastity"
Paul Edmondson, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, "Scriptural Influence on Shakespeare"
Frank Ambrosio, Georgetown University, "The Gospel According to Dante"
Dr. Graham Ward, Oxford University, "Sighs for Eden: Traherne, Vaughan and Wordsworth"
Jane Stevenson, Oxford University, "Radclyffe Hall: Catholicism and Queerness in Interwar England"
Molly Clark, Merton College, Oxford, "St: Poetry Reading and Discussion"
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