2010 ISRLC Conference

University of Oxford, 23rd 26th September 2010

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Thursday 23rd September

15.00 17.30 Registration

Porters Lodge, St Catherines College, Oxford.

17.30 18.45 Conference Reception

Divinity School, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

19.00 20.15 Dinner

20.45 22.00 Keynote Address

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre

Amy Hollywood (Harvard University)

Friday 24th September

07.45 09.00 Breakfast

09.00 10.30 First Set of Panel Sessions

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Bernard Sunley Room A

Modern Theology Literature
Religion, Society and Otherness in 19th-Century
Literature
Grant Macaskill (University of St Andrews),
Conversation as a model for theological Chair: Elisabeth Jay
engagement
Philip Gorski (University of Nottingham), The
Natalie Wigg (Vanderbilt University), Staretz (Spiritual Elder) in Russian Literature;
Christology as crucible: practising wisdom at Theology, Ideology, Narrative
the intersection of church and academy
Anna M Blanch (University of St Andrews),
Christopher Roussel (University of Glasgow), The Real Me: E.Nesbit and the author as
Orthodoxy as constructed identity Other

Troy Nelson White (University of Warwick),

The Victorian Parson Baring-Gould and his
'Other' Religion of the Gothic Threshold

Bernard Sunley Room B Bernard Sunley Room C

Postcolonial Literature Judaism
Theoretical Approaches to the Other Jewish philosophy on Otherness

Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz Chair: Marianne Schleicher

Steve Pardue (Wheaton College), Humility as a Alana Vincent (University of Glasgow), Image,
Technology of the Self: Reconceiving the Alterity, and Artistic Production in Benjamin
Virtue in a Postcolonial Key and Arendt

Ananda Abeysekara (Virginia Tech), At the Tore Langholz (Ben Gurion University of the
Limits of Secular(izing) History and Critique in Negev), Beyond European Metaphysics - the
Postcoloniality: Thinking a Response and dual Torah in Jacques Derrida's
Responsibility to the Postcolonial Other Grammatology

Jin Young Choi (Vanderbilt University), Rostyslav Dymerets (International Solomon

Transnationality, Transcorporeality, and University of Kiev/National University of
Spirituality: From a Postcolonial Biblical Kiev), Religious Tradition as the Other for
Hermeneutical Perspective Logic: The Case of Judaism

Jung Lee (Northeastern University), The Way

of New Age Spirituality: The Legacy of
Orientalism in the Construction of New Age
Religions
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Critical Theory Higher Education
Mutual Recognition (Part 1)

Chair: Todd Mei Emily Filler (University of Virginia), Shared

Learning: Chevruta
James Carter (University of Oxford), Identity, study in higher education
Incompleteness and Interaction
Clare Saunders and Rebecca O'Loughlin
Patrik Fridlund (Lund University), Giving (University of Leeds), Working with the Other:
Voice to Others, and the Risk of Ruining a interdisciplinarity and the role of
Functioning Order philosophical and religious studies in 21st
century higher education
Gonalo Marcelo (Universidade Nova de
Lisboa), Ricoeur, Critical Theory and the Carolyn Davis (Vanderbilt University), The
Utopia of Recognition Body as Itself and Yet
Not Itself: Integrating Student Diversity in
Theological Education

10.30 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 12.15 Keynote Address

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre

Graham Ward (University of Manchester)

12.45 13.30 Lunch

13.30 15.00 Second Set of Panel Sessions

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Bernard Sunley Room A

Performing Arts Literature
Suffering and Subjectivity
Chair: Dana Mills
Chair: Lynn Robson
Christopher-Ra`sheem McMillan, To be
Forever Rebuilding Sara Frances Burdorff (University of
California, Los Angeles), Discourses of
Jane Huber (Union Theological Seminary), Torment: Examining the Sentimental
Keeping Time: Sung Gospels and Moving Violence in Eighteenth Century Antislavery
Images Writing

Hannah Chalut (University of East London), Emily O. Gravett (University of Virginia), The
The Mevlevi Dervish as Bridge between Alterity of Suffering: The Problem of
Divine 'Other' and Human 'Other' Expressing and Evaluating Pain in Literature

Evlyn Gould (University of Oregon),

Sephardic Sounds in fin-de-sicle France

Gwendolyn Starks (University of St Andrews),

Becoming Dorothy: Discussing the Other
Through the Actors Technique of Character
Study
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Biblical Studies Continental Philosophy of Religion
Theological Materialism
Chair: Christine Joynes
Jeff Keuss (Seattle Pacific University), Slavoj
Nancy Jiwon Cho (Nottingham Trent Zizek and Dynamic Incarnationalism: Towards
University) and Matthew Niblett (University of a Lived Material Theology of Personhood
Oxford), Female Revelations: The Millenarian
Exegesis of Two Late-Georgian English Kirill Chepurin (Higher School of Economics,
Prophetesses, Dorothy Gott (c.1748-1812) and Moscow), Gods Forenoon: A Hegelian
Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) Reading of Meillassouxs Spectral Dilemma

Amanda Russell-Jones (University of Bradley Onishi (University of California, Santa

Birmingham), Sisters in the Wilderness: Hagar Barbara), Batailles Critique of Heidegger: A
and Josephine Butler in 1850s Oxford Precursor to Philosophys (Re)Turn to
Religion
Jonathan Singleton (Syracuse University),
Malignant Faith: George Eliot on Literary
Realism and Biblical Interpretation

Glass Quad Suite 2

Film and Religion
Producing Film - Producing Otherness

Chair: S. Brent Plate

Daniel Marcolino Claudino de Sousa

(University of So Paulo, Brazil), The cinema
at School: a way of writing

Timothy K. Beal (Case Western Reserve

University), Video Mashup as Critical
Academic Discourse (screening and talk)

Nina Danino (Goldsmiths, University of

London), Screening of Communion (8min)
and talk

15.00 15.30 Coffee Break

15.30 17.00 Third Set of Panel Sessions

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Bernard Sunley Room A

Modern Theology Spirituality and Reconciliation

Chair: Marije Altorf

Nathan Strunk (Boston University), Otherness,
representation, and revelation: Nicholas of Jerusha Matsen Neal (Princeton Theological
Cusa, Karl Barth and Graham Ward Seminary), Staging Inter-religious Spiritual
Practice through Metaphor: Difference, Risk
Petra Harvey (University of Virgina), Faiths and Reconciliation in a production of Terrence
receptivity to the saturation of revelation: Karl McNallys Corpus Christi
Barths theological epistemology in the context
of Marions phenomenology T. Sarada (Sri Venkateswara University, India),
Whose Religion Is It Anyway?: The Subalterns
Alden Bass (Saint Louis University), Agamben, Christianity In African American Womens
revelation and the Word of God Theatre

Katharine Massam (Uniting Church

Theological College), New Norcias Women:
Aboriginal Australians invite their Sisters
home

Bernard Sunley Room B Glass Quad Suite 1

Postcolonial Literature German Idealism
Historical Approaches to the Other The Master/Slave Dialectic

Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz Chair: Daniel Whistler

Brian Dunn (University of Oxford), Bishop Patience Moll (University of California, Irvine),
Appasamys Twist With Destiny: An Indian Attending to Others: From Kleists Critical
Christians Bid for Theological Independence Theory to Hegels Spiritual Practice

Mathew Alapattumedayil (St Thomas Martin de Nys (George Mason University),

Seminary, India), Identity Politics among Recognition and Alterity in Hegel's Dialectic
Syrian Catholics: A Postcolonial Critique
Andrew Hass (University of Stirling), Title
Claire Robison (Independent), Wholly Other TBC
or Intimate Exchange? Indian Theism
Through Postcolonial Vision

Kristina Baumli (University of Pennsylvania),

The Structural Roots of Pan-Africanism in the
Spiritual Strivings of Protestant Missions to
West Africa: The 1895 Atlanta Congress on
Africa
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Gender

Andrew Brower Latz (University of Durham),

The male gaze, watchfulness and attentiveness

Patricia Huntington (Arizona State University),

Redemptive Suffering and Forgiveness:
Traumatic Mother-Daughter Relations

Jennifer Geddes (University of Virginia),

Hannah Arendt on Attending to the Other(s)
Within and Without

17.15 18.45 Fourth Set of Panel Sessions

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Bernard Sunley Room A

Theological Humanism Literature
Non-Western spiritualities
Chair: Daniel Boscaljon
Chair: Sarah Apetrei
Andrew R. Hay (University of St Andrews),
Tillichs Ecstatic Humanism: The Future for Nazry Bahrawi (University of Warwick),
Theology of Culture and Theological Reading Humanistic Islamism as a Non-
Humanism Western Utopia: A Comparative Literary
Analysis of its Utopian Impulses in the
Jessie Hock (University of California, Selected Novels of Naguib Mahfouz and
Berkeley), Miltons Interpretive Poetics: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Towards a Theory of Renaissance Poetry and
Theological Humanism Lori Kanitz (Oral Roberts University),
Holiness Splintered into a Vessel: Shevirat
Petra Carlsson (Uppsala University), The ha-Kelim and Christs Kenosis in Annie
White Space Foucaults Theology of Dillards Non-fiction
Language
Emma Bausch (Dalhousie University), A
Passage to India and A Meeting by the River:
Reconsidering the Other as a Spiritual Mystery
 Bernard Sunley Room B Bernard Sunley Room C
Postcolonial Literature Judaism
Early Colonial Writings Religiously encouraged love of the Other

Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz Chair: Marianne Schleicher

Maria Cecilia A. Aguilar (Harvard Divinity Daniel H. Weiss (University of Cambridge),

School), Come Home to Me: The Politics of Neighbours and Strangers: Hermann Cohen
Storytelling in Early Colonial Philippines and the relation between Jewish and ethical
alterity
Orenda K. Boucher (Concordia University),
Spiritual Politics of Power: A Critical Martin Beck Matustk (Arizona State
Understanding of Handsome Lake University), The Mitzvoth of Love: Returns of
the Religious after Religion
Theresa Hawley Reeder (Syracuse University),
The Milieux and Lieux of Incidents in the Life of a Edna Aphek (The Jerusalem College, Israel),
Slave Girl Religious Commandments as an Economic,
Social and Political Tool: The Israeli Gmach
Scene

Glass Quad Suite 1 Glass Quad Suite 2

German Idealism Film and Religion
Kant and the Other Seeing, Singing to, and Beating the Other

Chair: Daniel Whistler Chair: S. Brent Plate

Sergue Spetchinsky (Berlin/Bruxelles), Patricia Huntington (Arizona State University),

Beyond Formalism: Reflexive Otherness in Buddhist Compassion and Otherness in
Kants Philosophy Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . Spring

Joseph Lough (University of California, Kaila Brown (Duke University), Iconography,

Berkeley), The Statesman or the General: Idolatry, and Indexicality: Considering
Toward a Political Economy of the Sublime 'Phenomenality' of and in Religiously Saturated
Films
Frederico Pacheco de Souza e Silva
(Sorbonne/Paris IV), Kantian Phenomenalism James Thrall (Knox College), Song of the
and the Possibility of the Other Other: Kon Ichikawas Biruma no Tategoto
(The Burmese Harp)

Omar Shaukat (University of Virginia),

Violence and the Otherness of Nazis from
the perspective of Inglourious Basterds

19.00 20.15 Dinner

20.30 21.45 Keynote Address

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre

Toril Moi (Duke University)

 Saturday 25th September

07.45 09.00 Breakfast

09.00 10.30 Fifth Set of Panel Sessions

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Bernard Sunley Room A

Modern Theology Literature
The other in early modern religious verse

Jennifer Reek (University of Glasgow), What is Chair: Helen Wilcox

church when church is not? An exploration of
alternative poetic ecclesio(eschato?)logical Hilary Elder (Durham University), Attending
spaces through the work of Yves Bonnefoy to Christ in Early Modern Religious Verse:
and Hlne Cixous Donne, Crashaw, Lanyer

Daryl Ellis (Vanderbilt University), Divine Jayme M. Yeo (Rice University), Political
dissocation: a monstrous compound or the Theology in Richard Crashaw and the
frailty of love? Marginalization of History

Michael Thate (University of Durham), The Lee Morrissey (Clemson University), Eve's
effusive presence: memory, performance and Otherness and the New Ethical Criticism
the people of God

Bernard Sunley Room B Bernard Sunley Room C

Biblical Studies Judaism
Intricacies of dual identification
Chair: Christine Joynes
Chair: Marianne Schleicher
Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University),
Valentinian Exegesis, Community, and the Inge-Birgitte Siegumfeldt (University of
Problem of Spiritual Gifts Copenhagen), Otherwise Jewish Other Than
Jewish
Charlie Shepherd (University of Durham),
Postmodernity, Politics, and Promise: Locating Alexandra Pleshoyano (University of
Genesis 12-13 Sherbrooke), Leonard Cohen: Attending to the
Other through Judaism and Buddhism
Simon Cuff (University of Oxford), Crossing
Lessing's ditch: Wirkungsgeschichte as
confessional reception history and the
contribution of Ulrich Luz to the search for
meaning of the New Testament
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Continental Philosophy of Religion Higher Education
Phenomenology and Deconstruction

Shannon Craigo-Snell (Yale University),

Dan Miller (Syracuse University), Embodied Learning: Using
Synchronicity and the Flattening of Materiality: Theater Exercises in Theology Class
Evaluating the Phenomenological Turn in
John Milbanks Theology Darlene Bird (University of Glasgow),
"Doing" Literature and
Joseph Rivera (University of Edinburgh), Theology: Enactments of Discovery
Reason, Spirituality and Materialism in Recent
Continental Philosophy of Religion Charlotte Gordon and Willie Young (Endicott
College), Integrating Critical and Spiritual
Neal DeRoo (Brock University), Reflection through Learning
Phenomenology as Eschatological Materialism Communities

Arumugam Ground Floor, Room A Arumugam Ground Floor, Room B

Theological Humanism German Idealism
Self and Other after Hegel

W. David Hall (Centre College), The Practice Chair: Andrew Hass

of Memory: Vichian Imagination in Re-
membering the Integrity of Life Before God Davide Caliaro (University of Verona),
Attending to the Other: Bruno Bauer and the
Daniel Boscaljon (University of Iowa), Crises Jewish Question
of Despair in the 21st Century: Evil and
Theological Humanism John Hymers (LaSalle University), An inverted
ontological argument: Feuerbachs Hegelian
Chris Keller (University of Seattle), Narcissus radicalization of the cogito
and Evangelical Personhood
Will Williams (Baylor University),
Kierkegaards Irony as Constructive of the
Self/Other Relation

Arumugam First Floor

Critical Theory
Mutual Recognition (Part 2)

Chair: Todd Mei

Chiara Chinello (Universit di Roma,

Sapienza), Freud and Hegel in the Ricoeurian
Social Vision

Ben Morgan (Oxford University), Some

Problems with the Very Idea of Otherness

Bradley Onishi (University of California, Santa

Barbara), Knowledge, Being, and Ecstasy:
Batailles Passionate Political Critique of
Heidegger
10.30 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 12.15 Keynote Address

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre

Paul Fiddes (University of Oxford)

12.45 13.30 Lunch

13.30 15.00 Sixth Set of Panel Sessions

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Bernard Sunley Room A

Music Literature
Criticism, modernism and eroticism

Jade Weimer (University of Toronto), Music Chair: Lynn Robson

and Musical Practice in the Development of
the Early Christian Church Joshua Weiss (University of Chicago), Acts of
Transverberation: Gertrude Steins Queer
Ming Yan Angela Poh (Marymount Manhattan Hagiography
College), Music as Theology: From Hildegard
to Bach Justin Tackett (University of Oxford), O my
chevalier!: Reclaiming the Confession in the
Sven Rune Havsteen (University of Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Copenhagen), Theological Reflections on the
Spiritual Character of Music in Protestant Jonathon Penny (UAE University), Critical
Tradition Modernism and the Spirits of the Age

Bernard Sunley Room B Bernard Sunley Room C

Poscolonial Literature Judaism
Postcolonial Literature of and for Others Constructivist approaches (due) to Jewish alterity

Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz Chair: Marianne Schleicher

Linda H. Dolan (New York University), Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-

Religious Representation in The God of Small Milwaukee), Beyond Antisemitism: Rethinking
Things: The Other Created, Desecrated, or the Other in Modern Jewish History
Unfathomed?
Jennifer Caplan (Syracuse University), But He's
Tracy S. Parkinson (King College, USA), Our Nebbish: Embracing a Stereotype in the
When the Convert Hasnt Converted: Betis Le Films of Woody Allen
Roi Miracul
Marianne Schleicher (University of Aarhus),
Thrse Hulme (University of South Africa), Constructions of Sex and Gender: A Butlerian
Attending to the Other: Deconstructing the Approach to Jewish Scriptural Use
Limits of Cultural Possibility with Young
People in a Context of Poverty in South Africa
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German Idealism Film and Religion
Moral Others and Divine Others in Hegel The Body of the Other

Chair: Andrew Hass Chair: S. Brent Plate

Molly Farneth (Princeton University), Identity, Janet Tulloch (Carleton University), Camerons
Difference, and Ethical Conflict in Hegel's Avatar: a lesson in Shamanic dreaming?
Antigone Allegory
Frdric Conrod (Florida Atlantic University),
Victoria I. Burke (University of Guelph), The Impossible Escape from the City:
Antigone, The Supreme Uncanny Representations of the Beur Body in Recent
French Cinema
Paolo Diego Bubbio (University of Sydney),
God, Incarnation and Metaphysics in Hegels Timothy Clark (Concordia University), Bruno
Philosophy of Religion Dumont, Thsis and Nicholas of Cusas
Dialectical Mysticism: French neo-Platonism
and Dumonts Secular Reconstruction of a
Philosophic-Theological Anthropology of the
Cinematic body

Enda McCaffrey (Nottingham Trent

University), Lifes Otherness as a Condition of
the Mind: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Arumugam Ground Floor, Room A Arumugam Ground Floor, Room B

Visual Arts Islam

Chair: Ben Quash Chair: Afifi al-Akiti

Kate Robinson (Independent Artist, Glasgow), Carol Kersten (King's College, London), 'Glad
Contemporary Visual Art and Otherness Tidings to the Strangers': Literature and
Religion in Contemporary Muslim Thought
Liam Lenihan (University College, Cork),
James Barrys The Progress of Human Culture: Christopher Melchert (University of Oxford),
Reason, Religion and the Politics of Early Muslim Renunciants and Christian
Enlightenment Monks

Aaron Rosen (University of Oxford), Making Aneel Raina (Panjab University, India),
Space for the Other: The Rothko Chapel 'Humanism' in Punjabi Sufi Poetry

Arumugam First Floor

Critical Theory
Critical Theory and Religion

Chair: Todd Mei

Claire Jones (University of Pennsylvania),

Liturgy and the Communal Subject

Martin Matutk (Arizona State University),

Difficult Unforgiveness

Glenn Whitehouse (Florida Gulf Coast

University), Integrity, Autonomy, Totality &
Authenticity: Paul Ricoeur between Self and
Other
15.00 15.30 Coffee Break

15.30 17.00 Seventh Set of Panel Sessions

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Bernard Sunley Room A

Music Literature
Women and Dissent

Steve Knowles (University of Chester), Chair: Sarah Apetrei

Apocalyptic Imagery in the Lyrics of Extreme:
A Critical Examination of the Influence and Emma Major (University of York), Beyond the
Reception of Apocalyptic Themes in a Post- Nation: Barbauld and the Other Public
First Gulf War Context
Angela R. Bennet Segler (New York
Alexandra Pleshoyano, (University of University), Revelation, Imagination and
Sherbrooke), Leonard Cohen: If It Be Your Fiction: An examination of the nature and
Will. Music as a Mean to Attend to the Wholly status of credentia in The Book of Margery
Other Kempe and contemporary Criticism

Jane Huber (Union Theological Seminary), Wafaa Abdulaali (University of Mosul, Iraq),
Sung Gospels: New Compositions based on Religious-Cultural Intertextuality and Female
Historical Models Identity Politics: A Study of Arabic & English
Poems by Contemporary Women-Poets

Bernard Sunley Room B Glass Quad Suite 1

Postcolonial Literature Continental Philosophy of Religion
New Others The Futures of Continental Philosophy of Religion

Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz Seven short papers by:

Tamara Moellenberg (University of Oxford), Daniel Colucciello Barber (Marymount

Imaginary Shadowlands: Religion and the Manhattan College)
Other-ing Possibilities of Post-colonialism
James C. Brown (Ecole Centrale, Paris)
Zachary Beck (Baylor University),
Decolonizing the Christian Mind Michael ONeill Burns (University of Dundee)

David T. Ngong (Baylor University), Bradley A. Johnson (independent)

Rethinking the Other in Contemporary
African Christian Theology Michael Kolkman (University of Warwick)

Karin Nisenbaum (University of Toronto)

Anthony Paul Smith (University of

Nottingham)

All discussing the new volume, After the

Postsecular and the Postmodern: New Essays in
Continental Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge
Scholars Press, 2010).
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Modern Theology Film and Religion
The Varieties of Religious Others

Mark Godin (University of Glasgow), Situated Chair: S. Brent Plate

liturgies: A theology of worship meets the
philosophy of Michle Le Doeuff Alina Birzache (University of Edinburgh), The
Transformative Power of the Foolish 'Other'
Ben Kautzer (University of Durham), When in Pavel Lungins Taxi Blues and The Island
faith gets a body: sacramentality and the order
of charity Ian Pettigrew (University of Bristol), The
Peripheral Figure: Forms Of Otherness In The
Katharine Moody (Lancaster University), How Adapted Neo-Realism Of Ermanno Olmi
to eat well in church: saying yes to the other
and becoming nothing in Derrida, Paul and Heather Bigley (University of Florida), The
emerging Christian discourse Other in Mormon Cinematic Iconography

Rachel Wagner (Ithaca College), The Other

Right Here: New Media and the Dilution of
the Transcendent

Arumugam, Ground Floor, Room A Arumugam, Ground Floor, Room B

Visual Arts Islam

Chair: Ben Quash Chair: Afifi al-Akiti

J. Sage Elwell (Texas Christian University), Omar Shaukat (University of Virginia), The
Art, Alterity, and the Othering of the Body in Eclipse of Theology of Otherness and
Pain Muhammad's Nightly Journey

Carole Baker (Duke Divinity School), Testing Wan Suhaimi Wan Abdullah (University of
the Spirits: Icons and the Problem of Modern Malaya), Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi (d. 1265)
Transcendence on the Book of Existence (Kitab al-Wujud):
Attending to the Other in Muslim
Christopher Mead (University of California, Philosophical Discourse
Berkeley), The Martyrological Self and the
Martyred Other in John Foxe's Actes and Martin Whittingham (University of Oxford),
Monuments Ibn Khaldun and 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad
on the New Testament and the Death of Jesus

17.10 18.00 Business Meeting

18.00 19.10 Dance Performance and Discussion

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre

Ross McKim (Principal, Artistic Director, Rambert School)

19.30 Banquet Dinner

 Sunday 26th September

07.45 09.00 Breakfast

09.30 11.00 Eighth Set of Panel Sessions

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Bernard Sunley Room A

Modern Theology Literature
Literary Readings of Scripture

Shannon Craigo-Snell (Yale University), Chair: Elisabeth Jay

Embodied performances and Christian
formation: Ignatius of Loyola meets Jamey Heit (University of Glasgow), Veiled in
Constantin Stanislavski Exile: Desire, Displacement and the Other in
Emily Dickinsons Poetry
Joshua Edelman (University College, Dublin),
Oberammergau 2010: Medieval passion for a Samuel Tongue (University of Glasgow),
critical public Afterlives as Other-Lives: Towards an ethic of
writer-response to biblical texts
Wesley Vander Lugt (University of St
Andrews), Church beyond the fourth wall: Jon Singleton (Syracuse University), Painful
incorporating the stranger-as-other in Opacity
interactive and ecclesiological theatre

Bernard Sunley Room B Arumugam, First Floor

Postcolonial Literature Gender
New Spaces

Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz Marije Altorf (St Marys University College,

London), The two-in-one: Arendt on self as
Derek Coyle (Carlow College, Ireland), other
Reimagining the Post-Colonial: Heterotopic
Space and the Poetic Imagination in Seamus Alison Scott Bauman (University of
Heaneys Station Island Gloucestershire), A single person has
swallowed up the entire book: Is this critical
Jacqueline Cowan (Duke University), Utopian theory?
Orientalism: The Consequences of Christian
Love in Francis Bacons The New Atlantis Elisabetta Bertolino (Birkbeck College,
London), Attending to the other after hurt
Jea Sophia Oh (Parsippany, NJ), Becoming the
Other: A Postcolonial Study on Avatar via the
Deleuzian 3Ds
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Continental Philosophy of Religion Film and Religion
Political Theology Facing Ethics

Chair: S. Brent Plate

Daniel Schultz (University of Chicago), The
Queens Two Bodies: Theology in Force S. Brent Plate (Hamilton College), The Face,
Without Signification the Close Up, The Kiss: Ethical Encounters in
and Through Cinema
Thomas Lynch (University of Durham), Zizek
and Liberation Theology: A Lacano-Marxist Alyda Faber (Atlantic School of Theology),
Revival Toward an ethics of exposure in film:
Infraperception and the Face
Ian Pattenden (McGill University), Beyond the
Death of God: The Open Eschaton in Bloch Sarah Cooper (Kings College, London), Facing
and Zizek the Soul: Henri Agel in Close-Up

11.00 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 12.45 Keynote Address

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre

Victor Seidler (Goldsmiths College, London)

12.45 Farewells

Coffee in Foyer