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
Modern Theology
Grant Macaskill (University of St Andrews),
Conversation as a model for theological
engagement
Natalie Wigg (Vanderbilt University),
Christology as crucible: practising wisdom at
the intersection of church and academy
Christopher Roussel (University of Glasgow),
Orthodoxy as constructed identity
Bernard Sunley Room B
Postcolonial Literature
Theoretical Approaches to the Other
Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz
Steve Pardue (Wheaton College), Humility as a
Technology of the Self: Reconceiving the
Virtue in a Postcolonial Key
Ananda Abeysekara (Virginia Tech), At the
Limits of Secular(izing) History and Critique in
Postcoloniality: Thinking a Response and
Responsibility to the Postcolonial Other
Jin Young Choi (Vanderbilt University),
Transnationality, Transcorporeality, and
Spirituality: From a Postcolonial Biblical
Hermeneutical Perspective
Jung Lee (Northeastern University), The Way
of New Age Spirituality: The Legacy of
Orientalism in the Construction of New Age
Religions
Bernard Sunley Room A
Literature
Religion, Society and Otherness in 19th-Century
Literature
Chair: Elisabeth Jay
Philip Gorski (University of Nottingham), The
Staretz (Spiritual Elder) in Russian Literature;
Theology, Ideology, Narrative
Anna M Blanch (University of St Andrews),
The Real Me: E.Nesbit and the author as
Other
Troy Nelson White (University of Warwick),
The Victorian Parson Baring-Gould and his
'Other' Religion of the Gothic Threshold
Bernard Sunley Room C
Judaism
Jewish philosophy on Otherness
Chair: Marianne Schleicher
Alana Vincent (University of Glasgow), Image,
Alterity, and Artistic Production in Benjamin
and Arendt
Tore Langholz (Ben Gurion University of the
Negev), Beyond European Metaphysics - the
dual Torah in Jacques Derrida's
Grammatology
Rostyslav Dymerets (International Solomon
University of Kiev/National University of
Kiev), Religious Tradition as the Other for
Logic: The Case of Judaism
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Critical Theory
Mutual Recognition (Part 1)
Chair: Todd Mei
James Carter (University of Oxford), Identity,
Incompleteness and Interaction
Patrik Fridlund (Lund University), Giving
Voice to Others, and the Risk of Ruining a
Functioning Order
Gonalo Marcelo (Universidade Nova de
Lisboa), Ricoeur, Critical Theory and the
Utopia of Recognition
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
Performing Arts
Chair: Dana Mills
Christopher-Ra`sheem McMillan, To be
Forever Rebuilding
Jane Huber (Union Theological Seminary),
Keeping Time: Sung Gospels and Moving
Images
Hannah Chalut (University of East London),
The Mevlevi Dervish as Bridge between
Divine 'Other' and Human 'Other'
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
Glass Quad Suite 2
Higher Education
Emily Filler (University of Virginia), Shared
Learning: Chevruta
study in higher education
Clare Saunders and Rebecca O'Loughlin
(University of Leeds), Working with the Other:
interdisciplinarity and the role of
philosophical and religious studies in 21st
century higher education
Carolyn Davis (Vanderbilt University), The
Body as Itself and Yet
Not Itself: Integrating Student Diversity in
Theological Education
Bernard Sunley Room A
Literature
Suffering and Subjectivity
Chair: Lynn Robson
Sara Frances Burdorff (University of
California, Los Angeles), Discourses of
Torment: Examining the Sentimental
Violence in Eighteenth Century Antislavery
Writing
Emily O. Gravett (University of Virginia), The
Alterity of Suffering: The Problem of
Expressing and Evaluating Pain in Literature
 Bernard Sunley Room B
Biblical Studies
Chair: Christine Joynes
Nancy Jiwon Cho (Nottingham Trent
University) and Matthew Niblett (University of
Oxford), Female Revelations: The Millenarian
Exegesis of Two Late-Georgian English
Prophetesses, Dorothy Gott (c.1748-1812) and
Joanna Southcott (1750-1814)
Glass Quad Suite 1
Continental Philosophy of Religion
Theological Materialism
Jeff Keuss (Seattle Pacific University), Slavoj
Zizek and Dynamic Incarnationalism: Towards
a Lived Material Theology of Personhood
Kirill Chepurin (Higher School of Economics,
Moscow), Gods Forenoon: A Hegelian
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
Modern Theology
Nathan Strunk (Boston University), Otherness,
representation, and revelation: Nicholas of
Cusa, Karl Barth and Graham Ward
Petra Harvey (University of Virgina), Faiths
receptivity to the saturation of revelation: Karl
Barths theological epistemology in the context
of Marions phenomenology
Alden Bass (Saint Louis University), Agamben,
revelation and the Word of God
Bernard Sunley Room B
Postcolonial Literature
Historical Approaches to the Other
Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz
Brian Dunn (University of Oxford), Bishop
Appasamys Twist With Destiny: An Indian
Christians Bid for Theological Independence
Mathew Alapattumedayil (St Thomas
Seminary, India), Identity Politics among
Syrian Catholics: A Postcolonial Critique
Claire Robison (Independent), Wholly Other
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
Bernard Sunley Room A
Spirituality and Reconciliation
Chair: Marije Altorf
Jerusha Matsen Neal (Princeton Theological
Seminary), Staging Inter-religious Spiritual
Practice through Metaphor: Difference, Risk
and Reconciliation in a production of Terrence
McNallys Corpus Christi
T. Sarada (Sri Venkateswara University, India),
Whose Religion Is It Anyway?: The Subalterns
Christianity In African American Womens
Theatre
Katharine Massam (Uniting Church
Theological College), New Norcias Women:
Aboriginal Australians invite their Sisters
home
Glass Quad Suite 1
German Idealism
The Master/Slave Dialectic
Chair: Daniel Whistler
Patience Moll (University of California, Irvine),
Attending to Others: From Kleists Critical
Theory to Hegels Spiritual Practice
Martin de Nys (George Mason University),
Recognition and Alterity in Hegel's Dialectic
Andrew Hass (University of Stirling), Title
TBC
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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
Chair: Daniel Boscaljon
Andrew R. Hay (University of St Andrews),
Tillichs Ecstatic Humanism: The Future for
Theology of Culture and Theological
Humanism
Jessie Hock (University of California,
Berkeley), Miltons Interpretive Poetics:
Towards a Theory of Renaissance Poetry and
Theological Humanism
Petra Carlsson (Uppsala University), The
White Space Foucaults Theology of
Language
Literature
Non-Western spiritualities
Chair: Sarah Apetrei
Nazry Bahrawi (University of Warwick),
Reading Humanistic Islamism as a Non-
Western Utopia: A Comparative Literary
Analysis of its Utopian Impulses in the
Selected Novels of Naguib Mahfouz and
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Lori Kanitz (Oral Roberts University),
Holiness Splintered into a Vessel: Shevirat
ha-Kelim and Christs Kenosis in Annie
Dillards Non-fiction
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
Postcolonial Literature
Early Colonial Writings
Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz
Maria Cecilia A. Aguilar (Harvard Divinity
School), Come Home to Me: The Politics of
Storytelling in Early Colonial Philippines
Orenda K. Boucher (Concordia University),
Spiritual Politics of Power: A Critical
Understanding of Handsome Lake
Theresa Hawley Reeder (Syracuse University),
The Milieux and Lieux of Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl
Glass Quad Suite 1
German Idealism
Kant and the Other
Chair: Daniel Whistler
Sergue Spetchinsky (Berlin/Bruxelles),
Beyond Formalism: Reflexive Otherness in
Kants Philosophy
Joseph Lough (University of California,
Berkeley), The Statesman or the General:
Toward a Political Economy of the Sublime
Frederico Pacheco de Souza e Silva
(Sorbonne/Paris IV), Kantian Phenomenalism
and the Possibility of the Other
19.00 20.15 Dinner
20.30 21.45 Keynote Address
Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Toril Moi (Duke University)
Bernard Sunley Room C
Judaism
Religiously encouraged love of the Other
Chair: Marianne Schleicher
Daniel H. Weiss (University of Cambridge),
Neighbours and Strangers: Hermann Cohen
and the relation between Jewish and ethical
alterity
Martin Beck Matustk (Arizona State
University), The Mitzvoth of Love: Returns of
the Religious after Religion
Edna Aphek (The Jerusalem College, Israel),
Religious Commandments as an Economic,
Social and Political Tool: The Israeli Gmach
Scene
Glass Quad Suite 2
Film and Religion
Seeing, Singing to, and Beating the Other
Chair: S. Brent Plate
Patricia Huntington (Arizona State University),
Buddhist Compassion and Otherness in
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . Spring
Kaila Brown (Duke University), Iconography,
Idolatry, and Indexicality: Considering
'Phenomenality' of and in Religiously Saturated
Films
James Thrall (Knox College), Song of the
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
 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),
Synchronicity and the Flattening of Materiality:
Evaluating the Phenomenological Turn in
John Milbanks Theology
Joseph Rivera (University of Edinburgh),
Reason, Spirituality and Materialism in Recent
Continental Philosophy of Religion
Neal DeRoo (Brock University),
Phenomenology as Eschatological Materialism
Embodied Learning: Using
Theater Exercises in Theology Class
Darlene Bird (University of Glasgow),
"Doing" Literature and
Theology: Enactments of Discovery
Charlotte Gordon and Willie Young (Endicott
College), Integrating Critical and Spiritual
Reflection through Learning
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
Daniel Boscaljon (University of Iowa), Crises
of Despair in the 21st Century: Evil and
Theological Humanism
Chris Keller (University of Seattle), Narcissus
and Evangelical Personhood
Davide Caliaro (University of Verona),
Attending to the Other: Bruno Bauer and the
Jewish Question
John Hymers (LaSalle University), An inverted
ontological argument: Feuerbachs Hegelian
radicalization of the cogito
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
Music
Jade Weimer (University of Toronto), Music
and Musical Practice in the Development of
the Early Christian Church
Ming Yan Angela Poh (Marymount Manhattan
College), Music as Theology: From Hildegard
to Bach
Sven Rune Havsteen (University of
Copenhagen), Theological Reflections on the
Spiritual Character of Music in Protestant
Tradition
Bernard Sunley Room B
Poscolonial Literature
Postcolonial Literature of and for Others
Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz
Linda H. Dolan (New York University),
Religious Representation in The God of Small
Things: The Other Created, Desecrated, or
Unfathomed?
Tracy S. Parkinson (King College, USA),
When the Convert Hasnt Converted: Betis Le
Roi Miracul
Thrse Hulme (University of South Africa),
Attending to the Other: Deconstructing the
Limits of Cultural Possibility with Young
People in a Context of Poverty in South Africa
Bernard Sunley Room A
Literature
Criticism, modernism and eroticism
Chair: Lynn Robson
Joshua Weiss (University of Chicago), Acts of
Transverberation: Gertrude Steins Queer
Hagiography
Justin Tackett (University of Oxford), O my
chevalier!: Reclaiming the Confession in the
Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Jonathon Penny (UAE University), Critical
Modernism and the Spirits of the Age
Bernard Sunley Room C
Judaism
Constructivist approaches (due) to Jewish alterity
Chair: Marianne Schleicher
Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee), Beyond Antisemitism: Rethinking
the Other in Modern Jewish History
Jennifer Caplan (Syracuse University), But He's
Our Nebbish: Embracing a Stereotype in the
Films of Woody Allen
Marianne Schleicher (University of Aarhus),
Constructions of Sex and Gender: A Butlerian
Approach to Jewish Scriptural Use
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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,
Difference, and Ethical Conflict in Hegel's
Antigone Allegory
Victoria I. Burke (University of Guelph),
Antigone, The Supreme Uncanny
Paolo Diego Bubbio (University of Sydney),
God, Incarnation and Metaphysics in Hegels
Philosophy of Religion
Janet Tulloch (Carleton University), Camerons
Avatar: a lesson in Shamanic dreaming?
Frdric Conrod (Florida Atlantic University),
The Impossible Escape from the City:
Representations of the Beur Body in Recent
French Cinema
Timothy Clark (Concordia University), Bruno
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),
Contemporary Visual Art and Otherness
Liam Lenihan (University College, Cork),
James Barrys The Progress of Human Culture:
Reason, Religion and the Politics of
Enlightenment
Carol Kersten (King's College, London), 'Glad
Tidings to the Strangers': Literature and
Religion in Contemporary Muslim Thought
Christopher Melchert (University of Oxford),
Early Muslim Renunciants and Christian
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
Music
Steve Knowles (University of Chester),
Apocalyptic Imagery in the Lyrics of Extreme:
A Critical Examination of the Influence and
Reception of Apocalyptic Themes in a Post-
First Gulf War Context
Alexandra Pleshoyano, (University of
Sherbrooke), Leonard Cohen: If It Be Your
Will. Music as a Mean to Attend to the Wholly
Other
Jane Huber (Union Theological Seminary),
Sung Gospels: New Compositions based on
Historical Models
Bernard Sunley Room B
Postcolonial Literature
New Others
Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz
Tamara Moellenberg (University of Oxford),
Imaginary Shadowlands: Religion and the
Other-ing Possibilities of Post-colonialism
Zachary Beck (Baylor University),
Decolonizing the Christian Mind
David T. Ngong (Baylor University),
Rethinking the Other in Contemporary
African Christian Theology
Bernard Sunley Room A
Literature
Women and Dissent
Chair: Sarah Apetrei
Emma Major (University of York), Beyond the
Nation: Barbauld and the Other Public
Angela R. Bennet Segler (New York
University), Revelation, Imagination and
Fiction: An examination of the nature and
status of credentia in The Book of Margery
Kempe and contemporary Criticism
Wafaa Abdulaali (University of Mosul, Iraq),
Religious-Cultural Intertextuality and Female
Identity Politics: A Study of Arabic & English
Poems by Contemporary Women-Poets
Glass Quad Suite 1
Continental Philosophy of Religion
The Futures of Continental Philosophy of Religion
Seven short papers by:
Daniel Colucciello Barber (Marymount
Manhattan College)
James C. Brown (Ecole Centrale, Paris)
Michael ONeill Burns (University of Dundee)
Bradley A. Johnson (independent)
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
Mark Godin (University of Glasgow), Situated
liturgies: A theology of worship meets the
philosophy of Michle Le Doeuff
Ben Kautzer (University of Durham), When
faith gets a body: sacramentality and the order
of charity
Katharine Moody (Lancaster University), How
to eat well in church: saying yes to the other
and becoming nothing in Derrida, Paul and
emerging Christian discourse
Arumugam, Ground Floor, Room A
Visual Arts
Chair: Ben Quash
J. Sage Elwell (Texas Christian University),
Art, Alterity, and the Othering of the Body in
Pain
Carole Baker (Duke Divinity School), Testing
the Spirits: Icons and the Problem of Modern
Transcendence
Christopher Mead (University of California,
Berkeley), The Martyrological Self and the
Martyred Other in John Foxe's Actes and
Monuments
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
Glass Quad Suite 2
Film and Religion
The Varieties of Religious Others
Chair: S. Brent Plate
Alina Birzache (University of Edinburgh), The
Transformative Power of the Foolish 'Other'
in Pavel Lungins Taxi Blues and The Island
Ian Pettigrew (University of Bristol), The
Peripheral Figure: Forms Of Otherness In The
Adapted Neo-Realism Of Ermanno Olmi
Heather Bigley (University of Florida), The
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 B
Islam
Chair: Afifi al-Akiti
Omar Shaukat (University of Virginia), The
Eclipse of Theology of Otherness and
Muhammad's Nightly Journey
Wan Suhaimi Wan Abdullah (University of
Malaya), Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi (d. 1265)
on the Book of Existence (Kitab al-Wujud):
Attending to the Other in Muslim
Philosophical Discourse
Martin Whittingham (University of Oxford),
Ibn Khaldun and 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad
on the New Testament and the Death of Jesus
 Sunday 26th September
07.45 09.00 Breakfast
09.30 11.00 Eighth Set of Panel Sessions
Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Modern Theology
Shannon Craigo-Snell (Yale University),
Embodied performances and Christian
formation: Ignatius of Loyola meets
Constantin Stanislavski
Joshua Edelman (University College, Dublin),
Oberammergau 2010: Medieval passion for a
critical public
Wesley Vander Lugt (University of St
Andrews), Church beyond the fourth wall:
incorporating the stranger-as-other in
interactive and ecclesiological theatre
Bernard Sunley Room B
Postcolonial Literature
New Spaces
Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz
Derek Coyle (Carlow College, Ireland),
Reimagining the Post-Colonial: Heterotopic
Space and the Poetic Imagination in Seamus
Heaneys Station Island
Jacqueline Cowan (Duke University), Utopian
Orientalism: The Consequences of Christian
Love in Francis Bacons The New Atlantis
Jea Sophia Oh (Parsippany, NJ), Becoming the
Other: A Postcolonial Study on Avatar via the
Deleuzian 3Ds
Bernard Sunley Room A
Literature
Literary Readings of Scripture
Chair: Elisabeth Jay
Jamey Heit (University of Glasgow), Veiled in
Exile: Desire, Displacement and the Other in
Emily Dickinsons Poetry
Samuel Tongue (University of Glasgow),
Afterlives as Other-Lives: Towards an ethic of
writer-response to biblical texts
Jon Singleton (Syracuse University), Painful
Opacity
Arumugam, First Floor
Gender
Marije Altorf (St Marys University College,
London), The two-in-one: Arendt on self as
other
Alison Scott Bauman (University of
Gloucestershire), A single person has
swallowed up the entire book: Is this critical
theory?
Elisabetta Bertolino (Birkbeck College,
London), Attending to the other after hurt
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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
Without Signification
Thomas Lynch (University of Durham), Zizek
and Liberation Theology: A Lacano-Marxist
Revival
Ian Pattenden (McGill University), Beyond the
Death of God: The Open Eschaton in Bloch
and Zizek
S. Brent Plate (Hamilton College), The Face,
the Close Up, The Kiss: Ethical Encounters in
and Through Cinema
Alyda Faber (Atlantic School of Theology),
Toward an ethics of exposure in film:
Infraperception and the Face
Sarah Cooper (Kings College, London), Facing
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