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2010 ISRLC Conference

University of Oxford, 23rd – 26th September 2010

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Thursday 23rd September 15.00 – 17.30 Registration Porters’ Lodge, St Catherine’s 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 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 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 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

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

Glass Quad Suite 1 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 Gonçalo Marcelo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Ricoeur, Critical Theory and the Utopia of Recognition

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 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-siècle France Gwendolyn Starks (University of St Andrews), Becoming Dorothy: Discussing the Other Through the Actor’s Technique of Character Study


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

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break

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) Amanda Russell-Jones (University of Birmingham), Sisters in the Wilderness: Hagar and Josephine Butler in 1850s Oxford Jonathan Singleton (Syracuse University), Malignant Faith: George Eliot on Literary Realism and Biblical Interpretation

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), God’s Forenoon: A Hegelian Reading of Meillassoux’s “Spectral Dilemma” Bradley Onishi (University of California, Santa Barbara), Bataille’s Critique of Heidegger: A Precursor to Philosophy’s (Re)Turn to Religion

Glass Quad Suite 2 Film and Religion

Producing Film - Producing Otherness Chair: S. Brent Plate Daniel Marcolino Claudino de Sousa (University of São 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

15.30 – 17.00 Third Set of Panel Sessions


Nathan Strunk (Boston University), Otherness, representation, and revelation: Nicholas of Cusa, Karl Barth and Graham Ward Petra Harvey (University of Virgina), Faith’s receptivity to the saturation of revelation: Karl Barth’s theological epistemology in the context of Marion’s phenomenology Alden Bass (Saint Louis University), Agamben, revelation and the Word of God

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 McNally’s Corpus Christi T. Sarada (Sri Venkateswara University, India), Whose Religion Is It Anyway?: The Subaltern’s Christianity In African American Women’s Theatre Katharine Massam (Uniting Church Theological College), New Norcia’s Women: Aboriginal Australians invite their Sisters ‘home’


Historical Approaches to the Other

Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz Brian Dunn (University of Oxford), Bishop Appasamy’s Twist With Destiny: An Indian Christian’s 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

Glass Quad Suite 1 German Idealism

The Master/Slave Dialectic Chair: Daniel Whistler Patience Moll (University of California, Irvine), Attending to Others: From Kleist’s ‘Critical Theory’ to Hegel’s Spiritual Practice Martin de Nys (George Mason University), Recognition and Alterity in Hegel's Dialectic Andrew Hass (University of Stirling), Title TBC

17.15 – 18.45 Fourth Set of Panel Sessions

Glass Quad Suite 2 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

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Theological Humanism

Chair: Daniel Boscaljon Andrew R. Hay (University of St Andrews), Tillich’s ‘Ecstatic Humanism’: The Future for Theology of Culture and Theological Humanism Jessie Hock (University of California, Berkeley), Milton’s Interpretive Poetics: Towards a Theory of Renaissance Poetry and Theological Humanism Petra Carlsson (Uppsala University), The White Space – Foucault’s Theology of Language


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 Christ’s Kenosis in Annie Dillard’s Non-fiction Emma Bausch (Dalhousie University), A Passage to India and A Meeting by the River: Reconsidering the Other as a Spiritual Mystery

19.00 – 20.15 Dinner 20.30 – 21.45 Keynote Address Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre

Toril Moi (Duke University)


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


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 Matustík (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 G’mach Scene

Glass Quad Suite 1 German Idealism Kant and the Other

Chair: Daniel Whistler Sergueï Spetchinsky (Berlin/Bruxelles), Beyond Formalism: Reflexive Otherness in Kant’s 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


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 Ichikawa’s 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


Jennifer Reek (University of Glasgow), What is church when church is not? An exploration of alternative poetic ecclesio(eschato?)logical “spaces” through the work of Yves Bonnefoy and Hélène Cixous Daryl Ellis (Vanderbilt University), Divine dissocation: a “monstrous compound” or the frailty of love? Michael Thate (University of Durham), The effusive presence: memory, performance and the people of God


The ‘other’ in early modern religious verse Chair: Helen Wilcox Hilary Elder (Durham University), Attending to Christ in Early Modern Religious Verse: Donne, Crashaw, Lanyer Jayme M. Yeo (Rice University), Political Theology in Richard Crashaw and the Marginalization of History Lee Morrissey (Clemson University), Eve's Otherness and the New Ethical Criticism

Bernard Sunley Room B Biblical Studies

Chair: Christine Joynes Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University), Valentinian Exegesis, Community, and the Problem of Spiritual Gifts Charlie Shepherd (University of Durham), Postmodernity, Politics, and Promise: Locating Genesis 12-13 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


Intricacies of dual identification Chair: Marianne Schleicher Inge-Birgitte Siegumfeldt (University of Copenhagen), Otherwise Jewish – Other Than Jewish Alexandra Pleshoyano (University of Sherbrooke), Leonard Cohen: Attending to the Other through Judaism and Buddhism


Phenomenology and Deconstruction Dan Miller (Syracuse University), Synchronicity and the Flattening of Materiality: Evaluating the Phenomenological Turn in John Milbank’s Theology Joseph Rivera (University of Edinburgh), Reason, Spirituality and Materialism in Recent Continental Philosophy of Religion Neal DeRoo (Brock University), Phenomenology as Eschatological Materialism

Glass Quad Suite 2 Higher Education

Shannon Craigo-Snell (Yale University), 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 Theological Humanism

W. David Hall (Centre College), The Practice 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

Arumugam Ground Floor, Room B German Idealism

Self and Other after Hegel Chair: Andrew Hass Davide Caliaro (University of Verona), Attending to the Other: Bruno Bauer and the Jewish Question John Hymers (LaSalle University), An inverted ontological argument: Feuerbach’s Hegelian radicalization of the cogito Will Williams (Baylor University), Kierkegaard’s Irony as Constructive of the Self/Other Relation

Arumugam First Floor Critical Theory

Mutual Recognition (Part 2) Chair: Todd Mei Chiara Chinello (Università 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: Bataille’s 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


Criticism, modernism and eroticism Chair: Lynn Robson Joshua Weiss (University of Chicago), Acts of Transverberation: Gertrude Stein’s 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 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 Hasn’t Converted: Beti’s Le Roi Miraculé Thérèse 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


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

Glass Quad Suite 1 German Idealism

Moral Others and Divine Others in Hegel Chair: Andrew Hass 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 Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion

Glass Quad Suite 2 Film and Religion The Body of the Other

Chair: S. Brent Plate Janet Tulloch (Carleton University), Cameron’s Avatar: a lesson in Shamanic dreaming? Frédéric 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, Théōsis and Nicholas of Cusa’s ‘Dialectical Mysticism’: French neo-Platonism and Dumont’s Secular Reconstruction of a Philosophic-Theological Anthropology of the Cinematic “body” Enda McCaffrey (Nottingham Trent University), Life’s Otherness as a Condition of the Mind: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Arumugam Ground Floor, Room A Visual Arts

Chair: Ben Quash Kate Robinson (Independent Artist, Glasgow), Contemporary Visual Art and Otherness Liam Lenihan (University College, Cork), James Barry’s The Progress of Human Culture: Reason, Religion and the Politics of Enlightenment Aaron Rosen (University of Oxford), Making Space for the Other: The Rothko Chapel

Arumugam Ground Floor, Room B Islam

Chair: Afifi al-Akiti 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 Aneel Raina (Panjab University, India), '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 Matuštík (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


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


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


The Futures of Continental Philosophy of Religion Seven short papers by: Daniel Colucciello Barber (Marymount Manhattan College) James C. Brown (Ecole Centrale, Paris) Michael O’Neill 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).

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


The Varieties of Religious Others Chair: S. Brent Plate Alina Birzache (University of Edinburgh), The Transformative Power of the Foolish 'Other' in Pavel Lungin’s 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 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

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

Arumugam, First Floor Modern Theology

Mark Godin (University of Glasgow), Situated liturgies: A theology of worship meets the philosophy of Michèle 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

Sunday 26th September 07.45 – 09.00 Breakfast 09.30 – 11.00 Eighth Set of Panel Sessions


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


Literary Readings of Scripture Chair: Elisabeth Jay Jamey Heit (University of Glasgow), ‘Veiled in Exile’: Desire, Displacement and the Other in Emily Dickinson’s 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


New Spaces Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz Derek Coyle (Carlow College, Ireland), Reimagining the Post-Colonial: Heterotopic Space and the Poetic Imagination in Seamus Heaney’s ‘Station Island’ Jacqueline Cowan (Duke University), Utopian Orientalism: The Consequences of Christian Love in Francis Bacon’s The New Atlantis Jea Sophia Oh (Parsippany, NJ), Becoming the Other: A Postcolonial Study on Avatar via the Deleuzian 3Ds

Arumugam, First Floor Gender

Marije Altorf (St Mary’s 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

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 – 12.45 Keynote Address

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre Victor Seidler (Goldsmith’s College, London)

12.45 Farewells

Coffee in Foyer

Arumugam, Ground Floor, Room A Continental Philosophy of Religion

Political Theology Daniel Schultz (University of Chicago), The Queen’s 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

Arumugam, Ground Floor, Room B Film and Religion

Facing Ethics Chair: S. Brent Plate 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

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