Today’s seminar will be led by Prof Mattias Martinson (Uppsala University) – “‘Ontology of Hell’ Theodor W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Reading of Sören Kierkegaard”

This week’s seminar will be led by Dr Marije Altorf (St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham).  Her presentation is titled “Dialogue and Rhetoric: Socrates in the Modern University.”

This week’s seminar will be led by Dr Chris Gair.  He will be discussing the frequently overlooked relationship between Great Britain and Edgar Allan Poe—one of America’s most iconic authors and poets.

For this week’s seminar, there will be a viewing of “Wise Blood” directed by John Huston—a cinematic retelling of Flannery O’Connor’s southern gothic masterpiece.

This week’s seminar will be led by Anna Fisk and Jennifer Reek.

Anna’s topic is titled ‘Sisterhood in the Wilderness: Womanist and Feminist Interpretations of Hagar and Sarah (Genesis 16:1-21 and 21:9-21)’

Jennifer will be discussing her project titled  ‘“But Now My Eye Sees You”: Reading Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective as a Retelling of the Book of Job.’ 

Follow this link for an excerpt from ‘The Singing Detective.’

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This week’s seminar presentation by Dr Derek Coyle is titled: “Rallying against Impecuniosity: Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’ - a Spiritual Resource in a Capitalist Economy Gone Wrong.”  Dr Coyle has suggested that we read ‘The Deserted Village’ in preparation for the seminar.

Prof David Jasper will be leading a seminar titled “Pilgrimage and Sacred Place” this Saturday at the Sacred Topographies event being held at the Govan Old Parish Church.  Prof Jasper has written widely on the topic of landscape and sacred places.  One of his most recent publications is titled “The Desert Landscape: A Sunlit Landscape Amid the Night of Nonbeing.”  He investigates the creative potential of sacred landscapes and the desert in his book The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture.

The upcoming “Sacred Topographies: Pilgrimage and Place” event has been inspired by a collaborative research project led by Dr Avril Madrell and among others our very own Dr Heather Walton.  The project was titled “Landscape aesthetics, meaning and experience in Christian pilgrimage.”  Dr Madrell has contributed to numerous publications on themes related to the complex relationship between sacred landscapes and spiritual experience.  For a list of publications and research profile please visit the following link at the University of the West of England, Bristol.   

This week’s CLTA seminar will be led by Dr Scott Robertson.  The session is a broad look at how literature and theology can learn from one another in their common engagement with the concept of truth.