Other Conferences
Seminar in Dissenting Studies
Dr Williams’s Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR
The seminar meets monthly on Wednesdays from 5.15 to 6.45pm.
For further information see: www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/.
Modern Religious History Seminar
London
Wednesdays at 5.15 pm
Spring term 2012
18 January Tim Jones, University of Glamorgan, ‘D.S.
Christian Missions in Global History
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
For the current programme, see: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/258
Victorian Spiritualities
Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
17 March 2012
This one-day colloquium will explore Victorian Spiritualities from a wide range of perspectives. Contributions on literary topics explore key figures such as Dickens andG.M. Hopkins, as well as lesser-known writers like Fitz-James O’Brien and T.E. Brown. Contributions on art history include a presentation on Evelyn de Morgan and Emily Ford, and there are also papers on ballet and textiles. Psychology, postcolonial studies and philosophy
are also represented.
The Monsignor Patrick J. Corish Lecture
Renehan Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 7.30pm
Speaker: Caroline Walker Bynum, Professor emerita of Medieval European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey and
University Professor emerita, Columbia University in the City of New York.
Title: ‘The Sacrality of Things: An Inquiry into Divine Materiality in the Christian Middle Ages’.
All welcome
Caroline Bynum’s work has been instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into the study
OXFORD-MANCHESTER METHODIST STUDIES SEMINARS: Call for papers
The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, and the Manchester Wesley Research Centre have worked in partnership for several years, most significantly in organising a successful international and interdisciplinary conference in 2009, ‘Religion, Gender, Industry’.
The two Centres are now establishing a bi-annual seminar series which will take place in spring [Oxford] and autumn [Manchester]. These seminars will be an opportunity for established and emerging students of Methodist Studies to present the findings of their research and scholarship.
The Great Ejectment of 1662
Dr Williams's Library, London
9 June 2012
The Friends of the Congregational Library are organizing a one-day conference. Lectures will be given by Professor Gwynfor Jones, Dr David Appleby, Dr Eryn White, and Rev Professor Alan Sell, which will be summaries of their essays in the book THE GREAT EJECTMENT OF 1662, to be published the same day by Wipf and Stock. There is no charge for the conference (including lunch and tea). Further information from: conference@DWLib.co.uk.
CIHEC (Commission Internationale d’Histoire et d’etudes du Christianisme) annual conference: Religion and Resistance in Europe from Middle Ages to the 21st century
University of Tartu, Estonia, 11-13 June 2012
Call for papers
A tendency to divorce religion from power was a product of unique Western post-Reformation way of thinking, as Talal Asad reminds us, while conceptualisation of it primarily as a symbolic system deprives religion of its historical character.
Living with Uniformity: The Church of England and Dissent, 1662 to 1689
John Rylands University Library, Manchester
27-28 June 2012
Call for Papers
2012 marks the 350th anniversary of the Act of Uniformity of 1662.
Religious Men in the Middle Ages
University of Huddersfield
6-8 July 2012
This conference seeks to explore and re-evaluate medieval men’s relationship with religion, both professed religious men and laymen. Despite their centrality to ‘traditional’ histories of the Middle Ages, many aspects of the lives and representation of medieval men remain relatively unexplored.
