Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English (QMCRLE)
Inaugural Research Workshop
Saturday 23 April 2016, Lock-Keeper’s Cottage
10am: Registration and coffee
10.20: Welcome
10.30-11.15: Paper 1
Anthony Bale (Birkbeck), ‘Religion, literature, and the history of emotions: some lessons from medieval pilgrimage’
Chair: Tessa Whitehouse
11.15-12: Paper 2
Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Aix-Marseille), ‘Whatever happened to the history of the English nun?’
Chair: Caroline Bowden
12-12.15: Short break
12.15-1: Paper 3
Douglas Hedley (Cambridge), ‘The poetic legacy of the Cambridge Platonists’
Chair: James Vigus
1-2: LUNCH
2-2.45: Paper 4
Neil Keeble (Stirling), ‘“What shall I do to be saved?”: literature and religion in the seventeenth century’
Chair: Isabel Rivers
2.45-3: Short break
3-4: Roundtable
Emma Mason (Warwick)
James Kelly (Durham)
Anne Page (Aix-Marseille)
David Colclough (QMUL)
Questions discussed:
1) What can interdisciplinary centres bring to the study of religion and literature?
2) What do you as a researcher understand by religion and literature?
4-4.15: TEA
4.15-5: Open forum: future directions
All participants pose questions, make comments, suggest ideas