Programme
To see the abstracts for any of the postgraduate papers, please click the link on the relevant session.
Friday 9th January
12:30-13:00
13:00-13:15 13:15-14:45 14:45-15:15 15:15-16:45 16:45-17:00 17:00-18:00 18:00-18:45 19:00 |
Registration (tea and coffee available)
Welcome Keynote: Professor David Brown Images, Idols and Icons: The Collapse of Familiar Certainties Break (with refreshments) Parallel session 1 Late Medieval to Counter-Reformation Art (A102) Chair: Naomi Billingsley Aisling Reid, ‘Image Desecration in Late Medieval Italy’ Alison Harpur, ‘“Through a Mirror Darkly”: The Image of God in the Self-Portraiture of Albrecht Dürer’ *Owing to a speaker no longer being able to attend, this panel will finish at 16:15. Attendees may move to A115 for the final paper of 'Selfhood, Relationality and Imago Dei* Selfhood, Relationality and Imago Dei (A115) Chair: Ben Wood Anthony Floyd, ‘God as Creativity: Gordon Kaufman’s Deconstruction and Reconstruction of God the Father’ Tsung-I Hwang, ‘The Application of Moltmann’s Interpretation of the Imago Dei to Facing the Tendency of the Behavioural Custom of Masking (the True Self) in the Context of Confucian-influenced Chinese Edward Youansamouth, ‘The Divine Body: Blake’s Theology of the Imagination and Sterry’s Cosmic Christology’ Images of the Church and Visual Portrayals of the Body of Christ (A214) Chair: Anna Huxley Mark Dawson, ‘Image of the Kingdom? The Practice of Fair Trade as an Act of Symbolic Witness’ Tereska Lynam, ‘What Would Jesus Do? (“WWJD™): Christ in a Commercialised Temple’ *Owing to a speaker no longer being able to attend, this panel will finish at 16:15. Attendees may move to A115 for the final paper of 'Selfhood, Relationality and Imago Dei* Egyptology (Manchester Museum) Pitstop Parallel session 2 Modern and Contemporary Art (A102) Chair: Charlie Pemberton Carol Marples, ‘Daughters at the Last Supper: Three Feminist Interpretations’ Bob Gaunt, ‘Saints and Scousers: Pope John XXIII and Arthur Dooley’ Human Nature in the Image of God (A115) Chair: Graham Abbott S. Y. Celine Yeung, ‘Royal Heirs and Heiresses - The Implications of a “Royal” Interpretation of the Imago Dei’ Christiane Alpers, ‘The Mysteriousness of the Divine Image: An Occasion for Praise?’ Philosophy, Theology and Idols (A214) Chair: Hannah Burton Philip Whitehead, ‘Is an Idol Anything? Learning from Paul’s Argument in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10’ Petre Maican, ‘The Sacredness of Idols’ Wine reception (Kro Bar, Oxford Rd) Optional conference dinner (Kro Bar) (pre-purchase ticket-holders only) |
Saturday 10th January
09:00-09:30
09:30-11:00 11:00-11:30 11:30-13:00 13:00-13:45 13:45-15:15 15:15-15:45 15:45-17:00 |
Registration desk open
Keynote: Alistair McFadyen 'Imaging God: Not so much defining as seeking humanity?' Break (with refreshments) Parallel session 3 Imaging Christ and the Crucifixion (A102) Chair: Naomi Billingsley Andrew Williams, ‘Can Jews Produce Christian Art?’ Christopher R. Brewer, ‘Faith Beyond the Loss of Faith: Alfonse Borysewicz’s Cross of the Deposition (1991)’ Amanda Dillon, ‘Metro Messiah: Exploring the Reception of Jesus in Urban Street Art’ Challenges to Imago Dei: Personhood in Contemporary Culture (A115) Chair: Scott Midson Christopher John Thornhill, ‘A Grand Ungodly God-like Man: Blood Meridian’s Judge Holden as Grotesque Parody of God’ Monika Chmelova, ‘Iconic Symmetry of Digital Avatars: How People do (not) “Embody” God’s Image in Cyberspace’ Julian Templeton, ‘Persons as Imaged, Viewed, Marketed, Re-valued by the Gospel, and Treasured by the Church’ Encountering the Other: Images of Demons and Devils in Global Perspective (A214) Chair: Charlie Pemberton Gabrielle Thomas, ‘Gregory Nazianzen on the War between the Imago Dei and the Devil’ Sandra Nickel, ‘Idols, “Superstitions” and the “Prince of Darkness” - Linguistic Re-mapping of the Yorùbá Pantheon in Nineteenth-Century Missionary Correspondence’ Aidan Ahaligah, ‘Icons, Images, Idol Worship and Demonic Points of Contact: Pentecostalisation and Pentecostalist Theology in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa’ Archaeology (Manchester Museum) Lunch (provided) Parallel session 4 Devotional Images (A102) Chair: Ben Wood Soetkin Vanhauwaert, 'Devotion to the Baptist's Head: Relic versus Image' Elaine Belz, ‘A Wounded Presence: The Virgin of Vladimir Icon’ Luke Penkett, ‘Theological Aspects of a Recently Found Sixth-Century Coptic Icon of Christ and the Virgin’ Trinity and the Moving Image (A115) Chair: Scott Midson Marten Krijgsman, ‘The Digital Messiah: The Use of Messianic Themes in the Mass Effect Trilogy’ Hannah Barr, ‘Transcendence Unchained: Imaging the Holy Spirit in Tarantino’s Django Unchained’ Denys Kondyuk, ‘The Possibility of Communicating God through Cinematography: Theological Analysis of Beauty as Transcendental in some Contemporary Films’ Philosophical Approaches to Idols (A214) Chair: Jon Greenaway James Beck, ‘‘There is no God and we are his prophets’: Religious Atheism and the Mysticism of the Sign in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road’ Clayton Goodgame, ‘The Social Role of Icons: Latour and the Anthropology of “Religious Talk”’ Gillian Breckenridge, ‘“The Domination of the All-distorting Image”: Karl Barth and Michel Foucault on the Power/Knowledge of Sin as Falsehood’ Living Cultures (Manchester Museum) Break (with refreshments) Closing discussion and farewell David Brown in conversation with Alistair McFadyen, convened by Professor Peter Scott. |
The image above is a detail from The Lord answering Job out of the Whirlwind from William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job (1826) and is reproduced by courtesy of the University Librarian and Director, The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester.