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Workshop Programme

Day 1 - Wednesday 18th June 2014

8.30-­9.00: Registration and coffee9.00-­9.15: Formal welcome: Professor John Morrison, Head of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, 51cg

9.15–10.30: Keynote speaker: Professor Michael Stone, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

10.30-­10.40: Coffee break

10.45-­12.05: Panel 1 - Greek and Roman Falls

Chair: Ralph O’Connor

Erlend MacGillivray, 51cg, ‘Fall Narratives in Greek and Roman Philosophy’

Sam Newington, 51cg, ‘The “katabasis” of Titans and Giants’

Syrithe Pugh, 51cg, ‘The Politics of the Fall in Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos’

12.05–13.45 – Lunch

13.45–14.40: Panel 2 - Falls in Philosophy

Chair: Erlend MacGillivray

Giovanni Gellera, University of Glasgow, ‘Philosophical Fall in Reformed scholasticism’

Martin Sticker, University of St Andrews ‘The Fall of the Common Agent: Kant on Rationalising and Corruption’

14.40–15.00: Coffee break

15.00–15.55: Panel 3 - Milton I

Chair: Helen Lynch

Ralph O’Connor, 51cg, ‘Of Demons and Dinosaurs: Some Nineteenth–Century Theologies of Deep Time’

Robert Segal, 51cg ‘Hell and Paradise for Milton: Physical Places and States of Mind’

15.55–16.15: Coffee break and the Snake Cake

16.15–17.50: Panel 4 - Corporeal and Vocal Falls

Chair: Áine Larkin

Emilyn Claid, University of Roehampton, ‘CAN I LET YOU FALL?’

Emma Cocker, Nottingham Trent University, and Clare Thornton, Independent Artist, ‘The Italic I’

Kristin Borgehed, 51cg, ‘Folk Song Falls’

17.50–18.20: Drinks Reception at the Divinity Library

18.30: Dinner for delegates

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Day 2 - Thursday 19th June 2014

8.30–9.00: Coffee

9.00–09.55: Panel 5 - The Upside of the Fall

Chair: Zohar Hadromi–Allouche

Jutta Leonhardt–Balzer, 51cg, ‘Fall as Ascent: The exegesis of Gen 3–4 and 6.1–4 in Gnostic tradition’

Emily Caddick Bourne, Birkbeck, University of London, ‘The concept of redemption’

9.55–10.50: Panel 6 - Cinematic Falls

Chair: Benjamin Sherlock

Brian Murdoch, University of Stirling, ‘Beyond the Blue Lagoon: Some Popular Reflections of the Fall’

Leigh Clayton, 51cg, ‘The Difficulties of Being Human: The Fall in Screwball Comedy and Film Noirs’

10.50–11.05: Coffee break

11.05–12.00: Panel 7 - Islam

Chair: Jutta Leonhardt–Balzer

Zohar Hadromi–Allouche, 51cg, ‘The divine, Satanic, human baby: ‘Abd al–Ḥārith and other Near–Eastern newborns’

Marianna Klar, SOAS, London, ‘An Exploration of the Qur’ānic Fall of Iblīs in the Wider Context of Sūrat al–Kahf’

12.00–13.30: Lunch 13.30–14.55: Panel 8 - Poetics

Chair: Sam Newington

Beth Dodd, STETS, ‘Thomas Traherne – Doctrine, Poetics and Affection: An Account of the Fall’

Karl O’Hanlon, University of York, ‘Poetry as a fallen form: W.B. Yeats and Geoffrey Hill’

Ayse Temiz, Independent Scholar, ‘“Each the Other’s World Entire”: Monadology and Post–Apocalyptic Nomadism’

14.55–15.05: Coffee break

15.05–16.30: Panel 9 - Falls in French literature

Chair: Robert Segal

Áine Larkin, 51cg, ‘Stumbles and Falls in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu’

Steven Wilson, Queen’s University, Belfast, ‘Fallen and Redeemed: Rewriting the Magdalene Myth in Nineteenth–Century French Narratives of Prostitution’

Ben Sherlock, Independent Scholar ‘Baudelaire’s “On the Essence of Laughter” and the narrative of the Biblical Fall’

16.30–16.40: Coffee break

16.40–18.05: Panel 10 - Milton II

Chair: Syrithe Pugh

Helen Lynch, 51cg, ‘Falling Masonry and the Redemption of Public Speech: Reading Milton through Hannah Arendt’

Tzachi Zamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ‘An Anatomy of Gratitude in Paradise Lost’

David Currell, American University of Beirut ‘Some Versions of Paradise Lost: Remembering Milton through American Pastoral’

19.00: Conference Dinner for delegates