Conference: Retracing Swedenborg: Texts, Contexts and Changing Perspectives

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SPEAKER/S: JAMES BARSZCZ | PIOTR DE BOŃCZA BUKOWSKI | AVERY CURRAN | DAVID DUNÉR | SIBYLLE ERLE | REBECCA K ESTERSON | ARIEL HESSAYON | ALASTAIR LOCKHART | ANNA MADDISON | BRAD MCKINNON | ALEX MURRAY | MICHAEL NEWMAN | SAORI OSUGA | VICTOR REES | ROBERT RIX | DELL ROSE | WILLIAM ROWLANDSON | VINCENT ROY-DI PIAZZA | NICHOLAS SHRIMPTON | FRIEDEMANN STENGEL | CJ SWENSON | DEVIN ZUBER

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: IAIN SINCLAIR

Banner image: Landscape, by Francis Oliver Finch (courtesy of the V&A)

Info: 11.00: STEPHEN MCNEILLY
CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION
11:10-11:40: DEVIN ZUBER
DANCING WITH GHOSTS: BLAKELOCK’S VISION OF LIFE
11:45-12:15: ROBERT RIX
THE DIVINE IMPROVISER: WILKINSON, SWEDENBORG, AND THE VICTORIAN SPIRIT PEN
12:20-12:50: FRIEDEMANN STENGEL
SWEDENBORG’S VEILED RECEPTION: AND NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE SO-CALLED ENLIGHTENMENT

Info: 2:00: INTRODUCTION
2:10-2:40: PIOTR DE BOŃCZA BUKOWSKI
SWEDENBORG’S INFLUENCE ON POLISH ROMANTICISM – EVIDENCE AND REFUTATIONS
2:45-3:15: WILLIAM ROWLANDSON
LEZAMA LIMA’S SISTEMA POÉTICO DEL MUNDO: A SWEDENBORGIAN COSMOVISION
3:20-3:50: REBECCA ESTERTON
THE SWEDENBORGIAN PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE SENSES IN HELEN KELLER’S THE WORLD I LIVE IN
3:55-4:35: NICHOLAS SHRIMPTON
BLAKE’S SWEDENBORGIAN DISCIPLE: FRANCIS OLIVER FINCH
4:45-5:45: CLOSING NOTES ON DAY ONE/ROUND TABLE Q&A

Info: 10.20: INTRODUCTION
10.30-10.50: AVERY CURRAN
‘FOOTPRINTS OF ANGELS’: BEAUTY, FEAR, AND THE MATERIALISED SPIRIT BODY
10:55-11:15: VINCENT ROY-DI PIAZZA
SWEDENBORG ON SLAVERY (REMOTE)
11:20-11:40: DELL ROSE
‘SEEING IS NOT ALWAYS UNDERSTANDING’: ENGAGEMENT WITH SWEDENBORG OUTSIDE THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION IN MEIJI-ERA JAPAN
11:45-12:05: BRAD MCKINNON
‘A HAPPY IMMORTALITY’: HELEN KELLER, DISABILITY AND SWEDENBORG’S THEOLOGY OF COMMONWEALTH
12:10-12:30: C J SWENSON
LONGITUDE AND LONGITUDO: HOW SWEDENBORG CHARTED SEA AND SPIRIT
12:35-12:55: ALEX MURRAY
PRE-SECTARIAN SWEDENBORGIANISM AND CONCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS: RE-EXAMINING BENEDICT CHASTANIER’S UNIVERSAL SOCIETY

Info: 2:00: INTRODUCTION
2:10-2:40: DAVID DUNÉR
SWEDENBORG IN ROME (REMOTE)
2:45-3:05: JAMES BARSZCZ
THE ANXIETY OF INFLUX: MYSTICISM IN THE WRITINGS OF THE JAMES FAMILY
3:10-3:30: SAORI OSUGA
THÉOPHILE GAUTIER’S SPIRITE AND SWEDENBORG’S CONJUGIAL LOVE
3:35-3:55: VICTOR REES
SWEDENBORGIAN CURRENTS: SECULAR MYSTICISM IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD
4:00-4:40: ARIEL HESSAYON
WITNESSES AGAINST THE BEAST: RADICAL IDEAS OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION (1641–60) IN EIGHTEENTH- AND EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONTEXTS
4:45-5:45: CLOSING NOTES ON DAY TWO/ROUND TABLE Q&A

Info: 10.20: INTRODUCTION
10:30-11:00: SIBYLLE ERLE
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON’S COPY OF WILLIAM BLAKE’S THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB (1826); OR, TENNYSON’S BLAKEAN RELATIONS WITH SWEDENBORG
11:05-11:35: MICHAEL NEWMAN
SWEDENBORG, MALLARMÉ AND LE LIVRE
11:40-12:10: ANNA MADDISON
‘THROUGH DEATH TO LOVE’: SWEDENBORGIAN IMAGERY IN THE WORK OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
12:15-12:45: ALASTAIR LOCKHART
‘THE SECOND COMING’ AND OTHER APOCALYPTIC POEMS OF W. B. YEATS
1:00-2:00: LUNCH BREAK
2:00: IAIN SINCLAIR
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ON WILLIAM BLAKE AND EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

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