Encountering Biblical Bodies - CIDRAL & CBS Research Showcase

Tue May 26 2026 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm UTC+01:00

Ellen Wilkinson Building | Manchester

Religions and Theology Department
Publisher/HostReligions and Theology Department
Encountering Biblical Bodies - CIDRAL & CBS Research Showcase
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This research showcase seeks to trace the cultural trajectories of biblical bodies across diverse contexts and the ways it is represented in
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Ellen Wilkinson B2.4

10:00–10:15 Welcome & Coffee

10:15–11:00 Peter Oakes (Religions and Theology): What have Bodies to do with Salvation? The Transformation of ‘Bodies of our Humiliation(?)’ into ‘the Likeness of the Body of (Christ’s) Glory’ in the Idea of Salvation in Philippians 3:21.

11:00–11:30 Kate Bowen (Nazarene Theological College): Sidelined in the Body and by the Body: Re-reading 1 Corinthians 12:22–26 through an Ableist-Critical Lens

11:30-11:40 Comfort Break

11:40–12:10 Anke Bernau (English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing): Bodies Enmeshed

12:10–12:40 Gillian Redfern (English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing): Bodies Beyond the Anthropos: The Medieval Symbolism of the Body of the Hare

12:40–1:25 Lunch

1:25–1:55 Cordelia Warr (Art History and Cultural Practices): Painting, printing, sculpting, forgery (and washing)

1:55–2:25 Naomi Baker (EACW): Clothed with the Sun: Apocalyptic Women in Early Modern England

2:25–2:55 Meaghan Allen (English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing): ‘To Dust You Will Return’: ‘Dusting’ in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2:55–3:10 Coffee

3:10–3:40 Rachel Miller (Religions and Theology): ‘Your Worst Enemy is Your Body’: Jesus, Mary, and Gender in Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta (2021)

3:40–4:10 Siobhán Jolley (Religions and Theology): “A World We Have Not Yet Seen”: Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon's The Map as Feminist Counter-Reception

4:10–4:40 Scott Midson and Holly Morse (Religions and Theology): Creating Desire and Desiring Creation: De/constructing the First Women of Mythology and Posthumanism

4:40-5:00 Concluding discussion and remarks





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