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Thresholds of Wonder: Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation

mercoledì 17 giugno 2015 - sabato, 20 giugno 2015

17 giugno 2015

Ore 14.00 Arrivals

Ore 15.45 - 16.00 Conference opening – Welcome
His Magnificence F. Rector P. Juan Javier FLORES ARCAS OSB
Dean of Faculty F. Philippe NOUZILLE
Francesca BUGLIANI KNOX, the Power of the Word project

Ore 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee

Ore 16.30 - 18.00 Panel Sessions 1

Poets and Wonder I
1. Rilke’s Poetics of Wonder: Facing the Fall of Something Happy (Emilia DI ROCCO, Sapienza Università di Roma)
2. The Wonder ‘stressed, instressed’; Poetic ‘epiphanies’ in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Rainer Maria Rilke (Ewa BORKOWSKA, University of Silesia)
3. In Wonderment: David Constantine and the Commonplace (Monika SZUBA, University of Gdańsk)

Poetry, Wonder and Theology I
1. ‘Familial Strangeness’ on the Threshold of Wonder (Philip CHRISTENSEN, State University of New York/Suffolk)
2. The Extraordinary of the Ordinary: G.K. Chesterton, Imagination, and the Wonder of Natural Theology (Brett H. SPEAKMAN, University of St Andrews)
3. Poetry and Wonder: The Early Epiphanies of Peter Levi (Robert FRASER, Open University)

Poetry, Wonder and Philosophy I
1. Wonder and Enchantment: A Phenomenology of the Good in Philosophical and Poetic Modernism (Jeffrey McCURRY, Duquesne University)
2. Wonder at the Berghof: A Monastic Reading of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (David FOSTER OSB, Sant’Anselmo)
3. ‘The Splendour of the Presence of Things’: the Resurrection of Wonder in Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s Poetry of Being (Miguel Santos VIEIRA, University of Lisbon-Heythrop College)

Ore 18.00 - 19.00 Keynote Address 1
Paul MURRAY (Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas)
At the Threshold of Wonder. Theology and Poetry: Friends or Foes?

Ore 19.00 - 20.00 Light Refreshments

Ore 20.00 Poetry Evening
Poetry and the Spirit
Chair: Jay PARINI
Poets: Hilary DAVIES(Kings College London); Dana GIOIA (University of Southern California); Elena Buia RUTT(Rome)

18 giugno 2015

Ore 9.00 - 10.00 Plenary Talks 1
Jon M. SWEENEY (Independent Scholar)
Wonder and Vision in Francis of Assisi’s ‘Lost Miracle’, the ‘Canticle of the Creatures’
Antonio SPADARO, S.J. (Civilta’ Cattolica)
Art at the Frontier: Notes on Bergoglio’s Aesthetics

Ore 10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break

10.30 - 12.00 Panel Sessions 2
Poets and Wonder II1. David Jones’s Lists: The Act of Wondering in His Letters and Poetry (Anna SVENDSEN, University of York)
2. Epistemologies of Wonder: David Jones and Catherine Pickstock (Martin POTTER, University of Bucharest)
3. The Burning Bush: The Wonder-ful and Wonder-less in R. S. Thomas’s Poetry (Katarzyna DUDEK, University of Warsaw)

Poetry, Wonder and Theology II
1. Wonder in the Face of Beauty and the Poetic Word. An Aesthetic and Theological Perspective (Cecilia AVENATTI DE PALUMBO, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina)
2. Between the Fire and the Stream. Spirit and Time in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets (Alejandro BERTOLINI, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina)
3. On the Threshold of Wonder: Giacomo Leopardi’s ’L’infinito’ and T.S. Eliot’s ’Marina’ (Francesca BUGLIANI KNOX, Heythrop College, London)
4. The Figure and the Word: Exploring the Primacy of the Visual (Bradford William MANDERFIELD, Leuven)

Poetry, Wonder and Philosophy II
1. The Poetic Sources for Kenny’s Agnosticism (Marco DAMONTE, Università degli Studi di Genova)
2. Forged of Wonder: Peirce, Papini, and the Socratic Roots of Pragmatism (Clancy SMITH, Belmont University)
3. Wonder in the World: Engaging with Michel de Certeau in the Work of Spiritual Life Writing (Heather WALTON, University of Glasgow)

Ore 12.15 - 13.15 Keynote Address 2
Sara MAITLAND (Lancaster University)
The Beauty of Holiness: Would a Renewed Theology of Beauty Liberate Poetry?

Ore 13.15 - 15.00 Lunch and Afternoon Break

Ore 15.00 - 16.30 Panel Sessions 3

Poets and Wonder III
1. Rational Piety and ‘Unhabitual Influence’ in Wordsworth’s The Prelude (Christopher STOKES, University of Exeter)
2. Wonder from the Abyss: Emerson’s Transparency and Eliot’s Rose Garden (David M. ROBINSON, Oregon State University)
3. The Roots of Montale’s ‘Saddened Wonder’ (Giorgio DURANTE, Heythrop College London)

Poetry, Wonder and Philosophy III
1. The Wonder of Not Wondering: from Aristotle to Lucretius (Guido MILANESE, Università Cattolica, Milano–Brescia)
2. Heidegger and the Essence of Poetry: An Understanding of the Aesthetic (Richard ELLIOTT, Heythrop College)
3. Wonder in the Faith of a Non-believer (Ionut Marius CHELARIU, Sant’Anselmo)

Poetry, Liturgy and Lands Between1. Between the Poet and the Legislator – on Wonder and Ambivalence in Hebrew Liturgical Poetry (Ariel ZINDER, Tel Aviv University)
2. Liturgical Poiesis: Rapture, Ritual and Reform in Christian Modernism and David Jones (Jamie CALLISON, Northampton University/Bergen University)
3. The Lands Between: The Wonder of Working in Spaces of Interdisciplinarity (Jennifer REEK, University of Glasgow)

Ore 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

Ore 17.00 - 18.00 Keynote Address 3
Piero BOITANI (Sapienza, Università di Roma)
Wonder and the Word of Poetry

Ore 19.00 - 20.30 Conference Dinner

Ore 20.30-22.00 The Power of Gregorian Chant - a Musical Meditation
Gregorian Schola Cantorum of Sant’Anselmo College, conducted by David FOSTER OSB; Bernard SAWICKI OSB (introduction and organ)

19 giugno 2015

Ore 9.00 - 10.30 Panel Sessions 4

Poets and Wonder IV
1. Betrothed to the Earth: Rilke’s Poetic of Things as an Invitation to Wonder (Mark BURROWS, University of Applied Sciences, Bochum)
2. The Poetic Magnificat of Elizabeth Jennings with a Polish Priest Poet in the Background (Anna WALCZUK, Jagiellonian University)
3. Amplum et infinitum: Augustinian Wonder in Levertov’s Imagism (Howell HODGKINS, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

Poetry and Wonder
1. Wonder, More Wonder, and Ultimate Intellection in Dante (John TOOK, University College London)
2. Between Rapture and Rupture: in Search of a Crucial Dimension of Wonder (Bernard SAWICKI, Pontifical University of St Anselm, Rome)
3. Bad Smells and Unpaid Butcher’s Bills: The Peculiar Wonders of Middle English Romance (Nicola McDONALD, University of York)

Poetry, Wonder and Spirituality I
1. A Mystic of a Dead Leaf. An Apology for the Phenomenon of the Ordinary (Philippe NOUZILLE, Pontifical University of St Anselm)
2. Wonder and Desire in the Dialogue between Theology and Literature (Alex VILLAS BOAS, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
3. A Sense of Wonder in Mircea Eliade’s Scholarly and Literary Work (Gabriele BADEA, University of Bucharest)

Ore 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break

Ore 11.00 - 12.30 Panel Sessions 5

Poets and Wonder V
1. ‘The wonder of his pity’: Shock and Awe in George Herbert’s Temple (Christopher HODGKINS, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
2. Surprised by Death, or How Andrew Marvell’s Pastoral Personae Confront Death in Arcadia (Klaudia ŁACZYNSKA, University of Warsaw)
3. Joaquín Giannuzzi. The perplexity in the origin of the search for meaning (Mercedes LENNON, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina)

Poetry, Wonder and Spirituality II
1. The Hermeneutical Circle Between Wonder and Mystery in the Lived Experience of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Rossano ZAS FRIS DE COL SJ, Università Gregoriana)
2. Wonder and Imagination in Ignatius of Loyola. A study from Paul Ricoeur (Cristina BUSTAMANTE, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
3. The Power of the Word through the Pedagogy of a Love Dialogue: A Study of The Interior Castle by St Theresa of Ávila (Agustina SERRANO, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Poetry, Wonder and Spirituality III
1. Childlike Wonder (Deryl DAVIS, University of Glasgow)
2. Saint Thérèse in Poetry (Sarah LAW, London Metropolitan University)
3. Scandalous Wonder: Contemplating the Cross in Poetry (Jean WARD, Gdańsk University)

Ore 12.30 - 15.00 Lunch

Ore 15.00 - 16.00 Keynote Address 4
Richard KEARNEY (Boston College)
Poetics of the Stranger

Ore 16.00 Optional tour and free evening

20 giugno 2015

Ore 9.00 - 10.30 Panel Sessions 6

Poets and Wonder VI
1. ‘Le mystère, la beauté, et la mystique de la nature’ in Henry Beston’s The Outermost House (Stefano Maria CASELLA, Università IULM, Milano)
2. The Eternal Wonder of the Feminine Divine: Dantean and Yeatsian Paradigms and the Impersonal Presence of Bonnefoy’s Douve (Kathryn WILLS, University of Glasgow)
3. Voice and the Plurality of the World: Mario Luzi’s Poetry (Ernesto LIVORNI, University of Wisconsin)

Poetry, Wonder and Spirituality IV
1. Suddenly Seeing: The Aesthetics of the Mystical Moment (Sheila GALLAGHER, Boston College)
2. A Theology of Wonder in Minor Encounters: A Case Study from New Zealand (Joanna OSBORNE, University of Otago)
3. Wonder as Intersection Between the Ethical, the Aesthetical and the Spiritual: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore (Priyambada SARKAR, University of Calcutta)

Poetry, Wonder and Philosophy IV
1. That which Cannot be Seen: The Face of the Other in John Donne’s Poem “The Good -Morrow” and the Discourses of Love in Contemporary Philosophy (Małgorzata GRZeEGORZEWSKA, University of Warsaw)
2. The Wonder of God in the Mysteries (Mystères) of Charles Péguy (Ana RODRÍGUEZ FALCÒN, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina)
3. ‘The Funny Thing about Trees’: Humour and Wonder (Matthew BEVIS, Oxford University)

Ore 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.00 Plenary Talks 2
Dilwyn KNOX (University College London) Giordano Bruno, Heretic: Wonder, Salvation and Obedience
Ben QUASH (King’s College London)
Wonder and Wildness: Some Visual Overwhelmings in Christian Art

Ore 12.00 - 13.30
Poetry Workshop/Discussion led by Stephen Parkin (British Library) on links between Italian and English poetry in relation to conference themes with an introduction by Angela Leighton (Cambridge): ‘Wonder in Translation’

Ore 13.30 - 14.30 Lunch

Ore 15.00 - 16.00
Conclusion, followed by general meeting to discuss the future of the Power of the Word project.

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