mercoledì 17 giugno 2015 - sabato, 20 giugno 2015
17 giugno 2015
Ore 14.00
ArrivalsOre 15.45 - 16.00
Conference opening – WelcomeHis Magnificence F. Rector P.
Juan Javier FLORES ARCAS OSBDean of Faculty F.
Philippe NOUZILLEFrancesca BUGLIANI KNOX, the Power of the Word project
Ore 16.00 - 16.30
CoffeeOre 16.30 - 18.00
Panel Sessions 1Poets 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 1Paul MURRAY (Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas)
At the Threshold of Wonder. Theology and Poetry: Friends or Foes?
Ore 19.00 - 20.00
Light RefreshmentsOre 20.00
Poetry EveningPoetry and the Spirit
Chair:
Jay PARINIPoets:
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 1Jon 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 Break10.30 - 12.00
Panel Sessions 2Poets 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 2Sara MAITLAND (Lancaster University)
The Beauty of Holiness: Would a Renewed Theology of Beauty Liberate Poetry?
Ore 13.15 - 15.00
Lunch and Afternoon BreakOre 15.00 - 16.30
Panel Sessions 3Poets 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 BreakOre 17.00 - 18.00
Keynote Address 3Piero BOITANI (Sapienza, Università di Roma)
Wonder and the Word of Poetry
Ore 19.00 - 20.30
Conference DinnerOre 20.30-22.00
The Power of Gregorian Chant - a Musical MeditationGregorian 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 BreakOre 11.00 - 12.30
Panel Sessions 5Poets 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
LunchOre 15.00 - 16.00
Keynote Address 4 Richard KEARNEY (Boston College)
Poetics of the Stranger
Ore 16.00
Optional tour and free evening20 giugno 2015
Ore 9.00 - 10.30
Panel Sessions 6Poets 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 Break11.00 - 12.00
Plenary Talks 2Dilwyn 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
LunchOre 15.00 - 16.00
Conclusion, followed by general meeting to discuss the future of the Power of the Word project.