Traherne 350 Online Symposium 31 October 2024: Programme
Thomas Traherne 350 Online Symposium
To commemorate the 350th anniversary of Thomas Traherne’s death, the Traherne Online Research Network is holding an online symposium on Thursday 31 October 2024. This will begin at 2.00 p.m. London time (GMT), and will end at 8.30 p.m. (GMT), with a wide range of papers, given by Traherne scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Full details of the programme are available below.
To register for the symposium, please email Dr Julia Smith. Your registration will be acknowledged, and you will be sent Zoom links for the sessions a few days before the symposium. All participants will be sent links for all three sessions, but it would be helpful if you could provisionally indicate how many sessions you plan to attend.
The symposium is free of charge, and you do not have to be an academic researcher to attend talks.
Traherne 350 Online Symposium Thursday 31 October 2024: Programme
Session 1: 2.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. (London time/GMT)
Session Chair: Professor Carol Ann Johnston, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
2.00 p.m. Dr Angela Balla, University of Alabama in Huntsville, ‘Typology as Providence in Traherne’s The Ceremonial Law’
2.30 p.m. Dr Jane Partner, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, ‘A Stranger Upon Earth: Traherne’s Theology of Attention’
3.00 p.m. Dr Cynthia Saenz-Weinand, Northern Virginia Community College, ‘Silence in Thomas Traherne’s Writings’
Session 2: 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. (London time/GMT)
Session Chair: Professor Jacob Blevins, Sam Houston State University
4.30 p.m. Professor Ana Elena González-Treviño, UNAM-UK and King’s College, London, ‘Traherne’s Transmutation of Meaning'
5.00 - 6.00 p.m. Dr Frank Guertin, Hazelip School of Theology, Lipscomb University, ‘”Authoritie” in Thomas Traherne’s Political Theology’
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Daniel T. Haase, Wheaton College, ‘Thomas Traherne’s Commentary on Abuse: A Theology of Inversion and Hope’
Session 3: 7.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. (London time/GMT)
Session Chair: Dr Kathryn Murphy, Oriel College, Oxford
7.00 p.m. Dr Valery Rees, School of Philosophy and Economic Science, ‘Traherne’s engagement with the Platonic Tradition’
7.30 p.m. Dr Austen Saunders, The Oxford Traherne, ‘Traherne’s first readers’
8.00 p.m. Dr Tanya Zhelezcheva, Queensborough Community College, ‘Traherne’s Thanksgivings in Book Catalogues’
To download the programme as a PDF, click below.
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