Thursday (February 22) — Alumni Memorial Common Room, Divinity School
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Poetry Reading & Discussion with Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Dante Micheaux, & Lisa Russ Spaar. The discussion will be moderated by Will Brewbaker.
Friday (February 23) — Alumni Memorial Common Room, Divinity School
8:00 – 8:45 a.m.: Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome by the Organizers
9:00 – 10:15 am – Session 1:
Luke Fischer (Univ. of Sydney), “Hölderlin’s Mythopoetry of History: The Eschatological Reconciliation of Nature and Spirit”
Respondent: Ian Cooper (Univ. of Kent)
10:15 – 10:30 – Break
10:30 – 11:45 – Session 2
Bernadette W. Ward (Univ. of Dallas), “Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Theology of Grace”
Respondent: Judith Wolfe (Univ. of St. Andrews)
11:45 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 – Session 3
Anne M. Carpenter (SLU), “Time and Tapestry: Charles Péguy and Place Beyond Memory”
Respondent: Kevin Hart (UVA)
2:15-2:15 – Break
2:30 – 3:45 – Session 4
Thomas Pfau (Duke), “Paul Claudel’s ‘sensibilization’ of Thomism in Connaissance de l’Est”
Respondent: Anne M. Carpenter (SLU)
Saturday (February 24) – Alumni Memorial Common Room, Divinity School
Session 5
8:00 – 8:45 Breakfast
8:45 – 10:00 – Session 5
Judith Wolfe (Univ. of St. Andrews), “R.M. Rilke and the permanency of impermanence”
Respondent: Luke Fischer (Univ. of Sydney)
10:10:15 – Break
10:15 – 11:30 – Session 6
Anthony Domestico (SUNY, Purchase) “T. S. Eliot’s Grammar of Unknowing”
Respondent: Bernadette W. Ward
11:30 – 12:45 – Lunch
12:45 – 2:00 – Session 7
Kevin Hart (UVA), “Spiritual and Spiritualizing Exercises: T.S. Eliot’s ‘Ash-Wednesday’”
Respondent: Ian Cooper (Univ. of Kent)
2:00 – 2:15 – Break
2:15 – 3:30 – Session 8
Ian Cooper (Univ. of Kent), “Poetry, Sacrament, and the Rhythm of Modernity”
Respondent: Kevin Hart
3:30 – 3:45 – Break
3:45 – 5:45 – Session 9
Łukasz Tischner (Jagiellonian Univ.), “Religion and Compassion. The Poetry of Józef Wittlin and Czesław Miłosz”
Respondent: Thomas Pfau
