Friday 26th – Sunday 28th July, 2013 Maybe your characters are not opposed by an evil genius with a secret base–but they are in conflict with the woman who has invited them to tea in her tiny flat. Maybe your characters don’t stumble upon a mysterious corpse–but in every story, they should stumble over …
View course details “Stories from the Source: How Genre Can Strengthen Your Writing”
Friday 5th – Sunday 7th July, 2013 Gladstone’s Library, the National Memorial to the Grand Old Man, provides the perfect setting for the annual colloquium for scholars and Gladstone enthusiasts. Offers of papers on all aspects of Gladstone’s life and times are welcome (please contact David Brooks ([email protected]). The weekend includes a trip to …
View course details “The Gladstone Umbrella”
Wednesday 3rd – Friday 5th July, 2013 This inter-disciplinary conference aims to explore the various implications of the idea of the ‘liberal’ in the Victorian period, but also its multifarious legacies: its legacies for modern politics, for the ways we conceptualize the Victorian period today, and most fundamentally for our notions of broader categories …
View course details “On Liberties: Victorian Liberals and their Legacies”
Monday 1st – Wednesday 3rd July, 2013 Ian Bradley and Elizabeth Ursic will talk about their own particular experiences of how drawing on other traditions has deepened and broadened their own faith, with Ian Bradley drawing on Taoism in its understanding of the spiritual significance of water and on Hindu and Buddhist ideas of …
View course details “Liquid Faith”
Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd June, 2013 How faithful are screen adaptations of novels? Do the films add anything to the text? What is lost? What is gained? Andrena and William Telford look at film and text of classic novels. Fully Inclusive Price: £170 – £190 residential / £110 non residential.
Monday 10th – Thursday 13th June, 2013 Kalyan Dey rescues the book of Revelation for those who like Will Self think “it is a sick text . . . there is something not quite right about Revelation.” Kalyan Dey helps us towards an honest reassessment. Fully Inclusive Price: £255 – £285 residential / £150 …
View course details “The Book of Revelation: A Sick Text?”
Monday 29th April – Wednesday 1st May, 2013 Based on their recent book Personal Jesus: How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls, Clive Marsh and Vaughan S. Roberts will invite participants to take a critical look at the role popular music plays in contemporary UK life. Using material from their own research amongst music fans, …
View course details “Sex, Friends and Emotional Highs: Religion and Theology Encounter Popular Music”
Friday 12th – Sunday 14th April. 2013 Rosie Miles and Louisa Yates offer the chance to explore our enduring fascination with the Victorians, both on the page and on the screen. The course offers the chance to examine not only why readers and viewers love the Victorians so much, but the many ways in …
View course details “Looking Back: Introducing Neo-Victorian Fiction”
Monday 8th – Thursday 11th April, 2013 This annual gathering is now in its fifteenth year and provides an opportunity to reflect theologically on contemporary and classic films including The Hunger Games, Shame, Hunger, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Johnny Guitar and Intolerance. Fully Inclusive Price: £255 – £285 residential / £150 non …
View course details “Film and Theology”
Monday 25th – Wednesday 27th March, 2013 Barry Morgan, the current Archbishop of Wales, knew R. S. Thomas well and this short course offers, not literary criticism in the usual sense, but an unpretentious summary of the poet’s recurring religious concerns. Fully Inclusive Price: £180 – £210 residential / £125 non residential.
