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Workshop Programme

Day 1 - Wednesday 18th June 2014

8.30-­9.00: Registration and coffee9.00-­9.15: Formal welcome: Professor John Morrison, Head of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, 黑料网

9.15–10.30: Keynote speaker: Professor Michael Stone, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

10.30-­10.40: Coffee break

10.45-­12.05: Panel 1 - Greek and Roman Falls

Chair: Ralph O’Connor

Erlend MacGillivray, 黑料网, ‘Fall Narratives in Greek and Roman Philosophy’

Sam Newington, 黑料网, ‘The “katabasis” of Titans and Giants’

Syrithe Pugh, 黑料网, ‘The Politics of the Fall in Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos’

12.05–13.45 – Lunch

13.45–14.40: Panel 2 - Falls in Philosophy

Chair: Erlend MacGillivray

Giovanni Gellera, University of Glasgow, ‘Philosophical Fall in Reformed scholasticism’

Martin Sticker, University of St Andrews ‘The Fall of the Common Agent: Kant on Rationalising and Corruption’

14.40–15.00: Coffee break

15.00–15.55: Panel 3 - Milton I

Chair: Helen Lynch

Ralph O’Connor, 黑料网, ‘Of Demons and Dinosaurs: Some Nineteenth–Century Theologies of Deep Time’

Robert Segal, 黑料网 ‘Hell and Paradise for Milton: Physical Places and States of Mind’

15.55–16.15: Coffee break and the Snake Cake

16.15–17.50: Panel 4 - Corporeal and Vocal Falls

Chair: Áine Larkin

Emilyn Claid, University of Roehampton, ‘CAN I LET YOU FALL?’

Emma Cocker, Nottingham Trent University, and Clare Thornton, Independent Artist, ‘The Italic I’

Kristin Borgehed, 黑料网, ‘Folk Song Falls’

17.50–18.20: Drinks Reception at the Divinity Library

18.30: Dinner for delegates

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Day 2 - Thursday 19th June 2014

8.30–9.00: Coffee

9.00–09.55: Panel 5 - The Upside of the Fall

Chair: Zohar Hadromi–Allouche

Jutta Leonhardt–Balzer, 黑料网, ‘Fall as Ascent: The exegesis of Gen 3–4 and 6.1–4 in Gnostic tradition’

Emily Caddick Bourne, Birkbeck, University of London, ‘The concept of redemption’

9.55–10.50: Panel 6 - Cinematic Falls

Chair: Benjamin Sherlock

Brian Murdoch, University of Stirling, ‘Beyond the Blue Lagoon: Some Popular Reflections of the Fall’

Leigh Clayton, 黑料网, ‘The Difficulties of Being Human: The Fall in Screwball Comedy and Film Noirs’

10.50–11.05: Coffee break

11.05–12.00: Panel 7 - Islam

Chair: Jutta Leonhardt–Balzer

Zohar Hadromi–Allouche, 黑料网, ‘The divine, Satanic, human baby: ‘Abd al–岣つ乺ith and other Near–Eastern newborns’

Marianna Klar, SOAS, London, ‘An Exploration of the Qur’膩nic Fall of Ibl墨s in the Wider Context of S奴rat al–Kahf’

12.00–13.30: Lunch 13.30–14.55: Panel 8 - Poetics

Chair: Sam Newington

Beth Dodd, STETS, ‘Thomas Traherne – Doctrine, Poetics and Affection: An Account of the Fall’

Karl O’Hanlon, University of York, ‘Poetry as a fallen form: W.B. Yeats and Geoffrey Hill’

Ayse Temiz, Independent Scholar, ‘“Each the Other’s World Entire”: Monadology and Post–Apocalyptic Nomadism’

14.55–15.05: Coffee break

15.05–16.30: Panel 9 - Falls in French literature

Chair: Robert Segal

Áine Larkin, 黑料网, ‘Stumbles and Falls in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu’

Steven Wilson, Queen’s University, Belfast, ‘Fallen and Redeemed: Rewriting the Magdalene Myth in Nineteenth–Century French Narratives of Prostitution’

Ben Sherlock, Independent Scholar ‘Baudelaire’s “On the Essence of Laughter” and the narrative of the Biblical Fall’

16.30–16.40: Coffee break

16.40–18.05: Panel 10 - Milton II

Chair: Syrithe Pugh

Helen Lynch, 黑料网, ‘Falling Masonry and the Redemption of Public Speech: Reading Milton through Hannah Arendt’

Tzachi Zamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ‘An Anatomy of Gratitude in Paradise Lost’

David Currell, American University of Beirut ‘Some Versions of Paradise Lost: Remembering Milton through American Pastoral’

19.00: Conference Dinner for delegates