Category: Literature & Poetry

Dr. Carolyn Weber // To be a Romantic: Longing in Literature and Liturgy

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12 October 2020

Dr. Carolyn Weber is an award-winning author, popular professor and international speaker. She has given numerous radio, television and podcast interviews on the intersection of faith and literature, as well as topics related to women and faith. She has served as faculty at Oxford University, Seattle University, University of San Francisco and Westmont College, and was the first female dean of St. Peter’s College, Oxford. Her books include ‘Surprised by Oxford’ and ‘Sex and the City of God.’

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Alicia Smith on Prayer: Learning from the Past

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Prayer: Learning from the past

Wk 1 TT: 23/04/2018

Alicia Smith is a 2nd year DPhil at Queen’s. She works on medieval texts for solitary religious recluses, though she claims, “I’m not one myself quite yet!”. Her project aims to describe the ideals and practices that these recluses used to structure their very disciplined and rich prayer lives, and to consider how these practices draw on the felt reality of the Church universal across time.

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Rev Kate Seagrave: Research Topic: BEYOND THE EU COMENIUS PROJECT: THE SPIRITUAL BACKGROUND TO THE EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF JAN AMOS KOMENSKY

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Research Topic: BEYOND THE EU COMENIUS PROJECT: THE SPIRITUAL BACKGROUND TO THE EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF JAN AMOS KOMENSKY – Rev Kate Seagrave

HT Wk 3 29/01/18

Revd. Kate Seagrave studied linguistics here at Oxford before becoming ordained, leading to her return to work with the postgrads at St Aldates and the Oxford Pastorate. In this research presentation we will get to hear more about an academic hero of hers: Jan Amos Comenius. Was he just an educational theorist or also a noteworthy theologian and hymn writer? Listen to hear more  about the reformation before Luther, various defenestrations and the world first picture book!

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Christine Perrin: “Memory, Narrative, and the Mirror of Companionship”

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Christine Perrin, Messiah College, USA: “Memory, Narrative, and the Mirror of Companionship” Discussion and Reading from just-released Bright Mirror

HT Wk 7 05/06/2017

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