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The programme for Conversations with Angels, 9-10 September 2005, at CRASSH
Cambridge has now been finalized. Colour details and a registration form
are available at: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004-5/angels.html.
Convenors:
Lauren Kassell (University of Cambridge)
Joad Raymond (University of East Anglia)
In medieval and renaissance Europe angels were a topic in which theology,
natural philosophy and politics converged. This conference will bring
together historians of these fields and critics working on visual, musical
and literary representation, to consider medieval and renaissance concepts
of the nature, office and significance of angels, and the ways in which
literal and figurative dialogues with angels were conducted.
Please contact Lauren Kassell with any enquiries about the academic content
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Programme
Friday 9 September
10.00
Registration and coffee
10.30
Welcoming comments (Lauren Kassell)
10.40-12.00
Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100-1700
Walter Stephens (Johns Hopkins University)
Respondent: Juliet Fleming
12.00-13.20 Speaking with Spirits: The Medieval Quest for Celestial
Knowledge and Elevation
Sophie Page (University College London)
Respondent: Catherine Rider
13:20-14.15
Lunch
14.15-15.35
Style and Substance in a Conversation with Angels: The Case of Trithemius
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Respondent: Lauren Kassell
15.35-16.00
Tea
16.00-17.20
The Guardian Angel in Protestant England
Peter Marshall (University of Warwick)
Respondent: Kate Harvey
19.00
Reception and Dinner
Saturday 10 September
10.30-11.50
Angels in Early Modern Music
Jessie Ann Owens (Brandeis University)
Respondent: Alexandra Walsham
11.50-13.10
Evil Angels and Visual Paradoxes
Stuart Clark (University of Wales at Swansea)
Respondent: Frank Klaassen
13:10-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.20
Tongues of Angels: Mysticism and Theological Politics, 1640-1660
Joad Raymond (University of East Anglia)
Respondent: Peter Forshaw
15.20-15.40
Tea
15.40-17.00
The Ecstatic Journey of Athanasius Kircher, 1656
Ingrid Rowland (Princeton University)
Respondent: Stephen Clucas
17.00
Concluding Discussion
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Dr Lauren Kassell
University Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science
Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
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Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London Simon Forman, Astrologer,
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