Friday 31 May 2019, 1.00PM
Speaker(s): Keynote: Dr Sarah Apetrei (Keble College, Oxford)
This symposium will explore how the mystical, the prophetic, enthusiastic or the apophatic were deployed, to political, scientific or artistic purposes. It willlook at what thinkers did with mysticism (broadly defined), the strategies of thought or the practices they developed, and the ways in which they then used these strategies to animate, to energise, to trouble their world.
Our keynote speaker, Dr Sarah Apetrei (Keble College, Oxford), is the author of Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England(Cambridge, 2010) and co-editor of An Introduction to Jacob Boehme: Four Centuries of Thought and Reception (Routledge, 2014)
Draft programme:
1.00-2.30 (Treehouse)
Medieval Mysticisms
2.30-3.00 Coffee
3.00-4.00 (Treehouse)
Early Modern mysticism
4.15 (Bowland Theatre)
5.00 (Bowland Theatre)
This symposium is part of the lax and diffuse Thomas Browne Seminar series.
Location: Berrick Saul Building (Treehouse and Bowland Auditorium)
Admission: No registration required!
Email: kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk