Grave Stones: Panel-led Workshop 2
INVITATION ONLY
This workshop will explore issues arising from the role of religion in commemoration, particularly the conception and effect of religious monuments (including churches and cathedrals).
- Pfarrerin Dr Cornelia Kulawik (Pastor of Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Berlin-Dahlem; former pastor of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche, Berlin) – The Very Reverend John Witcombe (Dean of Coventry Cathedral) – Professor James E. Young (Emeritus Professor of English and Judaic & Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts; Founding Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, UMass) – Charles Gurrey (sculptor and carver)
Chair: Dr Joshua Hordern (Associate Professor of Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
Date:
3 March 2018, 9:30 (Saturday, 7th week, Hilary 2018)
Venue:
Oxford Brookes University (venue on Headington Campus TBC)
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Part of:
Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series. Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstraction, Reconciliation
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence