Preliminary Programme
April 23
9:30 coffee and registration
9:45 Armin Geertz, Aarhus University, Section for the Study of Religion will set out contemporary scientific challenges to the study of prayer in the opening address, 'Defining prayer as a performative act: applying new social and scientific methods to our understanding of prayer in society'.
--coffee--
10:50 The material culture of prayer (1)
Hauke Kenzler, University of Bamberg (Germany)
"Grave Goods in Catholic and Protestant Burials. Religion-Status-Taboo"
Juliane Schenk, University of Bamberg (Germany)
"Religious Funeral practices in Northern Bavaria"
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Prayer as problem: prayers in literature and drama
Joseph Sterrett, "The reconciliation of prayer practices in Shakespeare's late plays: All is True (Henry VIII), and Two Nobel Kinsmen.
Chloe Preedy, "Prayers and players: meeting with Marlowe's gods"
2:20 coffee
2:30 The spaces for performing prayer
Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen, University of København
"Prayer in space and materiality in the late middle Ages and early modern time"
Judith Loach, Cardiff University (UK)
"Spaces and places for prayer in 17th-century Lyon"
3:35 break
3:45
Alison Findlay, Lancaster University (UK)
'Competing performances: late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century English prayer rituals and anti-rituals'
4:45 drinks reception
7:00 Dinner
April 24
9:00
Graham Parry, York University (UK, Emeritus)
'Lancelot Andrewes, Laudian prayer performances and the coming civil war'
10:00 Liturgy, literature and prayer
Roy Eriksen, Agder University (Norway)
'The poem as chapel: Shakespeare's The Phoenix and the Turtle and sixteenth-century prayer controversy'
Per Sivefors, Linnæus University and Gotland University (Sweden)
Prayers performed: Thomas Nashe Christ's Tears over Jerusalem'
11:05 coffee
11:20 The material culture of prayer (2)
Rainer Atzbach, Aarhus University
"Archaeological Evidence for Prayer and Belief in the post-medieval Period"
12:30 Lunch
1:45 Reiner Sörries, Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassal (Germany) "The Graveyard between Belief and Social Hierarchy"
2:30 Other accepted papers
3:35 break
3:50 Helen Wilcox, Bangor University (UK)
'Prayer and performance: literary, non-literary and material texts'
4:30 Colloquium closes