Programme
9.00-9.30 - Registration
9.30-9.45 - Welcome and Introduction
9.45 - 10.45 - Keynote paper: Jenn Ashworth: 'The Transatlantic Mormon novel: British Mormonism, Utah and LDS Fiction'
10.45-11.05 - Tea, coffee and cake (participating in Macmillan Coffee Morning).
11.05-12.35 - Panel 1: Ethics for a Changing Environment
Chair: Prof. Angelia Wilson, Politics, University of Manchester
Anthony Floyd: 'The Time of Creation in the Theology of Jürgen Moltmann; Humanity and the Future of our Environment'
Anna Huxley: 'The influence of Religious Non-Governmental Organisations (RNGOs) on climate change policy at the UN'
Andrew Brower-Latz: 'May I watch TV or must I help the environment? Supererogation and imperfect duties as alternative
structures for the demandingness of environmental ethics'
12.35-13.20 - Lunch
13.20-14.50 - Panel 2: Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Chair: Dr. Robert Spencer, English, University of Manchester
Natalie Armitage: 'When Religion and Witchcraft Become Synonymous: the implications of the negative imagery of Afro-
Caribbean religion in popular culture'
Anja Pogacnik: 'Popular Culture as Religion: Apple Inc. as a Case Study'
Jess Allen: '"Drop in the Ocean": (re)framing an eco-activist performance through/as religious gesture'
14.50-15.00 - Pitstop
15.00-16.30 - Panel 3: Narrative, Land, Nation
Chair: Dr. Jo Carruthers, English, University of Lancaster
Rachel Winchcombe: 'The Noachic Tradition and the Biblical Dispersal of Mankind: Explaining Amerindian Origins in Sixteenth-Century England'
Miguel Torres Garcia: 'Assembling and disassembling urban religious practice in 18th-century Seville'
Ashley Scott-Harris: 'When contemporary authors discuss religion in a secular state: French novelist Michel Houellebecq
versus Islam'
16.30-16.50 - Tea, coffee
16.50-17.50 - Keynote conversation: Peter Scott and Stefan Skrimshire
17.50-18.00 - Closing remarks
18.00 - Wine Reception (Kro Bar, Oxford Rd)
9.30-9.45 - Welcome and Introduction
9.45 - 10.45 - Keynote paper: Jenn Ashworth: 'The Transatlantic Mormon novel: British Mormonism, Utah and LDS Fiction'
10.45-11.05 - Tea, coffee and cake (participating in Macmillan Coffee Morning).
11.05-12.35 - Panel 1: Ethics for a Changing Environment
Chair: Prof. Angelia Wilson, Politics, University of Manchester
Anthony Floyd: 'The Time of Creation in the Theology of Jürgen Moltmann; Humanity and the Future of our Environment'
Anna Huxley: 'The influence of Religious Non-Governmental Organisations (RNGOs) on climate change policy at the UN'
Andrew Brower-Latz: 'May I watch TV or must I help the environment? Supererogation and imperfect duties as alternative
structures for the demandingness of environmental ethics'
12.35-13.20 - Lunch
13.20-14.50 - Panel 2: Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Chair: Dr. Robert Spencer, English, University of Manchester
Natalie Armitage: 'When Religion and Witchcraft Become Synonymous: the implications of the negative imagery of Afro-
Caribbean religion in popular culture'
Anja Pogacnik: 'Popular Culture as Religion: Apple Inc. as a Case Study'
Jess Allen: '"Drop in the Ocean": (re)framing an eco-activist performance through/as religious gesture'
14.50-15.00 - Pitstop
15.00-16.30 - Panel 3: Narrative, Land, Nation
Chair: Dr. Jo Carruthers, English, University of Lancaster
Rachel Winchcombe: 'The Noachic Tradition and the Biblical Dispersal of Mankind: Explaining Amerindian Origins in Sixteenth-Century England'
Miguel Torres Garcia: 'Assembling and disassembling urban religious practice in 18th-century Seville'
Ashley Scott-Harris: 'When contemporary authors discuss religion in a secular state: French novelist Michel Houellebecq
versus Islam'
16.30-16.50 - Tea, coffee
16.50-17.50 - Keynote conversation: Peter Scott and Stefan Skrimshire
17.50-18.00 - Closing remarks
18.00 - Wine Reception (Kro Bar, Oxford Rd)
