The Christianity and Literature Study Group is an allied organization of ACCUTE. They will be holding their annual conference virtually in the days leading up to ACCUTE’s conference. All members of ACCUTE and CLSG are welcome to attend these sessions. The event is free of charge. Registration is required and the link will be open early in April. Please note there is separate registration for the poetry reading (featuring Alice Major and Lisa Martin) May 27th.
CLGS 2021 Draft Program
May 27-29, 2021 (All times in MDT)
Virtual Format, Colloquium Style
Thursday 27 May
11:00-12:30
Plenary I: Northern Relations: Indigeneity and the Land
Daniel Coleman (McMaster), “Can We Hear What the Land is Saying?”
1:30-3:00
Environmental Relations / Narratives of Nature
Katharine Bubel, Laura Van Dyke (Trinity Western), “The Liminal Land of Glome in Lewis’s Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”
Neil Querengesser (Concordia, Edmonton), “In medias res: Alice Major and Belief in the
Anthropocene”
Deborah Bowen (Redeemer); Elise Arsenault (King’s, Halifax); Liane Miedema (Guelph); Noah Van Brenk (Dalhousie), “What Can Poetry Do? How Enchantment Can Awaken Environmental Hope”
5:00-6:30 – Poetry Reading
Alice Major and Lisa Martin
Reading is free of charge. Separate registration is required.
Friday 28 May
8:30-10:00
Facilitated Roundtable: Pedagogy as Hospitality
Tina Trigg (The King’s); Matthew Zantingh (Briercrest); Further presentations TBA
11:00-12:30
Plenary II: Mythic Relations
David Bentley (Western),”From Biblical Contradiction to Femme Fatale: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lilith”
1:30-3:00
Identity, Genre, and Spirituality
Emily McConkey (Ottawa), “’What Can I Give Him?’: Musical and Theological Interpretations of Christina Rossetti’s “A Christmas Carol (‘In the bleak mid-winter’)”
Clara Joseph (Calgary), “Emplotting India’s Freedom Struggle in the Face of the Thomas Christian”
Adrea Johnson (Alberta), “A ‘finger-post’ of Guidance for ‘wayward’ Dissenters: Reframing the
Minister’s Wife Through the Life and Work of Susannah Spurgeon”
5:00-6:30
Relation and Relationship in Gender, Genre, and Species
Katherine Quinsey (Windsor), “The Theology of Animal Welfare in Pope’s Essay on Man” Ariel Little (UBC), “’The special gift bestowed upon them’: Spiritual Formation Through Art in the Novels of Louisa May Alcott”
John Van Rys (Redeemer), “A Net Heaven-Sent: Alice Munro’s ‘Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage’ as Romantic Comedy”
Saturday 29 May
8:30-10:00
The Inklings: Inner Relations
Monika Hilder (Trinity Western), “Darwin or Ptolemy? Asking Mr. C. S. Lewis About the Divided Human Consciousness”
Brett Roscoe (The King’s), “The Fear of the Lord in C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia” Brenton Dickieson (UPEI), “The Personal Heresy and C.S. Lewis’ Autoethnographic Instinct: An Invitation to Intimacy in Literature and Theology
