Seminar Series: Spring (Hilary) 2018

Week 2 (22 January)

Seminar: ‘Imagining the Divine’: Exhibition as Exploration of Questions of Religion (Biblical Art in Oxford series)
Prof Jaś Elsner (University of Oxford)

Week 4 (5 February)

Seminar: The Problem of Painting Christ: Strange Responses to the Greatest Artistic Challenge
Dr Chlöe Reddaway (King’s College, London)

Week 6 (19 February)

Seminar: Prophecy, Piety and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana (1693-1728)
Professor Jan Stievermann (University of Heidelberg)

Week 8 (5 March)

Seminar: Local News: Annunciation imagery of the English Late Middle Ages explored through four Oxford examples (Biblical Art in Oxford Series)
Dr Cathy Oakes (University of Oxford)