All sessions and events in the Coach House at Green College unless noted otherwise
Friday 29 March
9:00
Opening Remarks
9:15–10:30
AUGUSTINE AND THE “SECULAR” IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Pawel Figurski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences), “Between the Sacred and the Secular Kingdom: Liturgical Struggles over the Proper Place of Politics in Medieval Christianity”
Sophia Mösch (Univ. Oxford), “Secularity and Sacrality in Carolingian Political Advice: Cicero, Virgil, and Augustine”
COFFEE BREAK
11:00–12:00
KEYNOTE LECTURE (Buchanan A103, Main Campus)
Conrad Leyser (Univ. Oxford), “Two Concepts of the Secular”
LUNCH
1:30–2:45
PAUL AND AUGUSTINE, TIME AND TEMPORALITIES
Sean Hannan (MacEwan Univ.), “Messianic Politics and the Present Time: Augustine’s Distentio against Agamben’s Kairos”
Josh Timmermann (UBC), “Tempora periculosa, dies mali: Tyconius, Augustine, and Their Carolingian Readers’ Responses to Pauline Eschatology”
COFFEE BREAK
3:15–5:00
BIBLICAL EXEMPLARS, THE “ABJECT,” AND THE “OTHER”
Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College), “‘Ubi cubes in meridie?’Augustine, Africa, and the Song of Songs”
Matthew Gillis (UT Knoxville), “They Devour My People Like Bread: Suffering and the Sacred”
Mo Pareles (UBC), “Wulfstan’s Captive Woman”
5:15
Reception (Green College)
6:00
Dinner (Green College)
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Saturday 30 March
9:15–11:00
CAROLINGIAN MODELS?
Noah Blan (Univ. Michigan), “Theorizing a Carolingian Ecological Sovereignty”
Abigail Firey (Univ. Kentucky), “‘The split and shaken throne’: Pivots in Political Theology in Tenth-Century Western Francia”
Geoffrey Koziol (UC Berkeley), “Necessity, Exception, and Post-Carolingian Justification of Rebellion”
COFFEE BREAK
11:30–12:45
AUGUSTINISM(S) RE-RECONSIDERED
Michael Moore (Univ. Iowa), “Political Augustinism: Modern Political Theology and the Carolingians”
Mark Vessey (UBC), “Political Augustinianism in the Canadian West: C. N. Cochrane’s Christianity and Classical Culture: A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine (1940)”
LUNCH
2:15–4:00
Πολιτικὴ θεολογία/ POLITICAL THEOLOGY
György Geréby (Central European Univ., Budapest), “‘There is no church without an emperor’: On the Political Theology of the Christian Roman Empire”
Ana M. Montero (Saint Louis Univ.), “Royal Theological Virtues and Political Propaganda: Alfonso and Isabel of Castile”
Lester Field, Jr. (Univ. Mississippi), “From Πολιτικὴ θεολογία to ‘Political Theology’: From Hellenic Religion to Modern Ideology and Historiographical Commonplace”
COFFEE BREAK
4:30–5:45
SCHMITT AND AGAMBEN, ABSENCE AND PRESENCE
Jon Beasley-Murray (UBC), “Friends, Enemies, and Others: Political Theology and the Art of the Encounter”
Kevin Attell (Cornell Univ.), “The Empty Throne: Agamben and Political Theology”
5:45
Closing Remarks