| Thursday 4 October
From 4:00
p.m. Arrivals and Registration
6:30 p.m.
Evening meal
8:00-9:30 p.m.
Panel Session
1: Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Practice I
- Christopher Hodgkins (Chair)
- Valerie Burgess, "George Herbert and the Journey of an Anti-Pastoral Experience"
- Anne-Marie Miller Blaise, “An Honest Shepherd's Remedy to Melancholy”
- Susan Alexander Osler, “Following the Lines: Comparing ‘The Collar’ and
‘The Banquet’”
- Margaret Turnbull, “‘Shepherds are honest people’: Herbert and Pastoral
Poetry”
Friday 5 October
7:30 a.m.
Morning Prayer and Communion in Cathedral (optional)
8:15 a.m.
Breakfast
9:30 a.m.
Keynote Lecturer 1: Professor
David Jasper
"Something Understood: From Poetry to Theology in the Writings of George Herbert"
10:45 a.m.
Coffee
11:15-12:45 a.m.
Panel Session 2 (longer session):
Spiritual & Physical Health
- Cristina Malcolmson (Chair)
- Coleman Myron, “Parson, Lawyer, Physician: Herbert’s Threefold Plan of
Stewardship”
- Johannah Wetzel, “Poetry as Pastoral Care: George Herbert's Theology of Affliction”
- Curtis Whitaker, “The Pastor as Herbalist”
- Chauncey Wood, “Poverty, Charity, and the Law in Herbert's The Country Parson”
Living Landscapes & Physical
Spaces
- Hope Howell Hodgkins (Chair)
- Diane McColley, “The beasts say eat me”
- Philip Christensen, “Herbert's Pastoral: Vertues of Herbs and Stones”
- Anne Myers, “A Call for Charitable Interpretations: Restoring Herbert's Historic
‘Church- porch’”
- Jeannie Judge, “Poet and Priest: Wearing the Collar, Spelling the Word”
Herbert in His Study
- William Finley (Chair)
- Adele Davidson, “Acrostics and the Cross: Pastoral and Puzzle in The Temple”
- Kathryn Walls, “Early Seventeenth-Century Visions of the Church in England:
George Herbert and William Baspoole”
- Patricia Ward, “Herbert's Posy”
- Kenichiro Watanabe, “George Herbert and Commonplace Books”
1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:45-3:15 p.m.
Panel Session
3:
Biblical & Liturgical Connections
- Jennifer Grotz (Chair)
- Paul Dyck, “The Temple and the Liturgical Experience of Scripture”
- Kate Narveson, “Beyond Translation and Meditation: George Herbert as New Psalmist”
- Debra Rienstra, “Singing True Hymns with the Sidneys: George Herbert’s The
Temple and
Sidneian Psalms and Sonnets"
Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral
Practice II
- Elizabeth Clarke (Chair)
- Gene Edward Veith, “Brittle Crazy Glass: George Herbert, Vocation, and the
Two Priesthoods”
- Clayton Lein, “Steps to the Temple: The Road to Bemerton”
- Donald Friedman, “Pastoral Conversions”
- Christopher Hodgkins, “Singing Shepherds and Beauteous Words: Herbert’s
Reformed Pastoral”
Persons & Personalities I
- David Jasper (Chair)
- Anthony Martin, “‘To do a piece of right’: Mr. Duncon and Mr. Herbert's
Books”
- Fahimeh Naseri, “Herbert's Anglican Reformism: The Wiltshire Connection”
- Jonathan Nauman, “Herbert and Monteverdi: Heaven’s Echo and the Italian
Baroque”
- John Chandler, "The Country Parson's Flock: George Herbert at Bemerton in
1632"
3:15 p.m.
Tea
3:30 p.m. George
Herbert’s Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies—
An Invitation to UNCG 2008 Christopher Hodgkins, William K. Finley
3:45 p.m.
Keynote Lecturer 2: Professor
Helen Wilcox
“'Hallowed Fire': or, when is a poet not a priest?"
5:15 p.m.
Book Launch and Reception with
Cambridge University Press
6:30 p.m.
Dinner
8:00 p.m.
Concert at St. Martin’s
Church with Farrant Singers
- Vaughan Williams, Five
Mystical Songs
- Simon
McEnery and Herbert Song Settings
Saturday 6 October
7:30 a.m.
Morning Prayer and Communion in Cathedral (optional)
8:15 a.m.
Breakfast
9:30 a.m.
Keynote Lecturer 3: Professor
Cristina Malcolmson
"William Herbert's Gardener"
10:30 a.m.
Coffee
10:45 a.m. Special
Presentation—Musical Settings of Herbert
Paulette Goll
11:15-12:45 a.m.
Panel Session 4 (longer session):
Persons & Personalities II
- Helen Wilcox (Chair)
- Sid Gottlieb, “Under Salisbury Spire with the Fictional George Herbert”
- Cynthia Gaw, “Philosophers in the Temple: George Herbert and Natural Science”
- Angela Balla, “Baconian Investigation and Spiritual Standing in Herbert's Temple”
- Jennifer Kilgore, “Reconciling the Parties: Herbert Among His Peers”
Toward a Holy Life: Herbert on
Vocation
- Erik Ankerberg (Chair)
- Kenneth Graham, “‘Thy rod, my posie?’: Herbert's Pastoral Poetics”
- Erik Ankerberg, “‘One creation will not suffice our turn’: Herbert and the
Vocations of
the Baptized”
- Sean McDowell, “Briefe Notes on Valdesso’s Considerations”
- Clinton Brand, “Herbert’s Hidden Life: Opening the Soul’s Most Subtle
Rooms”
1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:45 p.m.
Trip to Bemerton (walk or bus). Visit St. Andrew’s and locality
2:15 p.m. St. Andrew’s Church,
Bemerton
The Continuing Tradition at George
Herbert's Church, with local people
4:00 p.m.
Tea locally and return to
Salisbury
5:30 p.m.
Evensong in Cathedral
6:30 p.m.
Principal’s Reception
7:00 p.m.
Banquet
Guest of Honor—The Right Reverend David Stancliffe,
Bishop of Salisbury
Sonia Woolley
– Readings from George Herbert's Poetry
Sunday 7 October
8:15 a.m.
Breakfast
Morning
Departures and/or visit to
Wilton House (optional) |
