Monday 23 June 2025 9:15am to 5:15pm
Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge
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This one-day event is for University of Cambridge students (all levels) and recent graduates. Registration is essential.
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Outline schedule09:15 | Welcome
Name badges and other information will be available to collect from 09:15.
09:30 | Session 1
Philosophy: Bound and unbound in time
- Diffractive mysticism: entangled temporality in Ibn ʿArabī and Karen Barad | Sahar ElAsad
- Theological compatibilism and branching time | Marcus Ackermann
- Does God have time for us? Reflections on the origin, impact, and potential theological challenges of divine timelessness | Elise Harboldt
11:00 | Break time
11:30 | Session 2
This is a parallel session. Choose from papers on literature, modernity, or ritual.
Literature 1: Disrupting temporalities
- Time and trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved Madeleine Jenkins
- Tracing an anti-progressive temporality in HD’s HERmione | Anna Dijkstra
- Does the sun move in a devotional poem? Time and celestial sanctification in John Donne’s “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward” | Anika Goddard
Modernity 1: Fashioning temporal solidarities
- Neo-traditionalism and its conception of the past and present | Ferhat Kafali
- A critical exploration of constructions of Sikh identity (1873–1950) in the light of Hindu religious nationalism | Inderpreet Kaur Pejatta
- A time of fellowship: time and the organising of a Pan-Buddhist world after Europe | Andi Schubert
Ritual 1: Rhythm, ritual, and echoes of timelessness
- Time in Sufi traditions | Luke Wilkinson
- Crossing the immemorial: the metaphysics of recognition in Babette's Feast | Michael Wilcher
- Echoes of the afterlife: Froberger’s Meditations and the phenomenology of devotional time | Edward Campbell-Rowntree
13:00 | Lunch
14:00 | Session 3
This is the second parallel session. Choose from papers on literature, modernity, or ritual.
Literature 2: Redemption and eternity
- Surprised by the Present. One man’s approach to redeeming the time(s): time, temporality and ethics in the works of CS Lewis | Siân Morris
- The fall of a sparrow: literary excursions on a theology of estrangement and repentance | Ben Hewitson
- Keeping time: form as redemption for tragic time in Eliot’s Four Quartets | Amy Galliford
Modernity 2: Christian encounter: modernity, the secular and the state
- Christian patriotism and statal immortality in 19th century Pan-African political theology | Apeike Umolu
- Constructing agency
- Belief wound up and unwound in time: on the temporality of second naïveté | Matthias Teeuwen
Ritual 2: Sacred time, sacred space
- The moon, Makkah and Stonehenge: making meaning of pilgrimage sites | Imad Ahmed
- À la recherche du temps propice: searching for auspicious time through Feng shui | Xiangshu Li
- Transtemporal empathy: memory, architecture, and sacred space | Katherine Graham
15:30 | Break time
15:45 | Session 4
Lightning talks
- The secular state & the breakdown of morality | Amna Farooq
- LDS reception: effective-delay and restoration chronology | Jono Lethaby
- Islamic time and Hui Muslim life in northeast China (former Manchuria) | Jeri Jiarui Wu
- Cultivating Barakah: Sufi land practices and everyday devotion in southern Spain | Reem Fatthelbab
Philosophy 2: Cycles: futures and returns
- Hindu cosmic visions of yugas, and Mother Kālī, the Goddess of time | Ammie Vudathu
- Would the Messiah speak the language of Eden? Beginning and end of time in Jewish philosophies of language | Lola Graziani
17:15 | Close
Participation as a presenter or moderator is open to undergraduates and postgraduates. Others are welcome to attend, capacity-permitting.
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