Session 1 – Musical Reception
Paul Middleton, University of Chester, ‘On gods of brass and concubines: Music as Reception in William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast’.
Tobias Ålöw, University of Oslo, ‘“Given to You by Mother Earth” Entextualization and Ideological Inversion of 1 John 2:16 in Ghost’s “Umbra”’
Julia Lindenlaub and Charlotte Naylor-Davis, ‘The “Perennial” Sophia from Ancient Gnostic Literature to Modern Metal Music: The Sophia Myth and the Dragon Rouge in Therion’s Gothic Kabbalah (2007)’
Session 2 – Panel Discussion (Joint with NT & Christian Theology section)
Theology in/as Reception
Session 3- Modes of Interpretation
Siobhán Jolley, University of Manchester, and Maryanne Saunders, The National Gallery, ‘Curséd Is the Fruit: Afterlives of Eden in depictions of Anne and the Magdalene’
Zavi-I Nisa, University of Edinburgh, ‘Cognitive Processes in Reading and Interpreting the Demoniac’s Plight and Jesus’s Compassion in Mark 5:1-20’
Ninnaku Oberholzer. King’s College London and University of Pretoria, ‘The forgotten weeper: Reconsidering the woman in Luke 7:36-50 through Reparative Visual Criticism’