Colloquium: Visualising the Bible in the Nineteenth Century (6/13/2013)

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Location: SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

What is the artist's role - and responsibility - in visually interpreting the Bible? How did this change in nineteenth-century Britain, when the stability of scripture was increasingly uncertain? How do sacred texts in particular pose problems for the relationship between the verbal and the visual? This one day colloquium will consider how religious belief, form, function, medium, gender, and sexuality figured in representations of Biblical narrative, spanning textiles, painting, drawing and sculpture.  

Speakers:

• Michaela Giebelhausen, Essex: That old problem of text and image: Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Bible
• Colin Cruise, Aberystwyth: A branch of almond blossom: Simeon Solomon interpreting the Bible
• Ayla Lepine, Yale/Courtauld: Da Gloriam Deo: Ecclesiastical Textiles and the Gothic Revival
• Claire Jones, York : Sculpting the Bible in the 19th century: Fine Art and Ecclesiastical Contexts

Event Details:

Registration is from 9.30 to 10.00

The event concludes with a wine reception at 5.35pm

To register and for programme details, see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2460/programme/

The cost of the event is £10 as a contribution to lunch and beverages.

An event supported by the ERC funded Project Bible and Antiquity in the Nineteenth Century.

Call for Applicants: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for a project on the Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture (4/2/2012)

http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/-13252/

Applications are invited for 6 post-doctoral fellows to work on the European Research Council funded interdisciplinary, collaborative project entitled The Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture, to be located in the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Applications are encouraged with regard to any relevant field including history, art history, classics, literary studies, Jewish studies, history of archaeology, history of education, cultural history, history of scholarship, theology, history of biblical interpretation, philosophy, history of science, Egyptology, Assyriology. Applicants may propose to work on any relevant aspect of the five major themes of the project: the bible in and as history; the bible in and as fiction; the bible and its institutions; the material bible; archaeology and the bible.

As well as completing the proposed research project, fellows will be expected to help develop, organize and contribute to further collaborative and interdisciplinary research on the themes of the project; help develop, organize and participate in the group's weekly reading group, termly seminars and colloquia, and yearly conferences; and help select, invite and organize the visits of termly visiting professors.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to read the further particulars, available on http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/1093/bible-antiquity.htm, where you will also find details of the project and how to apply. Applicants must hold a PhD in a relevant field by the application deadline of 2 April 2012.

Limit of tenure: Appointment is for five years, from 1 September 2012, and is non-renewable.

Quote Reference: VM13252,Closing Date: 2 April 2012

Interview Date(s): 23 and 24 May 2012