Texts Sacred and Canonical:
Their Circulation in Public Culture
A Symposium to Honor Professor Ralph Williams
on the Occasion of His Retirement
Schedule of Events
9:30-10:00 Coffee, etc.
10:00-11:30 Welcome and Keynote
Welcome:
, Chair, Department of English Language and Literature (University of Michigan)Introduction:
(University of Michigan)Keynote:
(Duke University)
“Changes of the Heart: Metamorphosis, Recognition, Conversion in Some Shakespeare Plays”
11:30-1:00 Break for lunch
1:00-2:30 Panel I:
(University of Michigan), Moderator
(University of Michigan)
“Beliefs are Facts, Too! Teaching Theology Historically in a Secular, Multi-Religious Environment”
(University of Michigan)
“The Bible in History”
(University of Michigan)
“Islam and the Public University: Between Our Reasons for Concern and Our Concern for Reason”
(University of Michigan)
“Islamic Studies in the American Classroom: Between Pedagogy and Academism”
2:30-2:45 Break, coffee, etc.
2:45-4:15 Panel II:
(University of Michigan), Moderator
(University of California, Los Angeles)
“Augustine’s Confessions: Sacred Autobiography/Secular Classic”
(University of Michigan)
“Dante, Philology, and Teaching Religious Literature in a Public University”
(University of Michigan)
“Teaching George Herbert and John Milton to Believers and Non-Believers”
(University of Virginia)
“Why Take Pre-Modern Drama Seriously? Some Thoughts on Piety, Scholarship and Play”
4:15-4:30 Break, coffee, etc.
4:30-5:00 Closing comments by Ralph Williams
Sponsored by the Departments of English, Near Eastern Studies, and Theatre & Drama; Rackham Graduate School; Humanities Institute; College of LSA and LSA Honors Program; OVPR | Site design by Anthony Cece
