| 14 Jul 2014 - 16 Jul 2014 | All day | CRASSH (SG1), Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT | |
- Description
- Programme
- Topics covered
Description
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Dr Gareth Atkins, CRASSH
Dr Shinjini Das, CRASSH
Dr Brian Murray, CRASSH
Summary
Chosen Peoples, Promised Lands: The Bible, Race, and Nation in the Long Nineteenth Century will bring together scholars from across a variety of disciplines to throw new light on biblical themes and metaphors that undergird ideas about racial and national identity in the modern world. More specifically, we seek to explore how biblical notions of lineage, descent and inheritance continued to inform ideas of race and nation in the increasingly secular and scientific atmosphere of the long nineteenth century. Notwithstanding the publication of several recent works on religion and nationhood, nationalism and race are still often considered in secular terms. The aim of this conference is to explore the means through which a range of nations and races have forged their identities in conversation with the textual traditions of Abrahamic religions.
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Speakers
Stephen K. Batalden (Arizona)
Alex Bremner (Edinburgh)
Hilary M. Carey (Bristol)
Brian Cheyette (Reading)
John Coffey (Leicester)
Dorothy Figueria (Georgia)
Stephen R. Haynes (Rhodes College)
Hephzibah Israel (Edinburgh)
Halvor Moxnes (Oslo)
Anthony D. Smith (LSE)
Administrative assistance: eeh39@crassh.cam.ac.uk
We are unable to arrange or book accommodation, however, the following websites may be of help:
University of Cambridge Accommodation
This event is supported by funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ ERC grant agreement no 295463
Programme
| Day 1: Monday 14 July | |
| 12.30 - 13.45 | Registration and lunch |
| 13.45 - 14.00 | Welcome and opening address, Dr Brian Murray |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | PLENARY 1 Professor Anthony D. Smith: Biblical ideals and modern nations Chair: Dr Brian Murray |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00 - 18.00 | COMMUNICATIONS 1
Respondent: Dr Shinjini Das |
| 18.00 - 19.00 | Drinks reception |
| Day 2: Tuesday 15 July | |
| 9.30 - 11.00 | SESSION 1
Chair: Dr Alison Knight |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Refreshments |
| 11.30 - 13.00 | PLENARY 2
Chair: Professor Julius Lipner |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | SESSION 2
Chair: Dr Emma Hunter |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00 - 18.00 | COMMUNICATIONS 2
Respondent: Dr Gareth Atkins |
| 19.30 | Conference dinner |
| Day 3: Wednesday 16 July | |
| 9.30 - 11.00 | PLENARY 3
Chair: Dr Andrew Preston |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.30 - 13.30 | COMMUNICATIONS 3
Respondent: Dr Rob Priest |
| 13.30 | Lunch and close |
Topics covered
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Race and the Noachic tradition (Semites, Hamites, Japhites)
- Nation as covenant
- New Israel and Modern Babylon
- Zionism
- National Bibles: translation, criticism, scholarship, distribution
- National (and transnational) Missions
- Resistance to the Bible in anticolonial and nationalist contexts
- The postcolonial Bible
- The contested antiquity of nations/races
- New worlds amnd promised lands
- Exile and Exodus
