The CLSG: origins to 1998
UCCF Associates: Literary Studies Group

 

Date

Conference title, paper(s) or discussants

Place

15 April 1978

John Gillespie, Literature & Ideas: the Christian perspective; Roger Kojeckż, Christian Writing and Criticism: How different?; Pete Lowman, The Novel as a Cultural Naturalistic Brainwash

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

21 October 1978

Invitations to Sue Brown, Rowland Cotterill, J.S. Toby Garfitt, John Gillespie, Prabhu Guptara, Roger Kojeckż, Pete Lowman, Sue Mills, Roger Pooley, Tony Phelan

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

17 March 1979

John Gillespie, Authorial Intention as a Tool for Interpretation; Pete Lowman, Hamlet & the Hermeneutic Circle; Tony Phelan, 'G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis; David Barratt, C.S. Lewis

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

29 September 1979

David Barratt on C.S. Lewis's Criticism; Roger Pooley & Tony Phelan on the poetry of T.S. Eliot; Roger Kojeckż on 'Unity and Transcendence in Eliot's first and last plays'

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

19 April 1980

Val Cunningham, Structuralism; Toby Garfitt, Zola's L'Assommoir

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

4 October 1980

Roger Pooley on Pilgrim's Progress; Mary Burke on George Herbert; Tony Phelan, Rowland Cotterill and Valentine Cunningham on Samuel Beckett

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

15-17 May 1981

The Task of the Christian Intellectual

Woolhope Cockshoot, nr Ledbury, Herefordshire

31 October 1981

David Greenwood on Frank Kermode, The Genesis of Secrecy; Val Cunningham on Henry Green, Party Going

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

29 Apr-1 May 1982

David Barratt, 'Auerbach and the Christian Nature of Reality'

Woolhope Cockshoot, nr Ledbury, Herefordshire

25-27 Mar 1983

Weekend conference

Home of Heather and Nick Pike, Witney, Oxfordshire

29 October 1983

Day conference

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

3 November 1984

On Women Writers to the Middle Ages; On Reading Literature published

Green Street, Mayfair, London W1

26-28 Apr 1985

John Goldingay, The Bible on Sexuality: Some Literary Approaches; Heather Pike, David Copperfield; Roger Pooley, Doris Lessing, Mysticism and Sexual Politics

Home of Heather and Nick Pike, Witney, Oxfordshire

1 November 1986

Bunyan Day. Roger Pooley, Spiritual Autobiography and Spiritual Experience

Russell Park Baptist Church, Bedford

25-26 Apr 1987

Towards a Christian Poetics. Michael Edwards on The Project of a Christian Poetics; John Gillespie on the journal The Glass

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

7 November 1987

On Story. Jonathan Clark, Matthew's Gospel in Edwardian Perspective

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

19-21 May 1988

George Hobson, Christ as Hero; Paul Cavill, The Germanic Hero

Home of Heather and Nick Pike, Witney, Oxfordshire

29 October 1988

Dostoevsky's The Idiot,papers by Rowan Williams, Bruce Ross-Smith

International Students House, Gt Portland St, London

6 November 1989

Roger Pooley, Milton and the Christian Hero

 

9 November 1991

Fantasy

Christian Inpact, St Peter's Church, Vere St. London W1

9-10 May 1992

The Challenges of Criticism

1 Canterbury Rd., Oxford

21 November 1992

Popular Fiction

St Andrew's Church, Linton Rd., Oxford

15-19 May 1993

Contemporary Christian Discourses

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

6 November 1993

Work in Progress

New College, Oxford

7 May 1994

Spring Conference. Roger Pooley, What does Literature Do? An approach through transgression

 

4 March 1995

Literature and Theory in Christian Perspective: a conference for students

Warwick University

17 February 1996

On Valentine Cunningham's In the Reading Gaol

 

2 November 1996

Conversion in Literature; Paul Cavill, Capturing Cędmon: Conversion in Bede's story of Cędmon

UCCF 38 De Montfort St. Leicester

28 March 1998

The Body of Christ: The World, the Flesh and the Church

Loughborough University

 

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