International Conference

June 6–9, 2017

SwedenborgAND THE ARTS

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Check-in for participants staying on campus:

Brickman Center — Monday, June 5, 2:00 – 5:00

8:00–9:00

9:00–9:30

9:30–10:30

10:30–10:45

10:45–12:15

Local check-in at Brickman Center

Welcome and Opening RemarksConference organizers Jane Williams-Hogan and Devin Zuber; Bryn Athyn College President Brian Blair

Introduction of Wouter Hanegraaff

Keynote 1Wouter Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam, Imagining Swedenborg’s Heaven

Coffee break

SESSION 1 Spiritualist PoeticsChair: Kristin King, Bryn Athyn College

Marco Pasi, University of Amsterdam, Painting the Spirit World: Victorian Spirit Art in the Light of Swedenborg’s Doctrines

Everett Messamore, Heidelberg University, “Poets Are No Dreamers!”: Swedenborgian Correspondence, Progression, and the Arts in the Writings of Andrew Jackson Davis

TUESDAY, JUNE 6Swedenborgian Imaginaries

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Robert Rix, University of Copenhagen, Improvisations of Spirit: James John Garth Wilkinson and Automatic Writing

Lunch

SESSION 2 Swedenborg in World LiteraturesChair: Marcy Latta, Bryn Athyn College

Ilya Kutik, Northwestern University, Swedenborg and Russian Symbolist Poetry

Austin Salzwedel, Graduate Theological Union, Sino-Japanese Hieroglyphics in America: Swedenborgian Legacies in Okakura Kakuzo

Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University, Correspondences and Communications: Swedenborg in the Age of Realism in Russia

William Rowlandson, University of Kent, The Heavens and Hells of Jorge Luis Borges

Coffee break

AddendumEric Galvin, Influence of Swedenborg on Joseph Clark

Optional: Open house — Swedenborgiana and archives at the Swedenborg Library

Optional: Walking tours of Bryn Athyn, Pennypack Ecological Trust Watershed, Lord’s New Church (weather permitting)

Dinner on your own

12:30–1:30

1:45–3:30

3:30–3:45

4:00–4:30

4:00–6:00

6:00–on

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Local check-in at Brickman Center

Welcome and Opening RemarksIntroduction of Linda Dalrymple Henderson

Keynote 2Linda Dalrymple Henderson, University of Texas, Austin, Swedenborg and the Arts in Later 19th / Early 20th Century Contexts

Coffee break

SESSION 3 American Landscape PaintingChair: William L. Coleman, Winterthur/ Library Company of Philadelphia

James Lawrence, Graduate Theological Union, Painter, Pastor: Spiritual Arc in William Keith

Adrienne Baxter Bell, Marymount Manhattan College, The Fact of the Indefinable: George Inness in the 1860s

Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, A Tale of Two Christs: William Page’s Journey from Unitarianism to the New Church

Lunch

8:30–9:00

9:00–9:15

9:15–10:15

10:15–10:30

10:30–12:00

12:30–1:30

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7Seeing, Hearing, and Building New Worlds

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1:45–3:30

3:30–3:45

4:00–4:45

5:00–6:30

6:30–9:30

SESSION 4 Visionary Architecture and SoundChair: Holly Mitchem, Graduate Theological Union

Kristen Schaffer, North Carolina State University, Plan of Chicago and the Universal Human: Daniel Burnham’s Swedenborgianism in Practice

Paul Ivey, University of Arizona, From New Church Architecture to City Beautiful

Stephen Cole, Bryn Athyn College, Swedenborgians and the Arts and Crafts Movement

Graham Bier, Bryn Athyn College, Toward an Inernal Sense: C. J. Whittington’s New Church Compositional Style

Coffee break at Bryn Athyn College

Tour of Bryn Athyn Cathedral — Martha Gyllenhaal

Self-guided tours of Glencairn Museum Wine reception in Glencairn’s Cloister (weather permitting) or Great Hall

Banquet in Glencairn’s Great Hall

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Local check-in at Brickman Center

Welcome and Opening RemarksIntroduction of Massimo Introvigne

Keynote 3Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), Concentric Circles

Coffee break

SESSION 5 William Blake and His CirclesChair: Rebecca Esterson, Graduate Theological Union

Martha Gyllenhaal, Bryn Athyn College, Swedenborg’s Divine Love and Wisdom and William Blake’s Watercolor A Vision of the Last Judgment

Matthew Leporati, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Swedenborg’s Conjugial Love and William Blake’s Erotic Poetics

8:30–9:00

9:00–9:15

9:15–10:15

10:15–10:45

10:45–12:15

THURSDAY, JUNE 8Ripples of Radiating Influences

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Lunch

SESSION 6 European Romanticism and Its AftereffectsChair: Jonathan Kline, Tyler School of Art at Temple University

Cordula Grewe, University of Pennsylvania, Landscape between Revelation and Ritual

Saori Osuga, Waseda University, Swedenborg and the French Romantics

Daniel Guéguen, Independent scholar, Swedenborg and Belgian Art

Colette Walker, Graduate Theological Union, Hidden Correspondences: Tracing the Swedenborgian Thread through Romanti-cism and Symbolism to the Abstract Art of Wassily Kandinsky

Coffee break

SESSION 7 Jamesian ModernismsChair: Peter Schneck, University of Osnabrück

Devin Zuber, Graduate Theological Union, Convert, Convert, Convert!: Translating Swedenborg in Henry James’s Fiction

12:30–1:30

1:45–3:30

3:30–3:45

3:45–5:15

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Meredith Massar Munson, Graduate Theological Union, Mystical, Pragmatic Modernism

Paul J. Croce, Stetson University, The Aesthetics of Experience: William James, Selective Attention, and Rival Religious World-Views

Dinner on your own

Swedenborg at the CinemaFilm screenings at the Brickman CenterModerated by Devin Zuber and Aram Yardumian

5:15–7:00

8:00–10:00

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Welcome and Opening RemarksIntroduction of Homero Aridjis

Keynote 4Homero Aridjis

Coffee break

SESSION 8 Swedenborg and the ContemporaryChair: Aram Yardumian, Bryn Athyn College

Sylvia Shaw, Independent scholar, Crafting a Swedenborgian Literary Aesthetic: Lessons Gleaned and Applied to My Fiction

Karen Weiser, Poet, Swedenborg and Poetics

Stephen McNeilly, Swedenborg Society, Modalities of Practice (via Skype)

Bridget Smith, Independent artist, Swedenborg, Photography, and Vision(s)

Closing Plenary SessionDevin Zuber, Jane Williams-Hogan, and select panel chairs

Lunch

9:00–9:15

9:15–10:15

10:15–10:30

10:30–12:15

12:15–1:00

1:00–1:45

FRIDAY, JUNE 9Inspired Futures

SPONSORSPutting on a large international conference of this size would be impossible without the generous support and sponsorship from a number of differ-ent institutions (in particular, we are very grateful to our hosts at Bryn Athyn College). The follow-ing organizations, entities, and persons have made this conference possible:

The Swedenborg Society

Glencairn Museum

Swedenborg Scientific Association

Center for Swedenborgian Studies

Swedenborg Foundation

Bryn Athyn College