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David Jones: Dialogues with the Past International, Interdisciplinary Conference 
21-23 July, 2016, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, U.K.

N.B. To cite these papers, please include the following information: 
Name & Surname, "Title," (paper, University of York, York, U.K., Date)
For further information see The Chicago Manual of Style Online 14.226

Some papers are not available because they are being considered for publication elsewhere, or have been witheld at the request of the speaker. If you would like to hear any talk 'not available' on this page contact the organisers at davidjonesdialogues@gmail.com 

​Thursday 21 July:    

12:00-13:00    Registration, Tea & Coffee  (BSB Foyer)   

13:00-13:20    Welcome, featuring message from William Blissett (Bowland) 

​13:30-15:00    
Parallel Panel I:

Picturing WWI (Bowland), chair Paul Hills
Tom Bromwell (York) Crucified by War: A Study on Sketches of the Crucifixion by David Jones, Stanley Spencer and William Orpen, 1919-21.
Darragh O'Donoghue (Tate) Digitising David Jones: The Collection of Tate Britain.
Luke Thurston (Aberystwyth) Edgework: Jones's Intuitive Pathway.

​Jones and the Anglo-Saxon Tradition
 (BS/008), chair Anne Price-Owen
                 
Francesca Brooks (King’s College London) A Poetic Historiography of the Early English Settlements: Reading History with David Jones in 'Angle-Land'.
Anna Svendsen (York) David Jones and The Dream of the Rood.
Rahul Gupta (York) 'Ic þæt gyta geman…'; Epic 'Memory of Good and Evil in Veterans David Jones and J. R. R. Tolkien.
15:00-16:00    Coffee & Tea; Break for Check-in to On-Campus Accommodation

16:00-17.30:    Keynote (Bowland)
Professor Tom Dilworth
(University of Windsor)
David Jones, the Great War and In Parenthesis.
Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Heslington West
17:30-19.30     Film Screening and Wine Reception (Treehouse) ‘
An Artist's Retrospect: Screening of the Lost Jones Interviews and Programmes.
 
Introduced by Dr Anne Price-Owen (University of Wales, Trinity Saint David) and Dr Leo Aylen


Friday 22 July:    

9:00-10:20    Panel II and Exhibition

Landscape and Nostalgia (Norman Rea Gallery, Derwent College), chair Anna Svendsen

Bryan Hawkins (Canterbury Christ Church) 'All was this Land fulfill’d of Faery' . . . Memory, Myth and Landscape as Radical Nostalgia in David Jones and Michael Powell.
Eddie McMillan (Canterbury Christ Church), Film Essay: Landscape and Vision: Powell And Pressburger’s A Canterbury Tale 1944.
(film not available here for copyright reasons, but if you would like to see this film essay, write an email to conference organisers at davidjonesdialogues@gmail.com)

Art Exhibition: Landscape, Sign, Sacrament: An Exhibition as Dialogue. With works by Bryan Hawkins and words of David Jones.

10.20-10.40    Exhibition: 'Working with In Parenthesis': Artworks Inspired by David Jones' Epic Poem - A History of Their Making. Introduced by the artist Jonathan Hutchins (BS/007)
(no recording available, but to see another video of Jonathan discussing his work, have a look here: 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WE_ADnKlWI)


10:40-11:00    Coffee & Tea (BSB Foyer)

11:00-12:30    Parallel Panel II

Refiguring Rome and the Ancient Past (Bowland), chair Jasmine Hunter Evans

Paul Robichaud (Albertus Magnus College) 
David Jones and the Archipelagic Past.
​(recording not available)

Hugh Haughton (York) ‘The compass of the vallum': On the Wall with Kipling, Auden, and David Jones.
(recording temporarily unavailable)
Christine Pagnoulle (Liège) The Agent, Probing into Agency.
​(recording not available)

Jones and Perspective (BS/008), chair Tom Villis

Tom Berenato (Virginia): The Look of Forgiveness in the Work of David Jones.
Freddie Everatt: Exchanging Glances: David Jones and Kathleen Raine.
​(recording not available)
Sebastian Zmyslowski (Gdansk): 'A Woman Shall Encompass a Man': Marian Perspective on the Thought and Work of David Jones.
(no recording)
12:30-13:30   Lunch (BSB Foyer)

13:30-15:00   Parallel Panel IV    

The Matter of In Parenthesis (Bowland), chair Christine Pagnoulle

Erin Kay Penner (Asbury) The Impious and Impolite: the Real Poetry of Profanity.
Suzannah Evans (York) 'Throbbing on taut ear-drum': The Acoustics of David Jones’ In Parenthesis.
(recording temporarily unavailable)

Carli Cutchin (Berkeley): 'Memory Lets Escape Over and Above': David Jones and War Trauma.
The Poetics of Place and Identity (BS/008), chair Brad Haas

Rosie Lavan (Trinity College, Dublin) Jones's 'Woman Warden' and the Matter of Time and Place
Madeline Potter (York) 'That Cavern for Cronos': Hiraeth in David Jones’ Anathemata and Geoffrey Hill’s Oraclau
​(recording not available)
Robin J. Anderson (Toronto): Fellowship in the 'Social Romance':The Fight for Egalitarian Community in William Morris's A Dream of John Ball and David Jones's In Parenthesis. ​
(recording not available)
15:00-15:30   Coffee & Tea (BSB Foyer)

15:30-17:00   Keynote (Bowland):
Professor Paul Hills
(Courtauld Institute of Art)
“The Good Bodily image' and David Jones’s Historical Imagination.
Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Heslington West
17:15      Bus to performance in city centre church (leaving from Central Campus Car Park)

18:00-19:45    Performance by
OPUS ANGLICANUM - An English Music, of their 2015 commissioned sequence,
‘DAVID JONES: July 1916, The Battle of Mametz Wood from In Parenthesis’, 
Preceded by a meditation on sacredness and sound by Fr. John David Ramsey,
(St. Wilfrid’s Church, Duncombe Place, York)    
    
20:00-23:00  Conference Dinner with poetry recitals, Walmgate Alehouse, York YO1 9TX

23:00    Bus back to University of York campus (Merchant Street Bus Stop just outside restaurant)


Saturday, 23 July:    

9:00-10:30    Parallel Panel V    

Performing Language (Bowland), chair Kathleen Henderson Staudt
Anne Price Owen (Wales, Trinity St. David) Painting becoming Poetry becoming Music
Hilary Davies (King’s College London) David Jones and Stanley Spencer: Performing the Cross, the language of Incarnation and Redemption in the Sandham Chapel, Burghclere and in In Parenthesis.
Jean Ward (Gdansk) The Poet as 'Rememberer': Some Aspects of David Jones’s Use of Language.’

​Jones’s Sacramental Thinking (BS/008), chair Paul Robichaud

Daniel Gustafsson (York) Wrights, Rites and Rights.
​(recording not available)

Martin Potter (Bucharest) The Signs of David Jones and the Prevalence of the Diachronic.
Elizabeth Rose Powell (Cambridge) The Quest for Sacrament in Jones’ Poem 'A, a, a, DOMINE DEUS'.
​(recording not available)

10:30-11:00    Coffee & Tea  (BSB Foyer)

11:00-12:30    Parallel Panel VI

Jones and the Catholic Intellectual Milieu (Bowland), chair Fr. John David Ramsey

Tom Villis (Regent’s University London) When was 'the Break'? Catholic Ideas of Rupture in British History.’
(recording not available)
Ewan King (Oxford) Jones and Maritain.
Hope Wolf (Sussex) David Jones, Modernism and Craft.
​(recording not available)


Schema of History (BS/008), chair Tom Dilworth
​
Sarah Coogan (Notre Dame) Figural Interpretation in the Poetry of David Jones.
​(recording not available)

Joseph Simmons (Chicago) In Parenthesis Against Heresies.
(recording not available)

Bradford Haas (Washington Adventist University) Visualizing History: the Pictorial Method of David Jones.
​(recording not available)

12:30-13:30   Lunch (BSB Foyer)

13.30-15.00   Panel VII: ‘At a Time's Turn': Toward a Jonesian Theology of History’ (Bowland), chair Adam Schwartz

Kathleen Henderson Staudt (Wesley Theological Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary) David Jones and Hans Urs von Balthasar: A Theology of History in Epoch and Artist and The Anathemata.
Jamie Callison (Bergen) History as Distraction: Sacrament, Liturgy, Poetics.
Fr. John David Ramsey 'Extensis Manibus': Action, Anamnesis, and David Jones' Theological Imagination.
(recording not available)

15:00-15:30   Coffee & Tea (BSB Foyer)

15:30-17:00   Keynote  (Bowland):
Professor Adam Schwartz
​(Christendom College)
'Getting Into History': The Great War and David Jones's Memory. 
Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Heslington West
​(recording not available)

17:00-17.15    Closing remarks

17:15-18:30 Wine Reception in Norman Rea Gallery 

Cover Image: Page of In Parenthesis (Part VII), Early Manuscript Draft. National Library of Wales, David Jones Papers, LP1/1 
The First World War Digital Archive, University of Oxford [Copyright Notice] 
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