Conference Programme WEDNESDAY 30 May 2018 13.00-16.00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 16.00-18.00 ORGANIZERS’ INTRODUCTION: Professors Rob Faesen & Lieven Boeve 18.00-20.00 EXHIBITION OPENING: “ in the Low Countries. The Dendermonde Codex”, followed by a reception

THURSDAY 31 May 2018 9.00-10.30 SESSION 1-A SESSION 1-B and Embodiment: the Suffering Body Mysticism in Dialogue Sander Vloebergs (KUL): Amy McLean Einat Klafter (Tel Aviv): Kenneth Ameke (KUL): Paschal Ikenna Satoshi Kikuchi “Love and Suffering in (Notre Dame): “The “ in the “The Personal (KUL): “Das (KUL): “Ruusbroec’s Medieval Mystical Entanglement of Footsteps of Holy Experiences of the Holy Fremde: Dialogue Trinitarian Mysticism: Women” Death and Desire in Mothers” Spirit: a Pentecostal and Mysticism” in a Time of Division Mechthild of Influence from Medieval and Isolation” Magdeburg” Mystics”

10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00-13.00 SESSION 2-A SESSION 2-B (11.00-12.30) Presence and Absence (4-paper session) The Vernacular Mystical Tradition in Medieval Italy and Germany Mark Elliott Isabella Bruckner (KFU Jacob Benjamins Markus Maria Wagner Dominic Abbott Piotr Bialecki Hans Martin Pech (St. Graz): “‘Rendezvous (KUL): (independent): “Towards a (KUL): “‘O Sublime (Warsaw): (Harvard): Andrews): desire:’ the Spiritual “Secularization and Resolute Reading of ! O Humble “Vernacular “Reassurance from “Practising Wanderer--A Mystic the Absence of Mystics’ Negative sublimity!’ The Crib, in 14th Nothing: On the the Pilgrim? Spiritual God” Statements: Applying the Cross, and the Century Florence: Conditions of the Presence” Exploration of the Other Concepts from Research Eucharist in the Did it Really Exist?” Distribution of Following the Tracks of on Wittgenstein to Enrich Vernacular Mystical Knowledge in Henry Michel de Certeau” Our Understanding of Theology of St Francis Suso’s ‘Vita’” Mysticism” of Assisi.” 13.00-14.30 LUNCH BREAK 14.30-16.00 SESSION 3-A SESSION 3-B Mysticism and Materiality Mysticism and Christology Margaret V. Douglas Jeroen Reyniers Amanda Langley (Queen S. Kyle Johnson Raul-Ovidiu Bodea Anthony Atansi (Durham): “When (KIK/IRPA): “The Mary): “Embodied (Boston College): “The (KUL): “Echoes and (KUL): “Experiencing Mysticism Had No Name: History and Environments and the Mystical Body and the Receptions of Jakob Christology: the Visual Theology of the Spiritual Building of the : Black Christ” Boehme’s Mysticism Mysticism and the Book of Kells” Significance of the Beatrice of Nazareth’s in Nikolai Berdyaev’s African Christological Chair of Lutgard of Monastery of the Heart Religious Thought” Imagination and Tongeren” and Agnes Blannbekin’s Images of Christ” ‘Stations’ of Christ” 16.00-16.30 BREAK 16.30-18.30 KEYNOTE SESSION 1: Professors Carolyn Muessig & Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli 20.30 CONCERT PSALLENTES: The Hours of Hildegard of Bingen (from the Symphonia)

FRIDAY 1 June 2018 9.00-10.30 SESSION 4-A SESSION 4-B Mysticism and Deification Mysticism and the Scholastic Tradition Louise Nelstrop Lieve Uyttenhove John Arblaster Jennifer Griggs Karen Andrea Gallegos Marcus Gaffney (KUL): (Oxford/York St. Johns’): (KUL): “Maria of (KUL): (Bochum): “From Ceballos (CEU): “When Not To Pray: The “Lost in (Vernacular) Oisterwick: A “Deification and Scholasticism to “Bataille’s Reception of Sin Unto Death in Translation? Deification in Medieval Mystical Communion: Mysticism: Aquinas’ Theology” 1 John 5:16-17 in the Medieval English Author in the Footsteps Beatrice of Barhebraeus and the Commentary of Jean de Mysticism” of John of Ruusbroec” Nazareth’s Problem of Onto- Gagny” Common Love” Theology” 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00-13.00 SESSION 5-A SESSION 5-B (11.00-12.30) (4-paper session) Mysticism and Sacramentality Laura Raphaela Rohrofher Andrew Lee (Berkeley Bradford Anne Siebesma (KUL): Victor Yudin (CEDER Rachel Davies Moncion (Oxford): “Endless GTU): “Can this Text Manderfield “The Politics of the UCLouvain-la-Neuve): (Australian Catholic (Toronto): Pleasure, Endless Love: Still Speak: Reading (independent): “A Church as Sacrament: “Sophrony Sakharov’s University): “‘You Did it “Death and Julian of Norwich’s Julian of Norwich’s Dialogue Between Retrieving De Lubac’s 20th-c. use of a Jesus to Me’: Mother Teresa the Recluse” Theology of the Self” Prayer for Illness as Julian of Norwich Notion of the Church prayer service on the Poor as (Fully a Part of) a and Jean-Francois as Sacrament” as a response to the 14th c. Sacrament” Classic Text of Lyotard” Medieval Byzantine Embodied Mysticism” onomadox controversy” 13.00-14.30 LUNCH BREAK 14.30-16.00 SESSION 6-A SESSION 6-B Mysticism and Politics Mysticism and Liturgy Daniel Minch (KUL): Maria Exall Wilson Angelo Veerle Fraeters Samantha Slaubaugh T. Derrick Witherington “Mysticism and the Future (Canterbury Christ Espiritu (KUL): (Antwerp): “Baptised (Notre Dame): “Beatrice (KUL): “Broken Open of Christian Political Church): “Brexit and “Popular Piety in the Depth of God: of Nazareth: Liturgical for the Life of the World: Theology: the Interrelation the Citizenship of and a Mystical- Liturgy and Mysticism Participation Through A Recontextualization of of Politics and Mysticism Nowhere” Political in ’s Ecstasy and Eucharist” the Feast of Corpus in the Works of Edward Hermeneutics of Visions” Christi” Schillebeeckx” Liberation” 16.00-17.00 BREAK 17.00-19.00 KEYNOTE SESSION 2: Professors Marc De Kesel & Robyn Horner

SATURDAY 2 June 2018 9.00-10.30 SESSION 7-A SESSION 7-B Early Modern Mystics Mysticism and Language Anton de Preter Paul Arblaster (- Rik Van Dinah Wouters Kris van Put Artem Kachurin (CEU): (KUL): “A Curious Louis ): Nieuwenhove (Ghent): (Antwerp): “Love, “Deleuze and Porphyry on Interest?” The “Margaret of the Mother (Durham): “The “Ennarrabiliter: Linguistic Ambiguity Language and Knowledge” Involvement of the of God:” Translating and theological virtues, Hildegard of and Pedagogy in the First Generation of Transforming a Spiritual interiorisation, and Bingen’s Use of Seven Manners of Jansenists with Memoir” the author of the Allegory and the Love” Mystically Inspired Temple of Our Soul Mystical Tradition” Capuchins” & the Evangelical Pearl” 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00-13.00 SESSION 8-A SESSION 8-B (11.00-12.30) Lesser Known Medieval Mystical Authors and Texts (4-paper session) Mysticism and Eros/Desire Ine Kiekens Andrea Kofinakis Lydia Shahan (KUL): Racha Kirakosian Jane Foulcher Christophe D’Aloisio Michael Miller (Liverpool (Antwerp): (Athens): “The “The Limburg Sermons” (Harvard): “Christina (Charles Stuart): “Let (UCLouvain-la- Hope University): “One Body “The Mystical of Harne: Just Him Kiss Me with Neuve/Orthodox or Two: The Kabbalistic Tree Twelve Experience of Na Another Crazy Nun the Kiss of His Institute): “Eros and of Sefirot and Eros” Virtues” Prous Boneta: or Original Mystical Mouth:’ Bernard of Orthodox Unveiling a 14th c. Theology?” Clairvaux and Sarah Ecclesiology” Heretical Utopia of Coakley on Desire” the Holy Spirit” 13.00-14.30 LUNCH BREAK 14.30-16.00 SESSION 9-A SESSION 9-B Mysticism and Love Women and Mysticism: Past and Present Joana Serrado Davi Chang Ribeiro Lin Barbara Tautz Kate Kirkpatrick Jane Clark (Muhyiddin Henry Barrett (Middlebury): (Porto): “Forty (FAJE/KUL): “Love and (Cologne): “The (Hertfordshire): Ibn 'Arabî Society): “Language and embodiment in Ways of Loving, or Humility Through Humility and “Mysticism and “Women in the Life the discourse of Maria Hadewijch as Absolute Poverty: a Humanity of Christ in Mystification in and Thought of Maddalena de’ Pazzi” Philosopher of Dialogue Between Hadewijch’s Visions” Simone de Beauvoir” Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabī Love” Adelia Prado’s Mystical (1165-1240)” Poetry and Saint Augustine’s Confessional Language” 16.00-17.00 BREAK 17.00-19.00 KEYNOTE SESSION 3: Professors Bernard McGinn & Amy Hollywood 19.00-22.00 CONFERENCE DINNER