Femmes et spiritualité – Women and Spirituality

Colloque International – International Conference
12-13 Juin, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence

Organisé par le LERMA, avec la collaboration du projet « Who Were the Nuns ? », Queen Mary, University of London.

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Vendredi 12 juin 2009 -- Friday 12 June 2009

8h30: Inscriptions -- Registration and coffee

9h00 : Bienvenue -- Welcome (Jean Viviès for the LERMA and the conference organisers)

9h15: Session plénière -- Plenary session (Salle n°1)
Lindsay Wilson, Northern Arizona University, USA, ‘ “Is the World made Up of Stories or of Atoms?”: Faith, Science and the Power of Stories in Defining Women’s Spirituality’.

SESSION A: Spiritual Quests in 20th-Century Women’s Fiction (Salle n°1)
Présidence – chair person: Sylvie Mathé, directrice du DEMA, Aix-Marseille University

09h45 : Naomi Toth, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, ‘Spirit, Body and 'Vision'. Virginia Woolf and Shakespeare's Sister’.

10h15 : Françoise Couturier-Storey & Jeff Storey, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, ‘Naturalistic Spirituality, Feminist Anti-Religiousness and Myth in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction’.

10h45: pause café -- coffee and tea break

11h00: Elaine Lux, Nyack College, Manhattan, ‘Holistic Spirituality in the Fiction of Gail Godwin : Margaret Gower Bonner and Magda Danvers’.

11h30: Claude le Fustec, Université de Rennes, ‘Toni Morrison’s new Jungian Gnostic Gospel of Self Knowledge’.

SESSION B: Faith, Femininity and Feminism (Salle n°2)
Présidence – chair person : Linda Martz, The American University of Paris.

9h45: Andrea Cardoso, University of Oporto, Portugal, ‘ “Never a Terror”: The Role of Religion in Mary Wollstonecraft’.

10h15: Jean-Pierre Lafouge, Marquette University, USA, « Aperçus sur le jeu de la Providence dans la vie et le destin spirituel de Dorothy Day».

10h45: pause café - coffee and tea break

11h00: Arina Lungu, University of Warwick, UK, ‘Feminism and Faith : Exploring Christian Spaces in the Writing of Sara Maitland and Michèle Roberts’.

11h30 : Dawn Llewellyn, Lancaster University, UK, ‘A Third Wave Spirituality? Women, Spirituality and Reading Literary texts’.

DÉJEUNER -- LUNCH

SESSION A: 17th-Century Women and Spirituality (Salle n°1)
Présidence – chair person: Caroline Bowden, Manager of the Project ‘Who Were the Nuns?’, Queen Mary University, London.

14h00: Antonella Cagnolati, Université de Foggia, Italie, ‘Funeral sermons as models of faith and spirituality for puritan women in 17th century England’.

14h30: Manuela D’Amore, Univerity of Catania, ‘ “Impertinences of Woman’s Pen”: Mary Astell’s Letters Concerning the Love of God (1694)’.

15h00: Catherine Beaudry, Dickinson College, USA, ‘Madame Guyon's Mysticism Takes Root in American Soil’.

15h30: Garcia Calderon, University of Cordoba, Spain, ‘Anne Bradstreet and the Poetic Spirituality of a Puritan’.

16h00: pause café -- coffee and tea break

16h15: Michèle Lardy, Université Paris I, ‘Wives, mothers and Christians: An Insight into the Daily Life of some 17th Century Ladies.’

16h45: Presentation of the project ‘Who Were the Nuns?’, Queen Mary University and Arts and Humanities Research Council.

SESSION B: Spiritualism, New Paganism (Salle n°2)
Présidence – chair person: Claire Pégon, Aix-Marseille University.

14h00: Georgina O’ Brien-Hill, Chester, UK, ‘The Medium, the Magazine Editor and the Spiritualist Autobiography’.

14h30: Beth A. Robertson, Carleton University, Canada. "Feminine Apparitions and Other Ghostly Teleplasm: Contesting and Constructing Womanliness in the Seances of Dr. T. Glendon Hamilton"

15h00: Chris Klassen, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, ‘The Metaphor of Goddess: Atheist Witches and the Religion of Nature’.

15h30 : Anne-Marie Lassallette-Carassou, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, “Féminisme, néopaganisme et culte de la Déesse aux Etats-Unis”.

16h00: pause café -- coffee and tea break

16h15: Patrick Laude, Georgetown University, “Contributions à une métaphysique du féminin: Merrell-Wolff, Bede Griffith et Schuon’ ,

16h45 : Patricia Iolana, University of Glasgow, ‘Sacred Feminine Literature : The Re-Emergence of the Goddess’

SATURDAY 13 JUNE

Plenary session: Spirituality and the female body (Salle G. Duby)
Présidence – chair person: Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Aix-Marseille University.

9h30: Eglantine Jamet-Moreau, Université de Nanterre , ‘Inferior, Impure and Seductive : Can the Female Body Act as Mediator of the Sacred ?’

10h00 : Camile de Villeneuve, Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, “La fonction castratrice de la vision mystique dans les Révélations de Julienne de Norwich et le Livre de Margery Kempe.

10h30: Gwenllian Meredith, United Arab Emirates University, ‘ “By Night in my Bed…” : Erotic Visions of Spiritual Union in the Diaries of Select Medieval Visionaries’.

11h00: pause café -- coffee and tea break

11h15 : Anita Higgie, Institut Catholique de Paris, ‘Margery Kempe: The Quest for a Saintly Life through Violation of Norms’.

11h45 : Marie-Laure Schultze et Sara Greaves, Université de Provence, ‘No Salvation for Mothers-of-Several’.

DÉJEUNER -- LUNCH

SESSION A (Salle G. Duby) : Spirituality and Institutions
Présidence – chair person: Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Aix-Marseille University.

14h00 : Hélène Palma, Université de Provence, France, “ Les femmes et la spiritualité franc-maçonne au XVIIIème siècle entre accès restreint et élitisme: un cas de trahison des idéaux des Lumières ? »

14h30: Molly Gilbert-Chatalic, Université de Bretagne, ‘The Quiet Revolution: the Empowerment of Female teachers in American Buddhism’.

15h00: Megan P. Brock, University of Western Sydney, Australia, ‘I Don’t Think the Structural Church Knows what to Make of Us »: The Nun Resisting the Catholic Church’s Positioning of her as Docile, Self-Sacrificing Mother’.

15h30 : Renée Tosser, Université de la Réunion, « La religion serait-elle un moyen de soumettre les femmes? « The Magdalene Sisters » de Peter Mullan ».

SESSION B (salle n°1) : Experiencing Spirituality.
Présidence – chair person : Claire Sorin, Aix-Marseille University.

14h00: Anne McClanan, Portland State University (Oregon, USA), ‘Eliza Spalding’s Ladder to Heaven: Women’s Spiritual Communities in the Jacksonian-era Pacific Northwest’.

14h30: Margaret Toscano, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Utah, USA), ‘Movement from the Margins: Mormon Women’s Visions of the Mother God’.

15h00: Josephine Hook, Monash University (Australia), ‘ “The Culture Knocking on the Door”: Catholic Sisters and Welfare Activism in Melbourne in the 1960s and 70s’.

15h30: Marc Marcoux Faiia, Rivier College, USA, ‘College Women’s Perceptions of Spirituality and Religion; The Roles they Play in their Lives’.