Next term's lectures at the Oxford Centre for Christianity & Culture based at Regent's Park College is on Alternative Worlds (pdf here)
28 April Ways into Other Worlds: from Gulliver to His Dark Materials
Professor Peter Hunt, Emeritus, University of Wales, Cardiff
5 May Into the woods with Will: Shakespeare and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Professor Laurie Maguire, Magdalen College, University of Oxford
12 May ‘I rest not from my great task! To open the Eternal Worlds’: the visions of William Blake
Professor Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University of Oxford
19 May Women clothed with the sun: 18th century women prophets
Dr Nancy Cho, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, and Nottingham Trent University
26 May News from nowhere: William Morris’s Utopian dreams
Dr David Leopold, Mansfield College, University of Oxford
2 June George MacDonald’s Phantastes and Lilith
Dr Bill Gray, Reader, Department of English, University of Chichester, author of Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth, 2008
9 June Of other worlds: the science fiction of C.S. Lewis
Dr Walter Hooper, Literary Adviser to the estate of C.S. Lewis
16 June Why do we need alternative worlds?
Professor Paul S. Fiddes and Dr Mark Atherton, Regent’s Park College, will open discussion on this question.
The evening will end with a drinks reception.
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