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Century Contexts
10:45 Session 3: American Landscape Painting
Chair: Dr. William Coleman, Winterthur/Library Comp. of
Philadelphia
• Dr. James Lawrence, GTU: Painter, Pastor: Spiritual Arc in
William Keith
• Dr. Adrienne Baxter Bell, Marymount Manhattan College: The
Fact of the Indefinable: George Inness in the 1860s
• Dr. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University: A Tale
of Two Christs: William Page’s Journey from Unitarianism to the
New Church
1:45pm Session 4: Visionary Architecture and Sound
Chair: Holly Mitchum, GTU
• Dr. Kristen Schaffer, North Carolina State: Plan of Chicago and
the Universal Human
• Dr. Paul Ivey, University of Arizona: From New Church
Architecture to City Beautiful
• The Rev. Stephen Cole, Bryn Athyn College: Swedenborgians and
the Arts and Crafts Movement
4:15
5:00
6:30
• Dr. Graham Bier, Bryn Athyn College: Toward an Internal Sense:
C.J. Whittington
Tour of Bryn Athyn Cathedral: Dr. Martha Gyllenhaal
Self-guided tours of Glencairn Museum
Wine reception in Glencairn Cloister (weather permitting)
Banquet in Glencairn’s Great Hall
Thursday, June 8: Swedenborgian Imaginaries
9 a.m. Welcome and opening remarks: Introduction of Dr. Massimo
Introvigne
9:15
Keynote: Dr. Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New
Religions (CESNUR): Concentric Circles
10:45 Sessions 5: William Blake and His Critics
Chair: Dr. Rebecca Esterson, Center for Swedenborgian Studies at the
Graduate Theological Union (GTU)
• Dr. Martha Gyllenhaal, Bryn Athyn College: William Blake’s
Watercolors of the Last Judgment
• Dr. Matthew Leporati, College of Mount Saint Vincent:
Swedenborg’s Conjugial Love and Blake’s Erotic Poetics
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