DEUS EX CINEMA trúarstef í kvikmyndum

Mánudaginn 29. september kl. 15, heldur Dr. Ulrike Vollmer fyrirlestur á vegum Guðfræðistofnunar í stofu 229 í Aðalbyggingu HÍ. Fyrirlesturinn ber heitið: Visual Art and Spirituality: Twin Paths to the Divine? og fjallar um tengsl kvikmynda og trúarlífs. Fyrirlesturinn fer fram á ensku og er öllum opinn.

Nánar um fyrirlesturinn:

Visual Art and Spirituality: Twin Paths to the Divine?

In this paper, I am arguing that the use of images and the practice of spirituality, both of which I consider as intrinsic to human nature, share some similarities, and that the study of the use of images can shed light on spirituality and vice versa. To this end, I consider the human use of images in general (as opposed to particular works of visual art), and the practice and study of spirituality, each on its own terms. This will allow me to map out areas of convergence, where one practice helps to understand the other.

Biographical Information

Ulrike Vollmer, Dipl. Rel. Päd. FH (Freiburg, Germany), MA (Leeds, UK), PhD (Sheffield, UK), has recently won the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise for her book, Seeing Film and Reading Feminist Theology: A Dialogue (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Other publications include ‘Blessed Are Those Who Are Seen? Incarnation as Cinema’s Destiny’, in Religion and the Arts, 10/4 (2006) 524-538; ‘Auf Leinwand gebannt: Judith im (Miss-)Verständnis von Malerei und Film’ in Biblical Interpretation special issue on Bible and Film, 14/1-2 (2006) 76-93; ‘Towards an Ethics of Seeing. Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson’, in Literature and Theology 19/1 (2005) 74-85. She is a steering committee member of the German language research project ‘Film und Theologie’ (www.film-und-theologie.de), a member of the editorial board of the journal Literature and Theology, and has served on the ecumenical jury at the international film festival of Locarno, Switzerland. She has been lecturing in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales Lampeter, where she now holds an honorary research fellowship while taking family time out.