All sessions take place in the Richard Hoggart Building, room 137
Tea and Coffee will be served in room 141
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Thursday 10 April
10:00-10:45: Tea and Coffee in RHB 141
10:45: Welcome
RHB 137
Abigail Shinn
11:00-12:30: The Architecture of Conversion in time
Chair: Antonio Urquízar-Herrera
John Schofield, City of London Archaeology Trust, ‘The Architecture of Conversion in London, 1530-1600’
Adam Blitz, Technical Evaluation Mission Expert, International Council on Monuments and Sites, ‘Arche-textures – the legacy of Erfurt’s Altesynagoge. Reconfiguration and Reformation Thought in Early Modern Thuringia’
Harriet Lyon, University of Cambridge, ‘”Raised out of the Ruins”: Converted Religious Houses in Reformation England’
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-15:00: Conversion and Sacred Space
Chair: Harriet Lyon
Jaap Geraerts, Mainz University, ‘A “big, spacious, and beautiful church”: Catholic clandestine churches in the eighteenth-century province of Holland’
Róisín Watson, Open University, ‘Consecration sermons and defining Lutheran church space’
Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes, ‘Synagogue, Church, Temple: St Sauveur, Orléans and Reformed Worship, c. 1563–69’
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-16:30: Plenary
Chair: Abigail Shinn
Antonio Urquízar-Herrera (UNED Madrid), ‘Martyrs, Relics and the Conversion of Medieval Mosques in Early Modern Spain’
18:00: Dinner
Everest Curry King, 24 Loampit Way, Lewisham
Friday 11 April
10:00-11:30: Conversion and Dissolution
Chair: Andrew Spicer
Lee Morrissey, Clemson University, ‘Buckland Abbey and the Conversion of Architecture’
Isla Dixon Dawson, Bristol University, ‘The Dissolution Years: Local Society, Augmentations, and the Negotiation of Monastic Legacy in Urban Environments’
Sophie Anderson, Cambridge University, ‘Lacock Abbey’
11:30-11:45 Tea and Coffee
11:45-13:00: The Poetics of Architectural Conversion
Chair: Abigail Shinn
Ella Alton, University of Sheffield, ‘”Strain[ing] […] through Heaven’s Gat”: Depictions of Architectural Conversion in Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House’ (1651)”‘
Hannah Kirwan, UC Berkeley, ‘“Blessed be the Architect”: Spatial Poetics in George Herbert’s ‘Church Floor’
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30: Conversion and the English stage
Chair: TBC
Abigail Shinn, Goldsmiths, University of London ‘Profane Topography: The Architecture of Conversion and Early Modern Drama’
Callan Davies, University of Southampton, ‘The Theatre and Curtain, Sybil Newdigate, and the End of Holywell Priory’
Stewart Mottram, University of Hull, ‘Storms and steeples in Shakespeare’s King Lear’
15:30-16:30: Roundtable discussion
‘What is the architecture of conversion?’
Drinks in the Shirker’s Rest, Lewisham Way
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Contact: Abigail Shinn, a.shinn@gold.ac.uk