RCTA Events Archive
FLPI Colloquium
“Invisible Bodies: Restoring Humanity, Remembering Persons | Missing Bodies, Missing Persons: Artworks Illuminating and Interrogating Human Existence”
CPI Scholars Network Plenary Conference for 2024-25 Working Groups
With keynote addresses by Prof. Romana Huk & Prof. Michael Hurley
Film Screening | THE WIND PHONE (2019)
+ Panel Discussion: “The Traumatic Lens: Framing Our Responses to Catastrophic Loss”
FLPI Colloquium
“Technological Bodies: Re-defining the Parameters of Human Existence | Missing Bodies, Missing Persons: Artworks Illuminating and Interrogating Human Existence”
CPI Scholars Network Plenary for 2024-25 Working Groups
“Finding Your Voice, Finding Your Audience” Panel Discussion
FLPI Colloquium
“Disappeared Bodies: Mourning in Absentia | Missing Bodies, Missing Persons: Artworks Illuminating and Interrogating Human Existence”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Works in Progress: A Conversation with New Zealand Poet Ben Egerton”
FLPI Colloquium
“Missing Bodies, Missing Persons: How Art Illuminates and Complicates 'Encounters' with the Dead: Bodies/Embodiment”
CPI Scholars Network Plenary for 2024-25 Working Groups
Conversations with poet Shane McCrae, and Charles La Porte and Lori Branch, co-editors of the Cambridge Elements Series, Literature and Religion since 1500.
FLPI Colloquium
“Missing Bodies, Missing Persons: How Art Illuminates and Complicates 'Encounters' with the Dead: Absence/Presence”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Mestizaje, Spirituality, and Feminist Redress in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God (1993)”
FLPI Colloquium
“Missing Bodies, Missing Persons: How Art Illuminates and Complicates 'Encounters' with the Dead: Witness”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Soaked: Religion, Gender, and Theory through M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!”
CPI Scholars Network Plenary for 2022-23 Working Groups
This plenary conference culminates the Network’s 18-month pilot program and lays the groundwork for its continuation. Network Working Groups from the 2022-23 cohort will meet for two days to discuss the work that has been done thus far and the shape of the work to come; poet Kimberly Johnson will also read from her latest collection, Fatal.
Co-sponsored by Yale Divinity School
CPI Readers Colloquium
“On Christian Spirituality and Criticism”: In Conversation with R. S. Thomas
CPI Scholars Network Plenary for 2022-23 Working Groups
Interviews with Eliza Sanders and Miho Nonaka + Discussion
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Womanist Spirituality in Literature: A Discussion of Alice Walker’s Short Stories, In Love & Trouble”
CPI Scholars Network Plenary for 2022-23 Working Groups
Panel Discussion + “Conversation and Q&A with Prof. Susannah Monta”
Art & Culture Series Conversation
“‘Making Special’ or Making Sacred? Revisiting Our Conception of Art”
Art & Culture Series Conversation
“Courageous Culture Care: Reframing the Relationship of Art and Culture”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Lyric and Spirit: The Poetics of Breath in Hank Lazer’s The New Spirit”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“‘The strength to bear life again’: The Poetry of Rebirth in Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, and Luis Cernuda”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“The Abyss: Nietzsche, Futility, and Du Fu, an 8th-Century Chinese Poet”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“‘That Glorious Form, that Light insufferable’: Poetry of Incarnation in Milton and Hart Crane”