RCTA Events Archive
CPI Scholars Network Plenary for 2024-25 Working Groups
“Finding Your Voice, Finding Your Audience” Panel Discussion
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Works in Progress: A Conversation with New Zealand Poet Ben Egerton”
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.
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Mestizaje, Spirituality, and Feminist Redress in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God (1993)”
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”
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”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Travel, Perspective, and Gender: Revelation in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Writing and Reading Death: Poetics, Reception, and Beliefs in Dialogue”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Of ‘things unknown’: A Discussion of the Work of Thomas Traherne”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Ancient Clarity Overlaid: A Discussion of Lawrence Joseph’s, So Where Are We?”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Marginalized Voices: Poems of African- and Native-American Experience.”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Visual Poetics in/through Ancient and Experimental Texts: Works from St. Augustine’s Gospel, Charles Bernstein, and Susan Howe”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Christian Reading Practices: Passages from Dante’s Purgatorio, with commentary by Jorge Luis Borges, and T.S. Eliot’s ‘Compound Ghost’ in Little Gidding”
CPI Readers Colloquium
“Poetics Ancient and Modern: A Comparison of T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding and Virgil’s Ecologues”