In Through a Glass Darkly, scholars and artists gather each year to deliver presentations and engage in dialogue at the Heller Center for Arts & Humanities on the campus of the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
The study of humankind's fascination with the apocalyptic is a vast field, and has increased in interest over the last three decades with the approach and passing of the start of a new millennium. It is a subject that spans cultures, religions, time and space, and one that resists easy categorical definition.
Through a Glass Darkly was founded in 2015 and is directed by Colin McAllister from the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. In 2018, Lorenzo DiTommaso of Concordia University
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The study of humankind’s fascination with the apocalyptic is a vast field, and has increased in interest over the last three decades with the approach and passing of the start of a new millennium. It is a subject that spans cultures, religions, time and space, and one that resists easy categorical definition.
Through a Glass Darkly was founded in 2015 and is directed by Colin McAllister from the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. In 2018, Lorenzo DiTommaso of Concordia University Montreal joined as Co-Director.
Through a Glass Darkly is generously underwritten by the UCCS Humanities Program, the Heller Center for Arts & Humanities, the UCCS Department of Visual and Performing Arts, the UCCS Department of History and the UCCS Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life.
All events take place at the Heller Center for the Arts & Humanities unless noted.
Friday:
- Joanna Demers (University of Southern California), The Apocalyptic Utopia of Edward Gibbon’s New Jerusalem
- Presented in conjunction with Third Friday Colloquia: Essays in Music
Monday:
- Christopher Adler (University of San Diego),Aeneas in the Underworld: a realization of apocalyptic narrative in music
- Opening Reception
- Concert (Chapman Foundations Recital Hall, Ent Center for the Performing Arts)
- Christopher Adler – Aeneas in the Underworld (world premiere) featuring Colin McAllister, guitar and narrator with Pablo Gómez Cano, guitar and the Veronika String Quartet
- Translations by Khang Le (Colorado College)
Tuesday:
- Coffee and Pastries, Meet and Greet
- Welcome and Introduction (Colin McAllister)
- Katherine Guinness (UCCS), Do You Really Want to Live Forever?: Collectivity, Chronology, Catastrophe
- Brett Whalen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- Amy Frykholm, A Dress Rehearsal for the Apocalypse: Christian Zionism and the Prosperity Gospel in Global Christianity
- Lunch in the Heller atrium
- Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal), The Common Medieval Apocalyptic Tradition
- Dorothea Olkowski (UCCS), The Transubstantiation (Metousiosis) of the Transhuman (Metouanthró̱pinos): A Change of Substance (Ousia)?
- Ian Boxall (Catholic University of America), Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
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