We are very pleased to share that our new MLitt in Sacred Music has launched and we are accepting applications for Fall 2020 entry.
The MLitt in Sacred Music offers a unique interdisciplinary formation in Sacred Music for musicians, scholars, and leaders in artistic ministry.
It is taught jointly by the School of Divinity’s Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) and the University of St Andrews Music Centre.
For more information, see the following links:
On Friday, 13th of September, Professor Judith Wolfe will be speaking on ‘Eschatological Being’ at Cambridge University’s New Trinitarian Ontologies Conference. To read the abstract of her paper and see the conference schedule, click here.
Our ITIA postgraduates are often traveling within the UK and far beyond, sharing their research at conferences, workshops and other events. We are delighted to spotlight five of ITIA’s students who recently took part in the ‘Theology, Creativity and the Arts’ Postgraduate Study Day, hosted by the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology at the University of Cambridge.
Participants and paper titles are as follows:
Annemarie G. Konzelman, ‘Long Play Liturgies: Capacious Forms and Religious Experience in The 1975’s Sophomore Album’
Sarah Moerman, ‘Reclaiming ‘Spirituality’: John Adams’ Agnostic Approach in Gospel According to the Other Mary‘
Ashley Mowers, ”A People and Their Stories’: A Style Analysis and Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints’
Jen Schmidt, ‘The Discipline of Interdisciplinarity’
Mariah Ziemer, ‘Colour, Perception and the Hue of Heaven’
Transept was a co-sponsor of, and contributed artwork to, the 2019 Theology and Trauma conference at the University of St Andrews. Other sponsors included the LOGOS Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology here at St. Mary’s.
This conference took place between 12-13 of July 2019 at Holy Trinity in St Andrews and was free for all registrants.
Further details regarding the conference can be found here.
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During Holy Week 2019 (14 – 18 April), Transept organised and put on a multi-format art exhibition, with emphasis on Holy Saturday as it serves as the “threshold between Good Friday which marks Jesus’ execution, and Easter Sunday which brings the hope of Resurrection.”
The following links, covering aspects of the Exhibition, may be of interest:
‘Art Exhibition Focuses on Mystery of Easter’
Reflections on ‘space()between’ with ITIA artist-in-residence, Dan Drage, and St Andrews artist, Letizia Morley.
Ewan Bowlby’s article, ‘Fragile Forms–Reflections on space()between and the Art of Holy Saturday’ for Transpositions.
Performance programme can be accessed here.
In March 2019, Professor Judith Wolfe (ITIA) and Professor Thomas Pfau (Duke) convened a four-day colloquium on R.M. Rilke’s Duino Elegies and T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Comprised of a small gathering of theologians, philosophers and literary scholars, the colloquium included ITIA’s Director, Dr. Gavin Hopps, Christoph Schwöbel (St. Andrews, Divinity), Rowan Williams (Cambridge), Malcolm Guite (Cambridge),Kevin Hart (Virginia), and David Wellbery (Chicago).
For further details, see the following reflection on the event, here.
ITIA artists invite you to examine with them what happens after the call.
The Transept – a group of practicing artists within the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) – invites you to join us for an upcoming performance and exhibition.
‘After the Call’ offers space and time for celebration and reflection around the notion of being called unexpectedly to something unknown, or perhaps to something all-too-familiar that we suddenly realise.
6-15 April 2018
Venue open from 12:00 to 17:00 each day.
Performance evening on 11th April at 19:00 – engaging and interdisciplinary performance with music, poetry and monologues.
Location: Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Queens Terrace, St Andrews KY16 9QF
Our first research seminar of the new semester will be held on Friday, 3 February 2017. ITIA and Divinity postgraduates, faculty, and guests are all welcome.
ITIA research seminars take place every Friday at 11am during term time. The full schedule is available here.