Dr William Rowlandson, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages will be presenting a series of seminars at the Swedenborg Society during June.
The Swedenborg Society is a registered charity that organises events, lectures, conferences, exhibitions, performances, and film screenings, as well as publishing a large selection of literature, relating to the work of the philosopher, scientist, inventor, astronomer, mathematician, parliamentary figure and visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772).
The series of four seminars on ‘Swedenborg Literature and the Imaginal’ will draw on Swedenborg’s presence in Latin American Literature and will investigate the peculiar interrelationship of fiction and non-fiction as a means of exploring the imaginal.
The four seminars are:
- Week 1 (6 June) ‘So what is the Imaginal anyway?’
- Week 2 (13 June) ‘What is Borges?’
- Week 3 (20 June) ‘Praying for the souls of the fictional dead: Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo’
- Week 4 (27 June) ‘Magical Realism: Can the real be magic? Can magic be real?’
Further details and how to register are available at: http://www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/talks_readings/6_13_20_27_june_2016_swedenborg_literature_and_the_imaginal_seminar_series