{"id":6127,"date":"2016-06-08T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:50:03","slug":"william-rowlandson-at-the-swedenborg-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/06\/08\/william-rowlandson-at-the-swedenborg-society\/","title":{"rendered":"William Rowlandson at the Swedenborg Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/rowlandson.html\">Dr William Rowlandson<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a> will be presenting a series of seminars at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swedenborg.org.uk\/home\">Swedenborg Society<\/a> during June.<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p>The series of four seminars on \u2018Swedenborg Literature and the Imaginal\u2019 will draw on Swedenborg\u2019s presence in Latin American Literature and will investigate the peculiar interrelationship of fiction and non-fiction as a means of exploring the imaginal.<\/p>\n<p>The four seminars are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Week 1 (6 June) \u2018So what is the Imaginal anyway?\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Week 2 (13 June) \u2018What is Borges?\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Week 3 (20 June) \u2018Praying for the souls of the fictional dead: Juan Rulfo\u2019s <em>Pedro P\u00e1ramo<\/em>\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Week 4 (27 June) \u2018Magical Realism: Can the real be magic? Can magic be real?\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further details and how to register are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swedenborg.org.uk\/events\/talks_readings\/6_13_20_27_june_2016_swedenborg_literature_and_the_imaginal_seminar_series\">http:\/\/www.swedenborg.org.uk\/events\/talks_readings\/6_13_20_27_june_2016_swedenborg_literature_and_the_imaginal_seminar_series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/06\/08\/william-rowlandson-at-the-swedenborg-society\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":6129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6132,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions\/6132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}