Welcome to the project website of ‘Re-configuring the Apophatic Tradition in Late Medieval England’, a 4-year Swiss National Science Foundation-funded team research project (April 2022-March 2026), hosted by the Department of English, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Apophasis: the stripping away of all that can be known, spoken, or visualised about God, and an entry into a place of darkness and cognitive obscurity …
You are warmly invited to explore our site to learn more about our project, publications and forthcoming conference, and to read our news and blogs.
Professor Denis Renevey (principal investigator)
Dr Christiania Whitehead (senior researcher)
Olena Danylovych (doctoral researcher)
Reconfiguring the Apophatic Tradition in Late Medieval England Conference
This conference will take place on the 10–12th of September 2025 at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Our keynote speakers are:
- Marleen Cré, Université Catholique de Louvain
- Ryan Perry, University of Kent
- Nicholas Watson, Harvard University
- Katherine Zieman, Université de Poitiers
For the full Call for Papers, see here.
The deadline for paper submissions is the 30th of November 2024. Please send 250-word abstracts and brief CVs to Christiania.Whitehead@unil.ch.
Confirmation of acceptance will take place by the end of December 2024, and registration for the conference will open in March 2025.
The conference programme will include an optional excursion on Saturday 13th of September, provisionally offering a boat trip along the Lac Léman, a visit to Chillon castle, a swim in the lake, a lakeside walk to Vevey, and concluding with a wine-tasting in the UNESCO world heritage site, the Lavaux vineyard terraces.
For more details, see the Conference page.
