School of Critical Studies

Call for Papers

RSE Network: Teaching Catholicism and Literature in 21^st Century Scotland Workshop,
13^th-14^th September 2019

University of Glasgow

 

(Image: William Blake, Jacob’s Ladder (c.1805) (c) Wikimedia Commons)

Confirmed Speakers: Professor Tina Beattie (University of Roehampton), Mr. Dave Scott (Nil by Mouth),Professor Bob Davis, Dr. Maureen Farrell, Professor Stephen McKinney (University of Glasgow)

This two-day Workshop will consider how Catholicism and Literature are taught in Schools and Universities in 21st Century Scotland. Following the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Education Act in Scotland - which offered Catholic Schools the opportunity to become state-funded for the first time - this event brings together teachers, academics, students, and pupils to consider the place of Catholicism in the curriculum at secondary and tertiary levels. There are, of course, competing views on what a Catholic educational curriculum should look like and how (or if) it should be taught in multi-cultural Scotland. This Workshop invites contributions from those with a faith-based approach to Catholic education alongside those who have no particular religious affiliations. In this way, it hopes to provide a rounded view on a crucial and contested area of educational provision in Scotland.​

The workshop will feature a mixture of keynotes, longer paper panels, shorter presentation panels, and breakout discussion groups involving all participants. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Catholicism as a literary topic
• Pedagogical approaches to Catholicism and literature
• Legislation and Educational frameworks
• Catholicism, literature, and ethics
• The civic function of religious pedagogy
• Feminist/gender-based/LGBTQ approaches to teaching Catholicism and literature
• Teaching Catholicism as a believer/non-believer
• Catholicism and/as philosophy
• Catholicism and the canon – inclusion and exclusion
• Comparative approaches – Catholicism and other religions

Proposals (200 words max) are invited for longer 20 minute papers, or shorter 10 minute presentations. Please email proposals (250 words max) to Adrian Streete (adrian.streete@glasgow.ac.uk) by Monday 12th August 2019. Attendance is free, but anyone wishing to attend must register (details to follow).

Ten bursaries of £50 to cover travel costs are available for postgraduate students wishing to attend; five bursaries of £50 to cover travel costs are available for teachers wishing to attend.

If you wish to be considered, please email a short (250 words max) proposal to Adrian Streete (adrian.streete@glasgow.ac.uk) by Monday 12th August 2019 outlining your interest in the Workshop and its theme.  

 

                  

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First published: 4 June 2019