Through a Glass Darkly Symposium
The 2024 Symposium will be held on 8 October 2024.About the Symposium
The study of humankind's fascination with the apocalyptic worldview is a vast field which has increased in interest over the last three decades with the approach and passing of the start of a new millennium. It is a subject that spans cultures, religions, time, and space, and one that resists easy categorical definition. In Through a Glass Darkly, scholars and artists gather each year to deliver presentations and engage in dialogue.
Through a Glass Darkly was founded in 2015 and is directed by UCCS Humanities Program Director Colin McAllister. In 2018, Lorenzo DiTommaso of Concordia University Montréal joined as Co-Director. Through a Glass Darkly is underwritten by the UCCS Humanities Program, the Heller Center for Arts & Humanities, the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University Montréal, the School of Religious Studies at McGill University, and a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada / Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada.
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Schedule & Presenters
The 2026 Symposium—Time and the Eschaton—will be held March 16th and 17th at the Heller Center for Arts & Humanities. The schedule includes a series of presentations, a film screening, and a book release event. Speakers include Gillian Adler (Sarah Lawrence College), Nadine Boljkovac (UCCS), Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal), Francis X. Gumerlock, Colin McAllister (UCCS), and Gerbern Oegema (McGill University).
Locations
Heller Center for Arts & Humanities
1250 North Campus Heights
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Contact
For questions regarding the Through a Glass Darkly Symposium, please contact Colin McAllister:
Symposium Directors
Colin McAllister
Symposium Director
Colin McAllister is the Director of Humanities and Associate Professor of Music at UCCS.
His publications include the Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature, a translation of the Cambridge Glossa in Apocalypsin (Corpus Christianorum in Translation, Brepols) and—with Lorenzo DiTommaso—Music in the Apocalyptic Mode (Brill, 2023).
Lorenzo DiTommaso
Symposium Director
Lorenzo DiTommaso is a Professor of Religions & Cultures at Concordia University Montreal. He studies apocalypticism from biblical apocalypses to contemporary apocalyptic manga and anime.
Among his current projects is the medieval Antichrist, for which he has received a five-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His new book, The Architecture of Apocalypticism, the first volume of a trilogy, is forthcoming for Oxford University Press.
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