Winter Meeting 2010
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
under the presidency of Professor Cheryl Exum
(Printable version of programme)
TUESDAY 5th JANUARY
(2.00 p.m.) [Committee Meeting]
4.30 p.m. Registration (in the Auditorium Foyer)
6.00 p.m. Reception
6.45 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Presidential Paper: Professor Cheryl Exum (Sheffield), 'The Arts and the Exegete'
WEDNESDAY 6th JANUARY
8.00 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Professor Ellen van Wolde (Nijmegen), 'Back to the Beginning: On bara and tohu wabohu'
10.45 a.m. Coffee
11.15 a.m. Dr Jonathan Stökl (Cambridge), '(No) Prophetesses in Ezekiel 13: Reconsidering “the Daughters of Your People, Who Prophesy”'
12.00 noon Professor David Chalcraft (Derby), 'The Bible Moves in Mysterious Ways: The Sociology of the Mobile Bible in Late Modernity'
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.30 p.m. Panel Discussion on ‘The Bible and the Academy’, with Professor David Clines (Sheffield), Ms Elizabeth Harper (Durham), Dr Paul Joyce (Oxford), and Dr Sarah Nicholson (Glasgow)
4.30 p.m. Tea
5.00 p.m. Dr Susan Gillingham (Oxford), 'Psalms 1 and 2 through the Centuries'
6.45 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Professor Martti Nissinen (Helsinki), ‘Prophecy and Gender in the Ancient Mediterranean’
THURSDAY 7th JANUARY
8.00 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Professor Hugh Pyper (Sheffield), 'The Beginnings of the Bible’
10.00 a.m. Dr Yvonne Sherwood (Glasgow), 'The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: From Sub-sub-specialization to Post-Postism (and Beyond)’
10.45 a.m. Coffee
11.15 a.m. Dr Hilary Marlow (Cambridge), '“What Am I in a Boundless Creation?”: An Ecological Reading of Ben Sira 16 and 17’
12.00 noon Business Meeting (SOTS members only)
1.00 p.m. Lunch, followed by departure
All papers, the panel discussion and the business meeting will be held in the Auditorium. Publishers are invited to display books for sale during the Meeting. Members who have had books published recently are also invited to display copies.
Domestic Arrangements
The charges for hospitality are shown on the Booking Form. There are three types of rooms: (a) standard rooms which share a bathroom, shower and toilet between four bedrooms; (b) en-suite rooms which have toilet and shower; and (c) a few twin en-suite rooms. Members are requested to pay their accounts in full when returning the form but, if necessary, a non-returnable booking fee of £25 will be accepted, and the balance will be payable on arrival at the Meeting. A discounted price is available to those whose Booking Forms are received by the Hospitality Secretary by Tuesday 10th November 2009 (please see the details on the form). There is a subsidized price for those on low incomes or from economically disadvantaged countries. All bookings must be received by Thursday 3rd December 2009; no bookings can be accepted after that date.
Please note that in making a booking, members render themselves liable for payment of the full cost of that booking, a liability that will be waived only in the light of extenuating circumstances and only when the final conference accounts permit a refund. You may wish to consider taking out insurance on your booking (or check that your annual travel insurance is applicable) to cover the possibility of you having to cancel your booking. You are advised to make a copy of your completed Booking Form for your own records.
Please send the Booking Form to the Hospitality Secretary, Ms Elizabeth Harper, Flat 4, 69-70 Crossgate, Durham DH1 4PR (e-mail e.a.harper@dur.ac.uk), so as to arrive by Tuesday 10th November 2009 (for the discount price) or at the latest by Thursday 3rd December.
Correspondence concerning the affairs of the Society should be sent to the Secretary, Dr John Jarick, St Stephen’s House, 16 Marston Street, Oxford OX4 1JX (e-mail john.jarick@theology.ox.ac.uk). Applications to the Conference Grant (Bursary) Fund for assistance in meeting the costs of attending the Meeting (using the form available at www.sots.ac.uk/conferencegrant.html) should reach him by Friday 30th October 2009. Proposals for new members of the Society (using the form available at www.sots.ac.uk/membershipform.html) should reach him by Monday 30th November.
Information on the location of Fitzwilliam College may be found at www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/location/directions