COURSE: Revolution and Revelation: Art and Faith

COURSE: Revolution and Revelation: Art and Faith 
Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd February 2025
Book through Reception on 01244 532 350 or email [email protected]

Artists in many different situations have challenged norms, rebelled against limitations, proposed alternative visions and worked to change how we see the world, what ‘art’ can be, and even how we believe. Drawing together perspectives on art and faith, Deborah Lewer explores works of art from the Middle Ages to the present that are, in ways great or small, revolutionary, revelatory or both.

Dr Deborah Lewer is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow. She is a specialist in 20th-century German art, focusing on the relationship between art and politics. She also works extensively at the intersection of art and theology. Debbie is a Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, and an editorial board member of the leading journal for her discipline, Art History and of Art + Christianity.

Debbie is a published translator of texts from the German. Established as a historian of the radical avantgarde, especially the Dada movement, and the art of the Weimar Republic, she also works extensively outside academia.

In churches and theological colleges, at clergy conferences, retreats and festivals, Debbie helps people to explore and broaden their experience of all kinds of visual art. She is committed to new and innovative ways of doing art history, such as research by practice, making and performance and to promoting access to art for all.

Debbie is currently working with sonic and movement improvisors on a funded project, Dada Dynamics, to bring the radical Dadaist Cabaret Voltaire (1916) to new life, on stage, in the city of Dundee.  

Schedule: 

Day 1 

5pm Welcome and introductions 
6pm Dinner 
7.30pm Session 1: Art, Faith and Change 

Day 2 

9.45am Session 2: Art’s Rebels and Rebellions 
11am Coffee break 
11.30am Session 3: Vision and Visionaries 
1pm Lunch 
2.30-3.30pm Session 4: Challenging Norms, Seeing the Unseen 
3.30pm-5pm free time 
5pm Public Lecture: Subversive Visions: Women Photographers in the GDR
6pm Drinks in the Gladstone Room
6.45pm Dinner
7.30pm Film: The Lives of Others (Germany, 2006, dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)  

Day 3 

9.45am Session 5: Finding Hope 
11am Coffee break 
11.30am Closing Eucharist in the Chapel (optional) 
1pm Lunch and departure 

Residential rates (includes breakfast, two course lunch with tea or filter coffee on Saturday and Sunday and a two course dinner with tea or filter coffee on Friday and Saturday)

One delegate in a single ensuite: £407 (or £359 with a student, clergy or Society of Authors discount)

Two delegates in a twin or double: £627 (or £565 with discounts)

One delegate in a double or twin occupancy: £477 (or £415 with discount)

One delegate and one non-delegate guest in a twin or double: £577 (or £515 with discount) This rate includes food (two courses plus tea or coffee) for the non-delegate on condition that they eat with the group.