Poetry, Science, and the Imagination: The Inaugural L’Engle Seminar at Image
Dear Ones,
We’re excited to share that registration is now open for Poetry, Science, and the Imagination, the inaugural L’Engle Seminar, hosted by Image Journal, the first in a series of events that will explore the interplay between art and science. This five-part seminar will be held via Zoom at 1pm ET each Wednesday in March. The series was originally planned to launch in New York City last year and then travel across North America in the following years, but of course the pandemic intervened. Instead, the inaugural seminar will be online, allowing access from anywhere in the world!
The L’Engle Seminars are inspired by Madeleine L’Engle’s fascination with the common mysteries that art, faith, and science share. They will explore three aspects of her life and work:
- -Attention to the generative interplay between faith, art, and science
- -Recognition that all art is incarnational and that science enlarges our understanding of creation
- -Generous engagement with diverse faith traditions, including diverse Christian communities.
The inaugural seminar will be hosted by Brian Volck, a pediatrician and poet, and will include talks by Tom McLeish, physicist and author of The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art; poet and mathematician Mary Peelen; poet, priest, and Coleridge scholar Malcom Guite; poet and YA author Marilyn Nelson; and poet and educator Robert Cording.
“Poetry and the sciences are connected in deep and surprising ways. Both the poet and the scientist engage reality through the imagination. And in this five-part online seminar, you are invited to explore imagination as a way of knowing within the two disciplines. Each hour-long session will have a distinct focus and feature the insight of a wide array of poets, scientists, philosophers, and theologians.”
To learn more and to register, click here. https://imagejournal.org/lengle/
Tesser well,
Jessica
