A quick update on the 2010 ITIA conference “Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Conversations with the Work of David Brown,” to be held September 6th-8th at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

As the conference website — http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/itia/conf2010/ — indicates, the speakers will be:

• Margaret Miles (Graduate Theological Union)
• William Abraham (Southern Methodist University)
• Richard Bauckham (University of St. Andrews)
• Tina Beattie (Roehampton University)
• Gordon Graham (Princeton Theological Seminary)
• Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College)
• Jeremy Begbie (Duke University)
• Graham Ward (University of Manchester)
• Gavin Hopps (University of St. Andrews)
• Clive Marsh (University of Leicester)
• Ben Quash (King’s College London)
• Trevor Hart (University of St. Andrews) with a response by David Brown (University of St. Andrews)

There will also be an interesting range of session chairs who will also be part of the conversation (see website for more details). The deadline of the call for papers has been extended from June 28 to July 20.  The short papers do not have to be directly on Professor Brown’s work, but simply on related themes, and in addition to the original six we have added three more tracks to better reflect the breadth of the volumes under consideration:

• Revelation in Art and Image
• Doctrine and Development
• Literature and/or Music
• Space and Place
• Pop Music / Pop Culture
• God and the Body
• Liturgy and Ritual
• Natural Religion and Religious Experience
• Sacramentality and Re-enchantment