Art, Culture, and Religion
A Conference on T. S. Eliot
Co-Sponsors
Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
and The Russell Kirk Center (Mecosta, Michigan)
Dates: August 14–16, 2008.
Sessions on Aug. 14 (beginning at 1:00 p.m.) and Aug. 15 will be at Grand Valley State University.
Sessions on August 16 will be at the Russell Kirk Center.
Purposes
- This conference will mark the reprinting of Russell Kirk’s book Eliot and His Age (ISI Books, 2008).
- The conference will highlight cultural and religious ideas in Eliot’s poetry, plays, and prose.
- Selected essays from the conference will be included in a forthcoming collection of essays on Eliot.
Topics
Nationally recognized scholars will give talks on a variety of subjects, including:
- Russell Kirk and Eliot
- Eliot and Catholicism (Anglo-Catholicism and Roman Catholicism)
- Eliot’s cultural and political thought
- Influences on TSE: Jacques Maritain, Fr. Martin D’Arcy, Christopher Dawson, Paul Elmer More, George Santayana, Lancelot Andrewes, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Maurras, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Charles Williams, Dante, and others.
- Eliot’s influence on other writers: Flannery O’Connor, David Jones, Allen Tate, and others.
Information and Registration
Download the registration form here. (PDF, 64K)
Questions? Contact Dr. Ben Lockerd, GVSU: or .
