A One-Day Interdisciplinary Conference at Canterbury Christ Church University, 11 June 2010.

Angels and Demons (though they may not always be named as such) have figured in many religions for thousands of years, and probably for just as long and as widely the binary has been deployed for political, social and commercial ends. This conference as a whole is intended to explore the continuities and ruptures in the representation of these figures, be they in nineteenth-century melodrama and pantomime or renaissance Protestant tracts featuring demonic popes, Agamben’s bureaucratic interpretation of Aquinian angelology or the Al Pacino vehicle The Devil’s Advocate, Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North or the many refractions of the Faust story (Marlowe, Goethe, Gounod, John Adams’s Dr Atomic).

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