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12 June 2008 Culture and Consequence: The Role of Ethics in the Arts Today Day - Conference in partnership with the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange.

24 January 2009 Icons of the absence of God: A Symposium on Rothko and Spirituality -   Co-organised with Art + Christianity. Chaired by Ben Quash, with papers by Aaron Rosen, Jonathan Harris, Daniel Glaser, and George Pattison.

15 June 2009 Post-performance panel discussion of Parthenogenesis (Composer: James MacMillan; Libretto: Michael Symmons Roberts) Ben Quash, Germaine Greer, and Lewis Wolpert. Royal Opera House, London.

15 September 2009 Ben Quash, The Desublimations of Christian Art. Paper delivered to the Tate Britain conference, The Sublime in Crisis? New Perspectives on the Sublime in British Visual Culture 1760–1900 Tate Britain, London. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/ben-quash-the-de-sublimations-of-christian-art-r1140522

11 May 2011 Post-performance panel discussion of the premiere of Clemency (Composer: James MacMillan; Libretto: Michael Symmons Roberts) Ben Quash, Richard Coles, and others. Royal Opera House, London.

8 June 2011 Ben Quash, Beyond the Eye of Reason: Response to Keynotes A dialogue on the role of religion in contemporary art, sponsored and organised by Difference Exchange, the Culture Capital Exchange, and St George’s House, Windsor. http://www.differenceexchange.com/transquash.htm

20 July 2011 Panel discussion on Miró: The Ladder of Escape.Co-organised with Art + Christianity and the International Association of Art Critics. Chaired by Ben Quash, with papers by Ayla Lepine, Andrew Brighton, Charles Pickstone, and George Pattison. The Reliance Pub, Hoxton.

23 September 2011 Ben Quash, Epiphanies in PaintPaper at Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces Before 1500 Study Day. National Gallery, London.

2–5 March 2012 Ben Quash, Art as a Theological Medium: An Integration SeminarBiola University, USA; Year of the Arts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPShCqJMau0

2–5 March 2012 Ben Quash, What Space Can Show Us About GodBiola University, USA; Year of the Arts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rfbyykNWSU

30 March 2012 Ben Quash, The ‘Desublimation’ of Modern Art: A Theological Task?Gresham College, London. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/part-one-the-desublimation-of-modern-art-a-theological-task

17 November 2012 Ben Quash, Is One Place More Spiritual than Another?: Sticking Points and Sticky Places Paper at Art in Sacred Spaces Study Day. National Gallery, London.

14 March 2013 Ben Quash, God’s Good Order and the Artist’s Patterns Gresham College, London. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/gods-good-order-and-the-artists-patterns

17 April 2013 Curator Roundtable: Light Show at the Hayward Gallery Aaron Rosen, Cliff Lauson, Riccardo Sapienza, Joan Taylor, and Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe.

14 May 2013 Margot Fassler, Hildegaard and the Virtues: the Musical and the Visual in the Ordo Virtutem Co-organised with Art + Christianity

28 May 2013 Aaron Rosen, Obsessed with R.B. Kitaj Gallery Talk Jewish Museum, London.

5 June 2013 Ben Quash, The Art of Shared Spaces: Where is the Social Value? JustShare Lecture St Mary-le-Bow, London. http://www.justshare.org.uk/event-reports-ben-quash/4579865882

11 June 2013 Ben Quash, God and the Encyclopedia, Theological Developments at the Time of Rameau O/Modernt Festival Stockholm, Sweden.

13 June 2013 Artist’s Talk: Siona Benjamin, Blue Like Me Co-hosted with Art + Christianity.

24 June 2013 Aaron Rosen, Making Space for the Other: New Developments in Interfaith Design Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

30 September–13 October 2013 Urban Dialogues 2013, Red Gallery, Rivington Street, London Co-organised with 3FF. Details of the event, and the process, can be found here: http://debategraph.org/Poster.aspx?aID=178&nid=287010 Interviews with Aaron Rosen and Ben Quash can be viewed here: http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=287020&vt=bubble&dc=focus

13 September 2013 Aaron Rosen, ‘Black-Black Witness’: Ad Reinhardt, Thomas Merton, and the Via Negativa The Power of the Word Conference. University of Gdańsk, Poland.

29 October 2013 Curator Roundtable: Saints Alive at the National Gallery Aaron Rosen, Colin Wiggins, Ben Russell, Sarah Salih, and Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe

11 November 2013 Friday Saturday Sunday: The Future of Multi-Faith Space Presentation by architects Dan Leon, Matthew Lloyd, and Shahed Saleem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUiuezBriM0

12 November 2013 Aaron Rosen, Artistic Responses to Abraham

19 November 2013 Collector’s Talk: David Lewis on assembling the Schorr Collection http://schorrcollection.org.uk

26 November 2013 Artist’s Talk: Susie Hamilton Co-hosted with Art + Christianity.

28 November 2013 Marilynne Robinson and Francis Spufford A writer’s dialogue, co-hosted with Theos.

3 December 2013 Aaron Rosen, Jews in Abstraction JW3, London.

31 January, 28 February and 28 March 2014 God’s Song and Music’s Meanings: Music and Theology Colloquia Co-hosted with the Westminster Abbey Institute. Speakers including Gordon Graham, John Butt, Lucy Winkett, Daniel Chua, and David Bentley Hart. Proceedings published as God’s Song and Music’s Meaning: Theology, Liturgy, and Musicology in Dialogue, ed. James Hawkey, Ben Quash, and Vernon White (Routledge 2019).

24 June 2014 Ben Quash, The Rise and Fall of Beauty in Western Culture 17th MacDonald Critchley Lecture, The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries Apothecaries’ Hall, London.

7–11 July 2014 12th International Art + Christianity Conference The Sacred City: London, Art, and the Religious Imaginary Co-hosted by Art + Christianity and ASK. Proceedings published as Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art, and Religion, ed. Ben Quash, Chloë Reddaway, and Aaron Rosen (I.B. Tauris 2016).

20 October 2014 Double Vision: Dostoyevsky on Film Richard Ayoade, Rowan Williams, Catherine Wheatley, Max Saunders, and Ben Quash https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/trs/2014/festival-panel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx-jATOxR7U

November–December 2014 Michael Takeo Magruder, De/coding the Apocalypse: Real-time Histories of Conquest, War, Famine & Death Exhibition following an artist’s residency in ASK, with Ben Quash as Principal Investigator. Inigo Rooms, Somerset House, London.

Online exhibit: http://www.takeo.org/nspace/2014-decoding-the-apocalypse/index.htm

Symposium Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbiMzLUtt9w

Symposium Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV8eSuKIeaY

January–December 2015 Your Jewish Museum: Love, Journeys, Sacrifice Three crowd-sourced exhibitions curated by Aaron Rosen. Jewish Museum, London. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/-/projects/your-jewish-museum

28 February 2016 Panel discussion on Art + Religion in the 21st Century at Jewish Book Week 2016 Aaron Rosen, Ben Quash, and Leni Diner Dothan King’s Place, London. https://jewishbookweek.com/event/art-and-religion-in-the-21st-century/

April–May 2015 Still Small Voice: British Biblical Art in a Secular Age Lecture series featuring Chloë Reddaway, Jennifer Sliwka, and Ben Quash The Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham. https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/24-april/books-arts/visual-arts/a-theme-in-cheltenham

9 May 2015 Messiaen’s World and the Vingt Regards Ben Quash, Cordelia Williams, Jeremy Thurlow, Edward Forman, Christopher Dingle, Michael Symmons Roberts, and Sophie Hacker https://www.messiaen2015.com/study-daymessiaens-world-and-the-vingt-regards/

8 June 2015 Wildness & Wonder, Dazzlement and Darkness: An exploration of mystery in God and in the arts James MacMillan, Michael Symmons Roberts, Cordelia Williams, Jeremy Begbie, and Ben Quash Westminster Abbey. https://www.messiaen2015.com/event/westminster-abbey/

20 April 2016 Panel discussion on Works of Mercy in Works of Art Maggi Hambling, James Cahill, and Ben Quash Von Hügel Institute, Cambridge. https://www.vhi.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/resources-folder/audio-visual (scroll down to 2016)

17 May 2017 Panel discussion on Religious Stories and Ancient Text on Stage: Yaël Farber’s Salomé at the National Theatre Jennifer Sliwka and Joan Taylor National Theatre, London. https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/context-religious-stories-and-ancient-text-stage

13 November 2017 Ben Quash, Reforming Scripture (St Martin in the Fields 2017 Autumn Lecture Series) St Martin in the Fields, London. https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/reforming-scripture-ben-quash/

January–December 2018 Encounters by Nicola Green ASK partnered with the Encounters project as principal theological advisor to both the exhibition and the event series. https://www.nicolagreen.com/encounters

6 April 2018 Art and Religion: Theology, the Sacred, and Visual Culture All-day seminar at the annual conference of the Association for Art History chaired by Ayla Lepine and Ben Quash Bush House, London. https://forarthistory.org.uk/our-work/conference/annual-conference-2018/art-and-religion

16 June 2018 Ben Quash, Why Beauty Matters Morphē Arts Study Day All Soul’s, Langham Place, London. https://www.morphearts.org/resources/why-beauty-matters-prof-ben-quash

5 July 2018 Sir Antony Gormley RA in conversation with the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams. Year 1 of the Theology, Modernity & the Visual Arts project, chaired by Tim Marlow Royal Academy, London. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/antony-gormley-rowan-williams-in-conversation

16 February 2019 Art as fulfilment: the use of religion and spirituality in contemporary art. Does art connect us? Andrew Graham Dixon, Mariko Mori, Marina Warner, and Ben Quash Royal Academy, London. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/art-as-fulfillment-religion-spirituality-in-contemporary-history