LAMPETER STUDY DAY 2026
In association with the Harmony Institute, University of Wales Trinity St David
In the Chair Hilary Davies
Speakers
Julia Cleave - The Secret of the Scarlet Thread: Hermetic symbolism in Verrocchio's Tobias and the Angel
Professor Mary-Ann Constantine - Underscapes: the tensions and tangles of the Welsh underground imaginary
Revd Malcolm Guite - Lifting the veil: The grail and 're-enchantment’
Julia Cleave is an independent scholar with a special interest in the Pythagorean, Hermetic and Christian Mystery traditions as they are to be found, still largely unacknowledged, in Renaissance and Early Modern art and literature. Her previous lectures at Temenos have included studies of works by Leonardo, Botticelli, Giorgione and Poussin, and of three plays by Shakespeare. Her essay: ‘An alchemical reading of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra ’, is available on the Temenos Academy website. She is a Fellow of the Academy and a member of the Council and Academic Board.
Mary-Ann Constantine is a Professor at the University of Wales Centre for Welsh and Celtic Studies. She works in the field of Romantic-era Welsh literature and history, with particular interests in the cultural politics of the 1790s, travel, and environmental change. She has also written two volumes of short stories and a novel.
Malcolm Guite is a poet and priest, and Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. His books include Sounding the Seasons; Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year (Canterbury 2012) and Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Hodder 2017). In 2023, he was awarded the Archbishop Lanfranc Medal for Education and Scholarship by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum. He has a YouTube series called ‘A Spell in the Library’ at https://www.youtube.com/c/MalcolmGuitespell
Venue & Admission
FREE ADMISSION. ADVANCE BOOKING ONLY
The Old Hall, University of Wales Trinity St David, Lampeter Campus, SA48 7ED, 10am - 4pm
A light vegetarian lunch, and tea/coffee will be served, free of charge.
Accommodation
There is a variety of accommodation available in Lampeter town. To enquire about B&B accommodation on the Lampeter campus please contact the Accommodation Office: accomodation@uwtsd.ac.uk
Image Credit - Paul Nash, Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (detail) [Wikimedia Commons]