Research Seminar

During the academic year, ITIA postgraduates, faculty and guests meet most Fridays of the term from 11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.

Location: St Mary’s College Hall (except for 7th November and 5th December, see below)

For questions regarding the seminar, or to sign-up for the members’ list, email the research seminar coordinator: Dr Rebekah Lamb Varela ([email protected])

JANUARY 2026

30th – Prof. Iain Quinn (Florida State University), ‘Music and Religion in the Writings of Ian McEwan’

FEBRUARY

6th – Rev. Dr. Jean Gové (AI & Humanity Lab, University of Hong Kong), ‘Harnessing AI at the Intersection of Art, Theology and Evangelisation’

13th – Dr Helena Phillips-Robins (Cambridge), ‘Dante, Clare of Assisi, and the Performance of Liturgy’

20th – Dr Anna Steppler (Oxford), ‘Reason without words— An early Lutheran theology of listening to the organ.’

27th – Bethany Gilbert (St Andrews), ‘‘Matter-moulded forms of speech’: revealing and concealing the divine in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam.’

[Spring Vacation]

March

13th – Professor David Brown FBA (St Andrews), ‘Pope Sixtus IV’s Plan for the Sistine Chapel and its Early Frescoes’.

20th – Professor Gerard Carruthers FRSE (Glasgow), ‘Problems with religion: the Scottish Literary Canon’.

27th – Professor Vittorio Montemaggi (University of Notre Dame / St Edmund’s College, Cambridge), title t.b.c.

April

3rd – Good Friday, no seminar

INDEPENDENT LEARNING WEEK

17th – Rev. Dr Dominic White OP (Blackfriars, Oxford), “Three Theologies of the Arts: Sacred Art; the Dialogical Approach; Art as Apocalyptic.”