This page will continue to be updated as speakers are confirmed.
Candlemas Seminar 2019
February
8 – Dr. Peter O’Hagan (University of Toronto), ‘The Role of Scripture in Franciscan Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard’
15 – Dr. Bruce Benson (St Andrews), ‘Liturgy as Fundamental Structure’
22 – Prof. Richard McGregor, ‘James MacMillan’s Passion Settings’ (title t.b.c)
March
1 – Dr. Dan Hitchens (Deputy Editor, Catholic Herald), ‘The Theology of Quotidian Hackwork: Reflections on Johnson Today’
8 – Dr. Gregory Lippiatt (University of East Anglia), ‘The French as defensores Ecclesie in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean’
15 – Prof. Susannah Monta (University of Notre Dame), title t.b.c.
Spring break
April
5 – Dr. Sabine Hyland (St Andrews), ‘Knotted and Twisted Time: Calendrical Khipus in the Andes’
12 – Dr. Louise Nelstrop (St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford), title t.b.c.
19 – Good Friday; no seminar
26 – Dr. Stephen Tardif (University of Toronto), ‘”Giving Beauty Back”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Phenomenology of Sacrifice’
Martinmas Seminar 2019
September
20 -Dr. Eric Tippin (Christ’s College, Cambridge), G.K. Chesterton, title t.b.c.
27 – Prof. Simon Gilson (Oxford), Prof. Lino Pertile (Harvard), Prof. Zygmunt G. Barański (Notre Dame), on Faith and Love in Dante (titles t.b.c.)
October
4 –
11 –
18 –
Independent Reading Week (No Research Seminar)
November
1 –
8 – Jean Lamb (artist), title t.b.c.
15 –
22 – Dr. Nicole Blackwood (Savannah College of Art and Design), title t.b.c.