Future Research Seminars

Semester 2 (Candlemas 2026)

JANUARY

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), Title TBC.

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

20th – Dr Anna Steppler (Oxford), Title TBC

27th – Bethany Gilbert (St Andrews), ‘Analogy in 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.”

Semester 1 (Martinmas 2026)

SEPTEMBER

25th – Prof. Peter Howard (Australian Catholic University / University of St Andrews), ‘Visualising theology in Renaissance Florence: the exemplum of Ghiberti’s Doors of Paradise’.

OCTOBER

2nd – Dr TJ Lang (St Andrews), Paradise Lost and the Art of Pauline Interpretation in Epic Poetry 

9th –

16th –

INDEPENDENT LEARNING WEEK

30th – Dr Lachlan Hughes (Villa I Tatti, Florence / Trinity College, Cambridge), title t.b.c.

NOVEMBER

6th –

12th (*Thursday)- St Margaret of Scotland Annual Lecture

20th – Dr Michael Downes (St Andrews), Title TBC

Semester 2 (Candlemas 2027)

FEBRUARY

5th –

12th –

19th –

30th –

[Spring Vacation]

MARCH

12th –

19th –

26th –

APRIL

2-

[INDEPENDENT LEARNING WEEK]

16-