Future Research Seminars

This page will continue to be updated as speakers are confirmed. For Martinmas Seminar 2020, we will be meeting 1pm-3pm.

Martinmas Seminar 2020

September

18 –

25 – Dr Giuseppe Pezzini (St Andrews), ‘The Cats of Queen Berúthiel: Tolkien and the Philology of Creation’.

October

2 – Prof. Richard Kearney (Boston College), Plenary Speaker at the ‘Art, Desire, and God ’ Conference (University of Notre Dame), with Discussion Forum.

9 – Prof. Judith Wolfe (St Andrews) and Prof. Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge), Metaphysics and Poetics (Joint-St Andrews and Cambridge Seminar)

16 – Prof. Renée Köhler-Ryan (The University of Notre Dame Australia), ‘Not Spectacle but Self-Reflection: The Augustinian Catholic Imagination’. *This Seminar will begin at 9:30 a.m. (BST)

Independent Learning Week (no seminar)

30 – Karen McClain Kiefer (ITIA, St Andrews), Title TBC

November

6 – Prof. Judith Wolfe (St Andrews) and Prof. Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge), Metaphysics and Poetics (Joint-St Andrews and Cambridge Seminar)

13 –

20 – Prof. George Pattison (Glasgow), ‘The End of Art and the Prosaics of Love’.

27 –

Candlemas Seminar 2021

January

29 – Professor Natasha Duquette (Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College), ‘Contemplative Sublimity from Mère Marie-Angélique Arnauld to Jane Austen’.

February

5- Prof. Judith Wolfe (St Andrews) and Prof. Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge), Metaphysics and Poetics (Joint-St Andrews and Cambridge Seminar)

12- Dr Jacob Phillips (St Mary’s University), Title TBC

19-

Spring Break (no seminar)

March

5 – Prof. Judith Wolfe (St Andrews) and Prof. Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge), Metaphysics and Poetics (Joint-St Andrews and Cambridge Seminar)

12 –

19 –

April

9-

16- Dr Rebekah Lamb (St Andrews), ‘Dora Greenwell, Christina Rossetti and a Theology of the Commonplace’

23-