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Seminars, Lectures and Symposia for academic year 2023-2024

See below for our list of upcoming webinars. 

(Please also see our Power in the Church of England webinar series.)

EASTER TERM

This term’s programme is a mixture of hybrid, in-person, and online-only events. All are welcome. Please check each event listing for further details.

Wednesday 24 April, 2024

Dr Sanjee Perera (Dean’s Scholar, Virginia Theological Seminary, Honorary Canon, Liverpool Cathedral, and Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University), “A theology of Inequality: How the Church's Legacy of Slavery and Empire Shapes the Nation"

IN PERSON ONLY:

6.00-7.30 p.m., Bishop’s Dining Room, University College, Durham.

To book your place, please email michael.snape@durham.ac.uk by 5.00 p.m. on Monday 22 April

 

Previous Seminars in 2023-24 at the Michael Ramsey Centre for Anglican Studies

MICHAELMAS TERM 2023

Wednesday 25 October, 2023

Revd Rebecca Amoroso (Durham University), ‘“The Chapel Feels Like Home”:  Reflections on Anglican Prison Ministry

 

Wednesday 1 November 2023

St Antony’s Priory Seminar

Clinton Collister (University of Cambridge), ‘The Nature of Priesthood and Freedom in the Theology of John Neville Figgis

St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT ***In-person only***

 

Wednesday 22 November, 2023

Anglican Communion Office Seminar

Most Reverend Dr John Holder (Codrington College, Barbados), ‘From Slavery to Reparation as a Theological Journey: Infusing a theme of Hope into conditions of Hopelessness

 

Wednesday 6 December, 2023

Johannes Makar (Harvard University), ‘In Search of a National Church: Anglican-Coptic Exchanges at the turn of the Nineteenth Century’,

 

EPIPHANY TERM 2024

Wednesday 17 January, 2024

Anglican Communion Office seminar.

Revd Canon Dr Stephen Spencer (Anglican Communion Office and Durham University), ‘The Eucharist as a Sacrament of Mission’,

 

Friday 26 January, 2024

Scott Holland Symposium.

Keynote speakers: Professor Kwok Pui-Lan (Candler School of Theology, Emory University) and Dr Jennifer Leith (Westcott House, University of Cambridge) ‘Postcolonial Anglicanism’,

 

Wednesday 31 January, 2024

 St Antony’s Priory Seminar

Revd Dr George Westhaver (Pusey House, Oxford), Sacramental Vision: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Oxford Movement’,

This seminar was held at St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT.

 

Wednesday 21 February, 2024

Revd Paul Wright LVO (Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal and Domestic Chaplain to King Charles III), ‘'Ceremonial Worship and the State',

Abbey House, D/TH 107, and online

 

Saturday 24 February, 2024

Young Anglican Theology Seminar.

Wallace Gois (Pontifical University of São Paolo), ‘The Liberation Theology of Naim Ateek’,

 

Monday 4 March, 2024

Revd Dr Stephanie Burette (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford), 'Christ and Captivity in the Second World War: Faith, Art and Stanley Warren in Changi Prisoner of War Camp'

 

Wednesday 13 March, 2024

Bryn Blake (Kings College London), ‘“Craving Your Learned Protection”: William Perkins’ Patronage Network and the Doctrinal Maturation of the Elizabethan Church of England

 

SEMINARS DURING PREVIOUS ACADEMIC YEARS

  • See our seminars programme for academic year 2022-2023, here

Further Information

For further information about seminars and events at the Michael Ramsey Centre, please contact Mike Snape on michael.snape@durham.ac.uk