Mondays, 4:10pm, in the Martin Hall unless otherwise stated All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr Simon Burton, for semester one, and Dr Sara Parvis, for semester two. Semester 2: Spring 2024 Date Speaker/event Topic 15 January Dr Elizabeth Drummond Young (University of Edinburgh) “Donald MacKinnon (1913-1994): Christian conversation in godless philosophical times.” 29 January Dr Alasdair Raffe (University of Edinburgh) ‘Religious Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and the Scottish Enlightenment’ 12 February Dr Ruth Atherton (University of South Wales) ‘“Death is the Best Doctor”: Protestant Teachings on the Body and Soul in Reformation Germany’ 26 February Dr Salam Rassi (University of Edinburgh) Title tbc 11 March Dr Karie Schultz (University of St Andrews) ‘Identity Formation at the Scots, English, and Irish Colleges in Rome, c. 1650-1707.’ 25 March Barbara Bradley (University of Edinburgh) Emily Baylor (University of Edinburgh) “The Possibilities of the Immaculate Conception Dogma in the Catholic Feminist Imagination” “Christianity, Sexual Reform, and the Widening Electorate in Victorian Britain” Semester 1: Autumn 2023 Date Speaker/event Topic 25 September Dr Patrick S. McGhee (Durham University) “The Reformation of the Heathen: Theology, History, and Nature in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1500-1700” 9 October Jenny Yang (University of Edinburgh) Gemma King (University of Edinburgh) "Biblical Interpretation in Early North Africa from Tertullian to Augustine" “‘Female Clergy’: A critical examination of the ministry of Anna Buchan’s women of the manse” 23 October Prof. David Bebbington (University of Stirling) “Evangelical Preaching in North America in the Late Twentieth Century” 7 November 4:10-5:30pm Elizabeth Templeton Dr Andrew Holmes (Queen’s University Belfast) “Beyond Unionism and conflict? Protestant religion in Northern Ireland to 1980” 20 November Dr William Hyland (University of St Andrews) “Nos pie dubitemus: Mariological Themes in the Sermons of Nicholas of Cusa”