2017

12pm, 18 January 2017, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX. CPD Day for ministers and church leaders on the theme of Interfaith Relations.

A night to celebrate Scotland's most famous poet, with the eating of a traditional Scottish meal, the drinking of whisky, and the recitation of works by, about, and in the spirit of the Bard.

8 February 2017 at 5pm, Martin Hall, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX. Isabel Rocamora (Edinburgh), filmmaker and scholar will give this talk, it will be chaired by Professor Jolyon Mitchell.

5pm - 14, 15, 16 February 2017, Martin Hall. Lectures given by Thomas Kaufmann, Professor of Church History, University of Gottingen.

Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 5pm, Martin Hall, New College. 'Witness'. Surviving Gender Based Violence, a Book Launch

Thursday, 2 March 2017, Martin Hall, New College. Homelessness and the Churches - a Roundtable discussion

2pm, 6 March, Althaus-Reid Room, New College. Science and Religion in the Eighteenth Century, Newtonianism and Alternative Cosmologies in the Eighteenth Century, by Dr Derya Gurses Tarbuck, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul.

5pm Thursday 9 March 2017, Martin Hall, New College. Public Presentation with Charles Foster

The Death of the Buddha, as Seen from Japan. Wednesday 5 April 2017, 5.30pm - 6.30pm, Martin Hall, New College, Edinburgh EH1 2LX. Professor Bernard Faure, Columbia University, will give this lecture

4pm - 6pm, Thursday 13 April, Baillie Room, New College. Professor Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University, will give this public lecture

3.30pm - 5.00pm, Saturday 29 April 2017, Martin Hall, New College. Richard Abdy, Curator, The British Museum, will give this session.

1,2,4,8,9,11 May 2017, 5.30 - 6.30pm (Multiple Dates), Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS. Professor Jeffrey Stout, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will give these lectures.

Friday 5 May 2017, 2pm - 4pm, Martin Hall, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, New College,

0930hrs, 1 June 2017. Martin Hall, New College.

The Global Network for Christian-Muslim Studies (GNCMS) will host its inaugural international conference at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh on 4-6 September, 2017

The Christian-Muslim Studies Network invites the public to a book launch and round table discussion that explores the role that Christian-Muslim conversation and shared action have had in Lebanon and the broader Middle Eas

10.30hrs, Saturday 16 September, New College. A Day Conference organised by the Centre for the Study of World Christianity and the Church of Scotland World Mission Council.

Wednesday 20 September, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX

Balloon debate - October 4th

The first Friday of the month, during semester time, alternating morning and afternoon slots, in the Senate Room. The conversations are then followed by coffee and cake in the Rainy Hall. You can come to just the conversation or just the cake or combine both! Friday 6th October, 9.45-10.30am, the Senate Room 

Women's History Scotland holds an annual Sue Innes Memorial Lecture, and this year Dr Lesley Orr has been invited to be the speaker.

5pm 23, 24, 25 October, Martin Hall, New College. Professor Werner Jeanrond, Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford, will speak on his current research

Protestants and their Bibles from the Reformation to the Present

The first Friday of the month, during semester time, alternating morning and afternoon slots, in the Senate Room. The conversations are then followed by coffee and cake in the Rainy Hall. You can come to just the conversation or just the cake or combine both! Friday 3rd November, 2.15-3.00pm, the Senate Room

10 November 2017 - 8 March 2018, New College Library and the University Main Library will open an exhibition in observance of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation

25 November, St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh. St John’s Theology Symposium on Christian Anthropology. A joint event with New College and the Centre for Theology and Public Issues.

5pm - 6.30pm, 29 November 2017, Rainy Hall, New College. Official Unveiling of New College Lights

29th November - Prof Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, The phenomenology of dispassion across Hindu and Buddhist traditions’

3.30pm 30 November - 4.30pm 1 December 2017 in Martin Hall, New College

30th November and 1st December

The first Friday of the month, during semester time, alternating morning and afternoon slots, in the Senate Room. The conversations are then followed by coffee and cake in the Rainy Hall. You can come to just the conversation or just the cake or combine both! Friday 3rd November, 2.15-3.00pm, the Senate Room

5.15pm, Friday 15 December, Martin Hall, New College.