History of Christianity
Mondays, 4.10-5.30pm, Elizabeth Templeton Lecture Theatre and online (unless otherwise indicated)
Everyone is warmly invited to our seminars. For more information and Zoom details, contact Dr Felicity Loughlin. Email f.loughlin@ed.ac.uk
Semester 2: Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker/event | Topic |
| 16 January |
Professor Alec Ryrie (Durham) |
‘The World’s Reformation: The Missionary Mindsets of Early Modern Protestants’ |
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30 January |
Dr Kateryna Budz (Edinburgh) |
‘The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Galicia (1946-1968): Strategies of Survival and Resistance in the Underground |
| 13 February |
Dr Simon Burton, Prof. Rachel Muers & Dr Sara Parvis, with Emma Mavin (Edinburgh) |
A Roundtable Discussion of Marguerite Porete (1250–1310). |
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3 March (Rainy Hall) |
Dr Lauren Murdoch (Edinburgh) |
‘Painted texts in St Nicholas' Kirk, Aberdeen, in the late 16th century: reforming the marriage ceremony and reinforcing the Reformed faith’ |
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13 March |
Matthew Baines (PhD Candidate, Edinburgh) |
‘A Synthetic Peregrination: Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) and his Quest for Further Reformation’ |
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27 March |
Professor Stewart J. Brown (Edinburgh |
‘“The Most Important Single Generation”? Revival, Romanticism, and Nonconformity in Britain, 1790-1830’ |
Semester 1: Autumn 2022
| Date | Speaker/event | Topic |
| Thursday 22 September |
Professors Rachel Muers, Jolyon Mitchell & Emma Wild-Wood, and Drs Anja Klein & Salam Rassi, chaired by Dr Holtschneider. |
Inter-disciplinary panel event reflecting on Professor Rachel Muers’ article '"Justly Shall You Pursue Justice": Theological Approaches to Evaluative Injustice' |
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26 September |
Dr Felicity Hill (School of History, University of St Andrews) |
‘Excommunication in the High Middle Ages: Damnation, Ostracism, Defamation?’ |
| 10 October |
Dr Martha McGill (School of History, University of Warwick) |
‘Bodies, Selves and the Supernatural in Early Modern Britain’ |
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24 October |
Mr Jaekook Lee (School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh) |
‘Inconsistent Polemics?: The Ecclesiastical Politics of Samuel Rutherford in Relation to his Covenantal Ecclesiology’ |
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Tuesday 1 November |
Dr Pedro Feitoza (School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh) |
Religion and Regionalism in Brazil: The Dynamics of Evangelical Conversion and the Making of Caipira culture, 1860-1940 *Joint Seminar with the Centre for the Study of World Christianity* |
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7 November |
Professor John Coffey (School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester) |
‘Black Protestantism and Demerara Slave Revolt (1823)’ *Joint Seminar with the Centre for the Study of World Christianity* |
| 21 November | Dr Lucy Grig (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh) | 'Lived Religion and Popular Culture in Late Antiquity: Approaches and Methods' |
| 5 December | Dr Emily Michelson (School of History, University of St Andrews) | ‘Upsetting Conversion Stories in Early Modern Rome’ |