Mondays, 4:10pm, in the Martin Hall unless otherwise stated All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr Felicity Loughlin: f.loughlin@ed.ac.ukSemester 2: Spring 2025Date Speaker/eventTopic27 JanuaryDr Robert Thompson (United Sates Holocaust Memorial Museum)‘After Belsen: Reapproaching Post-Holocaust Christianity’10 FebruaryDr Philipp Rückheim (Bonn)‘Religion and the Fate of Political Autonomy in Scotland'24 FebruaryDr Justine Trombley (Durham)‘Parchment Heresiarchs: Books, Heresy, and Inquisition in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries’Postponed due to unforseen circumstancesDr Jonathan Birch (Glasgow)“Christianity and Myth in the Age of Enlightenment: At the Origins of Modern Ambivalence”24 MarchMary Hitchman (Oxford)‘Women's Authorship in Late Antique Christianity'Semester 1: Autumn 2024Date Speaker/eventTopic16 September Book Launch of Dr Simon Burton (University of Edinburgh), Ramism and the Reformation of Method: The Franciscan Legacy in Early Modernity. With introduction by Prof. Susan Hardman Moore (Edinburgh) and commentary by Dr Howard Hotson (University of Oxford) and Dr Richard Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh).Tuesday 24 September Book Launch of Pedro Feitoza, Propagandists of the Book: Protestant Missions, Christian Literacy, and the Making of Brazilian Evangelicalism, with panellists Dr Timo Shaefer (History), Dr Maya Mayblin (Anthropology) and Alison Zilversmit (Divinity). *Joint with World Christianity - Please note this takes place on Tuesday*14 OctoberDr Sophie Cooper (Queen's University Belfast)“Learning Through Letters: Nineteenth-Century Correspondence Networks in the Irish Female Religious Diaspora”.28 OctoberDr Kirsty Day (University of Edinburgh)"Serving Sisters in the Thirteenth-Century Monastic Community".18 NovemberBook Launch for Festschrift in honour of Professor Stewart J. BrownBook Launch of Dr Andrew Kloes (FRHistS and a historian in Washington) and Dr Laura Mair (University of Aberdeen), Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond, 1800–2000: Essays in Honour of Stewart J. Brown. With commentary by Owen Dudley Edwards (University of Edinburgh), Professor Colin Kidd (University of St Andrews) and Professor Frances Knight (University of Nottingham).25 NovemberRevd Dr Paul Avis Paul Avis (Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh)“Richard Hooker (1554-1600): Architect of Anglican Theological Method”. This article was published on 2024-03-19
