See below for our list of upcoming research seminars.
(Please also see our Power in the Church of England webinar series, recorded in 2023-2024.)
EASTER TERM 2026
This term’s programme is a mixture of in-person, hybrid and online events. Please check details carefully.
Tuesday 12 May, 3.00-4.00 pm (Cranmer Hall Lecture)
Andy Hood (Cranmer Hall):
‘Distinctively Anglican preaching: liturgy, doctrine and scriptural interpretation’
Hybrid event; In person: Learning Resources Centre, Cranmer Hall
Online Teams link:
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e83/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fmeet%2F332037890257118%3Fp%3D75POwme4kRHiXiUc4p&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.snape%40durham.ac.uk%7Caf4e8d393cb5468b3eb308dea054207e%7C7250d88b4b684529be44d59a2d8a6f94%7C0%7C0%7C639124480365752650%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nKXRCiCuRBn6L5tIcs2btLbuG%2B%2FrgRC8pLZZDQ%2F9uYw%3D&reserved=0
Wednesday 13 May, 4.00-5.30 pm (St Antony’s Priory Seminar)
Andrew Carruthers (Durham University):
‘The politics of the religious life in the work of Rowan Williams’
In-person only: This seminar will be held at The Herbert Kelly Institute, 72 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT. Tea and coffee available from 3.45 pm.
Monday 15 June, 5.15-6.00 pm (Book launch); 6.00-7.30 pm (Michael Ramsey Lecture)
Book launch - Rev Dr Sam Hole (Durham University):
Nourishing Prayer: A Handbook to Holy Communion (Canterbury Press, 2026)
Lecture - Professor Ben Quash (Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge):
‘“Opus Anglicanum”: is there such a thing as Anglican Theological Aesthetics?’
In-person only: This lecture and the book launch will be held in the Bishop’s Dining Room, University College, The Castle, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RW
EPIPHANY TERM 2026
Wednesday 28 January, 2026, 4.00-5.30 pm (St Antony’s Priory Seminar)
Revd Oleksandr Nosenko (University of Birmingham):
‘The Logos Incarnate and Symbol in the Liturgical Theology of Alexander Schmemann’
In-person only: The Herbert Kelly Institute, 72 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT. Tea and coffee available from 3.45 p.m.
Wednesday, 18 February, 2026, 4.00.-5.30 pm (Anglican Communion Office seminar)
Revd Dr Charlie Baczyk-Bell (Girton College, University of Cambridge):
'Unity- Anglicanism’s impossible dream?’
The Revd Dr Charlie Baczyk-Bell is a Church of England priest. He is Associate Vicar of St John the Divine, Kennington, in the Diocese of Southwark, Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, Associate Tutor and Research Fellow at St Augustine’s College of Theology, and the Fellow in Medicine and Public Theology at Girton College, Cambridge. He also works for the National Health Service full time as a forensic psychiatrist in high secure services.
Online only: The Teams link is: ACO seminar 18 February 2026 | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams
Friday, 27 February, 2026, 9.00 am -1.30 pm (Scott Holland Online Symposium)
The Christian Doctrine of Incarnation in an Inter-Religious Context
Keynote Lecture: Professor Paul Hedges (Nanyang Technological University Singapore):
‘Incarnation, Social Justice, and the Diversity of Religion and Non-Religion’
Online only: The Teams link is: Scott Holland Symposium 2026 | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams
Tuesday, 3 March, 2026, 3.00-4.00 pm (Cranmer Hall Lecture)
Revd Dr Hannah Malcolm (Cranmer Hall):
‘A Church for England: Do you love the place you live?’
This is a hybrid event: In person, at the Learning Resources Centre, Cranmer Hall. For online attendance, click the Teams link.
Wednesday, 4 March, 2026, 4.00-5.30 pm
Revd Eleanor Rance (RAF Benevolent Fund):
'We want you to do the ‘god bit': Articulating faith within the military community in the early 21st Century’
In-person only: This seminar will be held at The Herbert Kelly Institute, 72 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT. Tea and coffee available from 3.45 p.m.
Wednesday, 11 March, 2026, 4.00-5.30 pm
Revd Dr Sam Hole (Durham University):
‘Let us thine endurance share: Lent and the wilderness in Anglican thought and preaching’
MICHAELMAS TERM 2025
Wednesday 22 October, 2025, 4.00-5.30 pm
Sue Hope (Durham University):
‘Stations on the Way to Freedom: Life in the Tertiary Order of the Holy Paraclete viewed through the lens of the poem by Dietrich Bonhoeffer’
In-person only: St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT.
Tuesday 18 November, 2025, 3.00-4.00 pm
Dr Olly Peel (Cranmer Hall):
‘The Radical Provisionality of Order: George Herbert and His Augustinian Quandary’
Hybrid event: Learning Resources Centre, Cranmer Hall, 3 S Bailey, Durham DH1 3RJ
If you would like to attend online: the Teams link
Wednesday 26 November, 2025, 4.00-5.30 pm
Professor Kwok Pui-Lan (Candler School of Theology, Emory University):
‘Living Postcolonial Anglicanism’
Online only, the Teams link:
ACO seminar 26 November 2025 | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams
Wednesday 3 December, 2025, 4.00-5.30 pm
Professor Michael Snape (Durham University):
‘All in the Same Boat? Anglicans, Catholics and the Royal Navy in the Era of the First World War’
For further information about seminars and events at the Michael Ramsey Centre, please contact Professor Michael Snape on michael.snape@durham.ac.uk.
/prod01/prodbucket01/media/durham-university/departments-/theology-amp-religion/20414.jpg)