Research Seminar Schedule 2025-26
Wednesday 4-5pm, QS111 unless otherwise stated
Week 1: 1st Oct Darius Samadian, ‘The Apophatic Philosophy of Karl Jaspers’
Week 2: 8th Oct Alisha Biggs (PGR), ‘Salvation and Virtual Realities in Sci-Fi Literature’
Week 3: 15th Oct Dr Everett Ndlovu – ‘Blood on the Altar’ film screening with Q+A (Marking BHM, w/ TEL Decolonisation series, location CC/101)
Week 4: 22nd Oct Jake Furby (PGR), ‘LGBTQ+ Muslims and Toxic Masculinity’
Week 5: 29th Oct Prof. Esther McIntosh, ‘The Weaponising of Freedom of Speech: Theological Ethics in the Academy’
Week 6: 5th Nov Steve Chalke ‘A Manifesto for Hope: Creating Opportunities for Children, Young People and Their Families’ (Ebor Lecture) Creative Centre Auditorium and online, drinks reception, 5-7pm [ Free Tickets on Eventbrite ]
Week 7: 12th Nov Vishal Sangu, ‘How are Contemporary British Sikhs “Decolonising” their Identity?’
Week 8: 19th Nov (Graduation week: no research seminar)
Week 9: 26th Nov Rev. Ruth Harley (PGR) ‘“Woolly Thinking, Bad Theology, Sexist Attitudes”: How Feminist Women Encounter, Resist and Challenge Expected Narratives of Vocation in the Church of England’
Week 10: 3rd Dec Dr Joanna Malone, ‘Becoming Citizens of ‘Post-Secular’ Britain: Religion in Primary School Life’
Week 11: 10th Dec Alexander Dowding (PGR), ‘An Analysis of the Works of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’
Week 12: 17th Dec Dr Sharon Jagger, ‘The Activist Potential of Witch and Goddess Spiritualities’