Seminars, Lectures and Symposia for academic year 2025-2026

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.)

EPIPHANY TERM 2026

This term’s programme is a mixture of in-person and online events. Please check details carefully.

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 21^st 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’

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.

Past Seminars in 2025-26 at the Michael Ramsey Centre for Anglican Studies

MICHAELMAS TERM 2025

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 is:

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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’

In-person only: St Antony’s Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT.

SEMINARS DURING PREVIOUS ACADEMIC YEARS

• See our seminars programme for academic year 2024-2025, here
• See our seminars programme for academic year 2023-2024, here
• See our seminars programme for academic year 2022-2023, here

Further Information

For further information about seminars and events at the Michael Ramsey Centre, please contact Professor Michael Snape on michael.snape@durham.ac.uk.