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The Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry's Rome seminar series commenced in September 2015, when ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´'s Rome Campus was opened. The series has drawn together international scholars to discuss critical questions in religion and theology from multidisciplinary perspectives.

Providing a collaborative space to craft ideas in conversation with other researchers, the seminars are a practical expression of our ongoing commitment to world-leading research, stimulating international research collaboration, advancing transnational research student education, and communicating innovative research to a public audience.

Research arising from the seminars has been published by high-quality journals and publishers such as Theological Studies, Modern Theology, Cambridge University Press, The University of Chicago Press, Bloomsbury and De Gruyter.

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Rome Campus 2026 Research Events (PDF, 102KB)

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Rome Campus 2025 Research Events (PDF, 87KB)

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Rome Campus 2024 Research Events (PDF, 85KB)

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Rome Campus 2023 Research Events (PDF, 115 KB)

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Rome Campus 2022 Research Activities (PDF, 119 KB)

Rome public lectures

Peter Howard - Professor and Former Director, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´, and Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews

Title: " Before Michelangelo: "Revisioning" Sixtus"s Sistine Chapel as Sensorium”

5pm Monday 21 October 2024

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Fiona Griffiths - Professor of History and Chair, Department of Religion, Stanford University

Title: "Priests" Wives in Medieval Europe: Excavating a Forgotten History of Women

5pm Thursday 12 October 2023

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Sarah Coakley - Professor Emerita, University of Cambridge, Honorary Professorial Fellow, ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´

Title: Re-thinking the ressourcement recovery of patristic ''spiritual sensation'': new applications to contemporary Church and culture

5pm Thursday 15 September 2022

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Lewis Ayres - Professor of Theology, University of Durham, Professorial Fellow, ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´

Title: The Essential Legacy of Post-Chalcedonian Christology: A Hymn to the Emperor Justinian

6pm Thursday 22 September 2022

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Nicholas Terpstra - Professor of History, University of Toronto, President of the Renaissance Society of America

Title: Moving or Fixed? Defining (the) Reformation in the First Global Age

6pm Thursday 29 September 2022

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Rome public seminar

Unwounded World: A Marian Peace for our Shared Future

5 - 6 October 2022

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Conference program (PDF, 217 KB)

Research projects

Religion & Theology: Redeeming Autonomy

Religion & Theology: Theologies of Catholicity

Bible and Early Christian Studies: Flourishing in Early Christianity

Religious Mobilities: Europe and the Medieval and Early Modern World