Seminars
Semester 1 Academic Year 2025-2026
All seminars take place on Thursdays from 11.15am to 12.45pm at the St Mary’s College Hall. For online registration, please email the Centre at [email protected].
Thursday 18 September 2025
‘The Year of Two Popes: Topologies, homeomorphisms and homotopies in the CSRP natura non facit saltus project‘, Professor Mario I. Aguilar (University of St. Andrews)
Thursday 25 September 2025
‘Animals, Medicine, and Religion in Early Modern Japan’, Professor James H. Morris (Project Associate Professor, Center for Innovative Research, NIHU and the National Museum of Japanese History)
Thursday 2 October 2025
‘Why are global fertility rates falling so sharply?’ [Reflections on a PhD], Keith Wiedersheim (University of St Andrews)
Thursday 9 October 2025
‘Interreligious Studies in India’, Dr Shruti Dixit (University of St Andrews)
[Thursday 16 February 2025]
No seminar
[Independent Learning Week]
Thursday 30 October 2025
‘Peace through espionage’, Filip Scherf (University of St Andrews)
Thursday 6 November 2025
11am: ‘Are we still Anglican? Inculturation in the vanguard’, Aaron Pelot (University of St Andrews)
Scholars for Dialogue Lecture
4pm: ‘Relational Dynamics in the Dialogue with Islam: Lessons from the Christian-Muslim Relations Bibliographical History Project’, Professor Douglas Pratt (University of Aukland, New Zealand)
Thursday 13 November 2025
‘Journey to the West: Time and Virtuous Action in the Space of Qi (氣)’, Dhruv Kandari (University of St Andrews)
Thursday 20 November 2025
‘A lock of hair rewrites what we know about the Inca Empire’, Professor Sabine Hyland (University of St Andrews)