ALC research seminars

ALC's research seminars provide an opportunity for lecturers and honorary and visiting researchers to present research they are working on or have recently completed.

Seminars are structured with 30 minutes for presentation and 30 minutes for discussion.

Anyone who is interested is welcome. For events held at ALC, free parking is available along Ward Street (2-hour limit).

Previous seminars

• Presenter: Rev Dr Sean Gilbert
• Topic: Beyond the Ellipsis: An Exploration into the Constitutive and Experiential Nature of the Language of Faith
• When: Monday 12 October
• View the video: Research seminar—12 October 2020

• Presenter: Pastor Thomas Pietsch
• Topic: Worship as the Hermeneutical Key to Cyril of Alexandria's De adoratione
• When: Monday 7 September
• View the video: Research seminar—7 September 2020

• Presenter: Dr Stephen Pietsch
• Topic: The Pictorial Rhetoric of the Reformation: Cranach's Woodcut Illustrations for the Lord's Prayer in the 1529 Edition of Luther's Large Catechism
• When: Monday 24 August 2020
• Pre-reading: Pietsch,The Pictorial Rhetoric of the Reformation and Lucas Cranach dA, Das Vaterunser
• View the video: Research seminar—24 August 2020

• Presenter: Prof Wendy Mayer
• Topic: Narrative Patterns in Religious Conflict
• When: Monday 3 August 2020
• Pre-reading: Mayer, Psychology of Religious Conflict
• View the video: Research seminar—3 August 2020

• Presenter: Dr Stephen Hultgren
• Topic: Narrative Frames and Christology in the Development of the Synoptic Tradition
• When: Monday 1 June 2020
• View the video: Research seminar—June 2020

• Presenter: Dr Chris Seglenieks
• Topic: Johannine Belief and Graeco-Roman Devotion
• When: Monday 11 May 2020
• View the video: Research seminar—May 2020

2021 seminars

Dates for 2021 research seminars:

• Monday 29 March 2021
• Monday 3 May 2021
• Monday 7 June 2021
• Monday 2 August 2021
• Monday 6 September 2021
• Monday 11 October 2021