CMS Seminars 2026-2027
Our next series of research seminars will run on Wednesday afternoons via Zoom from October 2026 – June 2027. We are very grateful to all the speakers who have agreed to share their knowledge on a wide range of Marian topics, and we hope that you'll be able to join us.
If you'd like to attend one or more of the presentations, please register by sending an email to Catherine O’Brien at the following address: info@marianstudies.ac.uk. You’ll receive the free Zoom link the day before each event.
If you are interested in the subjects but not free on Wednesdays, please let us know and we can send you a recording of the presentation afterwards.
The seminars will begin at 3pm in the UK [09:00 in US CT; 10:00 in US ET; 16:00 in Central Europe]
21st October 2026 | ‘Our Lady of Pompeii’ – Dr Jessica Hughes (The Open University) |
18th November 2026 | '"When two become one": Interweaving identities in paintings of St Anne and Mary'– Dr Maryanne Saunders (The Ahmanson Research Fellow of Art and Religion at the National Gallery and visiting lecturer at King's College London) |
2nd December 2026 | ‘Filming the Christmas story: Mariology on screen’ – Dr Catherine O’Brien (The Centre for Marian Studies) |
20th January 2027 | ‘Pondering Mary's Faith: Clues to discovering St John Henry Newman's Mariology’ – Fr Peter Conley (Priest in Charge of Our Lady of Good Counsel and St Gregory The Great Church in Bearwood, Birmingham) |
24th February 2027 | ‘Devotion to Our Lady in India’ – Fr Alexander Swamy Nathan, SMM (Director of the Marian Centre of the Vice Province of India) |
10th March 2027 | ‘Leo XIII and the Contemplative Renewal of the Rosary’ – Fr Philip Nolan, OP, STL (Editor in Chief of Magnificat, New York, USA) |
14th April 2027 | ‘Marian Poem-Prayers in the Modern Age’ – Professor Jean Ward (Emerita Professor of English Literature at the University of Gdańsk, Poland) |
12th May 2027 | ‘“Do whatever he tells you” (Jn. 2:5): Mary as Teacher in Synodality for “a people of missionary disciples who walk together”’ – Dr. Patricia A. Sullivan (St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA) |
16th June 2027 | 'The role of René Laurentin in the Marian debates of Vatican II' - Sr Dr Cathy Jones r.a. (The Centre for Marian Studies) |
