RESEARCH SEMINAR SCHEDULE FOR 2025-26

Our third series of Wednesday online seminars will begin in October 2025. We are delighted that so many international experts in Marian Studies have accepted our invitation to discuss their research with us.

If you would like to attend one or more of the presentations, please register by sending an email to Catherine O’Brien: info@marianstudies.ac.uk. You’ll receive the free Zoom link the day before each event.

If you are interested in any of the topics but not free to join us on the day, please let us know and we can send you a recording of the presentation afterwards.

        The seminars will begin at 3pm (in the UK)

22nd October 2025	‘Wisdom’s Apex: Mary’s Role in the American Evolution Controversy’ – Professor Jacob Phillips (St Mary’s University)
12th November 2025	'Did God create the world for Mary?’ –  Dr Michaël Bauwens (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
10th December 2025	'A Walk on the Wild Side: Pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City'  – Dr Siân Lacey Taylder (Fellow of the Centre for Marian Studies)
21st January 2026	‘Marian iconography in the context of Portuguese confraternities of Mercy’ –Joana Balsa de Pinho (Artis - Institute of Art History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon and Institute of the Patroness of Portugal for Mariology Studies, Vila Viçosa, Portugal)
11th February 2026	‘Sweet Mother and Militant Virgin: The Two Faces of Mary’ – Dr Patrizia Granziera (Professor of Art History at the  Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, México)
18th March 2026	‘The Modern Controversy about Mary's Betrothal to Joseph’ – Dr Gloria Dodd (President of the Mariological Society of America, University of Dayton, US)
15th April 2026	'Some Reflections on the Poetics of Praise in the Vernacular Marian laude of the Duecento and Trecento’ – Professor Brian K. Reynolds (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan)
13th May 2026	‘Praying with Mary: The Book of Hours on the Eve of the English Reformation’ – Rev. Dr Paul Williams (Domestic Chaplain to HM The King and Rector of the Sandringham Group of Churches)
3rd June 2026	'The Blessed Virgin Mary as a Bridge between Islamic Spirituality and Christian Theology' – Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London)