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            THE CENTRE FOR MARIAN STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINARS 2025-26

 

22 October 2025: ‘Wisdom’s Apex: Mary’s Role in the American Evolution Controversy’ – Professor Jacob Phillips (St Mary’s University) https://www.marianstudies.ac.uk/post/wisdom-s-apex-mary-s-role-in-the-american-evolution-controversy

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Wednesday 12th November 2025: ‘Did God create the world for Mary?’ –  Dr Michaël Bauwens (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

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10th December 2025: 'Something happened on the road to Tepeyac: Encounters with the Virgin Mary on foot' – Dr Sian Lacey Taylder (Fellow of the Centre for Marian Studies)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)​