Seminars
Our active seminar programme, organised jointly with World Christianities in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, offers students, scholars, and visitors an opportunity to learn more about aspects of Christian history and contemporary Christianity. They are in a blended format – face to face in the Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP, and on Zoom.
Current Seminars
Information about our past seminars and other past events here.
You may listen to all our seminars on our YouTube channel.
Lent 2026
Tuesday 3 February 2026, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Room 2, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Topic: Christianity, class, and masculinity in late colonial and postcolonial Sri Lanka
Dr Jessica Albrecht, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
More information here.
Tuesday 17 February 2026, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Annual CCCW Day Lecture: The Challenges of Sacred Charters for World Christianity
Professor Dana L. Robert, Boston University
More information to follow.
Tuesday 3 March 2026, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Topic: A Dialogue through Time: Revisiting the Cambridge Seven in Contemporary China
Dr John Usher, International School of Qingdao in Shāndōng, China
More information to follow.
Tuesday 17 March 2026, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Topic: Intricate Entanglements: A Missionary Collection of Spiritual Artifacts from West Africa at the Übersee-Museum Bremen
Professor Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University
More information to follow.
Easter 2026
Tuesday 5 May 2026, 4.00-5:30pm BST
Room tbc, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Topic: Evangelists, Mules, and Canoes: Missionary Travels and the Religious Encounter in Central Brazil, 1900-1950
Dr Pedro Feitoza, University of Edinburgh
More information to follow.
Tuesday 26 May 2026, 4.00-5:30pm BST
Room tbc, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Topic: tbc
Dr Chammah Kaunda, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
More information to follow.
Michaelmas 2025
Thursday 16th October 2025, 4.00-5:30pm BST
Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
The Henry Martyn Day Lecture 2025: ‘To Give Publicity to Our Thoughts’: A Polycentric Approach to the History of World Christianity through Indigenous Christian Journals from Asia and Africa Around 1900
Professor Klaus Koschorke, University of Munich
More Information here.
Wednesday 5th November 2025, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in person.
The Paradoxes of the Regional and the Local in Pacific Theologies and Christianities
Dr Richard Davis, Wesley House, Cambridge
More information here.
Wednesday 26th November 2025, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in person.
The Meaning of the Atom Bomb: Takashi Nagai and Nagasaki
Dr Alastair Lockhardt, University of Cambridge
More information here.
Lent 2026
Tuesday 3 February 2026, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Room 2, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Topic: Christianity, class, and masculinity in late colonial and postcolonial Sri Lanka
Dr Jessica Albrecht, University of Erlangen
More information to follow.
Tuesday 17 February 2026, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Annual CCCW Day Lecture:
Professor Dana L. Robert, Boston University
More information to follow.
Tuesday 3 March 2026, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Topic: A Dialogue through Time: Revisiting the Cambridge Seven in Contemporary China
Dr John Usher, International School of Qingdao in Shāndōng, China
More information to follow.
Tuesday 17 March 2026, 4.00-5:30pm GMT
Room 7, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP & Online. The speaker will join in-person.
Topic: tbc
Professor Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University
More information to follow.
Past Seminars
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