The talks take place at Grandpont House. The timetable for the talks is as follows:
Wednesdays:
12:30 p.m. — Buffet Lunch (Optional)
1:15 p.m. — Talk
1:45 p.m. — Discussion
2:30 p.m. — End of the event
Saturdays:
12:00 noon — Talk
12:40 p.m. — Discussion
1:30 p.m. — Buffet Lunch (Optional)
There will be a £5 charge for lunch (payable by card or cash). Numbers are restricted to 24 audience members. Please contact tauntontalks@grandpont-house.org to be added to the mailing list and to book places.
Programme for 2021–22
Michaelmas 2021
Week 2 20 October (Wed) ‘What is a University? according to John Henry Newman’, Dr Paul Shrimpton, Magdalen College School
Week 4 3 November (Wed) ‘How can a Christian make sense of the world of Islam?’, Dr Christian Sahner, Associate Professor
of Islamic History, St Cross College
Week 6 17 November (Wed) ‘C S Lewis and the dictatorship of relativism’, Dr Michael Ward, Blackfriars Hall
Week 8 1 December (Wed) ‘A Christian approach to corporate religious liberty’, Dr Edward David, Postdoctoral Research
Fellow, Faculty of Theology and Religion
Hilary Term 2022
Week 2 26 January (Wed) ‘How to square the circle with climate change’, Professor Manus Henry, Engineering Department
Week 4 9 February (Wed) ‘The feminine intellectual vocation: Insights from St John Henry Newman and St Edith Stein’, Dr
Marie Daouda, Lecturer and Tutor in French, Oriel College
Week 6 26 February (Sat) ‘Making hard choices: what we can learn from the White Rose students’, Dr Alexandra Lloyd,
Fellow in German, St Edmund Hall
Week 7 5 March (Sat) ‘What does Tolkien say about marriage and the relation between the sexes?’, Dr Holly Ordway,
Fellow of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute; Visiting Professor, Houston Baptist
University, USA
Trinity Term 2022
Week 2 4 May ‘What’s wrong with rights?’, Prof Nigel Biggar CBE, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Christ Church