Lectures

2023

Professor Matthew J. Smith, Professor of History and Director, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British

“Race, Rubber, Revolution: Haiti’s 1940s Revisited”

Wednesday 1st November, 16.00-17.30

Helwys Hall, Regent’s Park College

2021

Professor Anthony G. Reddie

Dealing with the Two Deadly Ds: Deconstructing Whiteness and Decolonising the Curriculum

The 2021 David Nicholls Memorial Lecture took place on Wednesday 10th November at Regent’s Park College, Oxford.


2018

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Politics of Sex and Gender in Christian History

The 2018 lecture took place on Monday 15th October at Regent’s Park College, Oxford.


2017

Professor Andrew Leak

‘New’ Governors of the Dew


2016

Chris Rowland

Deity and Domination: Winstanley, Blake, and David Nicholls – a contribution to the understanding of theology and secularity

Transcript


2015

The Reverend Canon Dr. M. Rosemarie Mallett

Serving the Faithful in the ‘Mother Church’: race, culture and ethnicity in the contemporary Church of England


2014

Professor John Milbank

Associationism, Pluralism and Postliberalism: the theopolitical legacy of David Nicholls and current British politics


2013

Professor Gad Heuman

‘Is this what you call free?’ The Caribbean after slavery

Lecture outline


2012

Professor Sarah Coakley

God, Freud, and the Politics of Desire: re-thinking the churches’ approach to sex crises

Transcript


2011

Dr David Lambert

‘In but not of the West’: Caribbean geographies and histories

Transcript

Slides


2010

Professor Tim Gorringe

A Politics of Place?

Transcript


2009

Professor David Marquand

Defending Politics in the 21st Century


2008

The Right Reverend Richard Harries, The Lord Harries of Pentregarth

What Makes Us Think God Wants Democracy?


2007

Dr Cecily Jones

Suffer the Little Children: slavery and its legacies for Caribbean children in the diaspora


2006

The Reverend Dr Leslie Griffiths, The Lord Griffiths of Burry Port

Haiti: A Failed State. But whose fault is that?


2005

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams

Law, Power and Peace: Christian perspectives on sovereignty


2004

Professor John W. de Gruchy

Christian Humanism: antidote to fundamentalism and secularism


2002

Professor Anthony Maingot

Class, Colour and Pluralism in David Nicholl’s Caribbean


2001

Sir Bernard Crick

Citizenship, Democracy and Morality


2000

Professor Harry Goulbourne

Africa and the Caribbean in Caribbean Consciousness and Action in Britain


1999

The Reverend Kenneth Leech

Stepping Out of Babylon: theology and politics in the thought of David Nicholls