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
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
2012
Professor Sarah Coakley
God, Freud, and the Politics of Desire: re-thinking the churches’ approach to sex crises
2011
Dr David Lambert
‘In but not of the West’: Caribbean geographies and histories
2010
Professor Tim Gorringe
2009
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