Below are Professor Stewart J. Brown’s closing remarks for this year’s Gifford Lectures, delivered following Professor Cornel West’s final lecture, ‘A Love Supreme (A Way Through)’ on 16th May, and an end of series reflection by Molly McCracken, this year’s Gifford Lectureship Social Media Host End of Series Reflection by Professor Stewart J. Brown: It […]

The last of Professor West’s Gifford Lectures, titled ‘A Love Supreme (A Way Through)’ took place on Thursday 16th May at the Informatics Forum. This event was chaired by Professor Stewart J. Brown, Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History, and Deputy-Convenor of the Gifford Lectureship Committee. Below is a summary of the lecture, followed by a […]

Lecture Five took place at St Cecilia’s Hall on Tuesday 14th May, and was chaired by Professor Jo Shaw, Salvesen Chair of European Institutions and Head of Edinburgh Law School. Below is a summary of the lecture, followed by a response by PhD student in European Theatre, Olivia Fischer.  You can watch the Lecture recording […]

Lecture Four took place on Monday 13th May at the Informatics Forum, and was chaired by Professor Lesley McAra, Assistant Principal (Community Relations) and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Below is a lecture summary, followed by a response by PhD student in English Literature Christopher Chan. You can watch the […]

Lecture Three of this year’s Gifford Lecture Series took place on Thursday 9th May at the Informatics Forum, and was chaired by Professor Sarah Prescott, Professor of English Literature and Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. You can watch the Lecture recording on YouTube, and join in the discussion […]

Lecture Two: Metaphilosophic Andante, took place at St Cecilia’s Hall on Tuesday 7 May, and was chaired by Professor Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, Assistant Principal Religion and Society, University of Edinburgh, and Jane and Aatos Erkko Chair, Helsinki Collegium. You can watch the Lecture recording on YouTube, and join in the […]

The first event of this year’s Gifford Lecture Series took place last night at the Informatics Forum, chaired by Professor David Smith, Deputy Head of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Joined by a sold-out in-person audience and over 800 live-stream attendees across the world, this event marked an enthusiastic welcome to our […]

Our 2023-24 Gifford Lecturer is Dr Cornel West, the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy & Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary, New York. In this series of lectures, Dr West will reflect on his passionate conviction that the vocation of philosophy may be, in the language of the great jazz musician, John Coltrane, a force for good […]

The last of John Dupré’s lectures fell on a beautiful sunny Edinburgh day! It was followed by a succinct and passionate word of appreciation from Professor Stewart Brown. Below is the lecture summary and a response from PhD Student in Religious Studies Joseph Sedgwick. Aware that throughout the lectures he had been promoting the social […]

Dr Kate Nave is an Analysis Trust postdoctoral research fellow, with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on developing a realist account of agency, grounded in the uniquely metabolic existence of living systems, and upon critiquing the machine concept of the organism in light of this distinctive material instability. In his […]