Oxford University

A lecture by Prof. Michael Hurley (Cambridge University)

Monday, March 3rd

7:30 PM

Blackfriars (OX1 3LY)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Michael D. Hurley is Professor of Literature and Theology, and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College.

Educated at the Universities of Cambridge (PhD) and St Andrews (MA), he has taught at Cambridge since 2005. He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard in 2009, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2021, and a Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne in 2024.

Alongside his academic work, he frequently gives talks and public lectures on the philosophical and theological questions posed by art and literature. He is a contributor to the BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day on the Today programme; recent episodes here on: beauty, gratitude, ancestors, creation, relics, fighting, euthanasia, reality, humour, discrimination, service.