Events
The Alister Hardy Trust
Members’ Day 2023
Sacred Space & Spiritual Experience
Saturday 21 October 2023 10:30 to 16:00
The Oxford Quaker Meeting House
43 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LW
and remotely online
Cost In person attendance: £20; full-time student £10
Online attendance: £15; full-time student £8
Booking for the day can be made online through Eventbrite.
If you have difficulty with Eventbrite or are unable to make an online booking,
please contact admin@alisterhardytrust.org
For those attending in person, it will also be possible to pay at the door.
Programme
11:00 The Alister Hardy Memorial Lecture given by Professor John Harper
Sacred Space and Spiritual Experience
John Harper will explore aspects of the sacred and the spaces we hold to be sacred, asking how and why that is so. This extends far beyond the spiritual experience of buildings that have come to be regarded as sacred.
Professor Harper is currently honorary archivist and vice chair of the Alister Hardy Trust. He led a major research project investigating The Experience of Worship in Late Medieval Cathedral and Parish Church. He holds emeritus, honorary and visiting professorships at Bangor, Birmingham and Bishop Grosseteste universities; he is also emeritus director of The Royal School of Church Music and honorary research fellow of the University of Wales Trinity St David. In the 1980s he was fellow, organist and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford.
12:30 Break for Lunch
There are plenty of places nearby, or you are welcome to bring a packed lunch to eat in the Meeting House. There will also be an opportunity to buy books.
14:00 The Alister Hardy Trust: current projects and plans for the future
This is a session for the members of the Alister Hardy Trust only. A presentation will be followed by time for questions and discussion.
The Trustees have been undertaking a major review of the Trust and its work over the coming five years. A major two-year project to re-order and conserve the Trust’s Archive at Lampeter is already in progress. Plans are also in hand to upgrade the database of individuals’ accounts of personal religious and spiritual experiences; and a new website is in preparation.
The Trustees have taken particular account of the Trust’s mission to explore religious and spiritual experiences, to foster the research and study of personal accounts of individuals’ own religious and spiritual experiences, and to share the outcomes of such study widely to offer greater depth, richness and meaning to human life.
Alister Hardy Trust : Annual General Meeting 2023
The Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 13th December 2023 at 11:00 GMT.
This meeting will be conducted online. It is open to individual, joint and student members of the trust.
A notice to access the report of the trustees and the accounts for 2022–23 will be circulated fourteen days before the meeting. This will also include details of how to receive a link to join the meeting.
The Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 13th December 2023 at 11:00 GMT.
This meeting will be conducted online. It is open to individual, joint and student members of the trust.
A notice to access the report of the trustees and the accounts for 2022–23 will be circulated fourteen days before the meeting. This will also include details of how to receive a link to join the meeting.