The Alister Hardy Trust: upcoming events

Events

The 2022 Conference of the Religious Experience Research Centre

Mystical Experiences: Past and Present

Supported by the Alister Hardy Trust and The Learned Society of Wales
9 July 2022, in the Cliff Tucker Theatre, Lampeter'
(also streamed online)
10:00am to 4:30pm

Keynote: Prof Rowan Williams, Cambridge
The Soul and the Trinity in Julian of Norwich

Prof Lisa Isherwood, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Margery Kempe: God's wild housewife!

Prof Ron Geaves, Cardiff University
The “Inmost Heart” of Islam

Prof Marta Helena de Freitas, Catholic University of Brasilia - UCB
Brazilian psychotherapists' narratives about mystical experiences in clinical contexts

Prof Bettina Schmidt, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Rudolf Otto and a reflection on mystical experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic

Full programme & abstracts

Registration

Trustees
Revd. Canon Professor Leslie Francis (Chair), Prof. John Harper (Vice Chair), Dr. David Greenwood (Hon. Treasurer), Andrew Burns (Honorary Secretary), Revd. Prof. Andrew Village, Dr. Mark Fox, John Franklin, Dr Tom Farley, Dr David Rousseau, Revd. Dr. Tania ap Sion, Mike Rush & Tanya Garland.

Patrons
His Holiness the Dalai Lama; His Eminence the Supreme Primate, Koken Monnyo Otani; The Right Revd Wyn Evans; The Right Revd & the Right Honorable the Lord Williams of Oystermouth; Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Joanathan Porritt CBE; H. H. Swami Chidanand Saraswati.