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Charlotte Popham is a PhD candidate in Anthropology of Religion and Symbolism from the Instituto de Ciências Sociais at the University of Lisbon. She is part of the European Research Agency Chair on Imagination and Society, based at the University of Lisbon. Charlotte is a Durham University and St

Jessica Goethals is Associate Professor of Italian and Director of the Italian Program at the University of Alabama in the United States. She is the author of Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court (University of Toronto Press, 2023) and, with Sara Díaz, editor and translator of Costa’s The

Şeyma Nur Karaman is a PhD candidate in Philosophy of Religion at Marmara University, Türkiye. Her research examines the place of petitionary prayer within divine action in the context of the God–world relationship, exploring whether prayer can be one of the reasons for God to act. Bringing cla

Dr Jean-Claude Loba Mkole is a biblical scholar and Global Translation Consultant with the United Bible Societies, as well as a Research Associate at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His research spans New Testament studies, Bible translation, intercultural interpretation and biblical

Yasmine is a scholar of early modern French literature whose research approaches the period through the circulation of people, texts, ideas, literary forms, and forms of knowledge. She is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Geneva, where she earned her PhD with a thesis examining str

Fr Martin Magill is a Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Down and Connor in Northern Ireland. Ordained in 1988, he has ministered in parishes across Belfast and County Antrim, most recently serving as Parish Priest of St John’s on the Falls Road from 2017 to 2026. In 2013, he co-founded Belfa

Liesbeth Corens is an early modern historian specialising in the history of mobility and archives  with a particular focus on Catholic communities in England and the Dutch Republic. Her first book was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 and entitled Confessional Mobility and English Cathol

Hilary J. Bernstein is a Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first book, Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers (Cornell, 2004), examines the development of political language, concepts of governance and participatio

Marie Raulier is a Barker Fellow working with Richard Scholar on the ‘Imagining Alternatives : Utopia in the World’ project as part of the Inventing Futures Programme at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS). During her fellowship at Durham, she will examine representation

Will Hamlin is Professor Emeritus of English at Washington State University, having retired in June 2024 after forty years of teaching. A recipient of research fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Renaissance Society of America, and the National Endowmen