DAAD Research Hub Annual Lecture to be chaired by Professor Ulinka Rublack

This year’s annual lecture from the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies will be chaired by St John’s Fellow, Professor Ulinka Rublack, with speakers including Professor Rowan Williams.

The free event, which takes place on 22 January at Clare College, will take the form of a panel discussion entitled ‘Martin Luther, Germany and the Reformation’. It will be chaired by Professor Rublack from the Faculty of History and St John’s College, and author of The Astronomer & the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother.

The speakers at the discussion include Professor Rowan Williams, Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and author of Meeting God in Paul; Pd Dr Christina Aus der Au, Theologian and Philosopher, Basel University, and President of the 2017 Kirchentag; Prof Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History Oxford University and author of Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet , and Dr Elisabeth von Thadden, Journalist for DIE ZEIT, and member of the Kirchentagspräsidium.

The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session, and afternoon tea will be served after the event.

At 6pm, there will be an Evensong service at Clare College Chapel at which Professor Rowan Williams will preach which attendees may be interested in attending. The cantata will be Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79, one of Bach's cantatas for Reformation Sunday, and the Choir will also perform the final movement of Lob, Ehr und Preis sei Gott from Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 192.

The DAAD Research Hub Annual Lecture will take place on Sunday 22 January at 3pm in the Riley Auditorium at the Gillespie centre, Clare College, followed by afternoon tea in the Garden Room at the Gillespie Centre. Everyone is welcome to attend.