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Aquinas Summer Seminar

1st June: 8:00 am - 4th June: 5:00 pm BST

Thomas Aquinas on the Trinity (June 1–4, 2026)

The Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University is pleased to announce a call for applicants for the 2026 Aquinas Summer Seminar on the theme of trinitarian theology in St Thomas Aquinas. The event will run from Monday morning of June 1st, through Thursday evening of June 4th, 2026.

We invite applications from doctoral students and recent Ph.D. graduates for this exciting event. Successful applicants (whether from within the UK or internationally) will have their meals and accommodation covered during their residential stay in Oxford, and travel costs up to $1000 can be reimbursed by students without support from their home institutions. Participants will be expected arrive in Oxford on Sunday, May 31, and depart on Friday, June 5.

The focus of the seminar will be St Thomas Aquinas’s treatise on the Trinity from the Summa theologiae I, qq. 27-43. The seminar also aims to engage questions and challenges from contemporary Trinitarian theology. Participants will be expected to have read the whole of Summa theologiae I, qq. 27-43 before coming to Oxford for the summer seminar. After successful applicants have been notified and have confirmed their attendance, each participant will be assigned a different question from ST I.27-43, which they will need to prepare ahead of time for a seminar presentation.

The seminar will be led by three distinguished scholars:

Applications are welcomed from doctoral students in the UK and international programmes (as well as those who have recently completed doctoral studies in the 2024-2025 academic year). Eligible applicants should be studying theology or philosophy, or adjacent disciplines (such as the study of religion or biblical studies), but need not be specialising in the thought of Aquinas or focusing on Trinitarian theology.

Application by CV, covering letter, and one letter of reference to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk by February 15, 2026.


Contact:
Aquinas Institute
aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk

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