Conference Schedule

Conference Outline for SST2026

Below is a provisaional outline for SST 2026 – schedule is subject to change

Monday – 13 April

From noon – Check-in and Registration

1pm – First-Timer’s Welcome

2pm – Plenary 1: Professor Robert Beckford (The Queens Foundation, UK) – SST Presidential Address

3:45pm – Afternoon Tea/Welcome Reception (Sponsored by Cambridge University Press)

4:30pm – Short Papers 1

6:30pm – Dinner

7:45pm – Failure: An Evening of Conversation With Christian Aid (Sponsored by Christian Aid)

9pm – Compline

9pm – Social Time

Tuesday – 14 April

8am – Breakfast

8:30am – Morning Prayer

9am – Seminar Streams 1

• Black and Womanist Theology
• Christology, Trinity, and the Doctrine of God
• Theology and the Arts
• Ecotheology
• Philosophy and Theology

11am – Coffee Break

11am – Global Majority Heritage Reception (Sponsored by the Queen’s Foundation)

11:30am – Plenary 2: Vincent Lloyd (Villanova University, USA)

1pm – Lunch

2pm – Annual General Meeting

3:30pm – Coffee Break

3:30pm – LGBTQI+ Networking Event (Sponsored by SCM Press)

4pm – Short Papers 2

6pm – Dinner

7:30pm – Plenary 3: Giles Waller (Cambridge University, UK)

9pm – Compline

9pm – Social Time:

• Board Games
• Knit-a-Long
• Crafting Night and Origami
• Pub Time

Wednesday – 15 April

8am – Breakfast

8:30am – Morning Prayer

9am – Seminar Streams 2

• Sacramentality, Theology, and Litrugy
• Theological Anthropology
• Theological Ethics
• Church, Theology, and Ministry
• LGBTQI+ Theology

11am – Coffee Break

11:30am – Workshops

• Creative Workshops (see conference programme)
• Guided Reflective Walk
• Free Time

12:30pm – Lunch

2pm – Short Papers 3

3:45pm – Independent Scholars Meeting

3:45pm – Women’s Networking Event

4pm – Coffee Break

5:30pm – Plenary 4: Marika Rose (Dublin City University, Ireland)

7:05pm – Conference Dinner

9pm – Compline

9:30pm – Social Time:

• Karaoke
• Pub Time

Thursday – 16 April

8am – Breakfast

10am – Checkout from all rooms