Professor Wolfe has been an invited speaker at academic seminars, workshops and conferences in the UK, USA, Ireland, Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Israel.
She also speaks at literary festivals, museums, bookstores and education events, and has been interviewed for national radio, newspapers, and online media in the UK, USA, Ireland, Denmark, France and Poland. She has spoken about the philosophy of hope on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, and about theology and the arts on PBS’s Closer to Truth. A short documentary with and about her can be found at At the Threshold or on YouTube.
Links to event pages and, in the case of some past events, recordings, can be found in the ‘Event’ column below.
Date | Title | Event | Location |
25 Nov 2024 | Response | Book panel on Judith Wolfe, The Theological Imagination | AAR 2024, San Diego |
1 Nov 2024 | Keynote | Ever Ancient, Ever New: On Catholic Imagination | DeNicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame |
20 Sept 2024 | Panel discussion | Launch of A.N. Wilson, Goethe: His Faustian Life | Wigmore Hall, London |
31 July 2024 | Response to Paul DeHart | Boston Colloquy in Historical Theology | Boston College |
4 July 2024 | C.S. Lewis on Technology | The Faraday Institute Summer Course 2024 | Cambridge University |
30 May 2024 | Thou Hast Made Us for Thyself (keynote) | Scottish Dogmatics Conference | Aberdeen University |
20 March 2024 | Time and Eschatological Consciousness | Trinité et temporalité. Phénoménologie, métaphysique et théologie | Institut Catholique de Toulouse |
23 February 2024 | Rilke’s Angels | Poetry & Theology Symposium | Duke University |
4 December 2023 | Making up a Life | Theology & Ethics Research Seminar | Durham University |
21 November 2023 | Art and the Role of Human Making in Knowing the Divine Maker (panel) | AAR Annual Meeting 2023 | San Antonio, TX |
25 October 2023 | Last Things and Last Words | Literature and Religion Lecture | Lancaster University |
31 Aug 2023 | Who by Fire? (Closing keynote) |
British Society for the Philosophy of Religion annual meeting | University of Oxford |
19-23 June 2023 | Image as Theology (panel) | EuARe 2023 annual meeting | St Andrews, Scotland |
28-29 April 2023 | Eschatology as First Philosophy: What Ends for Creation? | Creation, Nature, and Grace (conference) | Angelicum, Rome |
8 March 2023 | The Eschatological Imagination in Literature | Religion and Literature Lecture | University of Notre Dame |
23 February 2023 | Playing at Selfhood | Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology lecture | University of Aberdeen |
30 January 2023 | Continental Philosophy and Religious Faith | Philosophy Society | University of St Andrews |
18 Nov 2022 | Renewals of Perception in Philosophy, Faith, and Scripture | Scripture and Doctrine Seminar, American Academy of Religion | Denver |
17-26 Oct 2022 | The Theological Imagination | The Hulsean Lectures | University of Cambridge |
4-6 July 2022 | Inspiration and Imagination | Descent of the Dove: 2020 Pusey House Theological Conference | Pusey House, Oxford |
15-21 May 2022 | Reading the Book of Revelation | Biblical Narrative and Philosophical Theology (conference) | Tantur, Jerusalem |
27-30 April 2022 | Finding an Ending | The Future of Christian Thinking (conference) | Pontifical University Maynooth |
28-30 March 2022 | Between Consummation and Catastrophe: The Antinomy of Eschatology | Society for the Study of Theology annual meeting | University of Warwick |
23-26 February 2022 | Panelist in session ‘Philosophy of Religion: Virtues and Religious Practices’ | Philosophy of Religion unit, APA (Central Division) annual meeting | Chicago |
17-18 February 2022 | Christian Eschatology | Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses (conference) | Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses, Erlangen |
7 Feb 2022 | Response to Cyril O’Regan | Explorations in Theology and Apocalyptic | Online |
2 Feb 2022 | Towards a Phenomenology of Eschatological Expectation | Theology Seminar | University of St Andrews |
3-4 Dece 2021 | Practising the Presence of God: Imaginative formation and the sensus divinitatis | Grace & Nature: Contemporary Controversies (conference) | Angelicum, Rome |
17 Sept 2021 | The Imagination in Philosophy and Theology | Art in Conversation (Seminar) | St Andrews, UK |
30 Aug 2021 | Reading the Signs of the Times: Theology and the Idea of Progress (keynote) | European Academy of Religion annual meeting | Münster, Germany |
22-23 Aug 2021 | Creation and Co-Creation in J.R.R. Tolkien | The Tree of Tales (conference) at the Rimini Meeting | Rimini, Italy |
9-11 July 2021 | Response to Cyril O’Regan | Theological Genealogies of Modernity | University of Oxford |
11 June 2021 | Inklings of Heaven | Abbey Summer School | Edinburgh |
28 May 2021 | Heidegger’s Political Religion (keynote) | Heidegger: Politics, History, Modernity | Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago |
11 May 2021 | The Purpose of Life | KUL Philosophical Week | Thomistic Institute & Catholic University Lublin |
6 May 2021 | Response to Heidegger and his Jewish Reception | David Patterson Lectures | Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford |
23 March 2021 | Seminar | Theology Seminar | King’s College London |
5 February 2021 | Inspiration and Imagination | Metaphysics and Poetics Seminar | University of St Andrews |
1 May 2020 | The Imagination in Art and Faith | D Society | Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge |
27-29 April 2020 | Theology in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus | Theology in 20th-Century German Literature (Blockseminar) | University of St Andrews |
16 January 2020 | Seminar | Theology & Ethics Seminar | University of Edinburgh |
23 November 2020 | Providence and Eschatology | AAR Annual Meeting | San Diego |
13-15 Sep 2019 | Eschatological Being | New Trinitarian Ontologies (conference) | University of Cambridge |
9-11 Sep 2019 | The Christian Imagination | University Lecture | Baylor University |
5-8 Sep 2019 | Creation and New Creation in the Inklings (with Malcolm Guite) | DITA10: A Symposium on the Future of Theology and the Arts | Duke University |
17-19 June 2019 | Wrestling with Life: Analytic Theology and Biblical Narratives | Tantur, Jerusalem | |
20-21 May 2019 | Eschatology (lecture series) | Integrative Seminar | Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Dublin |
10-13 March 2019 | Rilke’s Duino Elegies 2 and 7 | Reading Rilke & Eliot Theologically and Philosophically | University of St Andrews |
8 March 2019 | Philosophical Myths of the End | Intellectual Origins of Secularism and Catholic Responses (Roundtable) | Angelicum, Rome |
21-22 Jan 2019 | C.S. Lewis (short course) | Løgumkloster Kursus | Løgumkloster, Denmark |
18 Jan 2019 | Austin Farrer and C.S. Lewis | The Work and Legacy of Austin Farrer (Conference) | Keble College, Oxford |
Earlier speaking engagements can be found in the Speaking Archive.