The McDonald Faith and Global Engagement Distinguished Lecture
RE-IMAGINING THE UNIVERSITY:
CAN HIGHER EDUCATION FOSTER A NEW RENAISSANCE?
Rev. Dr. Michael Lloyd
University of Oxford
Date: 22 May 2025 (Thur)
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Venue: Digital Interactive Lab, 2/F, Main Library, HKU
Abstract
Universities are the Hadron Colliders of ideas – places where ideas are distilled, expressed, critiqued and reformulated. That commitment to critical but attentive listening to other viewpoints has a major contribution to make to a society that is becoming increasingly fragmented along ideological grounds.
To further counteract such fragmentation, Dr. Lloyd will argue that beauty and goodness are necessary concomitants to the pursuit of truth, and that, as well as being colliders of ideas, universities can also be crucibles of art that captures the imagination and minds of our contemporaries. He will outline his vision for fostering a new Renaissance and the role of Christian Scholarship in leading the process.
About the Speaker
Dr. Lloyd has taught theology and doctrine at the University of Oxford, Cambridge University and St Paul’s Theological Centre, London. He has published on a wide range of topics, from Handel’s music to animal spirituality, and is helping spearhead the Renaissance Project at Wycliffe Hall, within Oxford University.
