Confirmed speakers so far include:
- Ward Blanton (University of Kent) author of
A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life (Columbia University Press, 2014) and an introduction to Pasolini, St Paul: A Screenplay (Verso, 2014)
- James Crossley (University of Sheffield), author of
Jesus in an Age of Terror (Routledge, 2008) and Harnessing Chaos: The Bible in English Political Discourse since 1968 (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2014)
- Eliza Fliby (King’s College London/GradTrain),
author of God and Mrs Thatcher: The Battle for Britain’s Soul (Biteback, 2015). She is also a regular contributor to discussions of Thatcher and religion on radio and in the press
- Justin Meggitt (University of Cambridge), author of
Paul, Poverty and Survival (T&T Clark, 1997) and Early Quakers and Islam: Slavery, Apocalyptic and Christian-Muslim Encounters in the Seventeenth Century (Swedish Science Press, 2013)
- Craig Martin (St Thomas Aquinas College, New York),
author of Masking Hegemony: A Genealogy of Liberalism, Religion and the Private Sphere (Routledge, 2010) and Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie (Bloomsbury, 2014)
- Yvonne Sherwood (University of Kent), author of
A Biblical Text and its Afterlives. The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture (CUP, 2001) and Biblical Blaspheming: Trials of the Sacred for a Secular Age (CUP, 2012)
God, Religion and Politics: Election 2015 