Upcoming Events
Our community is coming together to celebrate 50 years of co-education through talks, music and worship across the year. Here is what’s coming up this Michaelmas term.
18 October (Dedication Festival): Revd Dr Isabelle Hamley on Ruth
6pm Sunday Choral Evensong, Selwyn College Chapel
Sunday Choral Evensong this year features women preachers, each introducing a woman of faith. Among them are some of the College's ordained alumnae. All are welcome.
25 October: Revd Dr Elizabeth Varley on Hagar
6pm Sunday Choral Evensong, Selwyn College Chapel
Sunday Choral Evensong this year features women preachers, each introducing a woman of faith. Among them are some of the College's ordained alumnae. All are welcome.
1 November: Revd Dr Robin Steinke on Tabitha (Dorcas)
6pm Sunday Choral Evensong, Selwyn College Chapel
Sunday Choral Evensong this year features women preachers, each introducing a woman of faith. Among them are some of the College's ordained alumnae. All are welcome.
8 November (Remembrance Sunday): Alison Rose on Edith Cavell
6pm Sunday Choral Evensong, Selwyn College Chapel
Sunday Choral Evensong this year features women preachers, each introducing a woman of faith. Among them are some of the College's ordained alumnae. All are welcome.
12 November: Dr Kat Arney - The stories we tell about science
6pm Selwyn Book Talks: Women Who Write, Master's Lodge
For our Michaelmas event, Dr Kat Arney (SE 1995), a science writer, broadcaster and author, will be in conversation with Dr Zoe Clarke, Henslow Research Fellow at Selwyn.
Kat is the author of several popular-science books, including Herding Hemingway’s Cats, How to Code a Human and Rebel Cell. The evening will take the form of an informal conversation across her body of work, exploring science writing, genetics, evolution, cancer and the stories we tell about science. Limited tickets available and can be reserved on Eventbrite.
15 November: Revd Hilary Young on Hildegard of Bingen
6pm Sunday Choral Evensong, Selwyn College Chapel
Sunday Choral Evensong this year features women preachers, each introducing a woman of faith. Among them are some of the College's ordained alumnae. All are welcome.
19 November: Beth Russell, Second Permanent Secretary at the Treasury
6pm, In Conversation with the Master, Quarry Whitehouse Auditorium
Beth Russell has been Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury since October 2022, with oversight of tax, spending and regional growth. She also heads the Darlington Economic Campus, home to more than 350 Treasury staff and eight other government departments.
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Beth joined the Treasury in 2000, after starting her career as a welfare policy adviser at the Department of Social Security in 1996. She has held senior roles across tax, welfare and public spending, including Director General of Tax and Welfare, Director of Personal Tax, Welfare and Pensions, Principal Private Secretary to Chancellor George Osborne, and speechwriter for Gordon Brown as Chancellor and Prime Minister.
Booking details will be shared closer to the date.
22 November: Revd Cécile Schnyder on St Cecilia
6pm Sunday Choral Evensong, Selwyn College Chapel
Sunday Choral Evensong this year features women preachers, each introducing a woman of faith. Among them are some of the College's ordained alumnae. All are welcome.
Music
26 November: Shanna Hart on the organ
1.15pm Celebrating 50 Concert Series, Selwyn College Chapel
Shanna (SE 2014) is Director of Music at St Botolph-without-Aldgate, London. Formerly Organ Scholar at Selwyn, Shanna will perform an organ recital. Free to attend, donations appreciated.