Templeton Prize Winner to deliver the annual Von Hügel Lecture
We are delighted to announce that Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, recipient of the 2024 Templeton Prize, will deliver the annual Von Hügel Lecture at St Edmund’s College at 5.30pm on 12 May 2026.
Additional details will be shared in the months ahead.
Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is the Director of the Centre for the study of the After of Violence and the Reparative Quest, and the South African National Research Chair (SARChI) in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma at Stellenbosch University. Her work focuses on trauma studies and the psychoanalytic interpretation of remorse and forgiveness. She holds a B-rating from the National Research Foundation and is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and an honorary member of the South African Psychoanalytic Association. Her recent honours include The Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (2021), a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (2020-2021), and honorary doctorates from Rhodes University and Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. Since 2017, she has been a Research Associate and Global Scholar at Queen’s University, Belfast.
About the Von Hügel Lecture: St Edmund’s College unique founding remains one of its defining characteristics. Following the repeal of the Universities Tests Act 1871, Catholic anthropologist Baron Anatole von Hügel worked tirelessly to found St Edmund’s College. His commitment to researching the universal in and through the particular continues to animate the work of the Von Hügel Institute. The Institute brings to bear the resources of Catholic thought and culture on contemporary challenges. It promotes mutual enrichment between the secular academy and the Catholic traditions of theology, philosophy, ethics, arts and sciences, and the annual Von Hügel Lecture showcases the best of this interdisciplinary thinking. Previous speakers include the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir James MacMillan CBE, Professor Mary McAleese, Professor Gustavo Gutierrez, Cardinal Luis Tagle, and Br Guy Consolmagno, SJ.