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Professor David Nash – Blasphemy: A Short (and surprising) History
13th November 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
David Nash is Professor and Senior Research Fellow in History at Jesus College Oxford. He is an internationally acknowledged expert of the subject and has researched published and spoken about blasphemy and its history for nearly forty years. He is the author of three books and countless articles and chapters on this subject as well as a number of other monographs. He has given advice to the Australian, British and Irish governments on the subject of blasphemy as well as the European Parliament and European Commission.