The Reverend Canon Dr Nicholas Sagovsky will preach the University Sermon in Great St Mary's, the University Church, at 11.15 a.m. on Sunday, 20 October.

Dr Sagovsky, former Fellow and Dean of Clare College, is also a member of St Edmund's College and of Clare Hall, and holds professorial posts at Liverpool Hope and Roehampton Universities. A Canon Emeritus and formerly Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey, he was briefly a curate in Cambridge at the University Church in 1981-82. The author of  various articles and books on social justice, his most recent is Christian Tradition and the Practice of Justice (SPCK 2008).

Nicholas Sagovsky is a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, a Vice-President of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Co-Chair of the London Society of Jews and Christians. A member of the Council of Management of CARA, he was co-founder of Article 26, a project to enable those granted asylum to study at a university in the UK, which has since been adopted by the Helena Kennedy Foundation.

CARA, the Council For Assisting Refugee Academics, was created in 1933 by William Beveridge, A.V.Hill, Lord Rutherford, Sir William Bragg and others to rescue scholars driven from Germany. Helping academics and their families and rebuilding academic leadership in countries like Zimbabwe, Syria or Iraq continues to this day and Cambridge still plays an important part.

All are welcome and there will be a wine-reception in Michaelhouse afterwards for those present.

Members of the University attending should wear their gowns.

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