Forthcoming events...

Renewing the European Catholic Social Conscience - Evidence And Inspiration - Las Casas Institute International Conference - Oxford

Chair of the Conference: Rt Rev William Kenney CP, Bishop For Europe

Confirmed Speakers and Panel Chairs Include: Lesley Ann Knight (Secretary General, Caritas Internationalis); Professor Mary Jo Bane (Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard); Professor Margaret Archer (Warwick); Professor Grace Davie (University of Exeter); Timothy Radcliffe OP, Professor David Robertson (Vice Principal St Hugh's College, Oxford and Professor of Politics); Rt Rev Malcolm Mcmahon OP; Professor Wim van De Donk (Chair Dutch Scientific Policy Institute); Professor Johan Van Der Straeten (Theology, University of Leuven); professor Robert Davis (University of Glasgow); Franz Karl Preuller (Director, Erste Stiftung, Vienna); Professor Christopher McCrudden (Professor of Law, University of Oxford); Stefan Wallner (Director, Caritas Austria); Professor Bernard Laurent (EM Lyons Business School); Rt Rev Patrick Lynch SSCC; Dr Julie Clague (Glasgow), Dr Vincent Rougeau (Univ of Notre Dame); Dr Sean Healy CORI Justice, Irealand), Eoigin O Mahoney (Irish catholic Bishops' Conference), Sr Madeleine Fredell OP (Sweden)

Further details will be posted here when they become available.

Leadership Colloquium For Catholic Heads - Oxford

A two day special colloquium for Heads, Deputy Heads and Heads to be focused on issues of leadership, faith and social concern. A chance to reflect, be inspired, and gain new insights and skills. Speakers include Professor Mary Jo Bane( Harvard, Kennedy School of Government); Abbot Christopher Jamison OSB, Timothy Radcliffe OP, Professor Robert A Davis (Glasgow University) and Helen McElhinney (Blackfriars)

Part of the Las Casas institute's Leadership In Society Programme

Book early at lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk

Professor Mona Siddiqui - Islamic Studies And Public Understanding - Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall

The leading Glasgow University academic and Radio 4 contributor will speak at teh Las Casas Institute

Events from the past year...

Third Sector Challenges - Values in Europe - Southampton

Organised jointly with the SCA Institute for Social Enterprise and the University of Southampton this seminar includes papers from Dr Sean Healy (Director of CORI Justice in Ireland and a leading Irish social comentator) and Dr Richard Steenvoorde (Head of Policy Dutch catholic Bishops' Conference)

This event forms part of our "Renewing the Social Conscience " Festival and our South of England Programme

Rev Professor Lazlo Lukacs - "Communism -20 Years On" - Wigan, Lancashire

Rev Professor Lazlo Lukacs is a leading Hungarian clergyman, former member of the Pontifical Council on Social Communications and a vital influence on the drafting of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference Letters and Statement on the Common Good. In a lecture to an ecumenical audience Professor Lukacs, the founding Director of the Sapientia Institute in Budapest, will reflect on Christian social teaching for our time.

This event forms part of our "Renewing The Social Conscience" Festival and is organised jointly with the Epiphany Trust.

Human Flourishing through the Eyes of Faith and Reason - Blackfriars, Oxford

Against a contemporary background of fragmented, partial, and competing discourses on the good life, this one-day colloquium on what makes for human well-being brings together experts from different perspectives, medical, psychological, philosophical, and theological, and also the perspective of business and markets. What light do different disciplines shed on each other? Speakers include: Prof Neil Scolding (Bristol), Prof Mark Williams (Oxford), Prof Roger Scruton (Blackfriars), Revd Dr Vivian Boland OP (Blackfriars), Prof John Cottingham (Reading and Heythrop) and Dr Craig Titus (Freiburg and IPS).

Attendance is by invitation only. To request an invitation, please email the Regent - regent@bfriars.ox.ac.uk

Hermeneutical Wisdom in Thomas Aquinas's Literal Exposition of the Book of Job - Blackfriars, Oxford

A special lecture organised by the Aquinas Institute, to be given by Professor Michael Legaspi, Assistant Professor of Theology at Creighton University, Omaha and Visiting Research Scholar at the Aquinas Institute.

Fifth Annual Aquinas Colloquium - Blackfriars, Oxford

Body, Soul and Mind: Aquinas and Modern Developments in Biotechnology and Neuroscience

The colloquium will focus on Aquinas' distinctive account of body and soul, considering the questions posed for it by modern scientific developments and exploring how it might continue to provide resources for a contemporary philosophical and theological anthropology.

'The Soul and Its Inclinations: A Systems Perspective' (Nicanor Austriaco OP, biologist and theologian); 'Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and the Neuroethics of Flourishing: Contemporary Perspectives on Beatitudo' (James Giordano, philosopher); 'Neurological Criteria for Death: The Need for Metaphysics' (David Albert Jones, bioethicist); 'Against Neurononsense' (Roger Scruton, philosopher)

For further information contact Dr Vivian Boland OP, Director of the Aquinas Institute, at 01865 278407 or vivian.boland@english.op.org

The Aquinas Lecture 2010: 'Aquinas, Thomists and the Problem of Paganism' - Blackfriars, Oxford

The 2010 Aquinas Lecture will be given by Dr John Marenbon. Dr Marenbon is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the author of many books on medieval thought, most recently Medieval Philosophy: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction (2007).

Thought for Food - Blackfriars, Oxford

A one-day colloquium looking at the ethical, sociological, and theological questions around food and drink in today's world. Speakers include Fr Angel Mendez OP, author of The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist; Prof Elizabeth Dowler, (Reader in Food and Social Policy at the University of Warwick); Alison Gelder (Director of Housing Justice); Julian Caldecott, (ecologist); Mr Alexander Murray (Oxford University); Dr Mark Spalding (The Nature Conservancy); Mr Joe Collingborn (Wiltshire farmer); and Sr Margaret Atkins OSA. The day will be introduced by Fr Richard Finn OP, Regent of Blackfriars, and chaired by the Rt Hon John Battle MP. Blackfriars, and the Las Casas Institute, are grateful to the Tablet and the Pastoral Review, and the Midshires Co-op for their generous support of this event. A buffet lunch will be served. Those interested in attending this event are asked to email lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk for details of registration and for an invitation.

Rt Hon John Denham MP - The Annual George Pire Lecture -Las Casas Institute - Blackfriars, Oxford

The Secretary of State For Communities And Local Government will give this year's Pire Lecture given last year by Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank.

Faith, Social Cohesion and The Nation - Las Casas Institute Parliamentary Seminar - Houses of Parliament

Chaired by Rt Rev Kieran Conry (Bishop of Arundel and Brighton) this seminar's speakers include Rt Hon John Battle MP (Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty) and Professor Michael Kenney (Sheffield University and IPPR)

More details lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk

'A Peace of Faith: Nicholas of Cusa, Ramon Llull and Interreligious Dialogue' - Blackfriars, Oxford

This is a special lecture, under the auspices of the Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars. Finding his starting point in an enigmatic 15th century painting that seems to show Jesus, Moses and Mohammed in conversation, Dr Andrew Thomas Kania will argue that the painting is indebted to writings of Ramon Llull and Nicholas of Cusa on interreligious dialogue. You can read some of this lecture at the following web address:

 
http://www.catholica.com.au/andrewstake2/139_ak_151209.php 

Rt Hon Greg Clark MP - Shadow Secretary of State For Energy and Climate Change - Las Casas Institute - Blackfriars Hall

A Leading Conservative frontbencher to round off "Ethics, Environment , Media And Enterprise" Lecture Series.

BBC Director General At Las Casas Institute - Blackfriars Hall

The Las Casas Institute is delighted that Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, will give a keynote address as part of our "Environment, Media, Ethics And Enterprise" lecture series.

For further infromation as it becomes available email lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk

Early Roman Liturgy - Blackfriars, Oxford

This is the first part of a two-part conference presenting fresh research on Christian liturgy in Early Rome (the second part of which will be held in February 2010). Confirmed speakers for this first part are: Prof Paul Bradshaw (Notre Dame); Dr Maura Lafferty (Tennessee-Knoxville); Prof Olof Brandt (Pontifical Inst for Christian Archaeology); Prof Thomas O'Loughlin (Nottingham); Dr Thomas Whelan (Milltown). Confirmed speakers for the 2nd part (to be held on February 27th) include Dr Juliette Day (Blackfriars), Prof. Christoph Markschies (Berlin), Prof. Mark Humphries (Swansea), and Prof. Robin Jensen (Vanderbuilt). Click below for details of papers, registration fees, and how to book.

Michael Tate - Former Head of the Australian Legal System and Diplomat at The Hague- Parliamentary Seminar - Houses of Parliament

Entrance by tickets which are free from - lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk

MIchael Tate is a Catholic Priest. He was formerly Federal Minister For Justice in the Australian cabinet and the Australian Ambassador to The Hague and The Holy See.

Special Lecture by Prof Edmund Pellegrino: 'Academic Bio-ethics in the Post-Secular Age' - Blackfriars, Oxford

Blackfriars is delighted to welcome Prof. Pellegrino who is the Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Georgetown University, and the former Chairman of the U.S. President's Council for Bioethics. This special lecture on bioethics is sponsored jointly by Blackfriars with the Institute for the Psychological Science, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and the Linacre Centre.

Equality and the limits of cohesion - Blackfriars, Oxford

The Director of the Runnymede Trust, Robert Berkeley, addresses questions in a Las Casas seminar on rights and social cohesion. All welcome

Professor Mohan Munasinghe - Nobel Laureate-Las Casas Institute - Blackfriars , Oxford

Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and Nobel Laureate

Leading Muslim-Israeli-Palestinian Speaks At Las Casas Institute Parliamentary Seminar - Houses of Parliament

Dr Ayman K. Agbaria: A Muslim Palestinian-Israeli poet and playwright.

Las Casas Director and Peterborough CEO-The Changing Face of Britian - Peterborough

A day conference on faith, the civic realm and our society.

Private Initiative:Governmental Provision-What Future For Social Change? - Bucharest-Athenee Hilton Hotel

The Las Casas Institute Director is an invited speaker at a major international conference organised by the Vienna Institute for Economic Studies and Erste Foundation on "The Future of Social Change".

Marking the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and acting as a major regional conference focused on social reform and innovation, the conference will bring together senior figures from the public, private and voluntary sectors across central and SE Europe.

Ambassador to the Holy See to address Las Casas Institute - Oxford

In a joint event with the Oxford University Newman Society, His Excellency Ambassador Francis Campbell, the British Ambassador to the Holy See in Rome will be addressing the Las Casas Institute. The former Foreign Office Minister Rt Hon John Battle MP will chair the lecture.

2009 Assunta Kirwan Lecture - Blackfriars, Oxford

The 2009 Assunta Kirwan lecture on biblical justice will be delivered by Prof Celia Deane-Drummond from the University of Chester. Prof Deane-Drummond holds doctorates in Plant Physiology and Theology. She is a specialist in the theology of ecology and the relationship of science to religion. The Assunta Kirwan lecture is open to the public. It will be followed by a buffet lunch. To register for the lunch (donation: £5) please email the Hall secretary: secretary@bfriars.ox.ac.uk.

House of Lords Reception for National Catholic Student Leaders - Westminster

Lord Brennan and the Prior of Blackfriars will host a joint Catholic Union/Blackfriars reception for Catholic student leaders across the UK in Westminster

For further information email lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk

UK Ambassador To Vietnam Speaks at Hall event - Oxford

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