Archived News

01/12/09

Rt Hon Greg Clark MP Sets out Green Agenda

Leading Conservative and Nuffield College Visiting Fellow At Las Casas Institute
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14/11/09

Secretary of State Appoints Las Casas Director To Key Government Role

Francis Davis to advise on faith communities and cohesion
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26/10/09

Equality, cohesion - conflicting rights?

Blackfriars welcomes Runnymede Trust Director
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17/10/09

University Marks Munasinghe's Visit

University Notes Second Nobel laureate To Visit Blackfriars Hall
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17/10/09

University welcomes new Blackfriars members

Matriculation Ceremony 2009
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09/10/09

Blackfriars And The Tablet Front Page

Las Casas Director Writes on the Conservative Conference
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22/09/09

Rt Hon John Denham MP To Give Prestigious Pire Lecture

Secretary of State For Communities And Local Government at Las Casas Institute
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12/09/09

Las Casas Director and Telegraph Religion Editor At key Inter-Faith IPPR Seminar

IPPR /Wyndeham Charlemagne Trust :"Doing God: the role of faith in our political life."
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29/08/09

Nobel Laureate To Launch Lecture Series - Environment, Media,. Ethics, Enterprise

Las Casas Institute to welcome world class line up
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09/08/09

Las Casas Director On Welfare Reform - with Romanian Secretary of State!

International Conference on the "Future of Social Change"
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09/08/09

Hall Offers Public Policy Scholarship in partnership with Helen Suzman Foundation

A year long opportunity for a talented 21-33 year old
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17/07/09

Early Roman liturgy - Two special conferences

Blackfriars is holding two one-day colloquia on the latest research into the liturgy of Early Christian Rome. To be held on November 14th and February 27th, with leading international scholars.
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14/03/09

Hall Fellow Writes for Times

Roger Scruton FBA argues that beauty is our path from desolution
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05/03/09

UK Ambassador To Vietnam To Speak At Hall Event

Hall's Las Casas Institute collaborates with the Vietnam Academic Network
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28/02/09

Head of European Commission Directorate General for Competition to Visit Blackfriars

The Las Casas Institute extends its work on ethics, governance, institutions and the economy
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21/02/09

Timothy Radcliffe OP Featured In The Times

The Times interviews Blackfriars' Timothy Radcliffe OP
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14/02/09

Hall Wins Major Award to Enhance Community Engagement

Las Casas Institute to work with 2000 young people across the UK
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03/02/09

BBC Director General To Speak At Blackfriars Hall

The Las Casas Institute will welcome Mark Thompson to give a keynote address
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29/01/09

Las Casas Institute to Welcome First Ever 'Smith Fellow' From U.S.

Elizabeth Weber, from Providence College, Rhode Island, will begin work with the Institute this summer
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11/01/09

UBS and Stone King Sewell LLP Announce Sponsorship

Blackfriars Hall is delighted to announce that UBS and Stone King Sewell LLP have agreed to sponsor Lord Guthrie's Inaugural George Dominique Pire Lecture and a series of other keynote lectures during 2009.
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29/12/08

International Young Leaders Network Alumnus Appointed Head of Public Policy and Affairs for Dutch Bishops' Conference

Dr Richard Steenvoorde, who attended the colloquia in Cambridge and Romania, will take up the role from 1st March 2009
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18/12/08

Las Casas Events Update

The Las Casas Institute has announced a series of seminars, conferences and lectures for 2009 and 2010
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15/12/08

Times of Christmas liturgies

Full details of services in the Priory church on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
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10/12/08

Faith Cannot be Denied a Voice

Las Casas Institute Director welcomes IPPR report in Guardian, saying "Faith must not be denied a public role"
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03/12/08

"Religion can get us through the slump" says Director in Guardian article

Francis Davis, the director of the Las Casas Institute, has written on the Guardian website on the role of religion in the current economic climate
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01/12/08

Las Casas Institute Featured on University Press News

The University of Oxford press office has profiled the new Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall
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26/11/08

Las Casas Director Writes for Guardian

Francis Davis has inititiated an online debate over Cardinal Murphy O'Connor's criticism of the government's immigration policy.
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02/11/08

New Global IYLN Scholar Starts in Oxford and Parliament

Nathan Koblintz will be working with the Las Casas Institute and in the office of Rt Hon John Battle MP
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20/10/08

University Chancellor delivers 2008 Las Casas Lecture

Photo by Phil Sayer

Ethics and expediency under review
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20/09/08

IYLN in the Holy Land

A colloquium and pilgrimage
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25/08/08

Blackfriars philosopher named British Academy Fellow

Roger Scruton elected to major honour
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15/07/08

Visit to the Sapientia, Budapest

Fr Richard Finn OP

Building links
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09/06/08

IYLN director & scholar launch 'Moral, But No Compass'

Francis Davis and Liz Paulhus today launched a major study on Government, the Church of England, and welfare provision, based on over 300 interviews with Bishops, parliamentarians and community activists across the country. Commissioned by the Church of England the report has been welcomed by MPs of all parties.
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03/06/08

Roger Scruton joins Blackfriars staff

Major philosopher becomes Senior Research Fellow
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30/05/08

Dalai Lama speaks at Blackfriars

His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Blackfriars Colloquium

Contemplative prayer in the Christian and Buddhist traditions.

Also available to listen as an MP3 file. Click "more" below.
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12/05/08

Inaugual John Henry Newman Lecture

Cardinal Kasper prepares to take questions

Cardinal challenges the new atheism
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01/04/08

Prof Charles Taylor accepts Honorary Fellowship

Prize-winning Philosopher becomes our latest Hon. Fellow
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15/02/08

Composer is new Honorary Fellow

James MacMillan with Archbishop Mario Conti

James MacMillan joins Bishops Malcolm MacMahon and Anthony Fisher
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31/01/08

Climate change website launched

Spreading the message
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17/12/07

2007 Las Casas Lecture - Your chance to listen here

Available to listen as an MP3 file. Click "more" below.
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09/12/07

Radio broadcast on climate change colloquium

Chris Rapley, Director of the Science Museum, address the colloquium

Available now on-line
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07/12/07

Research Fellow awarded Visiting Professorships

Philosophy in the Far East
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04/12/07

Presentation of Certificates

Dr Juliette Day presents Philippa O'Malley with her certificate in Catholic Theology

Recent leavers return
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26/11/07

Journeying with the Migrant

left to right above: Francis Davis (IYLN); Cardinal Sean Brady; Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto (Nuncio to Ireland) and Sr Joan Broddy (Irish Bishops Conference Refugee Project)

ILYN Director addresses Irish Bishops' Special Conference
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23/11/07

Responding to Climate Change

Dr Michael Oborne with Oxford Lord Mayor, John Tanner

Virtues, offsets, and politics
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01/11/07

Promoting debate

Dr Will Derkse, Director of the Soeterbeeck Programme

Regent visits the Soeterbeeck Programme at Radbout University, Nijmegen
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22/10/07

Scholarship for studies in Catholic Theology

Bursary from the Catholic Women's League
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16/07/07

IPS Summer School

Participants with Prof. John Haldane in the Blackfriars Aula

Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences
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03/07/07

Summer works

A Priory without kitchen or bathrooms...
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29/06/07

Vice-Regent announced

Fr Richard Conrad OP returns to Oxford
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20/06/07

Visit by Polish Regent of Studies

Strengthening Links between Provinces
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18/06/07

New Angelicum - Blackfriars link for lay students

Visit by Fr Robert Christian OP
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17/06/07

Fr Timothy Preaches University Sermon

Remembering Benefactors
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15/06/07

End of Year Garden Party

Strawberries, sunshine and storms...
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12/06/07

Visit from Dr George Mangiero

Links with Iona
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06/06/07

Boat Trip

JCR sails down the Thames
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03/06/07

The Regent visits Philadelphia

The Liberty Bell

Celebrating St Philip Neri & Making New Contacts at Villanova
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16/05/07

Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP wins literary award

Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing
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14/05/07

The Ethics of Climate Change

Blackfriars to host important colloquium on Climate Change
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09/05/07

Exploring new links

Visit by Prof Paul Chow and Fr David Jaeger
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09/05/07

New pamphlets of Blackfriars lectures

Spreading the word
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10/04/07

Student Cross 2007

Blackfriars' pilgrims return
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26/03/07

Visit by Christine Bowers

Fairfield Study Abroad
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20/03/07

Visit by Fr Marcio Couto OP

The International apostolate
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08/02/07

IYLN Partner Launches Migration & Itinerant Peoples Unit

Responding to urgent need
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21/01/07

Disability Equality Scheme

Meeting our duties
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14/01/07

Fr Aidan Nichols OP appointed Vice Regent

From the Cam to the Isis
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11/01/07

Visiting Fellow

Welcoming Dr Michael Oborne
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12/12/06

First Blackfriars reading party

Jessica, Phillipa, Alice, Sean, Br Greg, and Fr Ben at the top of Hampsfell

Books, walks, and carols
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06/12/06

Godzdogz

Dominican students launch blog site
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01/12/06

Bishop Anthony Fisher OP elected to Honorary Fellowship

Bishop Anthony with students Br Robert Gay, Phillipa O'Malley, and Alice Barrington Barnes

Visit to Oxford
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30/11/06

New Book on Victor White OP

Blackfriars' alumna, Dr Clodagh Weldon, publishes major new study of English Dominican theologian
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27/11/06

New Prior

Fr Simon Gaine elected Prior.
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22/10/06

Graduation

New gowns for old
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22/10/06

JCR Elections

New JCR President
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22/09/06

New Hall Bursar

Home from Rome
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22/09/06

Leadership project launched

Speakers, Professor Francis Antonie and Rt Hon Stephen Timms; Dr Andrew Bradstock; IYLN organizer Francis Davis; and participants Tessa Roche-Sanders and Emma Mason

From punts to parliament
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02/09/06

New facilities for Visiting Students

More food for thought
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03/06/06

Postgraduate lunches

Food for thought
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22/03/06

International Young Leaders Network

A new opportunity for young people
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02/11/05

Las Casas Lecture 2005

Over one hundred and fifty people listened to the famous liberation theologian, Fr Gustavo Gutierrez OP, give the 2005 Las Casas lecture.
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