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Last week we were delighted to welcome the Master of the Order, fr Gerard Timoner, who was...
We welcome the new intake of students to Blackfriars Hall. Twenty students matriculated in...
The Old English poem Beowulf, dating from the late seventh or early eighth century, offers a textual encounter with the dynamic culture of early medieval England. Highlighting the theology of the...
One of the world’s foremost composers, and Fellow of Blackfriars Hall Oxford, will speak at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre on Monday, 28 October 5pm – 6:30pm In the third Oakeshott (formerly...
Book launch for Dr Hugo Slim's Humanitarianism 2.0: New Ethics for the Climate Emergency. Registration is required to attend this event. This book spells out a new framework for humanitarian...
The Angelicum Thomistic Institute Project for Science and Religion along with the Aquinas Institute is holding a day long book symposium on Mariusz Tabaczek's new book, Theistic Evolution. A Contemporary...
The Book of Mormon is considered to be scripture by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, the use of The Book of Mormon in actual...
On Monday 4th November, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Dr Robert McNamara, of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, to speak on Thomistic Personalism: A Steinian Perspective. The lecture...
Join us for an engaging online academic discussion exploring the literary imagination of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. The speakers — Dr Michael Ward and Dr Eduardo Gutiérrez González...
Virginia Woolf famously called George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-1872) "one of the few English novels written for grownup people." One of the aspects of the novel that makes it "grownup" is...
In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much...
The Las Casas Institute is launching six short online videos for use in parishes, Sixth-Forms, and University Chaplaincies. Dr Roderick Howlett looks at: (1) What it means to be human;...
In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much...
Las Casas Institute Online Seminar Registration Required via Zoom Presenting: Dr Carlos Espaliú Berdud, Full Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, University of Fernando 3, CEU, Seville, Spain....
Blackfriars hosts two active research centres, driving forward research in philosophy, theology and social sciences – and helping to shape the world around us.