Blackfriars Hall is a small, friendly, and welcoming academic community in the heart of Oxford.
We at Blackfriars Hall are extremely proud of the academic successes of all our community,...
Theologian and Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Timothy Radcliffe, was created a Cardinal by Po...
Today the Las Casas Institute is launching six short online videos for use in parishes, Si...
The story of Hamlet is well-known throughout the world, having been popularized through Shakespeare’s play, but it has roots in a medieval Danish work. This talk will focus on a...
Willa Cather’s most famous book Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), based on the true story of two nineteenth-century French missionaries to New Mexico, is regularly listed among the greatest American...
On Monday 3rd March February, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Prof. Michael Hurley, of Trinity College, Cambridge, to speak on The Theological Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ....
This event explores the intersection of transitional justice and the religious imagination in addressing contemporary international challenges. By examining how faith-based narratives influence reconciliation, justice, and societal healing, it unveils...
This online seminar, led by Prof Dean Winslow (Stanford, Blackfriars Hall), will explore the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to the global refugee crisis. In 2021 he  took leave...
In Don Quixote (1605), the unreliable narrator of the first volume names a Moor, Cide Hamete Benengeli, as a source for the story he is about to recount—although he warns readers that...
In this online talk Professor Michael Scott, Blackfriars, will discuss Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. It is...
In this online talk Maureen Corrigan, Georgetown, will discuss F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Professor Michael Scott will chair. This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars...
Blackfriars hosts two active research centres, driving forward research in philosophy, theology and social sciences – and helping to shape the world around us.