Chaucer’s God? – Christian Literary Imagination series

The Christian Literary Imagination Series

Continuing from the previous academic year, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall and Campion Hall, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society.

The hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University.

This event:

26^th October
Professor John Hirsh – Chaucer’s God?

Professor Hirsh’s talk, “Chaucer’s God?,” will focus on two of Chaucer’s four religious tales, the Man of Law’s Tale and the Clerk’s Tale, and will set their narratives against a specific reading of an understanding of the Nature of God, as it was understood in the fourteenth-century schools, that is reflected in Chaucer’s tales.

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Professor John Hirsh is a longtime student of Chaucer, medieval lyrics, and medieval literature in general. At Georgetown he has also been invested in urban literacy, and in Golden Rule, formerly Sursum Corda, a tutoring program for undergraduate students.

Professor Michael Scott (moderator) is Senior Dean, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, the University of Oxford college adviser for postgraduate students, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University.

 

Upcoming events:

16^th November
John Pfordresher – Imagining Christianity: Robert Browning’s Christmas Eve and Easter Day

23^rd November
Charles Tung – HG Wells and the Apocalypse

9^th December
Julia Lamm – Julian of Norwich

 

Hilary Term

18^th January
Barbara Mujica – Teresa d’ Avila

1^st February
Mark Bosco – Graham Greene

15^th February
Hester Jones – TBC

1^st March
Mike Collins – Two Welsh Poets: R S Thomas and John Ormond

15^th March
Bridget Keegan – Jane Barker + Elizabeth Inchbald: Overt and Covert Catholicism

 

Contact:
Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University
lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk