'The Mandate of Heaven: Asia's Ascendancy, the economic and cultural consequences' Las Casas Lecture. Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint For more information contact Las Casas Institute: lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk  

With a keynote address by Dr. Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University Garden Quad Auditorium, St. John’s College, Oxford. This is the first conference of the Future of the Humanities Project currently being developed by Georgetown University, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars, Oxford. Under the leadership of Prof. Michael Scott, the project...

Pia Joliffe, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall and involved in our Las Casas Institute, has published a new book, Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan. The Colonization of Hokkaido, 1881-1894 (Routledge) It will be launched on Wednesday 14th November, at 4pm at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, St Antony's College. All are welcome. No booking necessary. Prisons...

Alison Phipps, UNESCO Chair: Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts With Gameli Tordzro, Naa Densua Tordzro and Tawona Sitholé Refugee integration is a concern across the western world. How to ensure cohesive societies, how to develop policies, which will allay fears, how to set limits or erase limits around who or who may not...