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The Institute, in collaboration with Georgetown University, is holding a series of talks on ‘Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark’ as part of The Future of the Humanities Project and The Humanities Initiative. Shakespeare and the Morality Plays: A Formal Heritage - Molly Clark In the mid-sixteenth-century genre of the morality play the interludes featured personified abstract nouns as their characters,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwP3iKFS1k The end of glory: Why contemporary war has few big battles, much devastation and very little justice  - Frank Ledwidge Warfare changes over time, and the philosophers of just war struggle to keep up. Frank Ledwidge, author and military historian, and Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, will help restore the balance with...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLb6hfTUb4 The philosophical case against war: What war looks like after modern war has stripped away the illusions - Edward Hadas Warfare changes over time, and the philosophers of just war struggle to keep up. Frank Ledwidge, author and military historian, and Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, will help restore the balance with...

The Institute, in collaboration with Georgetown University, is holding a series of talks on ‘Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark’ as part of The Future of the Humanities Project and The Humanities Initiative. Putting Religion to the Question: Political Theology in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy and Venetian Plays - John Drakakis The four plays in the Second Tetralogy, and particularly Henry V, raise...