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SUMMARY:Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark – talk series
DESCRIPTION: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. \nShakespeare and the Morality Plays: A Formal Heritage\n– Molly Clark\nIn the mid-sixteenth-century genre of the morality play the interludes featured personified abstract nouns as their characters\, divided into good and evil. These productions would have toured the country\, teaching Protestant morality to the general population. These plays use verse form in a striking way: frequently in these dramas\, good characters speak in one rhyme scheme\, and bad in another. Verse form was therefore a way of signalling to the audience which characters were the elect and which the damned. \nPoet and doctoral student Molly Clark will examine these conventions and the ways in which they are manipulated before turning to Shakespeare\, who grew up with morality plays and imbibed their dramaturgy. The discussion\, moderated by Professor Michael Scott\, will end by considering the ways in which Shakespeare himself plays with the idea of verse form as moral indicator. \nMolly Clark is in the second year of a doctor of philosophy degree at Merton College\, Oxford\, researching rhyme in Shakespeare’s theatre. Her article on this subject appears in Oxford Research in English (Issue 7\, Autumn 2018)\, and she has an article on rhyme in mid-sixteenth-century drama forthcoming in Studies in Philology. She also publishes poetry under her full name\, Mary Anne Clark\, and she won the Newdigate Prize in 2016. \nProfessor Michael Scott is Senior Dean\, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, 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. \nThis event is free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. Please register here.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/christian-shakespeare-question-mark-talk-series-8/
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SUMMARY:Just War
DESCRIPTION:The end of glory: Why contemporary war has few big battles\, much devastation and very little justice  – Frank Ledwidge\nWarfare 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 two lectures on 3rd June and 10th June 2020 at 6pm. The first deals with the decreasing ability to win conventional military conflicts and military forces’ increasing reliance on destroying the lives and livelihoods of non-combatants. The second lecture argues for a philosophical reevaluation of war\, since these trends sharply reduce the possibility of justice in warfare. \nFrank Ledwidge is a barrister and senior lecturer in Strategy and Law at Portsmouth University. Frank also served for several years as a military intelligence officer on operations in recent conflicts.  He is the author of ‘Losing Small Wars’ (Yale 2017) and ‘Aerial Warfare’ (OUP 2020). \nThe event is free and open to all. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/just-war/
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SUMMARY:Just War
DESCRIPTION:The philosophical case against war: What war looks like after modern war has stripped away the illusions – Edward Hadas\nWarfare 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 two lectures on 3rd June and 10th June 2020 at 6pm. The first deals with the decreasing ability to win conventional military conflicts and military forces’ increasing reliance on destroying the lives and livelihoods of non-combatants. The second lecture argues for a philosophical reevaluation of war\, since these trends sharply reduce the possibility of justice in warfare. \nEdward Hadas is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. His book Counsels of Imperfections: Thinking Through Catholic Social Teaching will be published in the autumn by Catholic University of America Press. He is also a financial journalist who writes regularly for Reuters Breakingviews. \nThe event is free and open to all. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/just-war-2/
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SUMMARY:Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark – talk series
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nPutting Religion to the Question: Political Theology in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy and Venetian Plays\n– John Drakakis\nThe four plays in the Second Tetralogy\, and particularly Henry V\, raise different kinds of questions resulting from the clash of a spiritually and metaphysically assumed sovereign order with the practical realities of politics. The theology often invoked to sustain order is a political theology whose fissures and contradictions were beginning to emerge at the end of the sixteenth century. At the same time\, nationalist questions concerning strangers and alternative forms of political organization were also beginning to surface in the distinction between England’s monarchical republic and other republics such as Venice. Economic and political organization become areas of tension as late Elizabethan and early Jacobean cultures are forced to confront emergent forces while deploying discourses that were backward-looking. The Merchant of Venice and Othello are closely aligned in their exploration of necessary but marginalized commercial practices and of the vexed question of the outsider in a republic that was famed for its welcoming of strangers. \nIn all these cases\, religion provides a discourse whose contradictions were beginning to emerge\, and which Shakespeare’s theatre explored. John Drakakis\, emeritus professor of English at the University of Stirling\, in conversation with Professor Michael Scott\, will examine how much of the discussion of religion in the Shakespeare canon has revolved around the dramatist’s own personal affiliations\, and in particular whether Shakespeare espoused Catholic or Protestant views. \n\n  \nJohn Drakakis is emeritus professor of English at the University of Stirling and has held an honorary professorship at the University of Lincoln. He is an honorary fellow of Wrexham  Glyndwr university and the British Shakespeare Association\, as well as a fellow of the English Association and a member of the Academia Europaea. He has published widely in the area of Shakespeare studies\, and contributed a number of book chapters and journal articles. Drakakis is the editor of the Arden 3 edition of The Merchant of Venice and Alternative Shakespeares\, the general editor of the Routledge New Critical Idiom series\, and the general and contributing editor to the revision of The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. Presently\, he is completing a book on Shakespeare’s Resources. \nProfessor Michael Scott is Senior Dean\, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, 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. \nThis event is free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. Please register here.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/christian-shakespeare-question-mark-talk-series-9/
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