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SUMMARY:Poverty and the Pandemic in Oxford
DESCRIPTION:Poverty and the Pandemic in Oxford \nBlackfriars Poverty in Britain Group is holding its next event online\, in partnership with the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice \nWe welcome a panel of speakers to discuss the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on people experiencing poverty in Oxford\, and how the situation has highlighted existing inequalities and made confronting them more urgent. \nRev. Mary Gurr\, who has for many years worked with rough sleepers in Oxford\, and is Chair of Trustees of Oxford Winter Night Shelter \nJabu Nala-Hartley\, Chair of the Oxford Living Wage Campaign \nSarah Flexen\, who runs the Social Prescribing programme at Hedena Health\, a large GP surgery in Headington and Barton \nFor more information about the event\, please click here. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/poverty-and-the-pandemic-in-oxford/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:How is Democracy Doing?
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion series relating to Free Speech \n“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise\,” said the late Winston Churchill in 1947. “Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried . . .” \nJoin the panel as they consider the fundamental question: how is democracy doing? They will discuss surprising successes\, disappointing failures\, persistent issues of self-determination\, and the recent insurrection in Washington intended to overturn the election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. \nThe conversation will be moderated by Professor Michael Scott\, senior dean and Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, and Sanford J. Ungar\, director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. \nFree and open to all. Registration is required. \nParticipants\nJohn Kampfner is an award-winning author\, broadcaster\, and regular contributor to the opinion pages of British and international publications and on broadcast outlets. Previously he was the Financial Times chief political correspondent and political commentator for the BBC’s Today program. The author of six books\, his book Why the Germans Do It Better (2020) was named top of the Guardian’s political books of the year. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. \n\nAmanda Bennett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author\, investigative journalist\, and editor. She was the Voice of America director from March 2016 to April 2020. Previously\, she was Bloomberg News executive editor\, where she ran a global team of investigative reporters and editors. She was also co-founder of Bloomberg News’ Women’s project. She is the 2018 awardee of the Washington Women in Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award and 2019 recipient of the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award. \n\nClarence Page\, winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for commentary\, is a nationally syndicated columnist and editorial board member in the Chicago Tribune’s Washington Bureau. His other honors after four decades of professional journalism include lifetime achievement awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists\, Chicago Headline Club\, National Association of Black Journalists\, and the 2018 Kiplinger award for distinguished contributions to journalism from the National Press Foundation. \nFernando Gómez Herrero is a research fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Birkbeck College\, University of London with interests in Hispanic and Latin American studies. He pursues his academic research in the humanities and the social sciences in combination with writing for several media outlets\, among them the paper La Vanguardia (Barcelona\, Spain). He is currently working on a book The Americas in the Anglozone: Public Conversations 2001-2021. \nSanford J. Ungar (moderator)\, president emeritus of Goucher College\, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University\, which documents challenges to free expression in education\, government\, and civil society in the United States. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton\, he was dean of the American University School of Communication after a distinguished career in journalism. Ungar is a former co-host of All Things Considered on NPR. \nProfessor 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. \n  \nUpcoming event: \n16 Feb\nWomen’s Voices in a Weary World\nPanel includes Baroness Mary Goudie\, House of Lords\, Paula A. Johnson Wellesley College and Nina Sutton\, writer \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/where-is-democracy-working-today/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Christian Literary Imagination Series
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nOver the course of the 2020-2021 academic year\, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars 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. \nThe series features talks by distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic discussing authors or works from Shakespeare to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each speaker aims to examine the term ‘Christian imagination’ through a discussion of a particular writer\, or an aspect of the term. The hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott. \nIn this event Clare Broome Saunders\, Blackfriars Hall\, talks about “Elizabeth Barrett Browning”. \nThis event is free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/elizabeth-barrett-browning-the-christian-literary-imagination-series/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi - Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi\n\n\nOver six weeks the reading group will discuss this too often neglected encyclical. Topics include the nature of specifically Christian hope\, the meaning of death\, and the secularisation and loss of hope in the modern world. \nThe discussion will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. His book Counsels of Imperfections: Thinking Through Catholic Social Teaching was published in the autumn by Catholic University of America Press. He is also a financial journalist who writes regularly for Reuters Breakingviews. \nParticipation in the group is free and open to all. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/pope-benedict-xvis-spe-salvi-reading-group/2021-01-27/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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