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SUMMARY:Religious Peacebuilding Amidst Political Polarization: A U.S.-Northern Ireland Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Religious actors in the United States and Northern Ireland each face ongoing challenges of conflict and violence tied to political polarization. While the two cases present distinct dynamics and call for distinct responses\, what lessons might be learned about how religion can be a force for peace\, justice and reconciliation in deeply-polarized societies? \nSponsors:\nLas Casas Institute for Social Justice\, Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford\nPeace Studies Department\, College of St Benedict and St John’s University\nCatholic Peacebuilding Network\nKroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies\, Keough School of Global Affairs\, University of Notre Dame \nParticipants:\nMaria Power\, Fellow\, Las Casas Institute for Social Justice\, Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford\nRev Dr John Dunlop\, Former Moderator\, Presbyterian Church in Ireland\nJohn Carr\, Co-director\, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life\, Georgetown University\nElizabeth Hume\, Acting President\, Alliance for Peacebuilding \nModerator: Gerard Powers \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/religious-peacebuilding-amidst-political-polarization-a-u-s-northern-ireland-dialogue/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Charles Taylor's A Secular Age
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWe will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal changes in how we live and think? How did the desire for more religious fervour end up bringing religious disbelief? How does life change when God is more or less absent? \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College\n \nThe group is online. No previous knowledge of anything is required or recommended. \nFree and open for all.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/charles-taylors-a-secular-age/2021-11-03/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211105T160000
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SUMMARY:Plato and Xunzi on the Construction of the Ideal State: a meeting of distant minds
DESCRIPTION:China and the West: Cultural Dialogues Series \nOver the course of the 2021-2022 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 and The Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU). \n  \nFriday 5th November \nPlato and Xunzi on the Construction of the Ideal State: a meeting of distant minds \nXunzi (“Master Xun”) lived in the latter part of the aptly named Warring States period (ca. 312– 221 BCE). While the details of his life are hazy\, it has been suggested that he followed the example of Confucius (Kongzi)\, whose teachings he professed to endorse\, in travelling between states in the hope of securing high office and implementing his plans for the restoration of “order\,” as set out in Xunzi\, the book that bears his name. \nIn this webinar\, Terry Peach will argue that the book contains a coherent and connected body of economic thought and analysis\, notably an analysis of the pathology of unrestrained economic (gain-seeking) behavior and a detailed model of economic planning that together constitute what Peach terms the “economics of totalitarianism.” He will also suggest that there are striking similarities with the economics in Plato’s Republic\, notwithstanding certain differences that reflect intellectual and cultural legacies. Xunzi and Plato bequeathed remarkably similar economic systems that addressed similar problems and were informed by similar values. The presentation is based on a chapter in European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance (Routledge\, forthcoming; eds. Amelung and Schefold). \nFeatured\nTerry Peach is a historian of political economy. He studied at Oxford University\, where he obtained the degrees of B.A.\, B.Phil.\, and D.Phil.\, and currently holds the positions of professor of economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; honorary senior research fellow at the University of Manchester\, United Kingdom; and chair (president) of the U.K. History of Economic Thought Society. He has published books\, articles\, and editions on Adam Smith\, David Ricardo\, classical economics more generally\, W.S. Jevons\, and\, more recently\, the history of ancient Chinese political economy. His publications include Interpreting Ricardo (1993\, 2009)\, David Ricardo: Critical Responses\, vols. i-iv (2003)\, The History of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought (2014)\, and The Political Economy of the Han Dynasty and its Legacy (2019)\, the last two co-edited with Cheng Lin and Wang Fang.  An edition on economic thought in post-1949 China is in progress. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is Fellow and Senior Dean at Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. He is also senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University and leads the Future of the Humanities Project. He has previously served as pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University\, Leicester\, and was the founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. His books include studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries and in twentieth century theatre. He has been a fellow and visiting professor at two Chinese universities and published a book on King Arthur with the Foreign Research and Teaching Press in Beijing. \n  \nUpcoming event\nFriday 3rd December \nShakespeare and the Sinophone World \nTalk followed by discussion. Participants: Alexa Alice Joubin and Tong Ping \nModerator: Michael Scott \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/plato-and-xunzi-on-the-construction-of-the-ideal-state-a-meeting-of-distant-minds/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211109T140000
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SUMMARY:Dignity in the Islamic Tradition - Divinity
DESCRIPTION:Dr Aaron Spevack (Brandeis University) will speak on the theme of ‘Divinity’ in the first in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series. \nThis four-part seminar series has been developed by the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice\, Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford\, together with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, and aims to explore concepts that are the cornerstone to a discussion of human dignity in the Islamic tradition: God\, creation\, the human being\, and society. \nEach seminar will be delivered on Tuesdays from 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and will be concurrently broadcast live on Zoom. Each 45-minute paper will be followed by a 45-minute discussion led by invited respondents. \nWe hope these discussions will lead to another series of seminars\, focused on how these understandings may inform questions ranging from human rights to the environment. This programme follows on from a similar Las Casas Institute series held on ‘Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition’\, the proceedings of which were edited by Professor John Loughlin and published in 2019 by Bloomsbury. \nIf you are based in Oxford we look forward to seeing you at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. For non-local audiences please register to receive your Zoom link. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dignity-in-the-islamic-tradition/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Charles Taylor's A Secular Age
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWe will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal changes in how we live and think? How did the desire for more religious fervour end up bringing religious disbelief? How does life change when God is more or less absent? \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College\n \nThe group is online. No previous knowledge of anything is required or recommended. \nFree and open for all.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/charles-taylors-a-secular-age/2021-11-10/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211115T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152956
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SUMMARY:Truth and the Rise of Popular Lies
DESCRIPTION:Truth and the Rise of Popular Lies\nPart of the ‘Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogue‘ series \nThe situation was already grave in many developing countries and those ruled by authoritarian leaders\, but now western democracies have found truth being undermined and popular lies often taking its place\, especially in the digital world. The impact on politics\, journalism\, and scholarly endeavors has been chaotic and catastrophic. How will we dig out of this abyss\, banish false equivalencies\, and restore faith in reliable facts? \nPanelists this month include an award-winning correspondent from the New York Times\, former and current UK politicians\, and a senior fellow emeritus at the Brookings Institution who served Presidents Eisenhower\, Nixon\, Ford\, and Carter. \n\nFeatured: \nJohn Battle is a British Labor party politician who served in Parliament for Leeds West from 1987-2010. He now chairs the Justice and Peace Commission of the Diocese of Leeds. Battle served as Minister of State for Trade and Industry from 1997-1999\, as well as Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1999-2001. He is a Fellow at Leeds Trinity University and Blackfriars Hall\, the University of Oxford\, \nErica L. Green is an award-winning correspondent in the Washington bureau of The New York Times\, covering federal education policy with a focus on civil rights and educational equity. She has also authored several investigations into issues of educational inequity across the United States. Green earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and political science from Goucher College\, and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. \nStephen H. Hess is a senior fellow emeritus at the Brookings Institution in Washington\, DC. He served on the White House staff of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon\, and was also an adviser to Presidents Ford and Carter. His books include Organizing the Presidency\, The Government/Press Connection\, The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette\, What Do We Do Now?\, and Bit Player\, My Life with Presidents and Ideas. \nBaroness Jenny Randerson has been a member of the House of Lords since 2012 and is now a Liberal Democratic Party spokesperson there for Transport. She has served as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales and a Lords’ Minister for Northern Ireland. She has also been a Welsh Assembly member for Cardiff Central\, including Minister for Culture\, Sport\, and the Welsh Language\, and a year as acting deputy First Minister. \nMichael 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 of Georgetown University. Scott previously served as the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \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 American education\, government\, and civil society. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton\, he was dean of the American University School of Communication and is a former co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR. \n\n  \n  \nUpcoming event: \nMonday 13th December \nClimate Change \n  \nThese events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University)\, the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall\, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/political-hypocrisy/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211116T140000
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SUMMARY:Dignity in the Islamic Tradition - Creation
DESCRIPTION:Professor Edward Moad (Qatar University) will speak on the theme of ‘Creation’ in the second in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series. \nThis four-part seminar series has been developed by the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice\, Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford\, together with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, and aims to explore concepts that are the cornerstone to a discussion of human dignity in the Islamic tradition: God\, creation\, the human being\, and society. \nEach seminar will be delivered on Tuesdays from 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and will be concurrently broadcast live on Zoom. Each 45-minute paper will be followed by a 45-minute discussion led by invited respondents. \nWe hope these discussions will lead to another series of seminars\, focused on how these understandings may inform questions ranging from human rights to the environment. This programme follows on from a similar Las Casas Institute series held on ‘Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition’\, the proceedings of which were edited by Professor John Loughlin and published in 2019 by Bloomsbury. \nIf you are based in Oxford we look forward to seeing you at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. For non-local audiences please register to receive your Zoom link. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dignity-in-the-islamic-tradition-2021-11-16/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211116T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211116T170000
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SUMMARY:Imagining Christianity: Robert Browning’s Christmas Eve and Easter Day
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing 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\, 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 hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott and Rev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nIn this online webinar\, John Pfordresher will discuss Robert Browning’s religiously explorative poem “Christmas Eve and Easter Day” (1850). The talk will begin with the poem’s personal sources in the death of his beloved mother and the impact of his wife\, the poet and intellectual Elizabeth Barrett Browning\, on his religious beliefs. Pfordresher will then explore how Browning uses the grotesque realism of orthodox Christianity to create a mid-Victorian vision with relevance for the contemporary Christian imagination. \n  \nUpcoming events:\n \n23rd November\nCharles Tung – HG Wells and the Apocalypse \n9th December\nJulia Lamm – Julian of Norwich \n  \nHilary Term \n18th January\nBarbara Mujica – Teresa d’ Avila \n1st February\nMark Bosco – Graham Greene \n15th February\nHester Jones – TBC \n1st March\nMike Collins – Two Welsh Poets: R S Thomas and John Ormond \n15th March\nBridget Keegan – Jane Barker + Elizabeth Inchbald: Overt and Covert Catholicism
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/imagining-christianity-robert-brownings-christmas-eve-and-easter-day/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T170000
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SUMMARY:Charles Taylor's A Secular Age
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWe will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal changes in how we live and think? How did the desire for more religious fervour end up bringing religious disbelief? How does life change when God is more or less absent? \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College\n \nThe group is online. No previous knowledge of anything is required or recommended. \nFree and open for all.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/charles-taylors-a-secular-age/2021-11-17/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Dignity in the Islamic Tradition - The Human Being
DESCRIPTION:Dr Afifi al-Akiti (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies) will speak on the theme of ‘The Human Being’ in the third in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series. \nThis four-part seminar series has been developed by the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice\, Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford\, together with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, and aims to explore concepts that are the cornerstone to a discussion of human dignity in the Islamic tradition: God\, creation\, the human being\, and society. \nEach seminar will be delivered on Tuesdays from 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and will be concurrently broadcast live on Zoom. Each 45-minute paper will be followed by a 45-minute discussion led by invited respondents. \nWe hope these discussions will lead to another series of seminars\, focused on how these understandings may inform questions ranging from human rights to the environment. This programme follows on from a similar Las Casas Institute series held on ‘Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition’\, the proceedings of which were edited by Professor John Loughlin and published in 2019 by Bloomsbury. \nIf you are based in Oxford we look forward to seeing you at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. For non-local audiences please register to receive your Zoom link. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dignity-in-the-islamic-tradition-2021-11-23/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152956
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SUMMARY:HG Wells and the Apocalypse
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing 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\, 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 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. \n  \nIn this talk\, Charles Tung will discuss recent visions of the university and the future of knowledge transmission in contemporary apocalyptic and ethnofuturist fictions. By looking back to previous fantasies of historical progress and evolutionary global interconnection such as H.G. Wells’ “world brain” and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s “noosphere\,” Tung will explore the unforeseen harmful half-lives of modernity’s hopes and the history supporting those hopes\, as well as the challenges of viral culture to the humanist mission of universities. \nCharles Tung is a professor and chair of the English Department at Seattle University. His doctoral work focused on early twentieth-century British and American literature and time philosophy. He also has research interests in race and atavism\, models of history and identity in cultural and ethnic studies\, and time-travel narratives. Most recently\, he published Modernism and Time Machines (2020) with Edinburgh University Press. \n  \nUpcoming events:\n \n9th December\nJulia Lamm – Julian of Norwich \n  \nHilary Term \n18th January\nBarbara Mujica – Teresa d’ Avila \n1st February\nMark Bosco – Graham Greene \n15th February\nHester Jones – TBC \n1st March\nMike Collins – Two Welsh Poets: R S Thomas and John Ormond \n15th March\nBridget Keegan – Jane Barker + Elizabeth Inchbald: Overt and Covert Catholicism
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/hg-wells-and-the-apocalypse/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T180000
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SUMMARY:Charles Taylor's A Secular Age
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWe will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal changes in how we live and think? How did the desire for more religious fervour end up bringing religious disbelief? How does life change when God is more or less absent? \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College\n \nThe group is online. No previous knowledge of anything is required or recommended. \nFree and open for all.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/charles-taylors-a-secular-age/2021-11-24/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211130T153000
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SUMMARY:Dignity in the Islamic Tradition - Society
DESCRIPTION:Dr Karim Lahham (Tabah Foundation) will speak on the theme of ‘Society’ in the fourth in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series. \nThis four-part seminar series has been developed by the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice\, Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford\, together with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, and aims to explore concepts that are the cornerstone to a discussion of human dignity in the Islamic tradition: God\, creation\, the human being\, and society. \nEach seminar will be delivered on Tuesdays from 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and will be concurrently broadcast live on Zoom. Each 45-minute paper will be followed by a 45-minute discussion led by invited respondents. \nWe hope these discussions will lead to another series of seminars\, focused on how these understandings may inform questions ranging from human rights to the environment. This programme follows on from a similar Las Casas Institute series held on ‘Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition’\, the proceedings of which were edited by Professor John Loughlin and published in 2019 by Bloomsbury. \nIf you are based in Oxford we look forward to seeing you at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. For non-local audiences please register to receive your Zoom link. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dignity-in-the-islamic-tradition-2021-11-30/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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