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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/2021-12-01/
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare and the Sinophone World
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 3rd December \nAsian Embodiment of a White Canon: Shakespeare and the Sinophone World \nShakespeare’s tragedies have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of China\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong. The tragedies have been reimagined as political theatre\, feminist operas\, Buddhist meditations\, and even comedies and parodies. In particular\, Chinese\, Hong Kong\, and Taiwanese artists have used Shakespeare for socially reparative purposes.  Appropriations by politicians and artists have tapped into Shakespeare’s perceived remedial functions. How do actors reposition their racialized bodies on stage and on screen? How do Sinophone cinema and feminism transform gender identities in Shakespeare? Bringing film and theatre studies together\, this online conversation will shed new light on the two major genres in a comparative context in the Sinophone world. \nFeatured\nAlexa Alice Joubin writes about race\, gender\, and cultural globalization. She teaches in the Departments of English; Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Theatre; International Affairs; and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University in Washington\, DC\, where she co-founded and co-directs the Digital Humanities Institute. Her latest book\, Shakespeare and East Asia\, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. She co-authored Race with Martin Orkin\, which was published in Routledge’s New Critical Idiom series in 2019. \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  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/shakespeare-and-the-sinophone-world/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Julian of Norwich - Christian Imagination Series
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. \nJulian of Norwich on the Incarnation\nJulian of Norwich (c. 1342 – 1416) is perhaps most widely known for her refrain “all will be well\, and every manner of thing will be well” and for her image of God as mother. Both of these ideas were ultimately rooted in her understanding of the incarnation and God’s “kinde love.” This presentation by Julia Lamm focuses on Julian’s reflections on the Annunciation\, on God’s eternal love for humanity in the second person of the Trinity\, and on Christ’s radical identity with humanity at its most vulnerable in the wake of the plague and the social upheaval it brought. The result of this incarnational theology is a form of Christian humanism. Michael Scott\, director of the Future of the Humanities Project\, will provide opening and closing remarks\, and Rev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J. will moderate a Q&A session following the presentation. \nFeatured\nJulia A. Lamm is a professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and the founding director of the James M. and Margaret H. Costan Lecture in Early Christianity at Georgetown University. Lamm is a historical and systematic theologian with specializations in Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834); Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – 1416); Christian mysticism; the doctrine of God\, the doctrine of grace\, and Christology; the history of Christian thought; and the relation between theology and philosophy. She is the author\, most recently\, of two monographs: God’s ‘Kinde’ Love: Julian of Norwich’s Vernacular Theology of Grace (2019) and Schleiermacher’s Plato (2021). She is also editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism (2012). \nRev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, (moderator) is an American Catholic priest currently writing his doctoral thesis at Campion Hall\, Oxford\, under the supervision of Professor Graham Ward. He is exploring the Christian imagination and the fertile place where belief and unbelief touch in the fiction of Virginia Woolf and Marilynne Robinson. Simmons previously studied theology at Boston College and the Harvard Divinity School. His Licentiate in Sacred Theology thesis\, “Via Literaria: Marilynne Robinson’s Theology Through a Literary Imagination\,” explored the convergence of literary and Christian imaginations. \n  \nUpcoming events:\n \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/julian-of-norwich-christian-imagination-series/
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SUMMARY:Will We Change the Climate Before the Climate Changes Us?
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the ongoing event series Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues. These events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University)\, the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall\, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. \n  \n\nHow will the world become convinced — at the international\, national\, and community level — that climate change is truly a grave crisis that demands immediate attention? And can fundamental issues of environmental injustice be addressed at the same time? \n\nFeatured:\nAstrid Caldas is a senior climate scientist with the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She does research on climate change adaptation and resilience with policy implications for ecosystems\, the economy\, and society. Her work also focuses on science communication\, environmental justice\, and equitable climate-related policies. Previously\, she was a science & technology policy fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, a climate change and wildlife science fellow at Defenders of Wildlife\, and a research scientist at the University of Maryland. She holds a Ph.D. in ecology from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in the state of São Paulo\, Brazil. \nKeya Chatterjee is executive director of the US Climate Action Network and author of the book “The Zero Footprint Baby: How to Save the Planet While Raising a Healthy Baby.” Her work focuses on building an inclusive movement in support of climate action. Prior to joining USCAN\, she served as senior director for renewable energy and footprint outreach at the World Wildlife Fund\, where she worked for eight years\, and also worked at NASA headquarters for four years\, communicating research results on climate change. She holds an M.S. and B.A. in environmental science from the University of Virginia. \nChris Church is co-director of Community Environment Associates in the United Kingdom and specializes in work with communities on climate change\, air pollution\, and related issues. He has been in the environmental sector for over 25 years with third-sector groups\, social enterprises\, and as a researcher and consultant\, both in the UK and in eastern Europe. He is the volunteer chair of Oxford Friends of the Earth\, part of the global Friends of the Earth network\, where he manages the Oxford Zero Carbon Homes Initiative and chaired the Oxfordshire COP-26 Alliance in the run-up to the recent UN conference in Glasgow.. \nTodd Stern is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution concentrating on climate change. From 2009 – 2016\, he served as Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State. He was President Obama’s chief climate negotiator\, leading the U.S. effort in creating the Paris Agreement and in all bilateral and multilateral climate negotiations in the seven years leading up to the Paris conference. He currently writes\, speaks\, and advises about ongoing efforts on climate change at both the international and domestic levels. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, 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 was 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 \nNo need to register\, link to the webinar here.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/climate-change/
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