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SUMMARY:Finding Refuge in Your Own Castle: Teresa de Ávila’s Las Moradas
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. \nTeresa de Jesús (also known as Teresa de Ávila) lived in a time of religious\, social\, and political upheaval. As an ecstatic\, woman\, reformer\, and daughter and granddaughter of conversos (Jewish converts to Catholicism)\, Teresa was often the focus of criticism. However\, she learned to find spiritual peace in her own soul. For Teresa\, God was the ultimate refuge from the cares of the world\, and prayer provided the entry into the depths of the soul\, where God resided. Dr. Barbara Mujica’s presentation will examine Teresa’s ideas as expressed in Las moradas\, which is structured around the metaphor of the soul as a castle. As the soul detaches from worldly concerns\, one is lead to activism\, creativity\, and social engagement. 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\nBarbara Mujica is professor emerita of Spanish literature at Georgetown University\, where she taught early modern Spanish literature with a specialization in the Spanish mystics\, women’s writing\, and Spanish theater. Her most recent scholarly book is Religious Women and Epistolary Culture in the Carmelite Reform: The Disciples of Teresa de Ávila (2020). Her other scholarly books include: Women Writers of Early Modern Spain: Sophia’s Daughters (2004)\, Teresa de Avila\, Lettered Woman (2008)\, Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia: Essays in Honor of Susan L. Fischer (2013)\, A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater: Play and Playtext (2014)\, and Collateral Damage: Women Write about War (2020). She is founding editor of Comedia Performance\, a journal devoted to early modern Spanish theater. At Georgetown she was awarded a Presidential Medal\, the School of Languages and Linguistics Service Medal\, and the Dean’s Medal for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Mujica is also a fiction writer and essayist. Her latest novel\, Miss del Río\, is scheduled for publication later in 2022 by HarperCollins. \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. \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: \n8 February:\nMark Bosco on Graham Greene \n15 February:\nHester Jones on  David Jones \n1 March:\nMichael Collins on Two Welsh Poets – R S Thomas and John Ormond \n15 March:\nBridget Keegan on James Field Stanfield
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/teresa-of-avila/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity.  This is an important and exciting book about how we do and should think about right and wrong. MacIntyre tries to combine Marx and Thomas – we will try to decide how well he succeeds. \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. \nThe reading schedule can be found here. \nFree and open for all. \nRegistration is required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/alasdair-macintyres-ethics-in-the-conflicts-of-modernity/2022-01-19/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220121T160000
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SUMMARY:Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Art and Buddhist Devotion Along the Silk Roads
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). \nFriday 21st January \nCaves of the Thousand Buddhas: Art and Buddhist Devotion Along the Silk Roads \nLocated in present-day Gansu Province in northwestern China\, the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987. Nearly 500 man-made caves carved into mountain cliffs between the fourth to fourteenth centuries were painted with Buddhist murals and installed with clay icons. In her talk\, Michelle C. Wang will provide an overview of the architecture and art of the Mogao Caves and focus on one popular motif\, the “Thousand Buddhas.” Comprised of repeated images of seated Buddhas\, the Thousand Buddhas motif opens onto Buddhist concepts of time and cosmology\, artistic patronage\, and the artist’s practice at Dunhuang. Wang’s presentation will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Michael Scott. \nFeatured\nMichelle C. Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Georgetown University and a specialist in the Buddhist and silk road art of northwestern China\, primarily of the sixth to tenth centuries. Her first book Mandalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang (2018) examines Buddhist mandalas of the eighth to tenth centuries at the Mogao and Yulin Buddhist cave shrines in northwestern China. In addition to her research on mandalas\, she has also written about art and ritual\, miracle tales of animated statues\, the transcultural reception of Buddhist motifs\, and text and image. Her current work concerns Buddhist sculpture and materiality. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is Fellow and Senior Dean at Blackfriars Hall\, 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.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dunhuang-buddhist-art-along-the-silk-road/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Forever Young or Newly Vulnerable
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. \nDo older adults still command the attention and respect they have traditionally had in western societies? Or have condescension and cruelty set in\, as women and men who are still quite vital and wise get pushed aside or\, in many cases\, neglected or even abused? Do they have a voice that is listened to\, at a moment when they are disproportionately vulnerable to a global pandemic? \nThis online conversation will address these issues\, featuring panelists that include a leader of the most influential elder-rights organization in the United States\, the owner of a chain of “care homes” in the United Kingdom\, a vintage activist from Chicago\, and a young Oxford researcher on issues of aging. \nFeatured:\nMario Kreft is founder of the multi-award winning care organization\, Pendine Park\, which runs eight care homes and an in-house training academy in North Wales. In 2010\, he was awarded an MBE for his services to social care and has received the Welsh Government’s St David Award for enterprise. He was appointed to sit on the advisory board set up by the Welsh Government’s Economy and Transport Ministry. Since the start of the pandemic\, Kreft has been advising ministers about policy in relation to health and social care. \nLisa Marsh Ryerson\, president of the AARP Foundation\, sets its strategic direction and steers its efforts to realize a country free of poverty where no older person feels vulnerable. Formerly president of Wells College in upstate New York\, her alma mater\, Ryerson has served on numerous higher education and other nonprofit boards\, including the National Women’s History Museum\, the Root Cause Coalition\, the Shriver Center on Poverty Law\, and Southern New Hampshire University. \nElaine Soloway is a Chicago-based writer who shares her adventures of caregiving\, widowhood\, relocating\, and moving forward\, in books\, blogs\, articles\, and public appearances\, and on social media. She was a press aide to former Mayor Jane Byrne and communications director for school Superintendent Ruth Love. More recently\, Soloway was a specialist at the Apple Store and taught “Tech for Rookies” at the Renaissance Center in Chicago\, where all students are over 55. Her articles have appeared in Huff Post\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Next Avenue\, and The Forward. \nYanan Zhang is a quantitative researcher at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing\, generating an evidence base for positive interventions in support of older adults. Her current research includes intergenerational relations and health\, employment\, financial security\, and consumption among older adults. She previously worked for the “Sustainable Care: Connecting People and Systems” project at the University of Birmingham. Zhang conducts research on the cost of social care in terms of economy\, health\, and well-being. \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 also dean of the American University School of Communication and is a former co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR. \n  \nUpcoming events: \n14 February:  The Truth About Viruses \n21 March\, 3pm: Veterans \n11 April: The Media
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/forever-young-or-newly-vulnerable/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity.  This is an important and exciting book about how we do and should think about right and wrong. MacIntyre tries to combine Marx and Thomas – we will try to decide how well he succeeds. \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. \nThe reading schedule can be found here. \nFree and open for all. \nRegistration is required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/alasdair-macintyres-ethics-in-the-conflicts-of-modernity/2022-01-26/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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