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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/2022-02-02/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T160000
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SUMMARY:Coloring Catholicism Greene in the Age of Pope Francis
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 Fr Joseph Simmons SJ. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \n\nGraham Greene (1904-1991) is one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century. His conversion to Catholicism in 1926 shaped many of his most celebrated novels—Brighton Rock (1938)\, The Power and the Glory (1940)\, The Heart of the Matter (1948)\, and The End of the Affair (1951)—all of which were written before the Second Vatican Council. Today\, most critics focus on these early works as Greene’s “Catholic” novels and neglect\, or misunderstand\, what is often referred to as his later “post-Catholic” ones. This presentation by Rev. Mark Bosco\, S.J.\, will examine how Greene engaged with the theologians of the Council—Hans Küng\, Edward Schillebeeckx\, and Teilhard de Chardin—and understood the enormous impact the Council would have on the Catholic Church. The theological and political implications of Greene’s later novels\, then\, grow out of his continuing engagement with issues of the post-conciliar Church\, especially around the emergence of liberation theology and the concerns of the Global South. Rev. Bosco will look at another famous Catholic from the global south—Jorge Mario Bergoglio—who as Pope Francis would\, in many ways\, become the pope that Greene was always waiting for. 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. \n\nFeatured\nRev. Mark Bosco\, S.J.\, Ph.D. is vice president for mission and ministry at Georgetown University\, where he holds an appointment in the Department of English. He is the author of Graham Greene’s Catholic Imagination (2005) and co-editor of Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (2017). He is also co-producer and co-director of the film Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia\, which won the 2019 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film and premiered on PBS American Masters on March 23\, 2021. \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. \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. \n  \nUpcoming events: \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/graham-greene/
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:20220209T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T180000
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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/2022-02-09/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220214T160000
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SUMMARY:Viruses: the Wars We Have Won\, and the Wars We May Lose
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  \nThe science of virology has scored many victories in recent years\, including the technological feat of developing COVID vaccines remarkably quickly. Education and treatment for viruses like HIV have also advanced significantly. But the global pandemic remains ongoing\, and other viral threats still loom large. How can the global public better understand viruses in a climate of misinformation and disinformation? And if a global problem requires a global solution\, are scientists being heard amidst the political uproar? \nThis online conversation will include award-winning journalists from The New York Times and Science magazine\, a physician working in Wales in the field of sexual health and HIV medicine\, a staff writer for Science News\, and the co-founder of an HIV-support charity in the U.K. \n  \n\nFeatured:\nJon Cohen is an award winning writer and author of four nonfiction books on scientific topics. He began at Science magazine in 1990 and is now a senior correspondent. He specializes in biomedicine\, and is widely known for his coverage of epidemics (HIV/AIDS\, COVID-19\, Ebola\, influenza)\, immunology\, vaccines\, and global health. Cohen’s books include Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine and Tomorrow is a Long Time: Tijuana’s Unchecked HIV/AIDS epidemic. He holds a B.A. in science writing from University of California\, San Diego. \nPaul Coleman has worked in the film and television industry for more than 35 years as a producer and director. He received a BAFTA nomination for his work as a TV director. In 2019\, he co-founded The National HIV Story Trust to preserve and archive the stories of the victims of the HIV/AIDS pandemic\, which were believed to be of great significance to UK and LGBTQ history\, and to galvanize further awareness of AIDS and HIV. Coleman continues to interview and record the testimony of all those touched by virus and the disease. \nErin Garcia de Jesús is a staff reporter at Science News magazine. She holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Washington\, where she studied the evolution of HIV and related viruses in primates. She went on to earn a master’s in science communication from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Garcia de Jesus joined the Science News team in January 2020\, when she immediately returned to the world of virology to cover the COVID-19 pandemic. \nApoorva Mandavilli reports for The New York Times\, focusing on science and global health. She currently covers the coronavirus pandemic\, vaccinations\, the World Health Organization\, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, and the Food and Drug Administration. She is the 2019 winner of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. Mandavilli has an M.A. degree in journalism from New York University and a Master of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \nOlwen Williams is a consultant physician working in the field of Sexual Health and HIV medicine in North Wales. She has worked on HIV since 1988\, delivering both in-patient and out-patient care. She has striven to ensure the marginalized and vulnerable have access to high-quality healthcare and has influenced health policy in the United Kingdom. Williams is currently vice president for Wales of the Royal College of Physicians\, and she previously held the position of president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. \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\n  \n  \nUpcoming events: \n21 March\, 3pm: Veterans \n11 April: The Media
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-truth-about-viruses/
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:20220215T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220215T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T194714
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SUMMARY:David Jones: Deep Calls to Deep
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 Fr Joseph Simmons SJ. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \n  \nAs a child\, the artist David Jones (1895-1974) heard his mother\, a gifted painter herself\, ask her Quaker doctor why it was that Quakers had no sacraments. He replied\, “But Mrs. Jones\, surely the whole of life is a sacrament.” Rev. Hester Jones’ presentation will explore some of the ways in which the whole of life\, when represented through the artist’s transforming lens\, becomes sacramental for David Jones. This sense of unity at the heart of things underpins all of Jones’ thought\, and it is a response to the integrating vision of Samuel Coleridge\, John Ruskin\, and above all\, the understanding of sacramental inscape in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The talk will indicate how that densely physical sign is frequently configured in the image of the all-encompassing “deep\,” encircling\, eluding\, and transcending the historical realm within which such sacrificial actions take place. \nFor Jones\, “the deep” is also associated with authenticity\, Celticity\, beginnings\, and often the close embrace of a feminine figure or symbol. It is fluid and contradictory – the place both of trial and of transcendence. The deep exists in tense relation with\, and sometimes in opposition to\, the forceful march of time associated in Jones’ mind with Roman Imperium\, or with all-conquering movements. In her presentation\, Rev. Jones will suggest that David Jones plays fruitfully with the fluctuating meanings of depth\, both the deep sea and the rich deposits of time\, and in this respect has more in common with postmodern theology than might be imagined. \nFeatured\nRev. Dr. Hester Jones is a senior lecturer in English at Bristol University and vicar of Abbots Leigh and Leigh Woods in the Church of England Diocese of Bristol. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on literature of friendship in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, and in particular on the ways in which Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift drew on existing largely single-sex models of friendship\, so as to include women as well as men within this broader imaginative epistolary address. Jones’ reading challenged and complicated conventional accounts of their work as misogynist in its portrayal of the feminine. She has also published on a range of female poets and writers including Christina Rossetti\, Adrienne Rich\, Octavia Hill\, and Josephine Butler. She is currently completing a study of a number of twentieth-century poets who recreate the idea of depth in poetry. \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. \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. \n  \nUpcoming events: \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/david-jones/
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:20220216T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220216T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T194714
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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/2022-02-16/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220217T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220217T183000
DTSTAMP:20260408T194714
CREATED:20220202T103402Z
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SUMMARY:Dignity in street-level bureaucracies: beyond reason\, balance and pragmatism
DESCRIPTION:Postponed
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dignity-in-street-level-bureaucracies-beyond-reason-balance-and-pragmatism/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T194714
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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/2022-02-23/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T183000
DTSTAMP:20260408T194714
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SUMMARY:Las Casas Annual lecture 2022: Baroness Nuala O'Loan
DESCRIPTION:The Road to Reconciliation and Restoration: a journey of courage and compassion\nThe 2022 Las Casas Annual Lecture will be given by Baroness Nuala O’Loan. \nThis is a hybrid event\, free and open to all.\nRegistration is required. \nIf you would like to attend the lecture in person\, please email lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \nIf you would like to attend online\, please register here. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/las-casas-annual-lecture-2022-baroness-nuala-oloan/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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