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SUMMARY:In Hope of Revelation: The Poetry of John Ormond and R.S. Thomas
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. \nOn the feast of St. David\, patron saint of Wales\, Georgetown professor emeritus Michael Collins will look at the work of two Anglo-Welsh poets: John Ormond\, a filmmaker for the BBC\, and R. S. Thomas\, a priest of the Church in Wales. Although their lives went in different directions and their poems are formally distinct\, they both nonetheless lived—in their poetry and in their lives—in hope of revelation\, watching for some sign or signal that God is present to the world he created. John Ormond longed to believe\, for he felt the absence of God acutely. R.S. Thomas\, as his vocation suggests\, believed in God but hoped that God would reveal himself in response to that faith. For all its differences\, the poetry they wrote reflects profoundly religious visions of the world. 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\nMichael Collins is a teaching professor of English and dean emeritus at Georgetown University. He has published essays on Anglo-Welsh poetry in Poetry Wales\, World Literature Today\, the Dictionary of Literary Biography\, and the Anglo-Welsh Review. He is an honorary fellow of Wrexham Glyndwr University\, University of Wales\, and a recipient of Georgetown University’s Presidential Medal and its Bunn Award for Outstanding Teaching. \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 event \n15 March:\nBridget Keegan on James Field Stanfield
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/two-welsh-poets-r-s-thomas-and-john-ormond/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining - book launch
DESCRIPTION:Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining – Integral Peace\, Development\, and Ecology\n\nEdited by Caesar A. Montevecchio and Gerard F. Powers \n\nThis book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict\, human rights\, sustainable development\, governance\, and environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and scale with a large network of actors at all levels and substantial theoretical and ethical resources\, the Catholic Church is well positioned to acknowledge the essential role of mining\, while challenging unethical and harmful practices\, and promoting integral peace\, development\, and ecology. Drawing together theology\, ethics\, and praxis\, the volume reflects the diversity of Catholic action on mining and the importance of an integrated approach. It includes contributions by an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars and practitioners. They examine Catholic action on mining in El Salvador\, Peru\, Colombia\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, and the Philippines. They also address general issues of corporate social responsibility\, human rights\, development\, ecology\, and peacebuilding. The book will be of interest to scholars of theology\, social ethics\, and Catholic studies as well as those specializing in development\, ecology\, human rights\, and peace studies. \n  \nThis online event is free and open to all. Registration is required. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/catholic-peacebuilding-and-mining-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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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/2022-03-02/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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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/2022-03-09/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Prof Samuel Moyn: The Catholic Contribution to the Modern History of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:A Lecture by Professor Samuel Moyn \nThe Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall is delighted to invite you to a lecture and discussion on the Catholic contribution to modern human rights. Professor Moyn is one of the world’s leading historians of human rights and the author\, among other human rights histories\, of Christian Human Rights\, published in 2015. Professor Moyn is the Henry R Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University and is visiting All Souls College this term as the distinguished scholar giving this year’s Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought. \nThe lecture will be chaired by Dr Clare Broome Saunders\, Fellow and Senior Tutor at Blackfriars Hall\, with a response by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute\, and the author of Counsels of Imperfection – Thinking Through Catholic Social Teaching\, published in 2020. \nTo attend in person at Blackfriars Hall\, please email us at lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \nTo register for the live stream please follow this link. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-catholic-contribution-to-the-modern-history-of-human-rights/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:An Irish Catholic Sailor Poet and the Slave Trade
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. \nAn Irish Catholic Sailor Poet and the Slave Trade\nJames Field Stanfield’s “The Guinea Voyage” and the Problem of Evil \nIn 1777\, James Field Stanfield (1749-1824) was one of only three sailors who returned from a voyage disastrous even by the grim standards of the eighteenth-century slave trade. Ten years later\, he would publish two separate accounts of his experiences. The first was a series of prose letters (1788)\, and the second was “The Guinea Voyage\,” a narrative poem of over 1\,000 lines (1789). Both texts confront the difficulty of writing about the unspeakable horror of slavery and the slave trade in way that would inspire political action. Stanfield’s challenges were intensified by his active engagement in what he condemns. Historians of transatlantic culture identify him as the first common sailor to write about his experiences participating in the slave trade. What has received less attention is the fact that\, in a movement dominated by Quakers and evangelical Anglicans\, Stanfield may also be the first Catholic – and Irish Catholic — to have contributed significantly to the British discourse on abolition. Stanfield’s Catholicism is not incidental. Prior to going to sea\, he had trained for the priesthood in France. As an Irish Catholic\, Stanfield was the object of British colonial oppression. At the same time\, his occupation made him complicit as an agent of British colonial oppression. His national and religious identity\, along with his participation in laboring-class employment\, renders him triply marginalized. \nDr. Bridget Keegan’s talk will examine how Stanfield navigates the problems of representing evils that he both witnessed and contributed to. She will focus on questions of language and style\, in particular as they relate to the depiction of evil\, to suggest how Stanfield’s Catholicism may inform his representation of the horrifying events he experienced. \nFeatured\nBridget Keegan is professor of English and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University. She received her A.B. in literature from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her areas of scholarly and teaching interests include eighteenth-century British literature\, environmental literature\, and Catholic writers. She has written and edited numerous books and published over 40 essays\, many devoted to the work of laboring-class authors. \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 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/james-field-stanfield/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:The Neglected Voices of Military Veterans Worldwide
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  \nWith the recent passage by the U.S. Congress of legislation that addresses benefits and care for military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits overseas\, many politicians have hailed this as a landmark achievement. But within the United Kingdom\, the United States\, and around the world\, veterans still face a myriad of problems. Homelessness\, unemployment\, denied benefits\, and mental health issues still grip a significant swath of those who served their countries in the military. Against these problems\, are the voices of veterans being adequately heard? And if not\, then what are they fighting for? \nThis online conversation will include a litigation director at a legal organization that helps U.S. veterans receive benefits\, and veterans who serve as the deputy CEO of a support charity in the United Kingdom\, a senior director of government affairs at a nonprofit for post 9-11 veterans in the United States\, and an assistant professor of mental health and psychiatric nursing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who has supported fellow veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). \nFeatured\nRenee Burbank is director of litigation at the National Veterans Legal Services Program\, supervising all lawsuits brought by the organization in U.S. federal courts. Previously\, she co-taught Yale Law School’s Veterans Legal Services clinic and worked for nearly eight years in the U.S. Department of Justice. She holds an A.B. from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. \nTravis Horr is senior director of government affairs at Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He has delivered testimony on Capitol Hill\, conducted interviews with various media outlets\, and met with senior leadership at the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs in order to advocate for the post-9/11 generation of veterans. He holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Southern Maine\, thanks to the Post-9/11 GI Bill. He served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011. \nRichard Mottershead is an assistant professor of psychiatric and mental health nursing at RAK Medical & Health Sciences University in the UAE. He served in the armed forces as a soldier and commissioned officer\, and he has supported veterans with transitional challenges and PTSD\, working clinically within the United Kingdom\, the Middle East\, Central Africa\, and Eastern Europe. His Ph.D. explored the lived experiences of veterans within the criminal justice system\, both as offenders and practitioners. \nSian Woodland began her career in the Royal Navy in 2001. She traveled around the world and did tours of the Gulf region with NATO\, where she received her first medal. In 2012 her fiancé\, Paul “Woody” Woodland\, was killed in a Royal Marines training accident while serving with the Elite Special Boat Service\, before he was due to return for another tour in Afghanistan. After his death\, she began raising money for military charities until she co-founded Woody’s Lodge in his honor. \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 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/veterans/
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