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SUMMARY:Song of the Female Textile Workers\, Past\, Present and the Future
DESCRIPTION:U.K.-China Performance and the Creative Economy\n\n\n\nSong of the Female Textile Workers works with U.K.-China digital arts partners to create a filmed version of a mixed reality performance to test U.K.-China digital theatre compatibility and audience connectivity. This performance takes the audience through 100 years of China’s socioeconomic transformation via the love\, passion\, and experiences of three generations of Chinese women\, set against an individual historical background. Following the pre-1949 rise of the textile industry and Yueju emerging as China’s first female working class art form\, Mao Zedong’s era and Yueju’s nationwide expansion to the new millennium textile industry transformed art clusters\, and Yueju evolved into China’s second largest and most popular opera whilst remaining the cultural symbol of China’s female working class. In this talk\, Haili Ma will discuss this project and the Chinese tradition of the all-female Yueju opera style. \n\nThis event is part of the China and the West: Cultural Dialogues series\, sponsored by Georgetown University’s Future of the Humanities Project (a partnership with Campion Hall\, Oxford\, and Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford) in cooperation with the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding in London. \nFeatured\nHaili Ma is Reader in Performance and Creative Economy at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries\, University of Leeds. Dr. Ma’s research focuses on the artistic evolution of intangible cultural heritage in the digital era and their contribution to sustainable socio-economic development. Trained in traditional Chinese opera from her early teens\, Ma was a member of the Shanghai Luwan All-female Yueju Company\, before coming to the United Kingdom in 1997 where she pursued her academic career. She is the author of Urban Politics and Cultural Capital: The Case of Chinese Opera (2015) and Understanding CCI through Chinese ICH (forthcoming). \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/song-of-the-female-textile-workers-past-present-and-the-future/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Survival of the Fittest: Can Independent News Media Endure in These Times?
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. \nConvenors: Michael Scott and Sanford J Ungar\, Georgetown University \nFreedom of the press and access to factual information are cherished rights in western democracies. But in a 21st century climate fraught with political and economic crises and growing news deserts everywhere\, how can reliable international\, national\, and local independent media survive? Amidst government efforts to cut or abolish funding for public news\, the decline of community newspapers\, and the struggles of no-longer-profitable commercial media\, do venerable institutions stand a chance? \nThis online conversation will include two veterans of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)\, the vice president of journalism for the Knight Foundation\, and an expert analyst of the disappearance of local newspapers. \n  \nFeaturing: \nPenelope Muse Abernathy is a visiting professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. A former executive with The New York Times\, Harvard Business Review\, and The Wall Street Journal\, she was the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina from 2008 – 2020. Her research focuses on the implications of the digital revolution for news organizations\, the information needs of communities\, and the emergence of news deserts. \nJim Brady\, a pioneer in digital news\, is vice president for journalism programs at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He previously led brands such as washingtonpost.com and Digital First Media\, and launched a company that built online local news sites in three U.S. cities. He has held a wide range of executive roles\, including executive editor of washingtonpost.com and head of news and sports for America Online. He is past president of the Online News Association. \nAled Eirug is a journalist and former head of news and current affairs for BBC Wales. He ran the largest BBC newsroom in the United Kingdom\, and has 25 years of experience with that public network and Independent Television News. For the past six years\, Eirug has served on the content board of Ofcom\, the regulatory body for broadcasting in the UK. He is currently an honorary research fellow at Cardiff University. \nSusan Elkington has 30 years of experience in the international media sector. She held senior positions at BBC Worldwide\, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment\, and Liberty Global PLC. With the digitisation of networks\, creating growth in new media services and digital platforms\, she has implemented video on demand internationally. She holds master’s degrees in French and European History from Edinburgh University\, and in Psychology from Birkbeck College\, and is now pursuing a doctorate in Psychology. \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 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-media/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:“Enlighten the Eye of My Mind”: Anselm of Canterbury at the Limits of Imagination
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. \nAnselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)\, the celebrated philosopher-theologian\, monk\, abbot\, and archbishop of Canterbury\, is most famous for his groundbreaking works of theological speculation. Anselm’s bold application of the tools of reason to fundamental questions of Christian faith\, present throughout his authorial career\, resulted in the first philosophical proof for the existence of God in the medieval Latin West. Yet Anselm also had a determined interest in the interior landscape of the human soul—his deathbed regret was that he had not lived long enough to write a book about it. \nWhile the word “imagination” (imaginatio) occurs only a handful of times in his corpus\, Anselm’s works are punctuated with references to the “eye of the soul” or the “eye of the mind.” The notion that humans possess the capacity for inner perception—an interior space for visual and conceptual creativity—is central to his theological program. Dr. Rachel Cresswell’s presentation will examine Anselm’s idea of the “eye of the mind” in all its ambiguity\, particularly in the powers and pitfalls of its capacity for image-creation. In rhetorically underscoring the force of the theological imagination\, Anselm uses that very force to delineate its limitations\, and to negotiate the far-reaches of the mind’s eye in perceiving a God who dwells in unapproachable light. \nFeatured\nDr. Rachel Cresswell is departmental lecturer in ecclesiastical history at the Faculty of Theology and Religion\, University of Oxford\, and a senior member of Christchurch\, Oxford. She also holds a junior research fellowship at Blackfriars\, Oxford. Rachel specializes in the history of Christianity in the medieval Latin West\, focusing particularly on the reception of the Bible in eleventh- and twelfth-century monastic authors. Her doctoral project\, now being prepared for publication\, investigated the role of scripture in the thought and writings of Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109). Her current research aims to use the scriptural and liturgical motifs in Anselm’s writings as a framework for an historically-contextualized rearticulation of his controversial theory of atonement. \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.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/enlighten-the-eye-of-my-mind-anselm-of-canterbury-at-the-limits-of-imagination/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. \nDorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism\, she founded the Catholic Worker movement\, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography\, The Long Loneliness\, is nicely written\, honest\, clear\, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully\, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy\, from conversion to modern holiness. \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  \nSchedule: \nWeek One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home” \nWeek Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism” \nWeek Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching” \nWeek Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows” \nWeek Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements” \nWeek Six (June 1): “Paper\, People\, and Work” and “Labor” \nWeek Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat” \nWeek Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript” \n  \nFree and open for all. Registration is required. \nFor more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-the-long-loneliness/2022-04-27/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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