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SUMMARY:Sounding the Fell and the Fugue: Gabriela Mistral’s “Tala”
DESCRIPTION:In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature\, Art\, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years\, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems\, dangers\, and disasters. However\, in this series\, we will invite speakers to explore the ways in which art and literature have foregrounded the inspirational beauty\, delicacy\, and strength of the natural world. \nHow might we sound the relationship between the intimacy of feeding one’s child and the land’s ability or inability to relieve that child’s hunger? What temporal\, rhythmic\, or language structures would such a relationship take in poetic form\, and why? These questions are a central concern of Chilean Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Gabriela Mistral’s 1938 volume\, Tala. Tala\, which means “fells\,” refers to the act of clearing regions for large-scale agricultural production\, the creation of cities\, or modern infrastructures. In this talk\, Anna Deeny Morales will examine how Mistral’s ultimate disquiet in Tala is grounded in her desire to define humanity in terms of our treatment of children whose well-being she tied to the defense of the environment in Latin America. Michael Scott\, director of the Future of the Humanities Project\, will provide opening and closing remarks\, and Kathryn Temple will moderate a Q&A session following the presentation. \nOnline. Open to all. \n  \nSpeakers: \nAnna Deeny Morales works in poetry and music as a librettist\, translator\, and literary critic and is an adjunct professor in the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. Her recent works in opera include ZAVALA-ZAVALA: an opera in v cuts\, which debuted at the Kennedy Center with the Georgetown University Orchestra and members of the Chiarina Chamber Players in 2022. Deeny Morales is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for her translation of Tala by Gabriela Mistral. \nKathryn Temple (moderator) is a professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University where she has taught since 1994. She specializes in the study of law and the humanities. Among her publications are Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England (2019) and the co-edited Research Handbook on Law and Emotions (2021). Her humanities outreach activities include work with military veterans and the incarcerated. \nMichael Scott 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 at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project; the Georgetown Humanities Initiative; the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities; Campion Hall\, Oxford; and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford). It is part of the one-year-long series: A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature\, Art\, and the Environment.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/sounding-the-fell-and-the-fugue-gabriela-mistrals-tala/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: Cultural critic and Catholic activist
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian\, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement\, which she co-founded and continually inspired\, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group\, we will be looking at some of those words and actions\, focussing on Loaves and Fishes\, which is a collection of little essays\, mostly concerned with the Worker houses and farms. We will also discuss selected other readings by and about her\, on war and on poverty. \nThe meetings will be online.  All are welcome. Register here. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford University. He is the author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, published by Catholic University of America Press in 2021\, and Money\, Finance\, Reality\, Morality\, published by Ethics International Press in 2022. \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \nThe readings: \nWeek 1 (12 Oct ): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 1 and 2: pp 3-28 \nWeek 2 (19 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 3 and 4: pp. 29-62 \nWeek 3 (26 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 6\, 7\, and 8: pp. 71-92 \nWeek 4 (2 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 9 and 10: pp. 95-121 \nWeek 5 (9 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 13 and 14: pp. 153-161 \nWeek 6 (16 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 16 and 19: pp. 166-184; 210-221 \nWeek 7 (23 Nov) Dorothy Day on war:\nOn pacifism in the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/360.html https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/868.html\nOn the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/390.html\nOn the first nuclear bombing: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/554.html\nOn Vietnam: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/250.html \nWeek 8 (30 Nov):  Appreciations of Dorothy Day on poverty:\nBy Larry Chapp: https://www.communio-icr.com/files/Chapp_-_42.2_Poverty_and_Kenosis.pdf\nBy Father John Hugo: https://terrenouvelle.home.blog/fr-john-hugo-dorothy-day-apostle-of-the-industrial-age-1980/ \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-cultural-critic-and-catholic-activist/2022-11-02/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Dickens on How Not to Do It
DESCRIPTION:Dickens on How Not to Do It: Bureaucracy\, Busyness\, and the Cultural Afterlife of the Circumlocution Office\nIn the preface to the first edition of Little Dorrit\, Dickens proclaims that his novelistic exposition of the ‘whole Science of Government’ was based on the ‘common experience of an Englishman.’ Dickens in other words meant to give the laity’s perspective on public administration. However\, ideas about officialdom tend to be shaped not only by experience\, but also by stories. Indeed\, one supposes that it is only because Dickens’s male protagonist had been out of the country for so long that he arrives at the Circumlocution Office seemingly without having heard\, through bureaucratic folklore\, about its obfuscations and faux busyness. \n In this talk Jonathan Foster explores the narrativisation of bureaucracy and its consequences for the study of public administration\, focusing on what Ceri Sullivan has described as Dickens’s ‘pestilential effect on the image of office life.’ Dickens’s bureaucratic imaginary has not only influenced the broader narrative about British state administration\, it has also bolstered the vocabulary that we have at our disposal when discussing bureaucracy\, through inspired neologisms like ‘red tapeworm\,’ and above all through the ‘Circumlocution Office’ and the dictum ‘How not to do it.’ Jonathan Foster argues that Dickens’s impact as a writer on bureaucracy derives largely from the meme-like quality of these catchphrases\, which live on\, notably\, in the work of other writers who have set their civil service stories in the Circumlocution Office. \n Jonathan Foster is a doctoral student based at Stockholm University whose research focuses on fiction dealing with administrative statecraft. His dissertation examines the depiction of state bureaucracy in the work of Harriet Martineau\, Charles Dickens\, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells. He is the co-editor of a special issue of The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies on ‘Brian O’Nolan and the Irish Civil Service\,’ and he is currently co-editing a special issue of Administory on ‘Administrative Cultures and their Aesthetics’ as well as a volume on Dickens and Decadence. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dickens-on-how-not-to-do-it/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Literature\, Art\, Environment: John Ruskin’s "Torcello"
DESCRIPTION:In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature\, Art\, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years\, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems\, dangers\, and disasters. However\, in this series\, we will invite speakers to explore the ways in which art and literature have foregrounded the inspirational beauty\, delicacy\, and strength of the natural world. \nJohn Ruskin\, a Victorian-era English writer known for his connections between nature\, art\, and society\, released a treatise on Venetian art and architecture in three volumes from 1851 to 1853\, entitled Stones of Venice. Using passages from Volume II of Ruskin’s Stones of Venice (1853)\, John Pfordresher will examine how Ruskin not only describes the environmental site for the first Romanesque Venetian church\, but how he discerns in its characteristics the values and religious beliefs which initiated that city’s later cultural and political success. Michael Scott\, director of the Future of the Humanities Project\, will provide opening and closing remarks\, and Michael Collins will moderate a Q&A session following the presentation. \nOnline. Open to all. \n  \nParticipants: \nJohn Pfordresher is professor emeritus of English at Georgetown University. His 50 years of teaching began in New Hampshire\, shortly thereafter continued in Washington\, DC\, and concluded with 20 years in Florence\, Italy. He has published books on Alfred Tennyson\, Matthew Arnold\, and Charlotte Brontë\, as well as a theoretical study of the historical emergence of the Catholic imagination. \nMichael Collins (moderator) 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. \nMichael Scott 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 at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project; the Georgetown Humanities Initiative; the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities; Campion Hall\, Oxford; and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford). It is part of the one-year-long series: A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature\, Art\, and the Environment. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/literature-art-environment-john-ruskins-torcello/
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: Cultural critic and Catholic activist
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian\, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement\, which she co-founded and continually inspired\, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group\, we will be looking at some of those words and actions\, focussing on Loaves and Fishes\, which is a collection of little essays\, mostly concerned with the Worker houses and farms. We will also discuss selected other readings by and about her\, on war and on poverty. \nThe meetings will be online.  All are welcome. Register here. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford University. He is the author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, published by Catholic University of America Press in 2021\, and Money\, Finance\, Reality\, Morality\, published by Ethics International Press in 2022. \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \nThe readings: \nWeek 1 (12 Oct ): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 1 and 2: pp 3-28 \nWeek 2 (19 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 3 and 4: pp. 29-62 \nWeek 3 (26 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 6\, 7\, and 8: pp. 71-92 \nWeek 4 (2 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 9 and 10: pp. 95-121 \nWeek 5 (9 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 13 and 14: pp. 153-161 \nWeek 6 (16 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 16 and 19: pp. 166-184; 210-221 \nWeek 7 (23 Nov) Dorothy Day on war:\nOn pacifism in the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/360.html https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/868.html\nOn the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/390.html\nOn the first nuclear bombing: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/554.html\nOn Vietnam: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/250.html \nWeek 8 (30 Nov):  Appreciations of Dorothy Day on poverty:\nBy Larry Chapp: https://www.communio-icr.com/files/Chapp_-_42.2_Poverty_and_Kenosis.pdf\nBy Father John Hugo: https://terrenouvelle.home.blog/fr-john-hugo-dorothy-day-apostle-of-the-industrial-age-1980/ \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-cultural-critic-and-catholic-activist/2022-11-09/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221114T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221114T171500
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SUMMARY:Living with Putin: Russia and the West
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. \nWhile there appears to be no end in sight eight months into the Russian Invasion of Ukraine\, the war has not gone according to plan for Vladimir Putin. International sanctions against the Kremlin have had severe economic and political effects\, and Ukraine has remarkably defended itself against what many assumed was an insurmountable foe. But as the conflict drags on\, and nuclear rhetoric casts a frightening shadow\, what is Putin’s end game? Does he have any plausible exit ramps short of “victory”? What does the future of life with Putin look like for the rest of the world? \nFeaturing\nCorneliu Bjola is an associate professor in diplomatic studies at the University of Oxford and head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group. He also serves as a faculty fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California\, and a professorial lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He has published extensively on issues related to the impact of digital technology on the conduct of diplomacy\, with a recent focus on public diplomacy\, international negotiations\, and methods for countering digital propaganda. \nSusan Eisenhower\, a policy analyst with a focus on national security\, is Chair Emeritus at the Eisenhower Institute. She serves on MIT’s Energy Initiative Advisory Board and formerly co-chaired the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee for the US Secretary of Energy. In 1998\, she was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control\, where she served for eight years. She has authored hundreds of columns for The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and The Los Angeles Times. \nEllen Ioanes is a reporter at Vox\, where she covers foreign affairs\, American politics\, and breaking news. She has been focusing on Russia’s war with Ukraine\, United States congressional policy\, and South Asian politics\, among other issues. She previously worked at Business Insider\, covering the military and global conflict\, and has bylines in The Guardian\, Foreign Policy\, The Center for Public Integrity\, and other media. She has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a degree in religious studies from Davidson College. \nKatherine Lawlor is a senior intelligence analyst at the Institute for the Study of War\, focusing on irregular and proxy warfare\, state fragility\, and disinformation. Since early 2022\, she has supported ISW’s Russia team in its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her analysis has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Foreign Policy\, Voice of America\, Financial Times\, and Politico. Prior to joining ISW\, Kat lived and studied in Russia. She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of St Andrews\, where she studied civil-military relations and Russian. \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/living-with-putin-russia-and-the-west/
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:20221115T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T075113
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SUMMARY:Sintonía: Art and the Earth
DESCRIPTION:Sintonía: Art and the Earth – Creative Concepts and Creative Process\nIn a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature\, Art\, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years\, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems\, dangers\, and disasters. However\, in this series\, we will invite speakers to explore the ways in which art and literature have foregrounded the inspirational beauty\, delicacy\, and strength of the natural world. \nWhy is art needed in times of crisis? Art has the power to generate new understandings of our relationship to the earth in this time of pollution and global warming. Avoiding distanced representations of nature\, Blanca Botero’s work involves coming into attunement with unusual viewpoints\, not necessarily human\, in order to critique the way humans use everything we share with the rest of the living creatures on the planet. In this presentation\, Botero will explain how her work arises from four creative concepts: attunement\, membrane\, travel\, and scale. She will present each concept within its context\, the thought process behind the concept\, and the creative process that led to these installations\, drawings\, and photography. Michael Scott\, director of the Future of the Humanities Project\, will provide opening and closing remarks\, and Kathryn Temple will moderate a Q&A session following the presentation. \nOnline. Open to all. \n  \nParticipants: \nBlanca Botera is a Colombian and Swiss artist based in Bogotá\, Colombia. Using drawing and various technological media\, she builds immersive installations that explore unusual\, not necessarily human\, points of view to address consumption of the earthly resources that all creatures share. She also works as mentor in Chicas STEAM\, a program sponsored by Bogota’s Science Museum and the Colombian governmental agency for communications and information technologies\, which offers girls ages 12 to 15 a safe space to explore science\, technology\, engineering\, art\, and mathematics. \nKathryn Temple (moderator) is a professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University where she has taught since 1994. She specializes in the study of law and the humanities. Among her publications are Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England (2019) and the co-edited Research Handbook on Law and Emotions (2021). Her humanities outreach activities include work with military veterans and the incarcerated. \nMichael Scott 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 at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project; the Georgetown Humanities Initiative; the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities; Campion Hall\, Oxford; and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford). It is part of the one-year-long series: A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature\, Art\, and the Environment. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/sintonia-art-and-the-earth/
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:20221116T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T075113
CREATED:20220922T173427Z
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: Cultural critic and Catholic activist
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian\, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement\, which she co-founded and continually inspired\, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group\, we will be looking at some of those words and actions\, focussing on Loaves and Fishes\, which is a collection of little essays\, mostly concerned with the Worker houses and farms. We will also discuss selected other readings by and about her\, on war and on poverty. \nThe meetings will be online.  All are welcome. Register here. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford University. He is the author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, published by Catholic University of America Press in 2021\, and Money\, Finance\, Reality\, Morality\, published by Ethics International Press in 2022. \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \nThe readings: \nWeek 1 (12 Oct ): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 1 and 2: pp 3-28 \nWeek 2 (19 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 3 and 4: pp. 29-62 \nWeek 3 (26 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 6\, 7\, and 8: pp. 71-92 \nWeek 4 (2 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 9 and 10: pp. 95-121 \nWeek 5 (9 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 13 and 14: pp. 153-161 \nWeek 6 (16 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 16 and 19: pp. 166-184; 210-221 \nWeek 7 (23 Nov) Dorothy Day on war:\nOn pacifism in the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/360.html https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/868.html\nOn the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/390.html\nOn the first nuclear bombing: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/554.html\nOn Vietnam: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/250.html \nWeek 8 (30 Nov):  Appreciations of Dorothy Day on poverty:\nBy Larry Chapp: https://www.communio-icr.com/files/Chapp_-_42.2_Poverty_and_Kenosis.pdf\nBy Father John Hugo: https://terrenouvelle.home.blog/fr-john-hugo-dorothy-day-apostle-of-the-industrial-age-1980/ \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-cultural-critic-and-catholic-activist/2022-11-16/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221117T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221117T183000
DTSTAMP:20260409T075113
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SUMMARY:Imago Dei and a theology of disability
DESCRIPTION:An online talk by Donna Jennings\, Evangelical Alliance. \nFree and open to all. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/imago-dei-and-a-theology-of-disability/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221122T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221122T190000
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SUMMARY:The influence and ‘presence’ of Charles de Foucauld at the Second Vatican Council and in modern papal thought in delineating the contours of the Church in the World Today
DESCRIPTION:Pope Francis canonised Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) on 15 May 2022 in Rome. The Pontiff identified him as frère universel or ‘Universal Brother’ in his Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti on ‘Fraternity and Social Friendship’ (3 October 2020) ‘Blessed Charles directed his ideal of total surrender to God towards an identification with the poor\, abandoned in the depths of the African desert.’ [287]. However\, after a hundred years since his death ‘Brother Charles’ remains a complex historical figure located between different worlds France and north Africa\, between Christianity and the Muslim World. That said\, Charles de Foucauld has remained a point of reference in Catholic theological\, missiological and ecclesial thought and especially for those seeking a new type of missionary commitment and presence in the world. This lecture will focus on the influence and ‘presence’ of Charles de Foucauld at the Second Vatican Council and in modern papal thought in delineating the contours of the Church in the World Today. \nA lecture by Anthony O’Mahony\, tutor in World Religions at Blackfriars Hall and Studium\, University of Oxford.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-influence-and-presence-of-charles-de-foucauld-at-the-second-vatican-council/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221123T170000
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: Cultural critic and Catholic activist
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian\, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement\, which she co-founded and continually inspired\, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group\, we will be looking at some of those words and actions\, focussing on Loaves and Fishes\, which is a collection of little essays\, mostly concerned with the Worker houses and farms. We will also discuss selected other readings by and about her\, on war and on poverty. \nThe meetings will be online.  All are welcome. Register here. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford University. He is the author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, published by Catholic University of America Press in 2021\, and Money\, Finance\, Reality\, Morality\, published by Ethics International Press in 2022. \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \nThe readings: \nWeek 1 (12 Oct ): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 1 and 2: pp 3-28 \nWeek 2 (19 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 3 and 4: pp. 29-62 \nWeek 3 (26 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 6\, 7\, and 8: pp. 71-92 \nWeek 4 (2 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 9 and 10: pp. 95-121 \nWeek 5 (9 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 13 and 14: pp. 153-161 \nWeek 6 (16 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 16 and 19: pp. 166-184; 210-221 \nWeek 7 (23 Nov) Dorothy Day on war:\nOn pacifism in the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/360.html https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/868.html\nOn the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/390.html\nOn the first nuclear bombing: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/554.html\nOn Vietnam: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/250.html \nWeek 8 (30 Nov):  Appreciations of Dorothy Day on poverty:\nBy Larry Chapp: https://www.communio-icr.com/files/Chapp_-_42.2_Poverty_and_Kenosis.pdf\nBy Father John Hugo: https://terrenouvelle.home.blog/fr-john-hugo-dorothy-day-apostle-of-the-industrial-age-1980/ \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-cultural-critic-and-catholic-activist/2022-11-23/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221129T160000
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SUMMARY:Sebastião Salgado: Photographic Images of a World in Distress
DESCRIPTION:In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature\, Art\, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years\, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems\, dangers\, and disasters. However\, in this series\, we will invite speakers to explore the ways in which art and literature have foregrounded the inspirational beauty\, delicacy\, and strength of the natural world. \nAssembled over the course of an eight-year global expedition\, Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis (2013) project provides images of vast and remote regions where nature reigns in silent and pristine majesty. At the exhibition of Genesis in Lisbon in 2015 Léila Wanick Salgado\, Sebastião Salgado’s wife and a fellow Brazilian filmmaker and environmentalist\, said\, “Genesis is a quest for the world as it was\, as it was formed\, as it evolved\, as it existed for millennia before modern life accelerated and began distancing us from the very essence of our being.” But what kind of nature is in view here? In the Anthropocene epoch\, can we really speak of pristine or unspoiled landscapes? Could we ever? \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Tim Howles will reflect on and analyze Salgado’s photography of nature—and the human gaze that invariably frames it. Michael Scott\, director of the Future of the Humanities Project\, will provide opening and closing remarks\, and Kathryn Temple and Rev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, will moderate a Q&A session following the presentation. \nOnline. Open to all. \n  \nParticipants: \nTim Howles is associate director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute\, based at Campion Hall\, Oxford. The institute seeks to generate cutting-edge research contributions for societal transformation on the most pressing ecological and social issues of our day. His particular interests lie at the intersection of politics and theology\, with a focus on the contemporary planetary crisis. His book\, The Political Theology of Bruno Latour: Globalisation\, Secularisation and Environmental Crisis\, will be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2023. Howles is also an ordained Anglican priest. \nKathryn Temple (moderator) is a professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University where she has taught since 1994. She specializes in the study of law and the humanities. Among her publications are Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England (2019) and the co-edited Research Handbook on Law and Emotions (2021). Her humanities outreach activities include work with military veterans and the incarcerated. \nRev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, (moderator) is an American Catholic priest currently writing his doctoral thesis at Campion Hall\, Oxford. 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 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 at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project; the Georgetown Humanities Initiative; the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities; Campion Hall\, Oxford; and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford). It is part of the one-year-long series: A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature\, Art\, and the Environment.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/sebastiao-salgado-photographic-images-of-a-world-in-distress/
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:20221130T170000
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: Cultural critic and Catholic activist
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian\, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement\, which she co-founded and continually inspired\, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group\, we will be looking at some of those words and actions\, focussing on Loaves and Fishes\, which is a collection of little essays\, mostly concerned with the Worker houses and farms. We will also discuss selected other readings by and about her\, on war and on poverty. \nThe meetings will be online.  All are welcome. Register here. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford University. He is the author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, published by Catholic University of America Press in 2021\, and Money\, Finance\, Reality\, Morality\, published by Ethics International Press in 2022. \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk \nThe readings: \nWeek 1 (12 Oct ): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 1 and 2: pp 3-28 \nWeek 2 (19 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 3 and 4: pp. 29-62 \nWeek 3 (26 Oct): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 6\, 7\, and 8: pp. 71-92 \nWeek 4 (2 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 9 and 10: pp. 95-121 \nWeek 5 (9 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 13 and 14: pp. 153-161 \nWeek 6 (16 Nov): Loaves and Fishes\, Chapters 16 and 19: pp. 166-184; 210-221 \nWeek 7 (23 Nov) Dorothy Day on war:\nOn pacifism in the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/360.html https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/868.html\nOn the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/390.html\nOn the first nuclear bombing: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/554.html\nOn Vietnam: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/250.html \nWeek 8 (30 Nov):  Appreciations of Dorothy Day on poverty:\nBy Larry Chapp: https://www.communio-icr.com/files/Chapp_-_42.2_Poverty_and_Kenosis.pdf\nBy Father John Hugo: https://terrenouvelle.home.blog/fr-john-hugo-dorothy-day-apostle-of-the-industrial-age-1980/ \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-cultural-critic-and-catholic-activist/2022-11-30/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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