Small is Beautiful, first published in 1973, has become a classic text for critics of the massive scale and environmental depredations of the modern industrial economy. The author was the Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board, a founder of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, and an enthusiast for Catholic Social Teaching. Many...
Small is Beautiful, first published in 1973, has become a classic text for critics of the massive scale and environmental depredations of the modern industrial economy. The author was the Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board, a founder of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, and an enthusiast for Catholic Social Teaching. Many...
Dr Clare Broome Saunders is giving a talk by Zoom on the artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. This 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...
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. Just weeks after taking office, the new government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which...
Oxford Consortium for Human Rights Annual Lecture Bartolomé de Las Casas, widely known as ‘the defender of the Indians’, is often presented as a lonely voice confronting the forces of darkness that surrounded him. This lecture attempts to place Las Casas in a wider historical context in order to reassess the originality of his contribution...