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SUMMARY:E. F. Schumacher: Small is Beautiful
DESCRIPTION: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 of the ideas presented in Small is Beautiful remain both relevant and controversial. We will discuss selected chapters of this short and easy-to-read book\, their current implications\, and the broader economic\, ecological\, and political questions that they raise. \n  \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 \n  \nWeek One (January 18): “The problem of production” (Chapter 1) – the illusion of unlimited powers \nWeek Two (January 25): “The role of economics” (Chapter 3) – is “growth” good? \nWeek Three (February 1:) “A question of size” (Chapter 5) – small and large cities and countries \nWeek Four (February 8): “The greatest resource – education (Chapter 6) – human “capital” \nWeek Five (February 15): “The proper use of land” (Chapter 7) – in favour of farmers \nWeek Six (February 22): “Technology with a human face” (Chapter 10) – Appropriate tools \nWeek Seven (March 1): “The problem of unemployment in India (Chapter 14) – a theory of development \nWeek Eight (March 8): Organisation\, socialism\, and property (Chapters 16-18) – small is often beautiful \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/e-f-schumacher-small-is-beautiful/2023-03-01/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:E. F. Schumacher: Small is Beautiful
DESCRIPTION: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 of the ideas presented in Small is Beautiful remain both relevant and controversial. We will discuss selected chapters of this short and easy-to-read book\, their current implications\, and the broader economic\, ecological\, and political questions that they raise. \n  \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 \n  \nWeek One (January 18): “The problem of production” (Chapter 1) – the illusion of unlimited powers \nWeek Two (January 25): “The role of economics” (Chapter 3) – is “growth” good? \nWeek Three (February 1:) “A question of size” (Chapter 5) – small and large cities and countries \nWeek Four (February 8): “The greatest resource – education (Chapter 6) – human “capital” \nWeek Five (February 15): “The proper use of land” (Chapter 7) – in favour of farmers \nWeek Six (February 22): “Technology with a human face” (Chapter 10) – Appropriate tools \nWeek Seven (March 1): “The problem of unemployment in India (Chapter 14) – a theory of development \nWeek Eight (March 8): Organisation\, socialism\, and property (Chapters 16-18) – small is often beautiful \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/e-f-schumacher-small-is-beautiful/2023-03-08/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Dr Clare Broome Saunders Talk: Phoebe Anna Traquair
DESCRIPTION:Dr Clare Broome Saunders is giving a talk by Zoom on the artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. \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. \nFor more information and reservation\, visit Georgetown University website.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-clare-broome-saunders-dante-and-william-blake/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Democracy Endangered: The Case of Israel
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. \nJust weeks after taking office\, the new government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\, which some have labeled as the most right-wing in the country’s history\, announced plans to weaken the Supreme Court and other democratic institutions\, prompting massive domestic protests and widespread concerns among the country’s friends about the future of Israeli democracy. Many say the proposal could eliminate the judiciary from serving as an effective check on the executive and legislative branches of government\, and add new complications to the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. It could also sideline Netanyahu’s scheduled trial on charges of fraud\, breach of trust and bribery. \nFree and open to all. Registration is required. \nFeaturing\n\n\nHagit Borer is a professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London\, and a member of the British Academy. A disciple of Noam Chomsky\, she earned her Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. Borer’s research for the past 40 years spans comparative syntax\, morphosyntax\, the syntax-semantics interface\, and grammatical acquisition. Originally from Israel\, she has been an activist for the rights of Palestinians in that country. \nIan Linden is on the advisory board of Las Casas Institute at Oxford and a visiting professor at St. Mary’s University\, London\, He was formerly CEO of the Catholic Institute for International Relations and a member of the Christian-Muslim Forum in the UK\, and has been awarded for his work on human rights. Linden has lived and worked in Africa and\, as an historian\, has focused on religion and conflict. His current research is on the psychology of the extremist mind. \nDebra Shushan is the first-ever director of policy at J Street\, a pro-Israel\, pro-peace organization in Washington that believes in a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Paleestinian conflict. She previously oversaw J Street’s congressional advocacy operations as director of government affairs. An analyst of US foreign policy\, Shushan was previously director of policy and government relations at Americans for Peace Now. She holds a BA from Harvard\, an MPhil from Oxford\, and a PhD from Yale. \nGil Troy\, a scholar of North American history at McGill University in Montreal\, lives in Jerusalem and is an award-winning presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist. He has been designated as an? Algemeiner?J-100\,?one of the top 100 people “positively influencing Jewish life.”? Troy wrote “The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s”?and eight other books on the US presidency. His essays have been featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The Wall Street Journal. \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.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/democracy-endangered-the-case-of-israel/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Las Casas and His World: the Defender of the Indians in Context
DESCRIPTION:Oxford Consortium for Human Rights Annual Lecture\nBartolomé 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 to the struggle for justice in the New World. \n \nA lecture by Dr Fernando Cervantes\, Bristol University. \nOpen to all. The lecture will be live streamed as well.\nFor in-person attendance\, please email lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk.\nTo attend online\, please register here. \nThe event is sponsored by the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights (OCHR) and the Las Casas Institute.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/las-casas-and-his-world/
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