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SUMMARY:The Might and Mind of the Measurer: Creation and the Environment in Early English Literature
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. \nThe natural environment has been a central concern of English literature from the earliest times. It is often overlooked that the English literary tradition\, renowned for Chaucer\, Shakespeare\, and Milton\, originates in the Anglo-Saxon period\, which dates from c. 650 to 1066. At the very root of this tradition is the mid-to-late seventh century work Cædmon’s Hymn\, preoccupied with creation and considered the first poem in Old English. Similarly\, the eighth- and ninth-century Old English poems such as Exodus\, Daniel\, and Christ and Satan reflect a unique\, early English understanding of creation as a place for understanding the creator. \nIn this talk\, Jasmine Jones will conduct an analysis of several Old English poems to reveal how\, since the earliest times\, creation was understood as providing insight to God. This reverence for the environment remains relevant today\, as our contemporary concern for the majesty of the natural world is a continuation of that which is first expressed in the oldest surviving literature of the English language. Michael Scott\, director of the Future of the Humanities Project\, will provide opening and closing remarks\, and Kathryn Temple\, a Future of the Humanities Project senior fellow\, will moderate a Q&A session following the presentation. \nParticipants: \nJasmine Jones is completing her D.Phil. in English at St. Edmund Hall\, University of Oxford\, where she is a Clarendon Scholar and the Bruce Mitchell Scholar of Old and Middle English. Her doctoral thesis analyzes the earliest writings which survive in the English language—Anglo-Saxon theological poems from around 700 to 850 AD. Jasmine aspires to an academic career in which she can continue to research what she loves and share this knowledge through teaching others. \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 (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. \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-might-and-mind-of-the-measurer-creation-and-the-environment-in-early-english-literature/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:World Press Freedom Day: An Empty Celebration?
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. \nIn December 1993\, the United Nations established World Press Freedom Day to emphasize the international importance of freedom of the press. But even as Western and other democratic countries have declared their devotion to media freedom and access to information\, powerful voices within some putatively democratic societies continue to malign and sow distrust in the media. Meanwhile\, authoritarian governments that do not honor the virtues of an informed citizenry often persecute\, imprison\, and even murder journalists who report the truth. On World Press Freedom Day 2023\, we ask how freedom of the press is faring as a fundamental human right. Is there much to celebrate this year? \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nFeaturing\nMichael J. Abramowitz\, president of Freedom House\, oversees a unique combination of analysis\, advocacy\, and direct support to frontline defenders of freedom\, especially those working in closed authoritarian societies. He previously directed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education\, prior to which he led the museum’s genocide prevention efforts. Abramowitz spent the first 24 years of his career at The Washington Post\, where he was national editor and then White House correspondent. \nSharon Moshavi\, president of the International Center for Journalists\, joined the organization in 2007\, first as digital media director\, and later as senior vice president for new initiatives. Previously\, she worked at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation\, helping promote and launch the first News Challenge. In more than 15 years as a journalist\, she covered North Korea’s nuclear ambitions\, Hamas’s rise in Gaza\, India’s economic reforms\, and the growth of Fox News and CNN. \nGabe Rottman directs the Technology and Press Freedom Project at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press\, which integrates legal\, policy\, and public education efforts to protect newsgathering and First Amendment freedoms in the context of emerging technological challenges and opportunities. He previously opened PEN America’s Washington\, DC\, office. Rottman was also deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Freedom\, Security and Technology Project. \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/world-press-day-is-the-press-free/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTAMP:20260409T161544
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SUMMARY:Joseph Pieper: Leisure\, the Basis of Culture
DESCRIPTION:“Leisure is the centre-point around which everything revolves.” Josef Pieper explores this puzzling statement of Aristotle in this short\, approachable\, and profound book. We will use a careful reading of the text to contemplate the lack of contemplation in our contemporary work-life balance\, and Pieper’s argument that only a more spiritual approach can make things right. \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. \nWeek by week: \nApril 26: Leisure… Forward. Preface and Chapter 1 \nMay 3: Leisure… Chapter 2 \nMay 10: Leisure… Chapters 3 and 4 \nMay 17: Leisure… Chapter 5 \nMay 24: Laborem exercens \nMay 31: Philosophical Act: Chapter 1 \nJune 7: Philosophical Act: Chapters 2 and 3 \nJune 14: Philosophical Act: Chapter 4 \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/joseph-pieper-leisure-the-basis-of-culture/2023-05-03/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230509T160000
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SUMMARY:“Gotta be Goin' On” the mythical vision of America’s Land
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. \nFollowing the climactic gunfight in the saloon at the end of the classic Western film Shane (1953)\, Shane tells Little Joe he’s “gotta be goin’ on.” In the final scene\, Shane rides alone into the mountains\, into the virgin land\, leaving behind the farmers he has protected as they sought to cultivate what was once the open range. Like many American heroes\, Shane\, as Huck Finn puts it\, lights out for the territory\, searching in the untamed wilderness for the lost Eden\, for the longed-for brave new world. In this talk\, Michael Collins will focus on the role that the putatively virgin land\, just beyond the settlement\, has played in the American imagination in the past and in our own time. Collins will also look at the paradoxical response that the United States has traditionally made to the abundance of open land it believes it has been given. \nParticipants: \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. \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 (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. \nFree and open to all. Registration is required. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/gotta-be-goin-on-the-mythical-vision-of-americas-land/
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:20230510T170000
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SUMMARY:Joseph Pieper: Leisure\, the Basis of Culture
DESCRIPTION:“Leisure is the centre-point around which everything revolves.” Josef Pieper explores this puzzling statement of Aristotle in this short\, approachable\, and profound book. We will use a careful reading of the text to contemplate the lack of contemplation in our contemporary work-life balance\, and Pieper’s argument that only a more spiritual approach can make things right. \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. \nWeek by week: \nApril 26: Leisure… Forward. Preface and Chapter 1 \nMay 3: Leisure… Chapter 2 \nMay 10: Leisure… Chapters 3 and 4 \nMay 17: Leisure… Chapter 5 \nMay 24: Laborem exercens \nMay 31: Philosophical Act: Chapter 1 \nJune 7: Philosophical Act: Chapters 2 and 3 \nJune 14: Philosophical Act: Chapter 4 \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/joseph-pieper-leisure-the-basis-of-culture/2023-05-10/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230516T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230516T170000
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SUMMARY:Nature Abhors a Vacuum - Overcoming Domesticity in “Housekeeping”
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. \nMarilynne Robinson’s first novel\, Housekeeping (1980)\, treats generations of Foster women tending the family home in fictitious Fingerbone\, Idaho. They contend with regular lunar floods\, a lake that swallows a train full of people\, and the alluring call of nature that unsettles staid domesticity. In this talk\, Rev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, will discuss Robinson’s deft treatment of the power of the natural world to enchant\, confound\, and ultimately overtake the family home. Simmons will also consider how Housekeeping\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist\, fits in with Robinson’s broader interests in ecology\, overlooked historical voices\, and biblical literacy. \nTo commemorate the final webinar of the academic year\, there will be a Q&A session followed by a panel discussion chaired by Michael Scott with Rev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, Kathryn Temple\, and Michael Collins on literature\, art\, and the environment. \n  \nParticipants: \nRev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J. is a Catholic priest and research fellow in the Department of English at Georgetown University. Simmons’ licentiate in sacred theology thesis\, “Via Literaria: Marilynne Robinson’s Theology Through a Literary Imagination\,” explored the convergence of literary and Christian imaginations. He completed his doctorate at Campion Hall in Oxford. Simmons’ academic interests include phenomenology of attention\, theology and literature\, and writers “bothered by God.” \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. \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 (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. \nFree and open to all. Registration is required. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/nature-abhors-a-vacuum/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Joseph Pieper: Leisure\, the Basis of Culture
DESCRIPTION:“Leisure is the centre-point around which everything revolves.” Josef Pieper explores this puzzling statement of Aristotle in this short\, approachable\, and profound book. We will use a careful reading of the text to contemplate the lack of contemplation in our contemporary work-life balance\, and Pieper’s argument that only a more spiritual approach can make things right. \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. \nWeek by week: \nApril 26: Leisure… Forward. Preface and Chapter 1 \nMay 3: Leisure… Chapter 2 \nMay 10: Leisure… Chapters 3 and 4 \nMay 17: Leisure… Chapter 5 \nMay 24: Laborem exercens \nMay 31: Philosophical Act: Chapter 1 \nJune 7: Philosophical Act: Chapters 2 and 3 \nJune 14: Philosophical Act: Chapter 4 \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/joseph-pieper-leisure-the-basis-of-culture/2023-05-17/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230518T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230518T183000
DTSTAMP:20260409T161544
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SUMMARY:Vocational Liberty as Catholic Social Teaching: Historical Context and Doctrinal Development
DESCRIPTION:An online talk by Christopher J. Lane\, PhD\, Association Professor of History\, Christendom College. Response by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow\, Blackfriars Hall. \nThis talk contextualizes the long-term development of Catholic law\, doctrine\, and practice in support of individual freedom to choose a state of life\, especially with respect to the vows of marriage and of religion. By contextualizing the development of teachings and laws on vocational liberty\, we can see that they are rightly considered as part of Catholic social teaching. The choice of a state of life and the taking of vows are not acts of isolated individuals\, but they always concern man’s life with others. Historically\, reformers’ efforts to ensure vocational liberty have often arisen precisely because these principles conflicted with both the legal and cultural structures of patriarchal Catholic societies. Among the contexts of doctrinal development considered in the talk will be the following: the high medieval shift toward free consent to marital and religious vows\, Tridentine enhancements to the enforcement of vocational liberty\, the efforts of the early modern French state to police choices of marriage and of religion\, and the role of liberty in rigorist seventeenth-century vocational discernment culture. \nChristopher J. Lane\, PhD is a historian of early modern Europe\, especially French Catholicism\, and serves as Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Christendom College in Front Royal\, Va. His teaching and writing engages questions such as the individual in society\, family and state authority\, lived religious experience\, the long-term construction of religious and secular cultures\, and the variegated character of modernity. His book\, Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France (McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2021) analyzes the origins\, growth\, and influence of a culture of vocation that became a central component of the Catholic Reformation and its legacy in France. It argues that reformers’ new vision of the choice of a state of life was marked by four characteristics: urgency (the claim that one’s soul was at stake)\, inclusiveness (the belief that everyone\, including lay people\, was called by God)\, method (the use of proven discernment practices)\, and liberty (the belief that this choice must be free from coercion\, especially by parents). These vocational reforms engendered enduring beliefs and practices within the repertoire of global Catholic modernity\, even to the present day. \nFree and open for all. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/vocational-liberty-as-catholic-social-teaching-historical-context-and-doctrinal-development/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230524T170000
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SUMMARY:Joseph Pieper: Leisure\, the Basis of Culture
DESCRIPTION:“Leisure is the centre-point around which everything revolves.” Josef Pieper explores this puzzling statement of Aristotle in this short\, approachable\, and profound book. We will use a careful reading of the text to contemplate the lack of contemplation in our contemporary work-life balance\, and Pieper’s argument that only a more spiritual approach can make things right. \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. \nWeek by week: \nApril 26: Leisure… Forward. Preface and Chapter 1 \nMay 3: Leisure… Chapter 2 \nMay 10: Leisure… Chapters 3 and 4 \nMay 17: Leisure… Chapter 5 \nMay 24: Laborem exercens \nMay 31: Philosophical Act: Chapter 1 \nJune 7: Philosophical Act: Chapters 2 and 3 \nJune 14: Philosophical Act: Chapter 4 \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/joseph-pieper-leisure-the-basis-of-culture/2023-05-24/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230530T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T161544
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SUMMARY:War Cry\, an autoethnographic proposal of a Peace Grand Strategy for Mexico
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Alberto Solís Castro. \nFrom 1989 to 2000\, Mexico transitioned from a one-party autocratic political system to a multi-party democracy. The lack of institutional transformation during the regime change\, especially in law enforcement and justice\, resulted in an increase in violence by organized crime groups. Numerous academics (Trejo and Ley 2013\, 2020) argue that the criminal activity was possible because of the relationship between government and cartels. The increase of violence was caused by the cartels´ uncertainty in their relationship with the government because of the arrival of new political actors during the transition (Trejo and Ley 2013\, 2020\, Kalyvas 2015\, Lessing 2015\, 2017\, Trejo Albarracín and Tiscornia 2018). The militarization of security against organized crime (implemented since 2006) generated a logic of criminal warfare and detonated permanent violence that deepened in the following governments. By the year 2023\, Mexico will accumulate more than 200\,000 executions and 112\,000 disappearances as a result of the war against drug trafficking. Civil and human rights organizations\, victims’ collectives and international organizations have demanded a change of policy\, producing multiple proposals and strategies to address the serious conditions of violence and impunity.\nThis paper presents a comprehensive proposal to confront the violence generated by the war against organized crime in Mexico by addressing both the direct violence and the structural and cultural conditions that sustain it at the local\, territorial and regional levels. In order to develop this proposal\, this project reviews strategies promoted by civil society networks\, using the author’s professional experience as a key source through the development of an autoethnography. The autoethnographic work also builds from specialized academic literature on the subject and the recovery of lessons learned from recent experiences in the international regional context. \nAlberto Solís Castro is a Graduate in Political Science and Public Administration from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM; with professional studies in Philosophy from the same University and in Literary Creation from the General Society of Writers of Mexico (SOGEM). He studied a diploma in Theology for university students at the Alberto Magno Theological Center of the Centro Universitario Cultural (CUC) with the Order of Preachers. He is a University specialist in Protection and Security for Human Rights Defenders and Activists at the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville\, Spain. He has taught several classes at the university level in History and New Paradigms of Peace\, Peace Management and Mediation in the degree of Human Rights and Peace Management at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana and at the Universidad del Medio Ambiente. \nFrom 2014 to 2021 he was Executive Director of Servicios y Asesoría para la Paz A.C. (Serapaz) an organization specialized in Positive Conflict Transformation and Peace Building founded in 1996 by Bishop Samuel Ruíz García to support mediation work in the armed conflict between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and the Mexican federal government in the state of Chiapas. He has coordinated and participated in different research and analysis projects on social conflict in Mexico and advised and/or accompanied more than 80 conflict processes with social movements of different struggles and demands such as defense of territory and natural common goods; truth and justice\, with relatives of disappeared people; democratic conditions\, with individual\, community and collective human rights defenders\, with organizations against impunity; and for the defense of economic\, social and cultural rights with unions\, student movements and artists\, for health\, housing and culture in recent years. \nNext May\, he will get a Master degree in International Peace Studies at the Institute for Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend\, Indiana\, USA.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/war-cry-an-autoethnographic-proposal-of-a-peace-grand-strategy-for-mexico/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Joseph Pieper: Leisure\, the Basis of Culture
DESCRIPTION:“Leisure is the centre-point around which everything revolves.” Josef Pieper explores this puzzling statement of Aristotle in this short\, approachable\, and profound book. We will use a careful reading of the text to contemplate the lack of contemplation in our contemporary work-life balance\, and Pieper’s argument that only a more spiritual approach can make things right. \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. \nWeek by week: \nApril 26: Leisure… Forward. Preface and Chapter 1 \nMay 3: Leisure… Chapter 2 \nMay 10: Leisure… Chapters 3 and 4 \nMay 17: Leisure… Chapter 5 \nMay 24: Laborem exercens \nMay 31: Philosophical Act: Chapter 1 \nJune 7: Philosophical Act: Chapters 2 and 3 \nJune 14: Philosophical Act: Chapter 4 \nFor further information\, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/joseph-pieper-leisure-the-basis-of-culture/2023-05-31/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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