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SUMMARY:Democracy in the United Kingdom: Choices to be made?
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. \nOn January 31\, 2020\, the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union. Nearly three-and-a-half-years later\, many feel that “Brexit” has not worked out as its proponents had hoped. Amid arising political polarization\, educators and unionists are on strike\, the National Health Service remains in disarray\, and a cost-of-living crisis plagues the country. Following the resignation of both the scandal-ridden Boris Johnson\, who had made Brexit a central part of his program\, and Liz Truss\, whose brief term was beset with accusations of gross economic mismanagement\, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been attempting to quell the chaos left by his Conservative Party predecessors\, with some hoping he will bring an era of integrity and accountability to British politics while others predict the party’s disintegration. Meanwhile\, Tory lawmakers have approved legislation restricting public protests and expanding the search and seizure powers of police. Is the young leader doing enough to get democracy back on track? Or has general discontent made a victory by the Labour Party\, led by Keir Starmer\, more likely in the 2024 national election? \nFree and open to all. Registration is not required.  Follow link to watch the event. \nFeaturing\nJohn Battle is a British Labour Party politician who served in Parliament for Leeds West from 1987-2010. He now chairs the Justice and Peace Commission of the Diocese of Leeds. Battle served as Minister of State for Trade and Industry from 1997-1999\, and as Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1999-2001. He is a Fellow at Leeds Trinity University and Blackfriars Hall\, the University of Oxford. \nLaura Beers is a professor of history at American University whose research focuses on modern Britain. Her most recent book\, Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson\, Socialist\, Feminist\, Internationalist\, a history of Britain’s second female cabinet minister\, won the 2017 Stansky award for best book in the field of modern British history. She is also the author of Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party. \nMax Colchester is the Wall Street Journal’s U.K. correspondent\, writing about British politics and national security. Previously\, he covered the banking industry out of London\, chronicling the fallout of the financial crisis. Before that\, he was a correspondent in Paris\, covering a range of subjects from fashion to nuclear energy and technology. He holds a Master’s degree from City University London. \nBaroness Jenny Randerson has been a member of the House of Lords since 2012 and is a Liberal Democratic Party spokesperson there for Transport. She has served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales and a Lords’ Minister for Northern Ireland. She has also been a Welsh Assembly member for Cardiff Central\, including a year as acting deputy First Minister of Wales. \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-in-the-united-kingdom-choices-to-be-made/
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SUMMARY:The Vatican and the Holy Land: diplomacy and pilgrimage in religious and geopolitical context
DESCRIPTION:The first part of a two-part talk by Anthony O’Mahony\, tutor in World Religions at Blackfriars Hall and Studium and a Graduate College Adviser\, held at Blackfriars Hall and online. \nIn modern times the historical vocation of Jerusalem has been identified as a meeting place for Judaism\, Christianity and Islam. The encounter of these three religions in a city which represents a shared sacred space continues to present a challenge for their peaceful coexistence. Today the question of the identity of Jerusalem has come to have an international role of great importance and sensitivity. The City of Jerusalem and the Holy Land since the fourth century has been important place in the religious imagination of the Christian Tradition. Eastern and Western Christian churches through their presence in the Holy Places and centuries of pilgrimage have uniquely contributed transforming the Jerusalem into a Christian sacred space. The first lecture will give account for the intimate ecclesial and theological relationship between the modern papacy and Jerusalem – describing and noting that all pontiffs since Vatican II – Paul VI (1964)\, John Paul II (2000) \, Benedict XVI (2009) and Francis (2014) have made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as a ‘return to the sources’ of Christianity. The second lecture will consider modern and contemporary Catholic theological thought on the question of Jerusalem. \nFree and open for all. \nRegistration is only required to attend online.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-vatican-and-the-holy-land-diplomacy-and-pilgrimage-in-religious-and-geopolitical-context/
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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/2023-06-07/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Catholic Theological and Ecclesial Perspectives on the Question of Jerusalem: modern history and contemporary Contexts
DESCRIPTION:The second part of a two-part talk by Anthony O’Mahony\, tutor in World Religions at Blackfriars Hall and Studium and a Graduate College Adviser\, held at Blackfriars Hall and online. \nIn modern times the historical vocation of Jerusalem has been identified as a meeting place for Judaism\, Christianity and Islam. The encounter of these three religions in a city which represents a shared sacred space continues to present a challenge for their peaceful coexistence. Today the question of the identity of Jerusalem has come to have an international role of great importance and sensitivity. The City of Jerusalem and the Holy Land since the fourth century has been important place in the religious imagination of the Christian Tradition. Eastern and Western Christian churches through their presence in the Holy Places and centuries of pilgrimage have uniquely contributed transforming the Jerusalem into a Christian sacred space. The first lecture will give account for the intimate ecclesial and theological relationship between the modern papacy and Jerusalem – describing and noting that all pontiffs since Vatican II – Paul VI (1964)\, John Paul II (2000) \, Benedict XVI (2009) and Francis (2014) have made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as a ‘return to the sources’ of Christianity. The second lecture will consider modern and contemporary Catholic theological thought on the question of Jerusalem. \nFree and open for all. \nRegistration is only required to attend online. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/catholic-perspectives-on-jerusalem-contemporary-ecclesial-and-theological-perspectives/
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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/2023-06-14/
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