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SUMMARY:James Bartholomew’s The Welfare State We’re In
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, people interested in Christian social thought have begun to express reservations about the welfare state. Concerns have come from the left (for example\, Frank Field and Maurice Glasman)\, from those supportive of a market economy\, and from those whose political or economic philosophy cannot easily be categorized. Furthermore\, interesting questions have been raised by the last three popes about what might be called a “welfare mentality.” While this talk may lean towards a position which suggests a reduced role for the state in the provision of welfare\, the important point is that which has been stressed especially by Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis—the need to ensure that systems of welfare provision really do involve fraternity and a close relationship between those in need and those who are providing support. Welfare mechanisms cannot simply involve the provision of services or money. \nIn this talk\, Philip Booth will discuss how James Bartholomew’s The Welfare State We’re In (2004) provides a detailed history of welfare before the welfare state\, helping to inform our discussions about promoting fraternity\, genuine solidarity\, and subsidiarity in the provision of welfare. \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. It is part of the year-long series\, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference. \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nPhilip Booth  is director of Catholic mission and professor of finance\, public policy\, and ethics at St. Mary’s University in Twickenham\, London. He is also director of policy and research for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. Prior to this\, he served as director of research and public engagement and dean of the Faculty of Education\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences at St. Mary’s University. Booth is also a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Institute of Actuaries. \nUpcoming events in this series\nDr Jasmine Jones\n3pm\, Mon\, 28 Oct: On Beowulf \nDr Ian Finlay\n4pm\, Mon\, 4 Nov: On The Book of Mormon \nDr Clare Broome Saunders\n4pm\, Mon\, 11 Nov: On Middlemarch \nDr Neil Garrod\n4pm\, Mon\, 18 Nov: On A Month in the Country \nDr Anthony O’Mahony\n4pm\, Mon\, 25 Nov: On The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/james-bartholomews-the-welfare-state-were-in/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Yesterday’s Forgotten Crises
DESCRIPTION:As the world focuses on Ukraine’s offensive against Russia\, as well as Israel’s struggle with Hamas and Hezbollah\, the temptation is to believe that other crises have meanwhile eased. However\, many additional people around the world also suffer from devastating conflicts. In Sudan\, ongoing war between the army and paramilitary forces has shattered the country\, killing some 20\,000 and displacing over 10 million. In Venezuela\, the suppression of human rights\, rampant corruption\, and economic collapse have displaced 7.7 million. And in Myanmar\, where the Rohingya have faced decades of systemic persecution and targeted violence\, a 2021 military coup inflicted widespread suffering\, displacing 3.3 million. To name a few. How can the international community bring meaningful attention to these seemingly overlooked crises without merely substituting them for others now commanding our attention? \nOpen to all. Registration is required for this online lecture. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University) and the Future of the Humanities Project (Georgetown University and Blackfriars Hall and Campion Hall\, Oxford). \npanellists:\nFanta Aw\,  serves as the executive director and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators\, having previously held its presidency from 2013 to 2016. NAFSA is the world’s largest and most comprehensive international education association\, with more than 10\,000 members at more than 4\,000 institutions in 140+ countries. She often serves as a keynote speaker\, sharing her expertise on various topics\, including internationalization\, geopolitics\, public policy\, and immigration. \nLouis Goodman\, professor and dean emeritus at the School of International Service of American University in Washington\, DC\, carries out research on social change and politics in Latin America and Asia. He has published widely on civil-military relations in Latin America\, foreign investment in developing countries\, and determinants of career success for blue-collar workers. \nAnne Lonsdale\,  a British sinologist and higher education expert\, served as the President of New Hall (now Murray Edwards College)\, University of Cambridge\, from 1996 to 2008. Previously\, she was the secretary-general of the Central European University and joined the team creating Nazarbayev University in Astana\, Kazakhstan\, where she was appointed founding provost from 2010 to 2012\, returning to that position in 2015. She is a long-standing member of the Council for At-Risk Academics. \nLord Jonathan Oates\, former chief of staff to former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg\, he was also director of policy and communications at the Liberal Democrats. He has been a member of the House of Lords since 2015 and sits as a Liberal Democrat. He has been outspoken in the Lords on international crises such as that in Sudan\, and is chief executive of United Against Malnutrition and Hunger and a trustee of the Royal African Society. \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/yesterdays-forgotten-crises/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Metaverse Book and Series Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Metaverse Series is a forthcoming series of books from Taylor & Francis which will explore the role\, opportunities and challenges of the Metaverse in the present and near future\, from business and entertainment to our personal lives and to humanity’s future. The Metaverse Series will take a critical view of the potential and opportunities\, dangers and challenges of the Metaverse. The series intends to focus more on the consensual social virtual space that the Metaverse creates rather than any specific technology used to build it. Whilst many of its features are already finding their way into everyday activities\, these early manifestations give little sense of the long term impact that the Metaverse could have on the future of humanity. Yet\, even the form and scope of the ‘metaverse’ are subject to debate\, and this series will aim to ensure that such discussion is well informed. \nBook to attend the launch\, which will be an ‘in conversation’ event with Professor Nigel Crook\, Oxford Brookes University; Professor Sarah Hayes\, University of Bath Spa; Dave White\, University of the Arts and the authors David Burden and Maggi Savin-Baden. \nFeatured:\nProfessor Nigel Crook\, Oxford Brookes University whose research interests include Ethical Artificial Intelligence\, autonomous moral machines\, biologically inspired machine learning\, embodied conversational agents and social robotics as well as other aspects of ethical AI. \nProfessor Sarah Hayes\, University of Bath Spa has co-edited the Springer books Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (2022) and Human Data Interaction\, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community (2023). She recently led two projects funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council about Data and disadvantage and Extending Human Data Interaction. \nDave White\, University of the Arts is a regular speaker on topics such as digital identity\, digital literacies and online credibility. He has been heard on Radio 4\, the World Service and ABC Australia. David is at home blogging\, tweeting or creating videos\, developing thinking and discourse in online spaces. For him the digital is much more than a set of tools or a chaotic library\, it’s a place where we can learn and live. \nDavid Burden is an independent consultant in conversational AI\, virtual humans\, virtual reality\, virtual worlds\, the metaverse and virtual war (wargames). He is doing a PhD in wargaming urban conflict and series co-editor for The Metaverse Series. \nMaggi Savin-Baden is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford\, is the co-editor of the Metaverse series with David\, with whom she has worked for over 20 years. She is author\, co-author and editor of 27 books.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/metaverse-book-and-series-launch/
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SUMMARY:Capacity to consent to medical treatment: bringing theory into Practice
DESCRIPTION:1-day workshop led by Dr John Duddington\, Mollie Cornell\, and Anne Duddington. The aim of the workshop is to look at some ideas of what capacity actually means and should mean from the philosophical/legal angle and then to relate these to actual situations where there are difficult questions of capacity when\, for instance\, the patient lacks capacity because of age\, disability etc. It should be of especial interest to those with an actual involvement in this area\, whether professionally or through lived experience. \nPlaces limited and registration required. There is no charge for the event and a lunch is provided (please indicate any dietary requirements at registration). To register\, please email lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk . Priority will be given to those with experience in this field and Blackfriars Graduate Students.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/capacity-to-consent-to-medical-treatment-bringing-theory-into-practice/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Annexe Seminar Room\, 33 St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Beowulf: Cultural Encounter and the Beginning of English Literature
DESCRIPTION:The Old English poem Beowulf\, dating from the late seventh or early eighth century\, offers a textual encounter with the dynamic culture of early medieval England. Highlighting the theology of the early English church\, the poem reveals a deep reverence of God as Creator and an acute awareness of God’s ongoing governance of creation through the unfolding of his will in daily life. The spiritual battle between good and evil is a paradigm through which the Beowulf-poet sees reality\, and the Beowulfian imagination is evidently a thoroughly biblical one\, given the poem’s many scriptural allusions and parallels. Textual analysis reveals that Beowulf is not the product of a primitive “Dark Ages\,” but the sophisticated output of an intellectually advanced monastic milieu. Beowulf contributes to a wider corpus of early Old English religious poems which form the roots of English theological and literary tradition. \nIn this talk\, Jasmine Jones will provide a close-reading analysis of Beowulf in the original Old English\, illuminating the two main topics of cultural encounter in the poem: religion and Germanic-heroic culture. \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. It is part of the year-long series\, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference. \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nJasmine Jones is a college lecturer in English at Pembroke College\, Oxford\, and Stipendiary Lecturer in English (650–1550) at St. Peter’s College\, Oxford. Jones is finishing her doctorate in English at St. Edmund Hall\, Oxford\, where she has been a Clarendon Scholar and the Bruce Mitchell Scholar of Old and Middle English. Her research focuses on understanding the theology of the earliest writings which survive in the English language: Old English monastic poetry from around 650 to 850 CE. \nUpcoming events in this series\nDr Ian Finlay\n4pm\, Mon\, 4 Nov: On The Book of Mormon \nDr Clare Broome Saunders\n4pm\, Mon\, 11 Nov: On Middlemarch \nDr Neil Garrod\n4pm\, Mon\, 18 Nov: On A Month in the Country \nDr Anthony O’Mahony\n4pm\, Mon\, 25 Nov: On The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/beowulf/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Humanitarianism 2.0: New Ethics for the Climate Emergency
DESCRIPTION:Book launch for Dr Hugo Slim’s  Humanitarianism 2.0: New Ethics for the Climate Emergency. \nRegistration is required to attend this event. \nThis book spells out a new framework for humanitarian aid in the long emergency of climate change. Looking ahead to the massive needs of the late 2020s and the 2030s\, Hugo Slim shows how current ethics and action in the sector are necessary\, but not sufficient\, for the new moral and operational challenges of our planetary crisis. \nHumanitarianism 2.0 offers a series of practical ethical pathways for aid workers and organisations to reimagine and redesign their purpose in the increasing number of climate-related disasters around the world. Slim expands the fundamental principle of humanity to include the protection of nature in humanitarian ethics\, and also faces up to the hard challenge of impartiality and prioritisation in a universal emergency. He then recognises anticipation\, adaptation\, mitigation and locally led aid as humanitarian obligations in climate-related disasters. \nLike everything else in the climate and nature crisis\, humanitarian ethics need adaptation. Slim’s bold\, smart and much-needed proposals show the way. \nDr Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute where he is leading a research and advocacy project on the ethics and practice of humanitarian aid in the climate emergency. The project asks ‘What is Climate Humanitarianism?’ and is jointly funded by Caritas and Red Cross agencies. He is also the Academic Director of the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights\, a network of Universities and Community Colleges in the USA which offers students educational workshops in human rights and is hosted in Oxford by the Las Casas Institute. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/book-launch-humanitarianism-2-0-new-ethics-for-the-climate-emergency/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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