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SUMMARY:Heroic Christianity: Tolerance\, Courage\, and Conviction in Willa Cather's 'Death comes for the Archbishop'
DESCRIPTION:Willa Cather’s most famous book Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)\, based on the true story of two nineteenth-century French missionaries to New Mexico\, is regularly listed among the greatest American novels of the twentieth century. In it\, Cather addresses the theme of this series: the paradoxical relationship between the Church’s missionary task and the Christian call to recognize and accept the culture and character of others. In contrast to most literary treatments of the clergy\, her priests are exemplars of a life well lived. The delicate portrayal of Archbishop Latour’s inner and outer religious life\, along with that of his childhood friend and companion\, the warm\, energetic Fr. Vaillant\, is a rare celebration of the value of an enlightened\, humane\, Catholic vocation—written\, remarkably\, by someone who was not herself Catholic. \nIn this talk\, Clare Asquith will explore Willa Cather’s unusual portrait of two missionary priests who combine spiritual conviction with profound knowledge and respect for diverse classes and cultures\, and contrast it with less positive treatments of the Christian clergy in other late nineteenth century and early twentieth century works of fiction. Professor Michael Scott will chair. \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. It is part of the  series\, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference.  \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nClare Asquith is an independent scholar who lived for many years in Moscow and Ukraine after gaining a starred first in English literature at St. Anne’s College\, Oxford. In 2005 she wrote Shadowplay\, a study of the impact on Shakespeare’s work of the political and religious upheavals of his time. In 2018 she explored the political subtext of his narrative poems in Shakespeare and the Resistance. Since then\, she has published numerous articles and lectured in Europe\, the United States\, Ukraine\, and Russia. \nUpcoming events in this series\nBarbara Mujica\, Georgetown\,\n3pm\, 17 Mar: ‘Cervantes: Don Quixote’ \nDominic White O.P.\n3pm\, 24 Mar: ‘Lucy Beckett: A Postcard from the Volcano’ \nMaureen Corrigan\, Georgetown\n31 Mar: ‘F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby’ \nRichard Finn O.P.\n7 Apr: ‘Pope Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum’ \nTBA\n14 Apr \nMartin Ganeri O.P.\, The Angelicum (PUST)\n28 Apr: ‘The Hindu Scripture Bhagavad Gita’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/willa-cather-death-comes-for-the-archbishop/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Sacred Paths to Peace: How Religious Imagination Shapes Transitional Justice Today
DESCRIPTION:This event explores the intersection of transitional justice and the religious imagination in addressing contemporary international challenges. By examining how faith-based narratives influence reconciliation\, justice\, and societal healing\, it unveils ongoing challenges in transitional justice\, and current transformative contributions of religious imaginaries as tools for bridging divides\, fostering dialogue\, and reimagining pathways to enduring peace. Three experiences will be revisited as cases-examples to be charted out: (1) peacebuilding work with communities of faith in Colombia\, (2) academic and political approaches in the US to religion and peace\, and (3) international contributions to transitional justice via inter-faith platforms in the UK. \nAfter studying philosophy —BA (U. Sabana) and MA (U. Javeriana)\, Dr Eduardo Gutiérrez González worked in faculties of Philosophy and Political Science in Colombia and subsequently did an MSt in Science & Religion at Oriel College\, Oxford\, strongly engaging with J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary imagination and with interdisciplinary approaches to theology. He recently earned his doctorate at Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, with a thesis focusing on the role of imagination in belief formation and transformation\, and its use for peacebuilding in Colombia. He is currently a JRF in Humanities and Social Sciences at Blackfriars Hall\, and is also Consultant for Peace and Religion with the United States Institute of Peace in Colombia. \nDr Gabriel Rojas-Andrade holds a doctorate in law  from Los Andes University in Bogotá and a master’s degree in political theory from LSE\, along with undergraduate and master’s degrees in philosophy and literature. He is Adjunct Professor of International Law at Los Andes University and an expert in transitional justice with a focus on restorative justice\, macro-criminality\, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Dr Rojas-Andrade is currently the Director of Restorative Justice for the United States Institute of Peace in Colombia and works closely with the Institute’s peace processes team. \nFree and open to all. Registration is required. \nTo register for in-person attendance\, please follow this link \nTo register for online attendance\, please follow this link
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/sacred-paths-to-peace-how-religious-imagination-shapes-transitional-justice-today/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Directing US COVID-19 testing\, caring for Afghan refugees and children at the Southwest border
DESCRIPTION:This online seminar\, led by Prof Dean Winslow (Stanford\, Blackfriars Hall)\, will explore the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to the global refugee crisis. In 2021 he  took leave from Stanford to lead the US COVID-19 Testing and Diagnostic Working Group. He also served as CDC Senior Advisor to Operation ALLIES WELCOME and Chief Medical Officer for the Southwest Border Migrant Health Task Force. \nRegistration is required for this event\, all are welcome. \n  \n \nProf Winslow’s CV is so long that it cannot be covered in full here. He is a Senior Fellow (courtesy) at CISAC/Freeman Spogli Institute. He has served on the Stanford faculty since 1998 and from 2003-2008 as Co-Director of Stanford’s Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program. He was in private practice in Wilmington\, Delaware where he started the state’s multidisciplinary clinic for HIV patients in 1985. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians\, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians\, the Infectious Diseases Society of America\, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society\, and is the author of 96 papers. Colonel Winslow entered the Air National Guard in 1980 and was a Distinguished Graduate of the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. He deployed to the Middle East six times after 9/11 as a flight surgeon supporting combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. From Jan-April 2003 he was the flight surgeon responsible for combat rescue operations from northern Iraq to Tikrit.  He has 3\,000 civilian and 1150 military flying hours including 431 combat hours and 263 combat sorties. In 2015\, Dr. Winslow and his wife\, Dr. Julie Parsonnet\, created The Eagle Fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation\, which provides aid to middle eastern and central American refugees. In 2018 he co-founded Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE)\, which unites health care professionals to address gun violence in the US as a public health issue and to advocate for education\, research\, and evidence-backed policy to reduce gun violence.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/directing-us-covid-19-testing-caring-for-afghan-refugees-and-children-at-the-southwest-border/
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SUMMARY:Humanizing the Enemy: Don Quixote and the Moors
DESCRIPTION:In Don Quixote (1605)\, the unreliable narrator of the first volume names a Moor\, Cide Hamete Benengeli\, as a source for the story he is about to recount—although he warns readers that Moors are often untruthful. Throughout his wanderings\, Don Quixote encounters men and women of different social and ethnic groups. His interactions with Moors are particularly notable\, as they are almost always portrayed in a sympathetic\, humane manner. By the second volume\, Cide Hamete becomes the sole narrator of the story and the true authority on Don Quixote. In this talk\, Bárbara Mujica will show how Cervantes challenges popular stereotypes of Moors in early modern Spain. In this context\, Cervantes sees the otherness in others from a viewpoint which allows cultural encounters that recognize the humanity in all. Professor Michael Scott will chair. \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. It is part of the  series\, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference.  \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nBárbara Mujica is a professor emerita at Georgetown University specializing in early modern Spanish literature. She has published extensively on the Spanish mystics\, early modern Spanish theater\, and Cervantes. In 2022\, her study Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform (2020) won the GEMELA prize for best scholarly book of the year on early modern Hispanic women. Mujica’s novel Frida (2001) was an international bestseller and has been translated into in 18 languages. Her most recent novel\, Miss del Río (2022)\, was named “one of the five best recent historical novels” in 2022 by the Washington Post. \nUpcoming events in this series\nMichael Scott\, Blackfriars\n24 Mar: ‘The Merchant of Venice’ \nMaureen Corrigan\, Georgetown\n31 Mar: ‘F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby’ \nRichard Finn O.P.\n7 Apr: ‘Pope Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum’ \nJohn Pfordresher\, Georgetown\n14 Apr: TBA \nMartin Ganeri O.P.\, The Angelicum (PUST)\n28 Apr: ‘The Hindu Scripture Bhagavad Gita’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/cervantes-don-quixote/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:The Merchant of Venice
DESCRIPTION:In this online talk Professor Michael Scott\, Blackfriars\, will discuss Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. It is part of the  series\, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference.  \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nUpcoming events in this series\nMaureen Corrigan\, Georgetown\n31 Mar: ‘F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby’ \nRichard Finn O.P.\n7 Apr: ‘Pope Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum’ \nJohn Pfordresher\, Georgetown\n14 Apr: TBA \nMartin Ganeri O.P.\, The Angelicum (PUST)\n28 Apr: ‘The Hindu Scripture Bhagavad Gita’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-merchant-of-venice/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:The Great Gatsby
DESCRIPTION:In this online talk Maureen Corrigan\, Georgetown\, will discuss F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Professor Michael Scott will chair. \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. It is part of the  series\, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference.  \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nUpcoming events in this series\nRichard Finn O.P.\n7 Apr: ‘Pope Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum’ \nJohn Pfordresher\, Georgetown\n14 Apr: TBA \nMartin Ganeri O.P.\, The Angelicum (PUST)\n28 Apr: ‘The Hindu Scripture Bhagavad Gita’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-great-gatsby/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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