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Women Religious and the Northern Irish Troubles

Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nuns walking past an IRA grafitti An in-person talk by Drs Dianne Kirby and Briege Rafferty. Dianne Kirby and Briege Rafferty will relate how and why they brought together religious women peace-builders in a series of oral history witness seminars to discuss their experiences of the Northern Ireland conflict. The project began in 2015. It...

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Dorothy Day: Cultural critic and Catholic activist

Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement, which she co-founded and continually inspired, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group, we will be looking at some of those words and actions, focussing...

Sounding the Fell and the Fugue: Gabriela Mistral’s “Tala”

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...

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Dorothy Day: Cultural critic and Catholic activist

Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement, which she co-founded and continually inspired, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group, we will be looking at some of those words and actions, focussing...

Dickens on How Not to Do It

Dickens on How Not to Do It: Bureaucracy, Busyness, and the Cultural Afterlife of the Circumlocution Office In the preface to the first edition of Little Dorrit, Dickens proclaims that his novelistic exposition of the ‘whole Science of Government’ was based on the ‘common experience of an Englishman.’ Dickens in other words meant to give the...

Literature, Art, Environment: John Ruskin’s “Torcello”

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...

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Dorothy Day: Cultural critic and Catholic activist

Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement, which she co-founded and continually inspired, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group, we will be looking at some of those words and actions, focussing...

Living with Putin: Russia and the West

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. While there appears to be no end in sight eight months into the Russian Invasion...

Sintonía: Art and the Earth

Sintonía: Art and the Earth - Creative Concepts and Creative Process 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,...

Recurring

Dorothy Day: Cultural critic and Catholic activist

Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement, which she co-founded and continually inspired, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group, we will be looking at some of those words and actions, focussing...