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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,...

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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...

The influence and ‘presence’ of Charles de Foucauld at the Second Vatican Council and in modern papal thought in delineating the contours of the Church in the World Today

Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United Kingdom

Pope Francis canonised Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) on 15 May 2022 in Rome. The Pontiff identified him as frère universel or ‘Universal Brother’ in his Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti on ‘Fraternity and Social Friendship’ (3 October 2020) ‘Blessed Charles directed his ideal of total surrender to God towards an identification with the poor, abandoned in the depths...

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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...

Sebastião Salgado: Photographic Images of a World in Distress

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...

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...