Dignity in street-level bureaucracies: beyond reason, balance and pragmatism A talk by Professor Tony Evans, Royal Holloway. Chair: Dr Jonathan Patterson, St Edmund Hall The first event of the 'Bureaucracy and Human Dignity' seminar series. Public service bureaucracies are messy organisations. Bureaucrats work within policies that are confused and confusing, and are expected to use...
The Christian Literary Imagination Series Continuing from the previous academic year, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function...
Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness. Dorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism, she founded the Catholic Worker movement, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography, The Long...
Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness. Dorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism, she founded the Catholic Worker movement, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography, The Long...
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. No one seems particularly shocked when Vladimir Putin prevents the Russian people from hearing the...
Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness. Dorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism, she founded the Catholic Worker movement, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography, The Long...
Dr Sohail Hanif, CEO of the National Zakat Foundation, will give the next seminar in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition series which is jointly organised by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Blackfriars Hall. Dr Hanif will be speaking on the theme ‘Human Dignity and the Socio-Economic Order’. A vision of human...
Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness. Dorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism, she founded the Catholic Worker movement, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography, The Long...
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. In both public and private spheres, the act of whistleblowing often carries a great and...
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. Convenors: Michael Scott and Sanford J Ungar, Georgetown University  Â