Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. This is an important and exciting book about how we do and should think about right and wrong. MacIntyre tries to combine Marx and Thomas – we will try to decide how well he succeeds. The group will be...
A lecture by Professor Samuel Moyn, Henry R Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University, on the Catholic contribution to modern human rights. Respondent: Edward Hadas. Chaired by Dr Clare Broome Saunders.
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...
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. With the recent passage by the U.S. Congress of legislation that addresses benefits and...
U.K.-China Performance and the Creative Economy Song of the Female Textile Workers works with U.K.-China digital arts partners to create a filmed version of a mixed reality performance to test U.K.-China digital theatre compatibility and audience connectivity. This performance takes the audience through 100 years of China’s socioeconomic transformation via the love, passion, and experiences...
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 Freedom of the press and access...
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...
Debates about Catholic social doctrine often revolve around whether a given theory or practice is compatible with the magisterium or not. There is a scholarly literature on the nature and scope of the magisterium, but little has been written on the magisterium as it pertains to social doctrine. This paper explores what the magisterial documents and...
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...