Fergal Keane OBE will be giving a hybrid lecture at 5pm on Friday, 24 January in the Aula, Blackfriars Hall. Seating is limited, if you are interested in attending in-person please email: lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk. To register for virtual attendance, please follow the link.
Reading the Quran can be quite disorienting for anyone who wishes to explore the holy book of Islam independently. It contains repetitions, a diversity of literary genres, and numerous and often complex allusions. This is because the text must be understood in dialogue both with the literary traditions that preceded it, notably the Bible and...
An online seminar will be held to honour the memory of Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez O.P. The Las Casas Institute hopes to honour Fr Gutierrez’s major contribution to liberation theology and the promotion of social justice. Co-sponsored with the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California, speakers include: Prof Richard Wood (USC),...
These online panel discussions will take place at 4pm on a Wednesday once a month, but the topics are decided according to world events and are announced at the previous month’s event. Recordings are available on YouTube via the Global Georgetown channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalGeorgetown/videos. To get an invitation contact John McCabe: jm3479@georgetown.edu. This discussion is part...
The story of Hamlet is well-known throughout the world, having been popularized through Shakespeare’s play, but it has roots in a medieval Danish work. This talk will focus on a lesser-known version of this story that was written in Iceland in the seventeenth century. What would have happened if Hamlet’s murderous uncle had not shipped...
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...
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....
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...
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...
In this online talk Professor Michael Scott, Blackfriars, will discuss Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. This 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. Online. Free and open to all. Registration is required. Upcoming events in this series Maureen Corrigan,...