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Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Art and Buddhist Devotion Along the Silk Roads

China and the West: Cultural Dialogues Series Over the course of the 2021-2022 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 and The Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU). Friday 21st January Caves of the Thousand Buddhas:...

Forever Young or Newly Vulnerable

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. Do older adults still command the attention and respect they have traditionally had in western...

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Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity

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...

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Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity

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...

Coloring Catholicism Greene in the Age of Pope Francis

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...

Recurring

Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity

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...

Viruses: the Wars We Have Won, and the Wars We May Lose

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.   The science of virology has scored many victories in recent years, including the technological...

David Jones: Deep Calls to Deep

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...

Recurring

Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity

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...