Marie Williams, Coordinator of the Dominican Justice Office (a project of the Dominican Sisters, Cabra), will present her work with the Young Mothers Network (YMN), a peer-support group for mothers seeking International Protection in Dublin. While the group was originally set up to specifically support young mothers, consultations in Direct Provision Centres - where people...
Discussion group Pope Francis's environmental encyclical is long and rich. Over seven weeks, we will discuss some of its key sections. Likely topics include: the lessons of Francis of Assisi; the environment and human ecology; climate change and environmental conversion; and the technocratic paradigm. The group will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at...
Four lectures by Dr Roberto Fumagalli, Director of Philosophy, Politics & Economics Programme, King's College London Dr Fumagalli, a visiting scholar at Blackfriars for Trinity Term 2021, conducts research at the interface between philosophy, economics and public policy. He offers us four lectures growing out of his research, which seeks: (a) to articulate and defend...
Discussion group Pope Francis's environmental encyclical is long and rich. Over seven weeks, we will discuss some of its key sections. Likely topics include: the lessons of Francis of Assisi; the environment and human ecology; climate change and environmental conversion; and the technocratic paradigm. The group will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at...
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...
Free Speech at a Crossroads: International Dialogues series Art, of course, is not just to look at and critique. It inspires us, provokes us, and often makes us consider unwelcome or uncomfortable truths. In tense and chaotic times, art may communicate what is on our minds more effectively than politics or the popular media. ...
Discussion group We will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal...
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) in London. Friday 22nd October The Case for...
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 and Campion Hall, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the...
Discussion group We will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal...