Homo Curator – The ethics of consumption
An invitation-only symposium examining the possible moral and other foundations for bringing consumption into line with the Earth's capacities.
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Las Casas Institute
Dante – The Christian Literary Imagination Series
The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over the course of the 2020-2021 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 of the arts and humanities in...
Rebels, Romantics and Prophets. The responsibility of Priests, Politicians and Intellectuals in the Colombian Armed Conflict
Colombia is in an ongoing peace and transitional justice process between the Government and the FARC guerrilla since 2016. However, that country still faces a cultural and political dispute over the narrative of the origins, development, and effects of the armed conflict and its main responsible actors. As a way of contributing to a much...
Henry Vaughan, William Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens – The Christian Literary Imagination Series
The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over the course of the 2020-2021 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 of the arts and humanities in...
Bite-sized Nuggets from Laudato Si’
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...
Radclyffe Hall: Catholicism and Queerness in Interwar England – The Christian Literary Imagination Series
The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over the course of the 2020-2021 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 of the arts and humanities in...
Bite-sized Nuggets from Laudato Si’
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...
Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland – book launch
Launch of Maria Power’s Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland: Cardinal Cahal Daly and the Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom, (Abingdon: Routledge) reviewed by Baroness Nuala O’Loan. This book investigates the response of the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland to the conflict in the region during the late Twentieth Century. It...
Growing Conversations – Panel discussion
From Strangers to Neighbours - How we welcome refugees and asylum seekers Growing Conversations is a project at the Ennismore Retreat Centre in Montenotte, Cork, which promotes the integration of migrants and asylum seekers through weekly gardening, cooking, IT, and English classes over a two-year course. To date it has been attended by around 30+...
Bite-sized Nuggets from Laudato Si’
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...