Join us for an engaging online academic discussion exploring the literary imagination of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. The speakers — Dr Michael Ward and Dr Eduardo Gutiérrez González — will delve into the ways Lewis presents themes of polity, leadership, freedom, slavery, war, and peace, drawing connections between the fantastical worlds of Narnia...
Virginia Woolf famously called George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-1872) "one of the few English novels written for grownup people." One of the aspects of the novel that makes it "grownup" is the constant negotiation with conflict and community it presents. The characters consistently grapple with feelings of otherness as they strive to communicate and grow. This...
A Month in the Country (1980) by J. L. Carr is a short novel that describes the re-emergence of a shell-shocked World War I veteran through his engagement with a small community. The focus of Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti is for us to extend out from self and family to a suffering world. He urges us to...
The Las Casas Institute is launching six short online videos for use in parishes, Sixth-Forms, and University Chaplaincies. Dr Roderick Howlett looks at: (1) What it means to be human; (2) The Economy; (3) Work; (4) the Environment; (5) Conflict Resolution; (6) Citizens' Responsibility in a Democracy. Registration Required
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum, c. fifth century CE) are perhaps the most widely read patristic texts throughout history. They have been constantly translated and retranslated into almost all modern languages, deployed in spiritual direction, and featured in literature and art. Scholars seek to locate and understand the historical context in Egypt, Palestine,...
Las Casas Institute Online Seminar Registration Required via Zoom Presenting: Dr Carlos Espaliú Berdud, Full Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, University of Fernando 3, CEU, Seville, Spain. Associate Member, Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars, University of Oxford.
Invitation only workshop to discuss the academic accomplishments of the Economics as a Moral Science programme. For more information and to register your interest in attending please contact lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
Book launch for Homo Curator: Towards the Ethics of Consumption edited by Peter Rona, Laszlo Zsolnai, and Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price. A discussion will be led by Prof Rona with Sr Margaret Atkins (Boarbank Hall), Edward Skidelsky (Exeter), Dominic Burbidge (Canterbury Institute, Oxford) and moderated by Dr Wincewicz-Price. It will be followed by a drinks reception. Registration is...
Georgetown University (USA), Blackfriars Hall and Campion Hall (Oxford) are convening a conference in the Aula at Blackfriars on 16 December 1pm-6pm, which will reflect on the recent Synod on Synodality and its deeper lessons for the Church and the world. There will be 2 panel discussions: 1. The Experience of the Synod on Synodality...
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...