Linacre Seminars presents: Pia Jolliffe will give a talk about Christian martyrs in Japan, 16th-20th century and Klaus P. Ebmeier will give a talk on Sociodemographic/lifestyle risk and protective factors for dementia Event Webpage
'The Mandate of Heaven: Asia's Ascendancy, the economic and cultural consequences' Las Casas Lecture. Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint For more information contact Las Casas Institute: lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
With a keynote address by Dr. Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University Garden Quad Auditorium, St. John’s College, Oxford. This is the first conference of the Future of the Humanities Project currently being developed by Georgetown University, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars, Oxford. Under the leadership of Prof. Michael Scott, the project...
Pia Joliffe, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall and involved in our Las Casas Institute, has published a new book, Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan. The Colonization of Hokkaido, 1881-1894 (Routledge) It will be launched on Wednesday 14th November, at 4pm at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, St Antony's College. All are welcome. No booking necessary. Prisons...
Alison Phipps, UNESCO Chair: Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts With Gameli Tordzro, Naa Densua Tordzro and Tawona Sitholé Refugee integration is a concern across the western world. How to ensure cohesive societies, how to develop policies, which will allay fears, how to set limits or erase limits around who or who may not...
A range of scholars including John Boswell ('Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality'), R.I.Moore ('The Formation of a Persecuting Society') and Geraldine Heng ['The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages') have noted changing patterns of intolerance during the European Middle Ages. The study of these topics is also deeply influenced by contemporary attitudes. Dr Clare Downahm's paper is an exploratory look at changing attitudes towards women and power in the tenth century.
Finding Christ in Prison: Why Higher Education in Prisons is a Social Justice Imperative for Christians A lecture by Professor Kenneth Parker In Jesus's parable of the kingdom (Matthew 25), being present to the prisoner comes with a promise: 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these...
This is the second conference of the Future of the Humanities Project currently being developed by Georgetown University, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars, Oxford. Under the leadership of Prof. Michael Scott, the project explores the place of the humanities in developing a proper understanding of human life, dignity, and...
This lecture is part of the second conference in The Future of the Humanities Project which is being sponsored by Georgetown University in association with the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Keynote Lecture by Dr. Gabriele Finaldi, Director, National Gallery London Introduction by Dr. Martin Kemp, University of oxford Discussion chaired by Stephen Farthing RA, Royal Academy of...
''An Engine Whose Motive Power is the Soul': Recovering the Dignity of Labour in Victorian Critiques of Industrialisation and Political Economy' - A Dignity Series Seminar by Prof Rosemary Mitchell