Las Casas -Â Human Dignity Workshop co-sponsored with St Mary's University Twickenham and L'Arche UK Human Dignity and Mental Health Invitation only To request invitation, email: lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
Las Casas - Dignity Series public reception, presentation and showing of the film Summer in the Forest, including pre-showing discussion at 5.30, in partnership with L'Arche UK. Public reception including pre-show discussion and drinks A beautiful film exploring the joy and human dignity cultivated by L'Arche. Speakers include: Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche Francis Campbell,...
Lecture: Human Trafficking Sr Imelda Poole on Human Trafficking Where: TBC
Thinking in a Catholic Way About Migration and Poverty The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church can help everyone, including non-believers, to think clearly about controversial social and political issues. Migration balances the natural and supernatural value of human dignity against the human need for coherent communities and the reality of social feelings. The obligation...
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...