In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature, Art, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems, dangers, and disasters. However, in this series, we will invite speakers to...

This event is part of the ongoing event series Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues. These events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University), the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. In December 1993, the United Nations established World Press Freedom Day to emphasize the international...

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature, Art, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems, dangers, and disasters. However, in this series, we will invite speakers to...

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature, Art, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems, dangers, and disasters. However, in this series, we will invite speakers to...

An online talk by Christopher J. Lane, PhD, Association Professor of History, Christendom College. Response by James Bergida, Junior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall. This talk contextualizes the long-term development of Catholic law, doctrine, and practice in support of individual freedom to choose a state of life, especially with respect to the vows of marriage and of...

A talk by Alberto Solís Castro. From 1989 to 2000, Mexico transitioned from a one-party autocratic political system to a multi-party democracy. The lack of institutional transformation during the regime change, especially in law enforcement and justice, resulted in an increase in violence by organized crime groups. Numerous academics (Trejo and Ley 2013, 2020) argue...