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SUMMARY:Thinking about work - discussion group
DESCRIPTION:If men and women are made in God’s image\, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just\, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice\, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s to Pope Benedict in 2009\, with a glance at the Jewish philosopher Simone Weil. \nOnline. All are welcome. Registration is mandatory. \nFor further details\, contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) and James Bergida (james.bergida@christendom.edu)
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thinking-about-work-discussion-group/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:The Dialectics of Remembering and Forgetting
DESCRIPTION:Uncanny Atonement in Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” \nIn a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national\, religious\, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series\, we invite leading scholars across disciplines to explore themes of cultural encounters both in classic literary works and in contemporary cultural debates. \nThomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) is the narrative of a young woman who encounters one fated tragedy after another due to her deep empathy for both the less able and less careful. While Tess’ consciousness is one of dynamic feeling and yearning\, she suffers from a social conscience denied reciprocated respect for her autonomy and dignity. In this talk Rebecca Boylan will look at this classic tale\, bearing in mind Pope Francis’ call for a culture of encounter in Fratelli Tutti\, in which we are encouraged to recognize others in their otherness. In his regard for Tess’ suffering\, Hardy uncannily cannot forget this woman wronged. He resurrects her in a poem\, Tess’s Lament (1901)\, 10 years after her demise at the novel’s end\, in which Tess beseeches the reader to forget her existence as one that troubled the only man she ever truly loved\, Angel Clare. How does the creator’s inability to forget Tess\, who begs to be forgotten\, provide a means for the creature to forgive the sins of her creator? This brief study will invite Hardy’s readers to ponder how the meeting of narrative Tess with poetic Tess begs a twenty-first century trust in this writer’s vulnerability to expose his own complicity in oppressing women—even as he longs to recognize their strength with compassion. \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. It is part of the year-long series\, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference. \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nParticipants\nDr Rebecca Boylan\, Rebecca Boylan is a lecturer in the Department of English at Georgetown University and a master instructor in the Department of English at Howard University. Her teaching focuses on ideas of the good\, the true\, and the beautiful. With a value for the humanities’ reach beyond the classroom\, Boylan initiated a yearly symposium for English majors and minors at Georgetown. Several of her papers have been published studying the collaboration of perspective\, the arts\, and justice in Emily Brontë\, Oscar Wilde\, and Virginia Woolf. Boylan earned a Ph.D. in English from George Washington University. \nMichael Scott\, Ph.D. (moderator)\, is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college advisor for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior advisor to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously served as the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University\, where he is professor emeritus. \n  \nFurther events in the series: \n29 January: Dr Robert Miola\, Loyola University\, Maryland – Shakespeare\, ‘Macbeth’ \n5 February: Dr Mary Clark\, London – ‘Seneca and the English Poets’ \n12 February:  Professor Michael Collins\, Georgetown University – James Joyce\, ‘The Dead’ \n26 February: Professor Alexa Alice Joubin\, George Washington University\, DC – ‘Worldwide Encounters with Shakespeare’ \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thomas-hardy-tess-of-the-durbervilles/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Blackfriars Aquinas Group
DESCRIPTION:The Aquinas Group offers young adults an opportunity to enrich their spiritual and intellectual lives by studying the writings of St Thomas Aquinas. \nWe meet on Mondays in term at 7pm. We begin with a light meal\, then explore a topic guided by one of the friars\, before finishing by praying Compline (night prayer) together in the priory church. This term we will be looking at St Thomas’ philosophical and theological anthropology\, namely his understanding of the human person. We will look at questions such as the relation between body and soul\, how our thinking and willing shape who we are\, and the nature of moral action. We will also consider more theological themes such as grace\, the theological virtues (faith\, hope\, and charity)\, and what happens to the soul after we die.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/blackfriars-aquinas-group-2-2024-01-22/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Priory,The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Thinking about work - discussion group
DESCRIPTION:If men and women are made in God’s image\, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just\, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice\, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s to Pope Benedict in 2009\, with a glance at the Jewish philosopher Simone Weil. \nOnline. All are welcome. Registration is mandatory. \nFor further details\, contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) and James Bergida (james.bergida@christendom.edu)
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thinking-about-work-discussion-group-2024-01-23/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Dealing with Refugees around the World as a Political\, Economic\, and Humanitarian Problem
DESCRIPTION:The international crisis over refugees has significantly worsened in the past decade. As of mid-2023\, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had tracked at least 110 million people in the world who have been forcibly displaced\, an increase of 45 million people since 2015. But as refugees and asylum seekers in need of protection attempt to evade conflict and persecution\, productive measures have stymied in the West. Instead\, controversial and politically charged actions – the British prime minister seeking to send asylum seekers to Rwanda\, and the governors of Florida and Texas dispatching those arrested at the southern border to northern U.S. cities and resorts\, for example – have grabbed the headlines. This has left many policymakers bewildered and pessimistic about the future\, and the refugees themselves increasingly desperate. Amidst the rhetorical gridlock around the issue\, who speaks credibly for the refugees and what can the international community do to alleviate the crisis? \nThis 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) and the Future of the Humanities Project (Georgetown University\, the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall\, Oxford)\, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. \nFree and open to all. Registration is required. \n\n\n\nFeatured:\nBarnabas Aspray\, an assistant professor at St. Mary’s Seminary & University\, is interested in the way Christian belief and practice interact with contemporary Western society. His research focuses on the Christian ethics of refugees and immigration. He is passionate about making theology accessible and relevant to the lives of those without an academic background. Aspray holds a PhD in philosophy of religion from the University of Cambridge. \nKatharine Donato is the Donald G. Herzberg Professor and former director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has examined critical questions\, such as the economic consequences of U.S. immigration policy and deportation and its effects on immigrants. Donato is co-author of Gender and International Migration: From Slavery to Present\, as well as Refugees\, Migration and Global Governance: Negotiating the Global Compacts. \nRachel Kronick\, a clinician-scientist based at the Sherpa and Lady Davis Research Institutes in Montreal\, is affiliated with the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry of McGill University. Her research has looked at immigration policy and its consequences for children and families\, with a specific focus on immigration detention. Currently\, she does participatory-action research with asylum-seeking communities to develop and implement ecosocial mental health interventions. \nMichael Saks\, emeritus professor at the University of Suffolk\, currently chairs the United Nations-endorsed Institute for Responsible Leadership (IRL) and is an appointed member on the World Health Organization Technical Expert Group on Global Health Practitioner Regulation. He has led many health committees for the National Health Service\, and frequently advised professional bodies and governments. Saks is also a member of the Innovation Council. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \nSanford J. Ungar (moderator)\, president emeritus of Goucher College\, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University\, which documents challenges to free expression in American education\, government\, and civil society. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton\, he was also dean of the American University School of Communication and is a former co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/refugees/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:The Scottish Play: Race and Nation in “Macbeth”
DESCRIPTION:In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national\, religious\, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series\, we invite leading scholars across disciplines to explore themes of cultural encounters both in classic literary works and in contemporary cultural debates. \nIn this lecture\, Robert S. Miola will argue that Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1623) reflects local and specific contemporary stereotypes about the barbarous Scots and the civilizing English just as it interrogates racial prejudices and the myths of national identity. If positive cultural encounters acknowledge others in their otherness to build mutual communication and trust\, as Pope Francis would have it\, negative cultural encounters trade in stereotypes for the purpose of conquest and exploitation. Macbeth appears to record such a negative encounter as it concludes with the civilizing English rescuing the benighted Scots from themselves\, tyranny\, and witchcraft. As such\, the play appears to support the political ambitions of King James I of England for the union of Scotland and England under English rule. Through the play’s action\, as well as in its omissions and suppressions\, it meditates compellingly on the power dynamics of conquest and colonialism\, myths of national identity\, and the paradoxes of archipelagic history. \nMiola will also address translations\, productions\, and adaptations of “the Scottish play” in Scotland\, which constitute a fascinating though neglected chapter of of Scottish-English cultural encounter. Research in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh and in the Scottish Theatre Archive housed at the University of Glasgow reveals a substantial body of adaptation and revision that challenges perceived inaccuracies in Shakespeare’s play and focuses attention on the historical figure of Macbeth\, his country\, and his language. Scottish encounters with this play\, ranging from corrective to hostile\, resonate powerfully through the centuries up through the current political situation. \nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford. It is part of the year-long series\, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference. \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nParticipants\nDr Robert Miola is the Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English and a lecturer in classics at Loyola University Maryland. Miola has edited several Shakespeare plays including Macbeth (2003)\, Much Ado about Nothing (2007)\, and Hamlet (2019). Miola has published extensively on early modern receptions of Greek and Latin writers and has completed an edition of George Chapman’s Iliad (2017). He has also written Shakespeare’s Rome (1983)\, Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy (1992)\, and Shakespeare’s Reading (2000)\, among other works. He is currently working on an anti-racist edition of Macbeth. \nMichael Scott\, Ph.D. (moderator)\, is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college advisor for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior advisor to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously served as the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University\, where he is professor emeritus. \n  \nFurther events in the series: \n5 February: Dr Mary Clark\, London – ‘Seneca and the English Poets’ \n12 February:  Professor Michael Collins\, Georgetown University – James Joyce\, ‘The Dead’ \n26 February: Professor Alexa Alice Joubin\, George Washington University\, DC – ‘Worldwide Encounters with Shakespeare’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/shakespeare-macbeth/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Thomistic Institute lecture: Exploring Finitude – Weakness\, Suffering\, and Faith in Isaac of Nineveh
DESCRIPTION:A Thomistic Institute lecture by Dr Valentina Duca\, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, on Isaac of Nineveh’s theological anthropology.\nThe lecture will take place at 7.30pm at Blackfriars (OX1 3LY)\, will be followed by refreshments\, and all are welcome. \nIsaac of Nineveh (7th c.) is the major exponent of East-Syriac mysticism\, which developed in the Church of the East in the 7th and 8th centuries. Some of his writings were translated into Greek\, and then from Greek into other languages of the Christian world\, including Latin and Slavonic. In this way\, Isaac became a central reference for the Orthodox tradition. This talk explores Isaac’s anthropology\, a central element of his thought. Isaac has\, in fact\, a highly original view on the human condition\, which with great modernity places at the center creatural finitude and the consequences of human exposure to suffering and death. Following a brief introduction to Syriac Christianity and East-Syriac mysticism\, this talk will focus on three elements of Isaac’s anthropology: the human condition of limitation and vulnerability\, the ontological state that he calls “weakness” (m?iluta)\, and the journey of the relationship with these that he outlines. This will enable us to examine Isaac’s understanding of faith\, which must necessarily confront (even extreme) limitations and suffering. I will conclude with a note on Isaac’s best-known affirmations on universal mercy\, which include love for evil people\, wild animals and demons\, showing how this position is rooted in his anthropological perspective\, which may still be meaningful in a contemporary context. \nValentina Duca is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After obtaining degrees in Theology and the History of Religions\, she specialized in Eastern Christianity at Oxford University\, especially Syriac (MPhil; DPhil). She spent two years at the Catholic University of Leuven\, exploring the influence of the thought of Paul and Mark the Monk on Isaac of Nineveh. Her current project involves the production of a critical edition of hitherto unedited writings of Isaac and an analysis of the concept of experience in East-Syriac mysticism. She recently published a monograph titled “Exploring Finitude”: Weakness and Integrity in Isaac of Nineveh (2023) with Peeters\, Leuven (OLA).
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/blackfriars-aquinas-group-2-2024-01-29/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Priory,The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Thinking about work - discussion group
DESCRIPTION:If men and women are made in God’s image\, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just\, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice\, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s to Pope Benedict in 2009\, with a glance at the Jewish philosopher Simone Weil. \nOnline. All are welcome. Registration is mandatory. \nFor further details\, contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) and James Bergida (james.bergida@christendom.edu)
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thinking-about-work-discussion-group-2024-01-30/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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