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...

Religious Imaginaries & Victimhood Narratives in Colombia’s Road to Peace A joint Las Casas Institute – Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD) event in-person and online. After half a century of bloodshed and over nine million registered victims, a peace agreement was signed in 2016 between the Colombian government and the FARC  insurgency. Since then, enormous political...

“Get Brexit Done.” “Stop the Boats.” “Make America Great Again.” A long cry from a “Kinder, Gentler Nation” and “New Labour, New Britain,” these simple yet profound recent slogans have not only resonated with certain voters throughout the West; they have also become some of the most dominating political messages of the day. But while...