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SUMMARY:What could possibly be wrong with checking the facts?
DESCRIPTION:These online panel discussions will take place at 4pm on a Wednesday once a month\, but the topics are decided according to world events and are announced at the previous month’s event. Recordings are available on YouTube via the Global Georgetown channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalGeorgetown/videos. \nFact-checking\, once seen as a noble and common-sense endeavour to reduce errors and misunderstandings\, has become increasingly contentious. Some autocrats have denounced it as a biased practice\, as well as a violation of free speech that censors dissenting opinions. Amid concerns around misinformation and disinformation\, a relentless news cycle on social media has made fact-checking an onerous process. As companies like Meta have announced they had stopped fact-checking\, ostensibly to preserve free expression\, questions loom about when inaccurate content should be removed from public sources. Is correcting false information a form of censorship? Can fact-checking endure in today’s climate of polarizing politics? How can the West restore this practice as a credible tool for safeguarding a free press\, and counter efforts to discredit it as biased or one-sided? Experts will discuss. \nThis discussion 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. \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nAled Eirug is a journalist and former head of news and current affairs for BBC Wales. He ran the largest newsroom in the UK outside network news\, and has 25 years of experience with that public network and Independent Television News. In recent years\, Eirug has served on the content board of Ofcom\, the regulatory body for broadcasting in the United Kingdom. He is currently an honorary research fellow at Cardiff University. \nLisa Fazio\, an associate professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University\, studies how people learn new information\, both true and false\, and how to correct errors in people’s knowledge. This includes how to mitigate the effects of reading false information and how to increase classroom learning. Her research informs basic theories about learning and memory\, while also having clear applications for practitioners\, such as journalists and teachers. \nLauren Gibbons covers state politics and policy for Bridge Michigan. She previously worked at MLive\, where she led coverage of the state legislature and the redistricting process\, and before that covered the state Senate for MIRS News. She has covered the ins and outs of Michigan politics for nearly a decade and has won awards\, both for her political coverage and her work documenting the sexual abuse case involving Larry Nassar\, the former the doctor of the U.S. women’s national gymnastics team. \nCarlos Hernández-Echevarría is the assistant director at Maldita.es\, a Madrid-based nonprofit dedicated to combating disinformation and promoting information integrity. A seasoned journalist and media executive\, he spent 15 years in television\, primarily at laSexta. He is a former chair of the association of European fact-checking organizations EFCSN and a professor of International Journalism at Universidad Carlos III. \nMartin Williams directs Radar Public Relations in North Wales. He has more than 25 years experience in media and public relations\, working at several newspapers\, including the North Wales Weekly News\, Visitor\, and Daily Post. He previously was the head of communications at Wrexham University. His work has been published in The Daily Telegraph\, The New York Post\, The Sun\, and The Mirror\, among several others. \nMichael Scott (moderator)\, 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/what-could-possibly-be-wrong-with-checking-the-facts/
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SUMMARY:The Importance of 'Rationes Seminales' for Augustine's Theology of Creation
DESCRIPTION:Does Augustine’s interpretation of Genesis make him the father of evolutionism? Revd Prof Mariusz Tabaczek OP (Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas) will speak in this lecture co-organized by the Canterbury Institute\, the McDonald Agape Foundation\, and the Aquinas Institute\, Blackfriars Hall. \nThis lecture will take place at\n5pm Tuesday the 13th of May in the Aula\, Blackfriars Hall. \nTo register\, please email alberto.garzoni@keble.ox.ac.uk \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-importance-of-rationes-seminales-for-augustines-theology-of-creation/
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SUMMARY:Ethics\, Politics\, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing
DESCRIPTION:Professor Melissa Moschella (Notre Dame) presents her new book Ethics\, Politics\, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing\, with responses from Dr Daniel De Haan (Campion & Blackfriars) and Clemente Recabarren (St John’s)\, chaired by Fr. John O’Connor (Blackfriars). Jointly organized by the Canterbury Institute and Blackfriars Hall.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/ethics-politics-and-natural-law-principles-for-human-flourishing/
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SUMMARY:The European challenge: defending human rights in the digital age
DESCRIPTION:This online workshop\, in collaboration with the Thomas More Centre for International Relations at CEU Fernando III\, will cover a wide range of topics from disinformation to Gaza. Richard Finn O.P. and Carlos Espaliú will co-chair. \nAll are welcome\, registration is required. \nSpeakers and Topics\nCarlos Espaliú\, CEU Fernando III: ‘Saint George and the new dragon: the fight of the European Union against disinformation sponsored by States’. \nClaes Granmar\, Stockholm: ‘Protection of Fundamental Rights through External Trade Relations’. \nSonia Boulos\, Nebrija: ‘The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Legal Consequences for the EU’. \nFelix Martín Moreno\, Lancaster: ‘Reframing Human Rights from a Psychological Needs Perspective’\, \nCarlos Fernández Liesa\, Carlos III de Madrid: ‘Sustainability and human rights in the EU’. \nSusana Sanz Caballero\, CEU Cardenal Herrera: ‘The fragility of human rights in times of rule of law erosion’.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-european-challenge-defending-human-rights-in-the-digital-age/
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SUMMARY:Thomistic Institute – Dr Nuno Castel-Branco
DESCRIPTION:On Monday 26th May\, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Dr Nuno Castel-Branco\, of All Souls College\, to speak on Holy Corpses: Incorrupt Bodies and Early Modern Science. \nThe lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars\, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. \n \nAbstract\nThis talk examines how incorrupt bodies of saints\, like those of Philip Neri and Francis Xavier\, intertwined with anatomical science. It challenges the presumed antagonism between devotion and scientific inquiry. It does so by arguing that the Church’s engagement with these “holy corpses” was tied to the emergence of human dissections and anatomical advancements in the Italian Renaissance. \nAbout the speaker\nNuno Castel-Branco is a historian of science\, culture\, and religion in early modern Europe and its global expansion. He completed his PhD in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 2021 after obtaining an MSc in Physics from the University of Lisbon. He is currently a Research Fellow at All Souls College\, Oxford. In the past\, he has worked at Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti (Florence)\, and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His first book\, ‘The Traveling Anatomist’\, on Nicolaus Steno\, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press. His articles have been published in Annals of Science\, Early Science and Medicine\, and Renaissance Quarterly\, among others. He also writes for a broader audience and his essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American. \nMore information can be found on his website.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thomistic-institute-dr-nuno-castel-branco/
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SUMMARY:Aquinas and the 'Arabs' International Working Group Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 Aquinas and the ‘Arabs’ International Working Group (AAIWG) Summer Conference is hosted by Dr Daniel DeHaan\, Frederick Copleston\, Campion Hall\, and Blackfriars Hall . The event is organized by Dr DeHaan\, Prof Luis X. López-Farjeat (Universidad Panamericana) and Prof Richard C. Taylor (Marquette University & KU Leuven)\, with the assistance of Prof Brett Yardley (DeSales University) and Prof Nathaniel Taylor (The Catholic University of America). \nThe entire event will take place over four days. The first day will be devoted to graduate student mentoring. The Conference itself will be 29-31 May. The second of the three days is specifically devoted to the topic of philosophy’s influence in the lands of Islam\, and its effect on the development of philosophical and theological thought in Europe. \nFor more information about the AAIWG and the conference\, please see the link \nConference Schedule\nDay ONE – 28th of May\, at Campion Hall\n8:45 Welcome and Introductions \nMorning Session Chair: Prof. Richard C. Taylor\, Marquette University & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven \n• 9:00-9:45 (1) Zahra Nayebi\, University of Freiburg\, “Being\, Non-Being\, and Essential Possibility: A Metaphysical Perspective on al-F?r?b?’s Refutation of Parmenides” \n• 9:45-10:30 (2) Saad Ismail\, Oxford\, “Avicenna and Knowledge-First Epistemology.” \n• 10:30-11:15 (3) Keramat Varzdar\, University of Tehran\, & Sajad Amirkhani\, University of Jyväskylä\, Finland\, “Individuation Misread: A Critical Study of Mull? ?adr?’s Interpretation of al-F?r?b?” \n11:15-11:45 Break \n• 11:45-12:30 (4) Ivonne María Acuña Macouzet\, Universidad Panamericana\, Mexico City\, “The Relationship between Philosophical Ta’w?l and Averroes’s Jurisprudence \n• 12:30-13:15 (5) John G. Antturi\, University of Helsinki\, “Aquinas on the individuality\, universality\, and incorporeality of human intellectual cognition” \n13:15-14:45 Lunch \nAfternoon Session Chair: Prof. Luis López-Farjeat\, Universidad Panamericana\, Mexico City \n• 14:45-15:30 (6) Doha Tazi Hemida\, Columbia University\, “An Ash?arite Theology of Ownership: God as Owner (m?lik)\, God as Generous (jaw?d)” \n• 15:30-16:15 (7) Alexander Schmid\, Louisiana State University\, “Dante\, Islamic-Judaic Rationalism\, and the Doctrine of Double Truth” \n• 16:15-17:00 (8) Nicoletta Nativo\, Charles University\, Prague\, “Albertism and Averroism in the Paduan Renaissance: Zimara vs Nifo” \n17:00 Closing remarks and open discussion. \n17:30 Time for some wine or other beverages! \nDay Two – 29th of May\, at Campion Hall\n9-9:30 Welcome \nChair: (i) Prof. Frank Griffel\, Professor for the Study of Abrahamic Religions\, Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall\nUniversity of Oxford \n9:30-10:25 (1) Dr. Therese-Anne Druart\, Prof. Emerita\, The Catholic University of America\, “Al-F?r?b?”s and Ibn S?n?”s Problematic Conception of Justice “ \n10:25-11:20 (2) Prof. Yehuda Halper\, Bar Ilan University\, Israel\, “Will the Wise Man Boast of Al-F?r?b?? How Samuel Ibn Tibbon Slipped Parts of De Intellectu into his Explanation of Unusual Terms in Maimonides’ “Guide of the Perplexed” “ \n11:20-11:50 Break \nChair: (ii) Dr Steven Harvey\, Professor Emeritus\, Bar-Ilan University\, Israel \n11:50-12:45 (3) Prof. Irfan Omar\, Marquette University\, “Ab?’l ‘Al?’ al-Ma‘arr?’s Philosophical Critique of Religion” \n12:45-13:35 (4) Prof. Richard C. Taylor\, Marquette University and KU Leuven\, “A Critical Consideration of Ibn Rushd on Matters of Philosophy and Religion “ \n13:35-15:00 Lunch Break  \nChair:  (iii) Prof. Yehuda Halper\, Bar Ilan University\, Israel \n15:00-15:55 (5) Dr. des. Ibrahim Safri (UM6P)\, University of Heidelberg\, “Motion in Categories in Pre-modern Islamic Philosophy” \n15:55-16:50 (6) Dr Steven Harvey\, Professor Emeritus\, Bar-Ilan University\, Israel\, “H. A. Wolfson and the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Project” \n16:50-17:20 Break \n17:20-18:45 (7) Special Session on Method. \nChair: (iv) Prof. John Marenbon\, Cambidge University \nProf. Katja Krause\, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science & Technical University\, Berlin\, “Method in the History of Medieval Philosophy: What Good does it Serve?” Commentator: Prof. Frank Griffel\, Oxford \n19:00 Conference Dinner at Campion Hall (Vegetarian option available.) \nDay Three – 30th of May\, at Blackfriars\nChair: (v) Prof. Luis López-Farjeat\, Universidad Panamericana\, Mexico City \n9-9:55 (8) Dr. R. E. Houser\, Prof. Emeritus\, University of St Thomas (Houston)\, “First Steps onto the Five Ways: Thomas and Avicenna” \n9:55-10:50 (9) Prof. David B. Twetten\, Marquette University\, “Aquinas’ Novel Definition of ‘Universal’ and Its Background in Avicenna: How to Answer ‘Universal Realism’ “ \n11:50-11:20 Break \n11:20-12:25 (10) Prof. John Peck\, S.J.\, Saint Louis University\, “Thomas Aquinas’s Prime Matter Pluralism “ \n12:25-13:20 (11) Dr. Daniel DeHaan\, Oxford\, “God\, Creation\, and Providence: Avicenna’s Influence on the Structure of the Contra Gentiles“ \n13:30-15:00 Lunch \nChair: (iv) Dr. Adriano Oliva\, president\, Commissio Leonina\, Paris \n15:00-15:55 (12) Prof. Randall B. Smith\, University of St Thomas (Houston)\, “The Natural Law and Thomas Aquinas’s Debt to Maimonides” \n15:55-16:50 (13) Prof. Patrick Zoll\, S. J.\, Munich School of Philosophy\, “Can We Know the Essence of a Simple God? Thomas Aquinas’s Critique of Maimonides in De potentia“ \n16:50-17:20 Break \n17:20-18:15 (14) Dr. Marta Borgo\, Commissio Leonina\, Paris\, & Dr. Mostafa Najafi\, Lucerne University\,”Ibn Rušd’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics V.7 and Its Impact on Medieval Conceptions of Being as True” \n18:15-19:10 (15) Prof. Nader El Bizri\, Dean of the College of Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences at the University of Sharjah\, heading the Falsafa Project of the Knapp Foundation\, “Alhazen’s Optics and its impact on science and the architectural visual arts in Europe” \n19:10 in the Aula: Knapp Foundation Wine Reception with remarks by Prof. Laurence Hemming\, honorary professor jointly in Lancaster University’s Philosophy\, Politics and Religion Department\, and the Lancaster University Management School and Knapp Foundation Director \nDay Four – 31st of may\, at Campion\nChair: (v) Dr Charles Burnett\, Prof. Emeritus\, Warburg Institute\, London \n9-9:55 (16) Prof. Adam Takahashi\, Kwansei Gakuin University (Nishinomiya\, Japan)\, “Albert the Great on Angels and Miracles: Providence and Natural Causality in his Commentary on the Sentences (Book II) “ \n9:55-10:50 (17) Dr. Andre Martin\, Post Doctoral Fellow\, Charles University\, Prague (PhD\, McGill 2022)\, “Averroes’ Agent Sense in the Early 13th Century: Albert and his Sources” \n11:00-11:30 Break \n11:30-12:25 (18) Dr. Tracy Wietecha\, Technical University\, Berlin\, “The City as A Mirror of Virtue: The Influence of Averroes on Albert the Great’s Conception of Virtue” \n12:25-13:20 (19) Dr. Edmund Lazzari\, Duquesne University\, “Reading the Book of Nature: Quranic and Bonaventurian ay??/similitudines of God in Nature” \n13:30-15:00 Lunch \nChair: (vi) Dr. Therese-Anne Druart\, Prof. Emerita\, CUA \n15:00-15:55 (20) Prof. Luis López-Farjeat\, Universidad Panamericana\, Mexico City\, “The literal (???? or ?????? / ??hir) and the hidden (??????? / b??in) in Philo of Alexandria and the Islamic philosophical tradition” \n15:55-16:50 (21) Dr. Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo\, St. Gregory the Great Seminary \, Seward\, Nebraska\, “The Multiple Meanings of Sacra Doctrine in Aquinas Seen Through Averroes’ Doctrine on the Levels of Discourse” \n16:50-17:45 (22) Prof. Brett Yardley\, DeSales University\, “Can ‘Pseudo’ Authors be Trusted?” \n17:45 Final discussion and closing remarks. Chairs: Richard Taylor & Luis López-Farjeat
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/aquinas-and-the-arabs-international-working-group-conference/
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