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SUMMARY:Thomistic Metaphysics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Aquinas Institute\, Blackfriars Hall\, and the Thomistic Institute\, this is a seminar for faculty\, graduate students\, advanced undergraduate students\, and postdocs in philosophy and related disciplines. \n9th June: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm\, at the Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre\, Christ Church\, Oxford \n10th June: 9:15 am – 3:30 pm\, at the Cathedral Chapter House\, Christ Church\, Oxford \nOpen to academics and university members. To register for this event\, please follow the link \nSchedule\nDay 1: Arguments for the Real Distinction between Esse and Essentia \n\n\nDaniel De Haan (University of Oxford) \n\n\nGaven Kerr (St. Patrick’s College\, Maynooth) \n\n\nJoshua Hochschild (Mount St. Mary’s University) \n\n\nDominic LaMantia (University of Notre Dame) \n\n\nMichael Gorman (The Catholic University of America) \n\n\nTurner Nevitt (University of San Diego) \n\n\nDay 2: How does esse relate to essentia? \n\n\nFr. Philip-Neri Reese\, O.P. (Angelicum) \n\n\nThomas Osborne (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \n\n\nDomenic D’Ettore (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \n\n\nBrian Carl (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \n\n\nFrancesco Banfi (University of Oxford)
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thomistic-metaphysics-seminar/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Thomistic Institute – Sir Gabriele Finaldi
DESCRIPTION:On Monday 9th June\, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Sir Gabriele Finaldi\, the Director of the National Gallery\, to speak on Visions of Heaven and Hell in Botticelli’s “Mystic Nativity”\, “The Wilton Diptych”\, and Bermejo’s “Saint Michael Triumphs over the Devil”. \nThe lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars\, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thomistic-institute-sir-gabriele-finaldi/
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SUMMARY:Japan in the Early Modern World: Religion\, Translation\, and Transnational Relations
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us for a hybrid book launch to celebrate the co-edited volume Japan in the Early Modern World. Religion\, Translation\, and Transnational Relations. There will be a brief introduction to the book and a short panel discussion with the volume’s editors and authors over drinks and nibbles. All are welcome. \n \n  \nTo register for in-person attendance\, please follow the link \n  \nTo register for online attendance\, please follow this link \n\n  \n  \nSpeakers\n \nAlessandro Bianchi is Head of World Collections at Cambridge University Libraries and leads the curatorial teams responsible for the collections from Asia\, Africa\, and the Commonwealth. His current research focuses on Japanese illustrated books\, as well as print and book history in the global context\, with a particular emphasis on the intersections with graphic arts and material culture. Prior to his current role\, Alessandro was the manager of the Japanese Library and curator of Japanese rare books and manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries\, lectured at Haverford College\, and held a curatorial position at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries\, a Trustee of the Bibliographical Society\, Treasurer of the National Committee for Information Resources on Asia\, a Subject Expert at La Sapienza University in Rome\, and a Visiting Researcher at the Art Research Centre of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. \n  \nPia Jolliffe is Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. Her research interests include historical anthropology\, children and women’s experiences of the transition from sixteenth to seventeenth century Japan\, Buddhist temples as places of memory\, and the history Christianity in Japan. Her publications include: ‘Naughty\, bold\, and blessed: Sixteenth-century Japanese children’s voices mediated in the writings of Luís Fróis’ Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth\, Vol. 16/ 2 (2023)\, pp. 211-228; and\, with Alessandro Bianchi\, ‘Jesuit translation practices in sixteenth-century Japan\, Sanctos no gosagueo no uchi nuqigaqi and Luis de Granada’ in Jieun Kiaer et al Missionary Translators: Translations of Christian Texts in East Asia. London: Routledge\, 2021\, pp. 24-56. \n  \nYoshimi Orii is Professor of Spanish Language and Culture at Keio University (Tokyo). Her main area of research is the intellectual exchange between Iberian countries and Japan during the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries\, primarily through book production and translation. Her studies include Yoshimi Orii. Pietro Alagona’s Compendium Manualis Navarri Published by the Jesuit Mission Press in Early Modern Japan. In: Bragagnolo M (ed) The Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Age of the Printing Press: Martín de Azpilcueta’s Manual de Confessores from a Global Perspective. (Leiden: Brill | Nijhoff\, 2024): Yoshimi Orii and Zamora Calvo María Jesús. Cruces y áncoras: La influencia de Japón y España en un siglo de oro global (Madrid: Abada\, 2020). \nKatja Triplett is Affiliate Professor of the Study of Religions at  Marburg University\, Germany. Her main fields of interest are Buddhism;  religion and translation; religion\, health and medicine; visual and  material culture. Currently\, she is directing a research project on translation and the early Jesuit mission in Japan\, at Leipzig  University. She has published widely on religions in Japan including  Buddhism and Medicine in Japan: A Topical Survey (500-1600 CE) of a  Complex Relationship (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter\, 2021\, pb)\, and “Translations on Martyrdom During the Early Modern Persecution of  Christians in Japan.“ In Jörg Wesche et al. (eds)\, Contrarieties. Subversive Translation in the Early Modern Period (Berlin\, Heidelberg:  J.B. Metzler\, 2025)\, pp. 55–82.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/japan-in-the-early-modern-world-religion-translation-and-transnational-relations/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:A being of wonder: why religious freedom preserves all human freedoms (an Indonesian perspective)
DESCRIPTION:Clarins Shieryl\, Blackfriars Hall\, and Ignatius Bambang Sugiharto\, Parahyangan\, will speak at this online seminar about the charity work they have carried out recently. \nAll are welcome\, registration required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/a-being-of-wonder-why-religious-freedom-preserves-all-human-freedoms-an-indonesian-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Can independent academic research survive?
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. \nIndependent academic research was once considered bipartisan and sensible. But drastic and sudden changes to research and development policy in the United States have disrupted the landscape. Budget cuts to science have fueled uncertainty around domestic projects\, as well as the future of international cooperation. Meanwhile\, in Europe\, research faces challenges related to sustainable funding\, bureaucratic hurdles\, and data protection. In an era of ongoing political and economic strain\, can independent research survive throughout the West? Can the global community uphold the integrity of research without succumbing to outside pressure or undermining advancements? \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. \nJohn Drakakis\, emeritus professor of English studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland\, holds a PhD from the University of Leeds\, as well as an honorary DLitt from the University of Clermont-Auvergne. He has published many articles in learned journals and chapters in books on Shakespeare\, Jacobean literature and drama\, media studies\, modern critical theory\, and cultural studies. He is a fellow of the English Association and an elected member of the Academia Europaea. \nJennifer Jones directs the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She provides leadership and guidance for the Center’s staff as they work together for strong and independent public science; a robust\, transparent democracy; justice for overburdened communities; and the effective use of science in public policy. Previously\, she led the Center for Environment and Society at Florida Gulf Coast University. \nJohn O’Connor is the Regent of Blackfriars Hall and Studium\, and Regent of Studies for the English Province of the Order of Preachers. He studied electronic engineering at the National University of Ireland\, Galway. He holds a PhD in applied superconductivity and electron microscopy from the University of Oxford. He was a teaching fellow in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a lecturer in moral theology at the University of Glasgow. \nPanelist #4 – TBD \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/can-independent-academic-research-survive/
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SUMMARY:Rivalling Kingdoms of Desire in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
DESCRIPTION:Led by Philip John Paul Gonzales (St. Mary’s Seminary & University\, Baltimore)\, this lecture will discuss Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The apocalyptic artistry of Dostoevsky will be on full show as Philip Gonzales explores the underground desires and the battle between the two kingdoms in this key work of the western canon. \nThis event will take place Wednesday the 18th of June\, at 5pm in the Aula \nTo register to attend\, please follow the link
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/rivaling-kingdoms-of-desire-in-dostoevskys-crime-and-punishment/
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