It is a grave responsibility to represent someone else, to speak and act in another’s name. The honour and reputation of the represented is vicariously liable for the words and deeds of his representative. How much graver is the responsibility then when the authority represented is the Author of creation, and when the reputation made...
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Prof Christian Leitmeir, Associate Professor in Music, University of Oxford: From Sign to Sound: Towards an Aesthetic Presence of Dead Music
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John Berkman, University of Toronto and Visiting Fellow at Campion Hall, will lead this seminar starting at 5pm, Friday 1 May in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall. A reception with refreshments and pizza will follow. Please email the Las Casas Institute to make us aware of any dietary restrictions. This event is free and open... |
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Can "Existence Itself" be Personal? Interpreting Aquinas’s God This year's Annual Aquinas Lecture will be given by John Cottingham (Prof Emeritus, Reading; Hon Fellow, John’s Oxford) Thursday the 7th of May (Week 2 TT), at 4pm. Prof Cottingham is a distinguished scholar of Philosophy and Religion, and the author of over thirty books and over one-hundred-and-sixty... |
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Dr Cynthia Liu, Junior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall: Poetry and Translation in Sino-European ‘Classical’ Exchange
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Professor Michael Mawson, Auckland, will lead this seminar at 5.30pm, Friday 8 May in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall. A reception with refreshments and pizza will follow. Please email the Las Casas Institute to make us aware of any dietary restrictions. This event is free and open to all, but registration is required. This event... |
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Giovanni di Paolo, The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise (Met) This seminar series brings together emerging scholars of historical ecologies, placing them in conversation to reflect on the relationship humanity has and had with the natural world. By tracing how human–environment relations have been imagined, governed, and lived in the past,... |
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The Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall is pleased to host an online academic conversation—co-organised with the Centre for Theological Formation (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)—exploring the complex role of communities of faith in peacebuilding processes. As scholars and practitioners alike have long recognised, religion carries both constructive and destructive potential in its cultural consequences —the “ambiguity... |
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John Berkman, University of Toronto and Visiting Fellow at Campion Hall, will deliver this lecture at 4pm, Tuesday the 19th of May. Dr Nicholas Austin SJ, Campion, will respond. The event is free and open to everyone, no registration is required. This lecture is part of our Trinity series, see the other talks below. John... |
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Professor Vincent Lloyd, Villanova, will lead this seminar at 11am, Friday 22 May in the Annexe Seminar Room of Blackfriars Hall (33 St Giles' OX13LD). A sandwich lunch with refreshments will be served before the start of the seminar. Please email the Las Casas Institute to make us aware of any dietary restrictions. This event is...
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An interactive book launch and workshop introducing The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z (Routledge 2026), based on cutting-edge research on youth religion supported by Oxford’s John Fell Fund and AHRC funding at King’s College London. By reading and discussing short stories written by Gen Zers from around the globe, attendees will explore how young people... |
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Pope Francis (2013-2025): A Retrospective Assessment with Some Early Reflections on the Pontificate of Leo XIV - An International Relations Perspective Pope Francis died a year ago and this is an opportune moment to offer an initial retrospective assessment with the anniversary of his death, especially how he dealt with international affairs. The lecture reflects on... |
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