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SUMMARY:From Sign to Sound: Towards an Aesthetic Presence of Dead Music
DESCRIPTION:Prof Christian Leitmeir\, Associate Professor in Music\, University of Oxford: From Sign to Sound: Towards an Aesthetic Presence of Dead Music
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/from-sign-to-sound-towards-an-aesthetic-presence-of-dead-music/
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SUMMARY:Anscombe’s Persistent Protest
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is free and open to all\, but registration is required. \nThis event is part of our Trinity series Thinking Social Justice convened by Dr Rebekah Wallace and Dr Jack Norman\, Research Fellows at the Las Casas Institute. Further talks in this series can be found below. \nJohn Berkman obtained a BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto\, and completed his PhD in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University. Before joining the Regis College Faculty in 2009\, he taught at the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley\, CA and in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington\, DC. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Duke Divinity School and the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life. \nUpcoming events in this series\nProfessor Michael Mawson\, Auckland\n6.30pm\, 8 May\, Blackfriars Hall (OX13LY): ‘The Liberation Theologies of New Zealand’ \nProfessor Vincent Lloyd\, Villanova\n11am\, 22 May\, Blackfriars Annexe (OX13LD): ‘Dignity from Below’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/anscombes-persistent-protest/
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SUMMARY:Annual Aquinas Lecture: Interpreting Aquinas’s God
DESCRIPTION:Can “Existence Itself” be Personal?\nInterpreting Aquinas’s God\n \nThis 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 articles. One of his recent books\, The Humane Perspective\, published by Oxford University Press\, brings together a number of his essays published in the past twenty years and has been called a ‘singular service to contemporary anglophone philosophy and its future’. For more information about Prof Cottingham and a record of his work\, please check out his website. \nOpen to all but registration is required\, please follow the link \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/annual-aquinas-lecture-interpreting-aquinass-god/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Translation in Sino-European ‘Classical’ Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Dr Cynthia Liu\, Junior Research Fellow\, Blackfriars Hall: Poetry and Translation in Sino-European ‘Classical’ Exchange
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/poetry-and-translation-in-sino-european-classical-exchange/
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SUMMARY:The Liberation Theologies of New Zealand
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is free and open to all\, but registration is required. \nThis event is part of our Trinity series Thinking Social Justice convened by Dr Rebekah Wallace and Dr Jack Norman\, Research Fellows at the Las Casas Institute. Further talks in this series can be found below. \nProfessor Michael Mawson  is the Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor of Theological and Religious Studies at University of Auckland\, a post that has previously been held by Elaine Wainwright and Joseph Bulbulia. He is an international expert on the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and has published widely in the area of Christian Ethics. \nUpcoming events in this series\nProfessor Vincent Lloyd\, Villanova\n11am\, 22 May\, Blackfriars Annexe (OX13LD): ‘Dignity from Below’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-liberation-theologies-of-new-zealand/
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SUMMARY:Nature as Neighbour: Ecological Grief
DESCRIPTION:Giovanni di Paolo\, The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise (Met) \nThis 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\, the seminar foregrounds nature not as a distant backdrop but as a proximate and entangled neighbour. Responding to one another and in dialogue with attendees\, this seminar will workshop how historical perspectives can inform present-day responses to the climate and natural world\, offering critical insights into environmental-stewardship\, -responsibility\, -coexistence\, and environmentally-just futures. \nConvened by Nidanu O’Shea\, Wolfson\, and Dr John Angus Macaulay\, Blackfriars\, the theme of this term’s seminar is ‘Ecological Grief’. \nThe seminar will take place at 5pm Tuesday the 12th of May in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall and will be followed by a reception. Open to everyone and registration is required\, please follow the link \nspeakers\nXinyue Liu\,\nEcological Grief and Speculative Future \nIt is 2125. Eve is an exhausted but dedicated bureaucrat at the Bureau of Environmental Imaging and Memory Analysis. She works for the Special Office of the Haunted\, Cinema of Ecological Grief Division. She is pressed to be sufficiently haunted by ecological grief—the irreparable sorrow felt in response to devastated species\, places\, and landscapes. Eve’s responsibility is to inventory and perform memories entrusted to her by snowdrop plants\, beluga whales\, and river dolphins. \nThis presentation outlines my doctoral practice-led thesis project\, which explores ecological grief through my fieldwork at the Institute of Hydrobiology\, where the Yangtze River dolphin went extinct. Drawing on ecofeminist critique\, Black hauntologies\, and critical fabulation\, this project critically examines ecological grief both as an essential emotion in conservation and as an immense emotional burden placed on those who experience it. Through the form of fiction\, this duality is explored\, along with the bureau itself\, which I am developing as a creative strategy for working with endangered nature. \nXinyue Liu is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher in fine art\, and a Clarendon Scholar with a DPhil in Fine Art from the University of Oxford. She holds a permanent Research Fellowship at the Rural Lab\, Glasgow School of Art\, contributing to an expansive portfolio in regenerative creative practice across Scotland’s Highlands and Islands. She works with film\, text\, movement\, and installation. Her research focuses on the intersection between contemporary visual culture and ecological grief. She is particularly motivated by reframing grief as a resource for sustained ecological remembrance. Her driving question is how speculative art can resurface connections with lost memories and species from a particular landscape. \nElectra Perivolaris\,\nDialogues\, Encounters\, and Entanglements: Developing a compositional practice which reimagines and examines relationships between humans and nature \n\nThis paper outlines my artistic research into composition as a means of exploring human–nature interconnection. Drawing on eco-musicology\, anthropology\, and cultural geography\, I critique anthropocentric perspectives and pastoral traditions\, proposing a “post-pastoral” approach that embraces ecological complexity and tension. Through composition and community-based practice\, I investigate how music can express interwoven relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. The research emphasises listening as an immersive\, embodied practice and foregrounds sustainable\, participatory creativity. It positions composition as a collaborative ecological process that fosters empathy\, challenges binary thinking\, and highlights the interconnectedness of all life. \n\n\nElectra Perivolaris has been described as a “Classical Star of the Future” by BBC Introducing\, and “a razor-sharp musical imagination’ by The Telegraph. A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (BMus Hons) and the Royal Academy of Music (MMus\, DipRAM\, LRAM)\, Electra was a Royal Philharmonic Society Composer\, the inaugural Young Classical Artists Trust Composer Fellow and a PRS Foundation Classical:NEXT Fellow. Recent commissions have included works for the BBC Concert Orchestra\, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment\, BBC Singers and the Hebrides Ensemble. \n\nRiley Faulds\,\n‘Deep Bouvard’: Ecopoetry as a Method for Making Abstract Environmental Philosophy Materially Useful \nMany threads of environmental philosophy\, like Arne Naess’ ‘deep ecology\,’ have been influential across academic disciplines. But how useful can they be in the actual management of existentially threatened material ecologies—for a farmer\, gardener\, conservationist or other person responsible for the use or stewardship of land or ecosystems? My ‘Deep Bouvard’ project seeks to investigate this question via innovative ecopoetry\, and to simultaneously interrogate the specific relevance and utility of the key principles of deep ecology for a place in Bindjareb Country\, in what we now call Western Australia. In the poems\, I confront the ethically complex grief of caring for and mourning an ecology in whose degradation I and my colonist ancestors are deeply implicated—and make the argument that poetry is uniquely suited to such an interrogation. \nLast week\, Riley Faulds put another notebook through the washing machine. He would be a much more prolific writer and successful scholar if he didn’t keep doing this. Riley grew up in Western Australia\, and worked as an environmental scientist alongside his Bachelor’s in Agricultural Science and English. He is currently working on a DPhil developing ‘weedy reading\,’ a method of literary analysis he’s applying to the poetry of agriculture and gardening of Australia\, southern Africa and the Caribbean. Despite the literally hundreds of pages lost to the soapy waters over the years\, he’s had poetry and reviews published in many of Australia’s best journals and prize lists.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/nature-as-neighbour-ecological-grief/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Echoes of Faith: Religious Voices in the Peacebuilding Landscapes of Ireland and Colombia
DESCRIPTION: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 of the sacred”—. Strengthening constructive elements requires not only a clear-eyed awareness of the challenges these communities face\, but also a careful appreciation of their distinctive contributions\, and a willingness to learn from good practices across contexts. \nThis event seeks to serve as a trans-Atlantic bridge\, bringing different perspectives into fruitful conversation: a space where experiences emerging from two markedly different yet resonant contexts —post-Troubles Ireland and post-Accord Colombia— can be meaningfully contrasted and mutually enriched. By placing these case studies in dialogue and allowing them to find echoes in each other\, the discussion will invite participants to consider how communities of faith navigate political transition\, contribute to reconciliation\, and reimagine their public role in societies marked by histories of conflict. In doing so\, it aims to foster deeper reflection on the possibilities and limits of faith-based peacebuilding in the contemporary world. \nThis webinar\, led by Dr Maria Power and Dr Eduardo Gutiérrez\, will take place on Zoom Thursday the 14th of May\, at 3pm. Free and open to all and Registration is required. \nSpeakers\nDr Maria Power is a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall where she a Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice. With a strong focus on the case of Ireland\, her academic research explores the role that religions can play in ameliorating violence and ethnic conflict. \nDr Eduardo Gutiérrez is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Theological Formation at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana’s Faculty of Theology. He is also a JRF at Blackfriars Hall and a Research Fellow at the Berkley Center (Georgetown University). His teaching and research focus on religious imaginaries and their contribution to peacebuilding\, esp. in Colombia.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/echoes-of-faith-religious-voices-in-the-peacebuilding-landscapes-of-ireland-and-colombia/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Christian Life Beyond Virtue: Aquinas on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJohn Berkman obtained a BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto\, and completed his PhD in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University. Before joining the Regis College Faculty in 2009\, he taught at the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley\, CA and in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington\, DC. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Duke Divinity School and the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life. \nUpcoming events in this series\nSara Chan\, University of Scranton\n5pm\, Monday 8 June: ‘Care and Filial Piety as burdened virtues’ \nMatthew Minerd\, Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius\, Pittsburgh\,\n4pm\, Tuesday 16 June: ‘Ens Morale: The Scholastic Metaphysics of Morals’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/christian-life-beyond-virtue-aquinas-on-the-gifts-of-the-holy-spirit/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Dignity from Below
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is free and open to all\, but registration is required. \nThis event is part of our Trinity series Thinking Social Justice convened by Dr Rebekah Wallace and Dr Jack Norman\, Research Fellows at the Las Casas Institute.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dignity-from-below/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Annexe Seminar Room\, 33 St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z: Book Launch and Story Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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 today are rethinking religion and online influencers in a digital age. \nThis workshop will take place Friday the 22nd of May at 4:30pm in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall. \nRegistration is required. \nEdward David is Lecturer in Ethics and Values at King’s College London and Director of the Associateship of King’s College (AKC)\, as well as a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. He was previously the McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life at Christ Church\, Oxford (2022–2024)\, and a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford (2020–2022). Edward holds a DPhil from Blackfriars. His work explores moral formation\, leadership\, and spirituality in contemporary culture\, and he is the author of Leadership by Example (Cambridge University Press) and\, most recently\, The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z (Routledge).
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-spiritual-narratives-of-generation-z-book-launch-and-story-workshop/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Pope Francis (2013-2025): A Retrospective Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Pope Francis (2013-2025):\nA Retrospective Assessment with Some Early Reflections on the Pontificate of  Leo XIV –\nAn International Relations Perspective\n \nPope 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 the Pope Francis’ Argentine background\, and how in surprising\, and important ways it helped to shape his approach to the papacy\, and some of the main themes of his papacy: the culture of encounter\, human fraternity\, inclusive citizenship\, care for creation\, or the earth as our common home\, interreligious dialogue and cooperation on common global issues\, and his warning we may be walking ‘peacemeal’ into another global war. In each of these themes Pope Francis sought to identify a creative approach\, as an active dimension of hope in a ‘closing’ and increasingly troubled world.   The lecture is also prospective\, and it seeks to identify some of the early distinct characteristics of the exercise of the Petrine ministry of Pope Leo XIV. In this way it seeks to contribute to a better understanding of  the modern papacy\, noting the ways it has dealt with a variety of significant changing global contours in the different eras of the church and international relations. \nThis hybrid lecture will be given by Dr Scott Thomas\, Research Associate at Las Casas\, at 5:30pm\, Thursday the 28th of May in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall\, and streamed on Zoom. \nOpen to everyone and in person registration is required. \nTo register for online attendance\, please follow this link. \nDr Scott Thomas is a Research Associate of the Las Casas Institute\, a Research Associate at the Institute of European Studies and Human Rights\, Pontifical University of Salamanca\, Spain\, and a contributing editor of The Review of Faith & International Affairs.  His current research focuses on the ‘theological turn’ in international relations. This is the recovery of the theology underlying the main theories and paradigms of international relations\, which includes the relevance of St Francis\, Pope Francis\, and the Catholic tradition for interreligious dialogue and international relations.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/pope-francis-2013-2025-a-retrospective-assessment/
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