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. To get an invitation contact John McCabe: jm3479@georgetown.edu. This discussion is part...
The story of Hamlet is well-known throughout the world, having been popularized through Shakespeare’s play, but it has roots in a medieval Danish work. This talk will focus on a lesser-known version of this story that was written in Iceland in the seventeenth century. What would have happened if Hamlet’s murderous uncle had not shipped...
Willa Cather’s most famous book Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), based on the true story of two nineteenth-century French missionaries to New Mexico, is regularly listed among the greatest American novels of the twentieth century. In it, Cather addresses the theme of this series: the paradoxical relationship between the Church’s missionary task and the Christian...
In Don Quixote (1605), the unreliable narrator of the first volume names a Moor, Cide Hamete Benengeli, as a source for the story he is about to recount—although he warns readers that Moors are often untruthful. Throughout his wanderings, Don Quixote encounters men and women of different social and ethnic groups. His interactions with Moors are particularly...
In this online talk Professor Michael Scott, Blackfriars, will discuss Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. It is part of the series, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference. Online. Free and open to all. Registration is required. Upcoming events in this series Maureen Corrigan,...
In this online talk Maureen Corrigan, Georgetown, will discuss F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Professor Michael Scott will chair. This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. It is part of the series, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference. Online. Free and open to all. Registration is required. Upcoming events in...
In this online talk Richard Finn O.P. will discuss Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. Professor Michael Scott will chair. This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. It is part of the series, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference. Online. Free and open to all. Registration is required. Upcoming events in this...
The speaker and topic of this online talk is TBA. Professor Michael Scott will chair. This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. It is part of the series, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference. Online. Free and open to all. Registration is required. Upcoming events in this series Martin Ganeri...
In this online talk Martin Ganeri O.P., The Angelicum (PUST), will discuss the Bhagavad Gita. Professor Michael Scott will chair. This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. It is part of the series, Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference. Online. Free and open to all. Registration is required.
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. Fact-checking, once seen as a noble and common-sense endeavour to reduce errors...