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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJg0e9zMYYg Isabella Tree: WILDING - the return of nature to a British farm Isabella Tree is an award-winning travel writer and author, married to the conservationist Sir Charles Burrell. Together they have embarked on a daring wildlife experiment: the rewilding of Knepp Estate in West Sussex. Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy...

Human Dignity and Mother Earth: Historic and Contemporary Sources in Conversation for a Socio-Ecological Ethic The seminar opens with each panellist giving a short reflection on the confluence of respect for the human person and care for the larger natural world. With the aid of an expert moderator, Professor Celia Deane-Drummond, they enter into conversation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwP3iKFS1k The end of glory: Why contemporary war has few big battles, much devastation and very little justice  - Frank Ledwidge Warfare changes over time, and the philosophers of just war struggle to keep up. Frank Ledwidge, author and military historian, and Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, will help restore the balance with...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLb6hfTUb4 The philosophical case against war: What war looks like after modern war has stripped away the illusions - Edward Hadas Warfare changes over time, and the philosophers of just war struggle to keep up. Frank Ledwidge, author and military historian, and Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, will help restore the balance with...

In his recent encyclical, Fratelli tutti, Pope Francis presents a 're-envisaging the social role of property'. While the Pope restates and develops Catholic social teaching (CST) on this point, the fundamentals of this teaching are perennial. While affirming the right to private property, CST underscores divine purposes integral to this right. These purposes contextualize this right...

What should economists study? Common answers include markets, money, scarcity, productivity, prosperity, distribution, and statistics. All of those are relevant, but Edward Hadas will propose a more radical starting point: the Great Exchange of gifts: of human labour to the world and of consumption goods and services from the world that labour has humanised. Edward...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWRqNyspJw&t=3s A Christian vision of 'development' Traditional approaches to social and economic 'development' are being questioned in a world where hundreds of millions of people live in extreme poverty, while humankind also consumes beyond its environmental limits. Can Christianity offer both a critique of mainstream approaches to development, and a more positive vision of human...

Nationalism, populism, and resurgent racism have combined in a toxic political and cultural stew around the world to challenge established patterns of civic dialogue and interrupt the natural evolution of democracy. In response, monuments are toppling, schools and buildings are being renamed, and historical memory itself has come under review and regulation in some countries....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwwXwavssmg Blackfriars Oxford is hosting a panel discussion of A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty, a new book by Blackfriars JRF,  Edward A. David, featuring: Brett Bertucio, University of Wisconsin-Madison Edward A. David, University of Oxford Robert J. Matava, Christendom College Moderated by Rev Dr Bruno Clifton OP, this event is sponsored by the...

Poverty and the Pandemic in Oxford Blackfriars Poverty in Britain Group is holding its next event online, in partnership with the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice We welcome a panel of speakers to discuss the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on people experiencing poverty in Oxford, and how the situation has highlighted existing...