Thinking in a Catholic Way About Migration and Poverty The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church can help everyone, including non-believers, to think clearly about controversial social and political issues. Migration balances the natural and supernatural value of human dignity against the human need for coherent communities and the reality of social feelings. The obligation...
'The Mandate of Heaven: Asia's Ascendancy, the economic and cultural consequences' Las Casas Lecture. Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint For more information contact Las Casas Institute: lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
With a keynote address by Dr. Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University Garden Quad Auditorium, St. John’s College, Oxford. This is the first conference of the Future of the Humanities Project currently being developed by Georgetown University, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars, Oxford. Under the leadership of Prof. Michael Scott, the project...
Alison Phipps, UNESCO Chair: Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts With Gameli Tordzro, Naa Densua Tordzro and Tawona Sitholé Refugee integration is a concern across the western world. How to ensure cohesive societies, how to develop policies, which will allay fears, how to set limits or erase limits around who or who may not...
A range of scholars including John Boswell ('Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality'), R.I.Moore ('The Formation of a Persecuting Society') and Geraldine Heng ['The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages') have noted changing patterns of intolerance during the European Middle Ages. The study of these topics is also deeply influenced by contemporary attitudes. Dr Clare Downahm's paper is an exploratory look at changing attitudes towards women and power in the tenth century.
Finding Christ in Prison: Why Higher Education in Prisons is a Social Justice Imperative for Christians A lecture by Professor Kenneth Parker In Jesus's parable of the kingdom (Matthew 25), being present to the prisoner comes with a promise: 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these...
This is the second conference of the Future of the Humanities Project currently being developed by Georgetown University, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars, Oxford. Under the leadership of Prof. Michael Scott, the project explores the place of the humanities in developing a proper understanding of human life, dignity, and...
This lecture is part of the second conference in The Future of the Humanities Project which is being sponsored by Georgetown University in association with the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Keynote Lecture by Dr. Gabriele Finaldi, Director, National Gallery London Introduction by Dr. Martin Kemp, University of oxford Discussion chaired by Stephen Farthing RA, Royal Academy of...
''An Engine Whose Motive Power is the Soul': Recovering the Dignity of Labour in Victorian Critiques of Industrialisation and Political Economy' - A Dignity Series Seminar by Prof Rosemary Mitchell
Human Dignity Seminar Series This seminar will explore the histories and methods of faith-based organisations in Northern Ireland during the conflict there. It will outline the practical methods used by small groups working on peace lines to restore human dignity in the midst of a conflict based upon othering. The seminar is led by Dr...