A Future for the Humanities
How can Arts and the Humanities help promote social justice and human dignity?
What place have the Arts and Humanities in promoting an understanding of human life, dignity, equality, social justice, and the diversity of cultures?
Led by Prof. Michael Scott, this joint-project of the Las Casas Institute, Campion Hall, Oxford, and Georgetown University, explores the value of the arts and humanities through high-profile events and series of online meetings with an international reach. By the end of 2022 it will have four strands of activity or archived resources for you to access: (1) The Christian Literary Imagination; (2) China and the West: Cultural Dialogues; (3) Nature, Literature, Arts and the Environment.
The Christian Literary Imagination comprises studies of individual authors and the representation of Christian values including social justice. This series will be completed in June 2022. Click here for a list of topics and YouTube recordings. Papers from the sub-series on Christian Shakespeare? have been edited by Michael Scott (Blackfriars) and Michael J Collins (Georgetown) for publication by Vernon Press in late 2022/early 2023.
The Christian Literary Imagination comprises studies of individual authors and the representation of Christian values including social justice. This series will be completed in June 2022. Click here for a list of topics and YouTube recordings. Papers from the sub-series on Christian Shakespeare? have been edited by Michael Scott (Blackfriars) and Michael J Collins (Georgetown) for publication by Vernon Press in late 2022/early 2023.
China and the West: Cultural Dialogues. This series aims to promote dialogue and mutual understanding fostered through the arts. Click here for a list of topics and YouTube recordings.
China and the West: Cultural Dialogues is an event series sponsored by Georgetown University’s Future of the Humanities Project, a partnership with Campion Hall, Oxford, and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, in cooperation with the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (London).
https://global.georgetown.edu/series/china-and-the-west-cultural-dialogues
The Case for Cross-Cultural Dialogues, October 22, 2021
https://global.georgetown.edu/events/the-case-for-cross-cultural-dialogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6k0otF_Prw
Xunzi and Plato on the Economics of Totalitarianism: A Meeting of Distant Minds, November 5, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk923cXRe30
Asian Embodiment of a White Canon: Shakespeare and the Sinophone World, December 3, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQzb8izuBXI
Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Art and Buddhist Devotion Along the Silk Roads, January 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkpJL72xfEg&t=5s
Nature, Literature, Arts and the Environment. This series will begin in autumn 2022 to look at the role of the arts in relation to contemporary ecological issues.