Inaugural Workshop for Emerging Scholars

Aquinas on Christ (30 may – 2nd June)

The Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall is pleased to announce the launch of a new network of emerging scholars in philosophy and theology, with an inaugural workshop running from the evening of Monday 30th May until Thursday 2nd June 2021,  on the theme of Aquinas’s Christology. We invite applications from graduate students and recent Ph.D. graduates for this exciting event.

Full scholarships will cover all travel expenses (whether from within the UK or internationally), as well as meals and accommodation during participants’ residential stay in Oxford. The schedule will allow time for participants to make use of the outstanding research facilities at the University of Oxford and meet with other scholars within the University. The workshop promises to be intellectually stimulating and, we hope, help to build a convivial community of scholarly support and collegiality.

During the workshop, participants will engage in a peer-facilitated seminar discussion of texts drawn from the tertia pars of Aquinas’s Summa Theologiæ. Each emerging scholar will present a short paper on an assigned portion of text and lead the subsequent discussion of the issues that it raises.

In addition to the peer-facilitated portion of the workshop, afternoon sessions will be led by distinguished senior scholars:

• Prof. Michael Gorman (Catholic University of America)
• Prof. Joseph Wawrykow (Notre Dame)
• Prof. N. T. Wright (Oxford)

Applications are welcomed from graduate students in UK and international programmes (as well as those who have recently completed doctoral study). Successful applicants will be working in theology and philosophy, or adjacent disciplines (such as the study of religion or biblical studies), but need not be specialising in the thought of Aquinas or focussing on Christology.

Application by CV and covering letter to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk by 1st February 2022.