Past Events

Maggi Hambling, Ben Quash, and James Cahill

Maggi Hambling, Ben Quash, and James Cahill

jointly organised with St Edmund's College Combination Room

jointly organised with St Edmund's College Combination Room

Nicholas King SJ
with a response from Christopher Rowland

Iain McGilchrist’s epic work The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale UP, 2009) builds on vast neuroscientific research to highlight different ways of being in and relating to the world based on variable prioritisation of lateral brain function at the phenomenological level.

While some guardians of “orthodoxy” have tended to claim the theological high-ground and downplay Pope Francis’ challenges in this Jubilee of Mercy as merely “pastoral” words and gestures, of little doctrinal import, James Alison will attempt to imagine with us what it might mean for our understanding of who we are, what our flourishing looks li

Mercy emerges from the writings of Dante and Shakespeare as a complex, even contentious, theme, both dangerous and joyous. Considering the differences as well as the similarities between Dante's understanding and Shakespeare's, this paper invites discussion of the ways in which we might properly speak of and practice mercy.

A Panel Discussion on the Anniversary of Nostra Aetatae jointly organised with the Woolf Institute

A Panel Discussion on the Anniversary of Nostra Aetatae jointly organised with the Woolf Institute