Related: The Future of the Humanities Project
Over the course of the 2023-2024 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of lectures on cultural encounters in collaboration with the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.
In a world increasingly divided along national, religious, and cultural lines, Pope Francis has called for a "culture of encounter" that promotes communication and builds trust while acknowledging the inevitability of conflict. Cultural encounters that entail the recognition of others in their otherness are a contemporary imperative with a rich thematic history in literature and the humanities. This series will bring leading scholars together, across disciplines, to explore themes of encounter both in classic literary works and in contemporary cultural debates. The hour-long virtual events will include a Q&A with the audience. Following the launch event, all subsequent events will take place at 11:00 a.m. ET/4:00 p.m. UK.
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Willa Cather’s most famous book Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), based on the true story of two nineteenth-century French missionaries to New Mexico, is regularly listed among the greatest…
The story of Hamlet is well-known throughout the world, having been popularized through Shakespeare’s play, but it has roots in a medieval Danish work. This talk will focus on a lesser-known version…
Reading the Quran can be quite disorienting for anyone who wishes to explore the holy book of Islam independently. It contains repetitions, a diversity of literary genres, and numerous and often…
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum, c. fifth century CE) are perhaps the most widely read patristic texts throughout history. They have been constantly translated and retranslated…
A Month in the Country (1980) by J. L. Carr is a short novel that describes the re-emergence of a shell-shocked World War I veteran through his engagement with a small community. The focus of Pope…
Virginia Woolf famously called George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-1872) "one of the few English novels written for grownup people." One of the aspects of the novel that makes it "grownup" is the…
