From 2018 to 2025, the Future of the Humanities Project at Georgetown University brought together scholars across disciplines to discuss critical issues at the intersection of the humanities and public life.
The project was a collaboration between the Georgetown University Humanities Initiative and the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.
The project was launched with a November 2018 conference at Oxford University on “The Future of the Humanities,” featuring a keynote address by Dr. Terry Eagleton, and has since sponsored more than a dozen events in Oxford, London, and Washington, DC.
The Future of the Humanities Project was led by Professor Michael Scott, senior advisor to the president of Georgetown University, a leading Shakespeare scholar, and a fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.
Following the climactic gunfight in the saloon at the end of the classic Western film Shane (1953), Shane rides alone into the mountains, into the virgin land, leaving behind the farmers he has protected as they sought to cultivate what was once the open range. Like many American heroes, Shane, as…
Over the course of the 2019-2020 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project sponsored a series of lectures in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford on the topic “Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark,” including an address…
Over the course of the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years, the Future of the Humanities Project sponsored a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Campion Hall, Oxford, and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. The…
December 10, 2025
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes
November 17, 2025
Duration: 1 hour 1 minutes
November 12, 2025
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes
