The Future of the Humanities Project

The Future of the Humanities Project

The Future of the Humanities Project at Georgetown University brings together scholars across disciplines to discuss critical issues at the intersection of the humanities and public life.

The project is 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 is led by Professor Michael Scott, senior advisor to the president of Georgetown University, a leading Shakespeare scholar, and a fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.

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Events

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Nov
17
2025

America’s Encounter with the Land

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…

Series

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The Christian Literary Imagination

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…

Videos

America’s Encounter with the Land (Video)

November 17, 2025

Duration: 1 hour 1 minutes

The Massacre of the Innocents (Matthew 2): Herod and the Racial Conflation of Jews and Muslims (Video)

November 10, 2025

Duration: 58 minutes

Mary Beckett’s “Give Them Stones”: The Best Northern Irish Troubles Novel Ever Written (Video)

November 3, 2025

Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes