A fresh and provocative look at one of the twentieth century’s greatest religious thinkers. The book presents French philosopher Paul Ricœur’s unique insights on the finite human quest for ultimate reality. Ricœur pushes philosophy to its limits, always aware of the finitude of human reasoning, yet hopeful that something meaningful can be said about the...

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature, Art, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems, dangers, and disasters. However, in this series, we will invite speakers to...

This event is part of the ongoing event series Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues. These events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University), the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. As populism and political turmoil continue to rise throughout the world, and especially in western...

Nuns walking past an IRA grafitti An in-person talk by Drs Dianne Kirby and Briege Rafferty. Dianne Kirby and Briege Rafferty will relate how and why they brought together religious women peace-builders in a series of oral history witness seminars to discuss their experiences of the Northern Ireland conflict. The project began in 2015. It...

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature, Art, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems, dangers, and disasters. However, in this series, we will invite speakers to...