You are warmly invited to a discussion, with Clare Asquith, Gerard Kilroy, Alexander Waugh, and Henry Woudhuysen, to celebrate the publication of the OUP editions of Edmund Campion and A Handful of Dust as part of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh.

What is the Christian Literary Imagination and how is it manifested in writers from the medieval period to the modern age? Is it something which is consciously espoused by some writers, but unconsciously manifested in the writings of others who happen to be influenced by a Christian culture? Our speakers will offer their perspectives on this issue.

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Campion Hall is delighted to celebrate the launch of a new book by Revd Dr Antoni Ucerler SJ entitled The Samurai and the Cross: The Jesuit Enterprise in Early Modern Japan.
The launch will consist of introductions to the text by Antoni Ucerler, followed by a panel discussion from: Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Campion Hall), Dr Pia Jolliffe (Blackfriars), Professor James Lewis (Wolfson), and Professor Peng Yin (Boston University).

Roman Catholicism has long been a fixture in accounts of Donne's biography, verse, and polemical prose. This talk surveys the substantial new evidence accruing in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne (2013 - ) of Donne's deep and largely unrecognised use of Catholic scholarship in the pulpit, especially biblical criticism from the post-Tridentine 'Golden Age', a majority of which was by Jesuits.

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The endangerment of tribal languages is a salient issue, with some linguists estimating that between 50% and 90% of current spoken language systems will be severely endangered or dead by the year 2100. But as well as intrinsic loss, endangered languages often provide an index for wider issues of cultural, political and economic marginalization of some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. A transdisciplinary approach, inspired by principles of integral ecology, can contribute to deeper analysis of this important contemporary frontier issue.