These online panel discussions will take place at 4pm on a Wednesday once a month, but the topics are decided according to world events and are announced at the previous month’s event. Recordings are available on YouTube via the Global Georgetown channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalGeorgetown/videos. In the 17th century, Britain abolished its monarchy due to civil war and...
Released in October 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the encyclical Fratelli Tutti ("Brothers and Sisters All") marked an important juncture in the development of Catholic social thought. Pope Francis' call for human fraternity, social friendship, and a culture of encounter built on the teaching of his predecessors, adapting the tradition to the challenges...
Lucy Beckett’s A Postcard from the Volcano: A Novel of Pre-War Germany (2009) is a great intellectual novel situated in a time of massive of geopolitical changes. Set in what was then Germany and is now Poland (mostly) between 1914 and 1939, young European intellectuals and artists—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, some religious, some atheist, friends and sometimes...
These online panel discussions will take place at 4pm on a Wednesday once a month, but the topics are decided according to world events and announced close to the date of the month’s panel. Recordings are available on YouTube via the Global Georgetown channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalGeorgetown/videos. For more details about this series see: https://global.georgetown.edu/series/free-speech-at-the-crossroads-international-dialogues. This discussion is...
The dominant voices in early Western encounters with Buddhism adapted the religion to their own purposes: romanticism, esotericism, an emphasis on scientific religion (at the cost of the history of Catholicism), and a form of social capital. Even those who were ordained as Buddhist monks seemed to look more to their Western audience back home...
When Mary Beckett wrote Give Them Stones in 1987, the Troubles novel about conflict in Northern Ireland was already a well-established genre. However, the genre was known primarily for the work of male authors; the only other Troubles novel by a woman was No Mate for the Magpie (1985) by Frances Molloy. Beckett’s Give Them Stones was met with acclaim before...
Herod and the Racial Conflation of Jews and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern England The Massacre of the Innocents episode from the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew has inspired numerous literary, visual, and musical adaptations across a range of continents and languages, from the medieval period to the twentieth century. In this...
In 2025, China’s Belt and Road Initiative totaled $124 billion across 150 countries, securing more than 175 construction and investment deals. Last year, India, a country on track to become the world’s third-largest economy by 2027, contributed nearly 17 percent to global growth. Meanwhile, emergent powers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East...
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 Huck Finn puts it, lights...
These online panel discussions will take place at 4pm on a Wednesday once a month, but the topics are decided according to world events and announced close to the date of the month’s panel. Recordings are available on YouTube via the Global Georgetown channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalGeorgetown/videos. To register and for more details about this series see: https://global.georgetown.edu/series/free-speech-at-the-crossroads-international-dialogues. This...