Workshop for Emerging Scholars (May 30 - June 2)

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The Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall recently announced a network of emerging scholars in philosophy and theology, with an inaugural workshop running from the evening of Monday 30th May until Thursday 2nd June 2021, on the theme of Aquinas’s Christology. They welcome applications from graduate students and recent Ph.D. graduates for the event.

Full scholarships will cover all travel expenses (whether from within the UK or internationally), as well as meals and accommodation during participants’ residential stay in Oxford. The schedule will allow time for participants to make use of the outstanding research facilities at the University of Oxford and meet with other scholars within the University. The workshop promises to be intellectually stimulating and, we hope, help to build a convivial community of scholarly support and collegiality.

During the workshop, participants will engage in a peer-facilitated seminar discussion of texts drawn from the tertia pars of Aquinas’s Summa Theologiæ. Each emerging scholar will present a short paper on an assigned portion of text and lead the subsequent discussion of the issues that it raises.

In addition to the peer-facilitated portion of the workshop, afternoon sessions will be led by distinguished senior scholars:

• Prof. Michael Gorman (Catholic University of America)
• Prof. Joseph Wawrykow (Notre Dame)
• Prof. N. T. Wright (Oxford)

Applications are welcomed from graduate students in UK and international programs (as well as those who have recently completed doctoral study). Successful applicants will be working in theology, philosophy, or adjacent disciplines (such as the study of religion or biblical studies), but need not be specializing in the thought of Aquinas or focussing on Christology.

Application by CV and covering letter to aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk by 1st February 2022.

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Ryan J Brady

Dr. Brady is an associate professor of Theology at St. John Vianney College Seminary and Graduate school. He has taught courses in theology, classics and early Christian studies at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary and Ave Maria University. Subsequent to a few semesters of study at Thomas Aquinas College, he graduated from La Salle University in Philadelphia with a B.A. in Religion. After receiving a Masters degree in Systematic Theology from Christendom Graduate School (where he was the valedictorian) he defended his doctoral dissertation “Aquinas on the Respective Roles of Prudence and Synderesis vis-à-vis the Ends of the Moral Virtues” with distinction and received his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology. His forthcoming book with Emmaus Academic is entitled, “Conforming to Right Reason.”