Thomism, Creativity & the Arts: Jacques & Raissa Maritain

Thomism, Creativity & the Arts: Jacques & Raissa Maritain

A day conference on Jacques & Raïssa Maritain, including live music

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Date and time

Tue, 1 Jul 2025 09:00 - 18:00 BST

Location

Blackfriars

Blackfriars Hall St Giles Oxford OX1 3LY United Kingdom

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

Agenda

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Arrival & Registration

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Welcome & Introduction: Dominic White

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Plenary with questions: Alice Ramos

Professor Emerita of Philosophy at St. John’s University in New York: Jacques Maritain on the Artist's Vision and Moral Character

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Panel: 2 philosophers

Rev Dr Brad Elliott OP, Professor of Moral Theology, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley: Art and Imitation: The Role of Nature in the Human Artistic Act Dr Jan Bentz, Lecturer in...

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Coffee

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Plenary with questions:

Prof James Matthew Wilson, Cullen Foundation Chair in English Literature: Form as 'Ontological Secret.’

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Plenary with questions

Dr Katja Frimberger, Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow: Learning to just be there: Film as Public Pedagogy. The recent Sci-Fi feature film "The Silent...

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Midday Prayer with the Dominican Community

Including choral music by James MacMillan, directed by Peter Carter of the Catholic Sacred Music Project

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

Lunch (sandwiches)

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Panel : Raïssa Maritain

Fr Albert Robertson OP, assistant chaplain at Fisher House, the Catholic Chaplaincy to the University of Cambridge; Lector in Anthropology, Blackfriars Studium: Raïssa Maritain at Prayer: Suffering, ...

3:15 PM - 3:35 PM

Tea

3:35 PM - 4:35 PM

Panel : Poetics and Music

Dr Chris Grey, Research Fellow at Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, and Lecturer in Theological Aesthetics at London School of Theology: Maritain, Jones and Ratzinger on Art and Liturgy. Prof ...

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM

Keynote Plenary with questions

Sir James MacMillan, Setting the words of the Mass to music in the secular environment of our time: a Catholic composer’s experience. James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his gener...

5:30 PM - 5:40 PM

Closing remarks: Fr Dominic White OP

5:40 PM

Conference Close

6:00 PM

Mass and Vespers

With the Dominican Community, including choral and organ music by Sir James MacMillan, Peter Carter and Dominic White OP.

7:00 PM

Drinks Reception

About this event

  • Event lasts 9 hours


Registration details

In Person – £35.00

In Person Concessions – £25.00

Online - £15.00

Online Concessions - £10.00

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For those attending in person - Includes lunch, tea and coffee throughout the day.


For any other enquiries about the conference please contact

Dr Christopher Grey: christopher.grey1@outlook.com

or

Fr. Dominic White: dominic.white@english.op.org


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Margaret Beaufort Institute is a Catholic institute in the heart of Cambridge and part of the Cambridge Theological Federation. We resource lay people theologically both within and outside of the Catholic tradition. We provide specialist theological education and open learning opportunities for both individuals and groups. Visit our website here.

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