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THE MASTER AND FELLOWS
The Master published On Augustine (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2016). He hosted ‘Growing Wisdom Changing People’, a Dialogue with the Dalai Lama in Cripps Court in September 2015. In the 2015 Michaelmas Term he delivered two lectures focusing on Thomas Merton: the Dedham Lecture at Chelmsford Cathedral and the Orwell Lecture at UCL London. In 2016, he gave the Gore Lecture at Westminster Abbey; a lecture on ‘New War and Old Ethics: does the present international situation demand new moral perspectives on conflict?’ at the Royal College of Defence; a lecture on ‘Understanding Poverty: national and international perspectives’ at the Royal Institute of South Wales; a lecture on ‘Eastern Catholic Theology’ at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome; a lecture on T S Eliot’s Four Quartets at King’s College Cambridge; the Kipling Society Annual Address in London; the inaugural Theatre Chaplaincy Lecture on Faith and Theatre on ‘Tragedy, comedy and theology’ at the Actors’ Church, Covent Garden; he spoke on Shakespeare at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and gave a lecture on ‘Meaning and matter: how bodies speak’ at the Apothecaries Hall. He also gave the 2016 Hulsean Lectures at the Divinity Faculty Cambridge and the 2016 Firth Lectures at Nottingham University. In July he attended the International Bonhoeffer Congress in Basel, Switzerland and gave a lecture entitled Politics and Christology: discourses of transformation. In 2016 he received Honorary Degrees from the University of York and the University of Warwick. On 29 July his play Shakeshafte was performed at Swansea Little Theatre.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Master in the Cripps Auditorium
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