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Thoughts on the Pandemic
Centre for Catholic Studies members offer some thoughts about the COVID-19 pandemic, offering some words of hope, consolation, food for thought and more. Click on the links below to read more.
CCS Staff
Maria Exall (Postdoctoral Research Associate in Catholic Social Thought and Practice)
Anna Rowlands (St Hilda Chair in Catholic Social Thought and Practice)
- Living in a time out of shape (What does it mean to spend time well, and how might our collective experience of the current restrictions affect the way we impose them on others in future?)
- Simone Weil and the gift of inarticulacy: How not to live in lockdown
- How not to be an idiot: Hannah Arendt on public life in COVID-19 times
- Gillian Rose and the politics of mourning
Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Associate Professor of Medieval Thought)
CCS Students
Charlotte Bray (PhD student supported by a Louis Lafosse scholarship)
Gaël Pardoën (PhD student supported by Mary Ward and St Jude bursaries)
Florence Taylor (PhD student/CCS member in the Department of Theology and Religion)
Other CCS Members
Giles Gasper (Professor of High Medieval History)
- Co-curator of Narratives of Resilience, a podcast featuring research from the History Department on human responses to crisis and disaster.
CCS Alumna
Gabrielle Thomas (former Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the CCS, now Lecturer at Yale Divinity School)