Events
Faculty Retreats
Oxford Faculty Retreat at Yarnton Manor
Oxford scholars from theology, music, history, physics, and computer science, among other fields, considered what love means for their own disciplines.
Chesterton House, Cornell
Faculty and postdoctoral scholars — from ornithology and biochemical engineering to epidemiology and communications — explored the salience of justice and rights for their own fields of research.
Oxford Faculty Retreat, Yarnton Manor 2025
Some 25 academics gathered near Oxford to consider the ways love can animate our scholarship, our universities, and academic arenas.
Faculty & Postdoctoral Workshops
Chesterton House, Cornell
Faculty present and discuss draft Briefs on the intersection of their work with Justice and Rights: Nicholas Wolterstorff in Conversation with the University.
Chesterton House, Cornell
Scholars brought Nicholas Wolterstorff’s thought on justice and rights into engagement with their own scholarship in collegial conversation.
Chesterton House Workshop Series Launch
Scholars convened to launch the GFI and Chesterton House Partnership.
Symposiums
Graduate Student Workshops
Order and Chaos Graduate Seminar Series
Oxford graduate students and postdoctoral researchers found that the theme of chaos and order opened unexpected dimensions within their own disciplines.
Northwestern University
Doctoral students grappled the applications of Christian understandings of justice to their own work — from foster care placements and ride-sharing algorithms to UK public health and generative AI.
Justice, Scholarship & the Academy Graduate Seminar Series
The Oxford Pastorate hosted lunchtime conversations for graduate students from various disciplines to explore, through readings by Nicholas Wolterstorff and professors worldwide, how biblical and theological ideas of justice might shape their research and academic lives.
The Virtues Graduate Seminar
The Oxford Pastorate and Oxford’s student society for Christian postgraduates held an evening of discussion on the vices and virtues of the academy, which students across several disciplines found stimulating and thought-provoking.
Book Launches
Order and Disorder Book Launch
Scholars, authors, and contributors gathered at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, to celebrate the launch of Order and Disorder: Nigel Biggar in Dialogue with the University, and to explore the meaning of a Christian doctrine of created order for scholarship across the disciplines.
Justice and Rights Book Launch
More than 60 faculty and graduate students gathered at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, to launch GFI’s first book.
Webinars
Order and Disorder Webinar
Panelists from around the world gathered online to celebrate the launch of Order and Disorder: Nigel Biggar in Dialogue with the University and to discuss the dynamics of order and disorder in their respective fields.
Justice and Rights Webinar
Nicholas Wolterstorff joined an international panel to explore biblical justice, human rights, and the call for scholars to engage faithfully with the injustices of our time.