Institute for Dominican Studies

The Institute promotes the renewal of Thomistic theology and philosophy, by means of interdisciplinary research, conferences, artistic projects and publications, in dialogue with contemporary culture and from an interdisciplinary perspective. 

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Prix Las Casas

The Institute for the Study of Religions and Interreligious Dialogue (IRD) offers every other year the Bartolomé de Las Casas Prize for a doctoral dissertation, habilitation or equivalent monograph.

Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566), Dominican friar and bishop, considered by the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral as a “glory for humanity,” treated in several works, memoirs and letters the questions that arose from the first globalization, in the shadow of European expansion. In his writings, which showed his Christian compassion in the face of humanity’s suffering, Las Cases pleaded for a peaceful form of evangelization, for the unity of the human family, the rights of the Indian peoples, and for the dignity and harmony of religions and cultures.

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Study Days. Le secret et ses masques: l'oubli du tiers

About ethical discernment regarding secrecy that may involve a third party and seriously harm them, as is the case with victims of abuse.

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Russia, Ukraine and the West - by Barbara Hallensleben

For kath.ch, Barbara Hallensleben, director of the Centre for the Study of the Eastern Churches, tried to explain "what cannot actually be said at the moment and yet must be said...".

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Commentary by Barbara Hallensleben for kath.ch at the occasion of the visit of Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to Switzerland

Anyone who should have been filled with hope for ecumenism through synodality was left perplexed after the visit of Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to the celebration of "100 years of the restoration…

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Colloquia and study days

The IED organises exchanges and collaborations with other institutions, especially dominican ones, working in the same fields (visiting professors, researchers and dominican students), organises conferences and scientific events at the University of Fribourg and elsewhere.

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Archives Pinckaers

The Pinckaers Archives were created by the Albertinum, the International Dominican Convent in Fribourg to promote and to diffuse the thought and the work of Servais Pinckaers o.p., professor of fundamental moral theology at the University of Fribourg from 1975  to 2000, as well as to help researchers who want to study his work.

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