The Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture brings the discussion of meaning, morality, and mutual obligation to a new, global forum. Browse our extensive catalog of recordings from guest lectures, discussions, conferences and other special events below. Be sure to check back often for new media.
Fall 2024
Fr. Bryan Lobo, S.J. | Jesus Christ and Other Religions: Problems and Perspectives
Monday, September 9, 2024
This lecture welcomed Fr. Bryan Lobo, S.J., a Jesuit from Mumbai, India, to campus, where he will serve for the 2024-2025 academic year as a McFarland Center International Visiting Jesuit Fellow.
Leo Guardado | The Church as Refuge and Asylum for Migrants
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Leo Guardado, Assistant Professor of Theology at Fordham University, examines the tradition of the church as a site of refuge and protection, focusing on the 1980s sanctuary movement in the United States.
Dr. Jim O'Connell | Continuity within Chaos: Caring for Individuals Living Chronically in Shelters and on the Streets
Monday, September 23, 2024
Recounting his forty years of serving Bostons most vulnerable population, Dr. Jim OConnell, President and Founder of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, illuminates the history of homelessness and the undue burden of co-occurring disorders among chronically homeless persons. He also reflects on the many lessons hes learned while caring for his patients.
Brent Howitt Otto, S.J. | Theres Something About Mary: Devotion, Pilgrimage & Belonging in Colonial & Post-Colonial India
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Throughout history, the fortunes of political organizations have often been linked to the cosmic patronage of gods and saints. Yet some saintly devotions begin and flourish despite disinterest from the state; such is the case with a Marian figure of devotion in South India, Our Lady of Vailankanni. Neglected by the colonial state(s), she has in the 20th century become for Indian Catholics a figure of devotion and an icon of their belonging as a minority in India.
Daniel Hungerman | Every Day Is Earth Day: Understanding the Long-Term Impacts Of April 22, 1970
Monday, October 7, 2024
Daniel Hungerman, Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, considers the history of Earth Day and presents evidence showing how actions on the original Earth Day, April 22, 1970, led to transformed communities years and even decades later.
Joy Connolly | All the Worlds Pasts: The Case for a New Field
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Joy Connolly, President of the American Council of Learned Societies and renowned Classics scholar, argues that creating a new field of global ancient studies is the most effective way forward to study the worlds premodern cultures. This new field would focus on improving mutual understanding between peoples, interpreting evidence using various disciplines, and studying the full plurality of human activity, including under-studied periods and regions.
David C. Wilson | The Desire for Division: A Political Psychology Framework for the 2024 Election
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
American politics requires candidates to separate us from them, motivating people to look for differences rather than commonalities. Dr. David C. Wilson, dean of the Goldman School at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Professor of Public Policy, argues that polarization across a host of dimensionsincluding racial, gender, partisan, religious, and ideological groupingsresults from what people want from candidates more so that who candidates are.
Mayra Rivera | Sea, Sand, and Rocks: Regarding the Social-Materiality of Time
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Dr. Mayra Rivera is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at Harvard University. Drawing from Caribbean decolonial thought, this lecture will propose that climate change calls for rethinking our conceptions of time.
Dominik Markl SJ | Deuteronomy, Trauma, and Politics
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Moses farewell discourses in the book of Deuteronomy present a program for constituting Israel as a nation in political terms and, at the same time, as the people of God. In this talk, Dr. Dominik Markl SJ, Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies at Innsbruck University, Austria, will reflect on how trauma theory can help us understand both the political and religious dimensions of Deuteronomy.
Fall 2023
Mary-Jane Rubenstein | Infinite Canaan: The NewSpace Race in Colonial Context
Monday, November 6, 2023
As the era of NewSpace takes hold, corporations and private capital are increasingly involved in space science, exploration, and conquest. Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University, explains the escalating NewSpace race as a mythological project. Is there a way to visit or even to live on multiple planets without ransacking them? And might we find ways to heal our ravaged Earth in the process?
Fr. Daniel Groody, C.S.C. | A Theology of Migration, The Bodies of Refugees, and the Body of Christ
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Fr. Daniel Groody, C.S.C., professor of theology and global affairs, is the vice president and associate provost for undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame. An internationally recognized expert on migration and refugee issues, he is the author of Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice: Navigating the Path to Peace and Border of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit.
Christina Swarns and Marvin Anderson | Wrongful Convictions: Working for Justice in Modern America
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Christina Swarns, Executive Director of the Innocence Project, and Marvin Anderson, exoneree and member of the Innocence Project's Board of Directors, talk about the challenges we face to prevent wrongful convictions and how we can create fairer, more compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.
W. Ralph Eubanks | Vocation of the Writer
Thursday, October 19, 2023
The latest Vocation of the Writer Lecture features W. Ralph Eubanks, the author of A Place Like Mississippi. The book takes readers on a tour of real and imagined landscapes that have inspired generations of writers.
Panel | Rethinking the Ethics of War in the Face of the Invasion of Ukraine
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Catholic and other Christian traditions have tried for centuries to develop ethical norms for when it could be just to go to war and how we are obliged to behave during war. Does the invasion of Ukraine require us to rethink some of the priorities and directions of Catholic Just War Theory and/or Christian non-violence? Does either tradition give us adequate guidance in the face of the reality of invasion?
This panel features David O'Brien, Professor Emeritus and Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at 17勛圖厙, Andrea Bartoli, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Peacemaking Practice and President of the SantEgidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue, and Laurie Johnston, Associate Professor of Theology at Emmanuel College and co-author of Can War be Just in the 21st Century?.
Claudia Goldin | Why Women Won
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to mens, decades after they gained the right to vote? Of the 155 critical moments in womens rights history from 1905 to 2023, almost half occurred between 1963 and 1973. Claudia Goldin, the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Economics and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, explains how the civil rights movement and the somewhat fortuitous nature of the early and key womens rights legislation were behind the advances and then how a substantial group of women emerged in the late 1970s to champion a different vision for women.
Andrea Borghini | Bots in the Kitchen: A Philosophical Take on the Digital Food Transformation
Friday, September 22, 2023
The digital food transformation promises to rationalize food systems, forge ahead with healthy eating, swiftly create food cultures, and much more. Andrea Borghini, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy, unearthes the ethical and theoretical perils and prospects that digital food transformation creates.
Daniel Okrent | When Immigration Was Stopped by Eugenics: A Dark Chapter in American History
Thursday, September 21, 2023
At the turn of the last century, a movement to stop immigration from southern and eastern Europe began to take shape. Daniel Okrent, a prize-winning author of six books, talks about how this movement united with the simultaneous development of the false science of eugenics. This convergence resulted in 1924 laws that effectively stopped immigration from several European countries for the next four decades.
Panel | Close and Apart: Collaboration, Connection, and Community
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
When Christopher Gregory got his drivers license in 2008, he registered as an organ donor. Soon afterward, Chris died from a brain aneurysmand six desperate strangers received his organs. Eric Gregory, Chriss father, wrote a memoir about his son and the friendships the family developed with his organ recipients.
What are the ethics of making art inspired by someone else's story? This question is just one of the many considerations that went into Close and Apart, the song cycle inspired by Eric's memoir. Join collaborators Matthew Jaskot, composer and Professor of Music, and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, poet and Professor of English, along with Eric Gregory, author of All My Tomorrows: A Story of Tragedy, Transplant, and Hope, and Grace Gregory, for this conversation.
Spring 2024
Rev. Marcel Uwineza, SJ | Theology and Ecclesiology from Wounds of the Genocide
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Rev. Marcel Uwineza, SJ, a Rwandan genocide survivor, considers the historical, social, political, and theological circumstances that led to the genocide and proposes a different way forward. Part of the conference "Thirty Years Beyond the Genocide: Lessons for the Global Church."
Jennifer L. Koosed | Feminist Rage and the Book of Judith
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Jennifer L. Koosed, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, examines the multivalent violence wielded against and by Judith, focusing especially on the ways this scene has become a site of female resistance and feminist rage, from Artemisia Gentileschi to #MeToo. This lecture is in memory of Alice Laffey, a long-time professor of Religious Studies at 17勛圖厙 who passed away in 2023.
Heather Cox Richardson | The Future of the Humanities: A Talk and Conversation
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson, Professor of History at Boston College, delivers the annual Thomas More Lecture in the Humanities. Then, she joins President Vincent D. Rougeau and Provost Elliott Visconsi '95 for a conversation about the future of humanities.
Ann Lipton | Value vs. Values: ESG Investing and the Social Responsibility of Business
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Ann M. Lipton, Michael M. Fleishman Associate Professor in Business Law and Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean for Faculty Research at Tulane University, situates ESG investing within the broader field of corporate & securities law and explores the controversies surrounding its use.
Rachel Swarns | The 272
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Rachel Swarns, President Vincent D. Rougeau, Board of Trustees Chair Helen W. Boucher, M.D. '86, and Jesuit Provincial Joseph M. O'Keefe, S.J., '76 discuss Swarns' research on the families who were enslaved and sold to fund the American Catholic Church, as well as the impact of this history on 17勛圖厙' mission and values.
Nikhil Pal Singh | How Did War Become Permanent?
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
In recent years, concepts like permanent war, civil war, and even genocide have become ubiquitous. Nikhil Pal Singh, Professor and Chair of the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University, reflects on the recent history of permanent war, considers how these ideas have morphed into the notion of a permanent civil war "at home," and suggests steps we might take to break from this logic.
Alan Rosen | The Survivors Among Us: Today and Tomorrow
Monday, March 18, 2024
There is considerable discussion about what to do now that we are on the verge of having Holocaust survivors disappear from our midst. To Alan Rosen, Kraft-Hiatt Scholar in Residence, this preoccupation with the so-called disappearance of survivors is misguided. This talk examines what might lie behind this focus and sets out a different way to think about the survivors among us, highlighting the lessons we continue to glean from them.
Gloria Chien | Contemplation in the Classroom: Adaptations of Ignatian Spirituality and Buddhist Meditation
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Gloria Chien, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University, explains how she integrates Contemplative Pedagogy and the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm in her Asian religious studies courses using insights derived from three years of study at a Chan Buddhist monastery in Taiwan, certification in Cognitively-Based Compassion Training, and the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises.
John McGreevy | Catholicism Represented: Catholicism and Democracy from 1789 to the present
Thursday, February 29, 2024
John McGreevy, distinguished historian, Provost at the University of Notre Dame, & author of Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, explores how transnational political and ecclesial networks between Europe, Africa, and the Americas shaped Catholic attitudes toward democracy in the last two centuries.
Emmanuel Katongole | Just Peace: Ecology, Economics, and Education in Africa
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Drawing on his work in Uganda at Bethany Land Institute, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, Professor at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for Internal Peace Studies, explores the connections between peace, ecology, and the notion of human development within the Catholic Social Tradition. He points to ways in which young people are leading efforts in the search for just peace and the care of our common home.
Phil Klay | The Unlearned Lessons of War: American Citizenship and Global Conflict
Monday, February 5, 2024
As wars rage around the world, Americans find themselves insulated from the consequences of these conflicts, yet citizens of a country regularly employing lethal force around the globe. How do we make sense of ourselves, both as citizens and as human beings? Author Phil Klay, winner of the National Book Award for his essay collection Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War, discusses these questions with the 17勛圖厙 community.
Fall 2022
Ol繳f廕嘐mi O. T獺穩w簷 | Being in the Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference
November 17, 2022
Ol繳f廕嘐mi O. T獺穩w簷, associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, discusses problems of elite capture and deference epistemology and proposes constructive epistemology as an approach to organize new rooms that focus on structural, practical change.
Ido Koch | Home in a Distant Land: Archaeology and the Study of Uprooted Communities in Israel
November 15, 2022
Ido Koch, senior lecturer in archaeology at Tel Aviv University and co-director of the Tel Hadid Expedition, describes forced migrations in the Assyrian Empire in the first millennium BCE, focusing on their experience of those being deported, how they rebuilt their life in a new place, and how archaeologists can find them. Supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding.
Shannen Dee Williams | Confronting America's Real Sister Act: Black Catholic Nuns in United States History
November 10, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams, associate professor of history at Dayton University, shares the little known story of a radical group of Black women and girls who fought against racism, sexism, and exclusion to become and minster as consecrated women of God in the Roman Catholic Church. One of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.
Amy Gajda | Privacy's Tangled History and Its Tenuous Post-Dobbs Future
October 26, 2022
Amy Gajda, The Class of 1937 Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, considers, in a world in which the right to privacy is contested from many angles, how might we attempt to define privacy today in a way that defends democracy but also protects the people?
Brian Robinette | Contemplation in an Age of Anger
October 20, 2022
Brian Robinette, associate professor of theology at Boston College, explores the importance of contemplative practice in the midst of widespread social upheaval. One of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.
Joseph McCartin '81 | Confronting the 21st Century Labor Question: Catholic Social Teaching, Work Relations, and the Deepening Crisis of Democracy
October 18, 2022
Labor expert Joseph McCartin 81, professor of history and executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, traces the rise and fall of democratic and workers' rights over the 20th century and explains how Catholic social teaching can help point the way forward.
Craig Rood | Reimagining Protection from Gun Violence
October 3, 2022
Craig Rood, associate professor of English at Iowa State University, explains both the power and problems with the rhetoric used in the gun violence debate. He discusses the dominant narrative of protection and argues that personal stories about gun suicide and domestic gun violence reimagine human character, guns, and moments of gun violence.
Kate Manne | What Is Misogyny? Concepts, Targets, and Triggers
September 29, 2022
Kate Manne, associate professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, offers her definition of misogyny, as distinct from sexism, and describes applications including violence by incels, online media harassment, healthcare disparities, and the difficulty women have attaining leadership positions.
Building the Political Will & Moral Courage to End Hunger in America
September 26, 2022
Previewing the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, this forum addresses the problem of hunger, our moral imperative to end it, and ways the 17勛圖厙 community, as individuals and as an institution, can affect change. With Congressman Jim McGovern; Erin McAleer '02, CEO and president of Project Bread; Jean McMurray, executive director of the Worcester County Food Bank; Winton Pitcoff, director of the Massachusetts Food System Collaborative; and Phoebe Wong '26, a FoodCorps service member.
Rev. T. Nishaant, S.J. | The Oppression and Resilience of India's Musahars
September 20, 2022
Rev. T. Nishaant, S.J., an International Visiting Jesuit Fellow at 17勛圖厙 for 2022-2023, describes the culture of India's Musahars, some of the poorest people in the world, and considers how we might remedy the generations-deep injustices done to them.
Spring 2023
Alan Rosen | Torah and Mitzvahs in Hell: What can we learn from the astonishing Jewish religious activity in Auschwitz?
March 20, 2023
Kraft-Hiatt Scholar-in-Residence Alan Rosen, a renowned scholar of Holocaust literature, shares stories from Holocaust survivors who found ways to pray, do mitzvahs, keep calendars and observe Judaism while prisoners in Auschwitz.
Sylvia Chan-Malik | Race/Religion: Ethnic Studies, Religious Studies, and the Case of Islam
March 16, 2023
Through a focus on Islam and Muslims in the United States, Sylvia Chan-Malik, associate professor in the departments of American and womens and gender studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, explores the intersections, evasions, omissions, and errors that occur in the study of race and religion in ethnic studies and religious studies.
Nina Pavcnik | How Globalization Shapes Inequality: Lessons from 40 Years of Trade Liberalizations
March 15, 2023
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Nina Pavcnik draws on empirical evidence from a wide range of countries to discuss how trade liberalizations implemented since the 1980s shaped inequality within countries. Pavcnik is Niehaus Family Professor in International Studies and professor of economics at Dartmouth College.
Kristy Nahbhan-Warren | Heartland Catholicism: How Faith and Migration in Rural America are Reshaping Parishes and Communities
February 27, 2023
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Professor, V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Iowa, draws on her recent book, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021), to dig below the stereotypes to reveal the grit and grace of a heartland that is a major global hub of migration and food productionand also, it turns out, religion.
Lewis Gordon | What does it mean to decolonize philosophy?
February 17, 2023
Lewis Gordon, professor and head of philosophy at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, explores ways in which philosophy, at least as understood in its Euromodern form, is colonized. Through a reflection from an East African philosopher from 4,000 years ago, he explains that philosophy originated as a liberatory project devoted to knowing as a practice of freedom and love in a courageous relationship with reality. Cosponsored with the Department of Philosophy.
Lawrence Joseph | Vocation of the Writer Annual Lecture
February 16, 2023
Acclaimed poet and lawyer Lawrence Joseph talks about the vocation of writing, reflecting on personal stories as the grandson of Lebanese and Syrian Catholic immigrants. He reads several of his poems. Part of the Creative Writing Program's Working Writers Series.
Rev. Joachim Zoundi, S.J. | Evil and Sin in African Traditional Religion and Christian Revelation
February 14, 2023
An International Visiting Jesuit Fellow at 17勛圖厙 this semester, Rev. Joachim Zoundi, S.J. explores the problem of sin and evil, their sources and consequences, and how they are addressed by both African Traditional Religions and Christian revelation.
Sylvester Johnson | Can Robots Feel Pain? Theorizing AI from Ibn Rushd's 'Science of the Soul'
February 13, 2023
Sylvester Johnson, associate vice provost for public interest technology and founding director of the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech, interprets theoretical claims about the science of the soul in the work of 12th century Islamic scholar Ibn Rushd and leverages Rushds distinction between sensing and knowing in order to examine contemporary, sensory-driven AI technology. One of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.
Rev. Angus Ritchie | Beyond Activism: Building Broad-based Alliances to Tackle the Climate Crisis
February 9, 2023
Rev. Angus Ritchie, director of the Centre for Theology and Community and a priest in the Anglican Diocese of London, explains the harm of "fake" populism employed by the political right and left and advocates for an "inclusive populism," as embraced by Pope Francis, to address environmental injustice. Cosponsored with the Office of the President.
Rev. Selva Rathinam, S.J. | Suffering, Resistance and Freedom: A Postcolonial Subaltern (Dalit) Study of Isaiah 52:13-53:12
February 6, 2023
Rev. Selva Rathinam, S.J., an International Visiting Jesuit Fellow at 17勛圖厙 for 2023, applies concepts of the postcolonial method to interpret the text of the last Servant Song from the point of view of the Dalits, the oppressed people of Indias lowest caste.
Fall 2021
Dr. Sandro Galea | Priorities for Post-COVID-19 Public Health Research, Education and Practice
November 17, 2021
What has American Politics done to the Catholic Church?
November 16, 2021
Featuring 17勛圖厙 President Vincent Rougeau with Ross Douthat and Matthew Sitman
Film Premiere and Discussion of "Pakachoag: Where the River Bends"
November 10, 2021
Rev. Greg Boyle, S.J. | Be Fearless for Me: Courage and the Gospel of the Marginalized
November 9, 2021
Kalpana Jain | Politics in the Name of Lord Rama in Narendra Modi's India
November 8, 2021
Mehnaz M. Afridi | Muslims and the Holocaust
November 2, 2021
Laura Briggs | America's Long History of Child Taking
October 27, 2021
Rev. Dan Corrou, S.J. | From Justice to Reconciliation: A Jesuit Response to the Refugee Crisis in the Middle East
October 19, 2021
Karsten Stueber | Polarizing Disagreements: Philosophical and Psychological Reflections on a Political Conundrum
October 1, 2021
Tanya Golash-Boza | Before Gentrification: Race and Dis/Investment in the Nation's Capital
September 27, 2021
Teresia Mbari Hinga | African, Christian, Feminist, and More
September 16, 2021
Congressman Jim McGovern | 9/11 and Twenty Years of War in Afghanistan
September 14, 2021
Spring 2022
The Ukraine War and Prospects for Democracy
April 21, 2022
Featuring Viktor Lutsyshen '23, Professor Nina Barzachka, Soviet historian Markian Dobczansky, and Roman Zaviyskyy, Ukrainian Catholic University.
The Pope's Rabbi, Abraham Skorka, on Meaningful Interfaith Dialogue
April 11, 2022
Greening Cities from Plan to Practice
April 6, 2022
Featuring John Fern獺ndez, MIT; Karin Valentine Goins, UMass Medical School and WalkBike Worcester, and John Odell '88, City of Worcester.
Rhiannon Graybill | How to Read a Biblical Rape Story
April 4, 2022
Rev. Hans Zollner, S.J. | Justice and Care: Reflections around Clergy Abuse and Safeguarding in the Church
March 31, 2022
Thomas Kohut | Empathy and Historical Understanding
March 30, 2022
Jodi Mikalachki | Fraternity, Martyrdom, and Peace in Burundi: The Forty Servants of God of Buta
March 24, 2022
Curing Injustice: The Living Legacy of Dr. Paul Farmer
March 22, 2022
Featuring professors Judith Chubb, Tsitsi Masvawure, Mary Doyle Roche, Susan Rodgers, and Ann Sheehy.
Brenna Moore | Fragments of Friendship: Spiritual Undercurrents of the Global Catholic Resistance to Fascism
March 16, 2022
Dan-El Padilla Peralta | Tell Me How I Conquered You: Clues from the Second Century BCE Mediterranean
February 28, 2022
Russia at War: What Does It Mean?
February 25, 2022
Featuring professors Amy Singleton Adams, Nina Barzachka, Judith Chubb, Diana Dukhanova, Cynthia Hooper, and Olga Partan.
Eric S. Maskin | How Should We Elect Presidents?
February 17, 2022
Gustavo Morello, S.J. | Untidy, Eclectic, and Diverse: Lived Religion in Latin America Today
February 9, 2022
Chris Mooney | Revealing the Truth about the World's Greenhouse Gas Emissions
February 1, 2022
Summer 2020
Dismantling Structural Racism: Conversations with 17勛圖厙 Alumni
Moderated discussions with 17勛圖厙 alumni Malik Neal '13, Rashaunda Tyson '04, and Jerry Dickinson '09 identify structural barriers that disproportionately affect Black and Brown communities, explore actions that can help to close the racial gap, and help students think about how they can do the same.
Fall 2020
Student Forum with Dr. Anthony Fauci '62
October 6, 2020
1620/2020 Speaker Series
This series explores past and contemporary Indian/New England/U.S. relations in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Michael Martinez, S.J. |
November 17, 2020
Teaching for Better Humans
October 22, 2020
Featuring Sonia Nieto and Jesse Hagopian
Spring 2021
Repairing the Fabric of Our Nation
Triggered by the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, this series engages the community in exploring the causes of our multilayered political crisis, the fragmentation of American politics and society, and how to rebuild.
Truth, Skepticism, Complexity: Thinking in a Post-Truth Age
This series began in Spring 2021 to address the epistemic crisis of our society and how it relates to what we do as scholars and teachers. The first two events focused on the ethics of vaccine dissemination and public health reporting in a pandemic. Additional programs in the series are in development.
James A. Welu |
April 7, 2021
March 24, 2021
Featuring Cynthia Hooper, Erina Megowan and Nina Barzachka
Aaron Tugendhaft |
March 8, 2021
Deaf Catholics Shaping the Church Today
February 24, 2021
Featuring Lana Portolano, Stephanie Clark and Fr. Joseph Bruce, S.J. '73
Fall 2019
Rafael Luciani | A New Way of Being Church: Latin American Roots of Pope Francis Reforms
December 4, 2019
Holland Cotter | Believe in Belief: Looking at Religous Art
November 14, 2019
Alan Rosen | Memory as Protest: How and Why We Remember the Holocaust
November 13, 2019
Juliana Flinn | Mary in Micronesia: Breadwinner, Protector, and Strong Model for Women
November 11, 2019
Andrew Kolodny | Responding to the Opioid Epidemic
November 7, 2019
Wrestling with the Word: Moral Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible
November 6, 2019
Mahri Leonard-Fleckman and Andrew Davis
Pietro Ameglio | Civil Disobedience as a Moral Weapon for Inhuman Times
October 28, 2019
Panel Discussion: Anne Frank, Otto Frank and the Creation of Memory
October 23, 2019
Roger Guenveur Smith with 17勛圖厙 faculty members
A Fishbowl Discussion: The Uninhabitable Earth
October 21, 2019
Kendy Hess, Ellis Jones, Katherine Kiel, Renee LeBlanc '21, Sara Mitchell
Erin Kelly | The Failure of Retributive Justice
October 9, 2019
John Guy | Crowns of Transformation: How Vajrcryas become Bodhisattvas
September 26, 2019
James Nickoloff | "Gay" and "Catholic": Evolving Identities
September 23, 2019
Daniel Philpott | The Islam Question: Why Religious Freedom is the Answer
September 19, 2019
Erika Spanger-Siegfried | Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days
September 10, 2019
Spring 2020
James Chappel | Sex, Capitalism, and the Making of Modern Catholicism
February 19, 2020
Thea Riofrancos | A Green New Deal for Climate Safety and Social Justice
February 17, 2020
Vocation of the Writer Lecture: Joshua Wolf Shenk
February 13, 2020
Ingrid Rowland | A Roman Rivalry: Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini on the Strada Pia, 1634-1680
February 13, 2020
International Visiting Jesuit Fellow Rev. Peter Dubovsky, S.J. | Hope in Times of Crisis
January 29, 2020
Fall 2018
Willie Jennings: Finding the Essence of Christianity in Racial America
November 28, 2018
Thomas I. White '69 | Dolphins, Captivity, and the Challenge of Interspecies Ethics
November 15, 2018
Betting on Sports: The Ethics and Economics of Legalized Sports Gambling
Rev. Richard McGowan, S.J. and Victor Matheson
November 7, 2018
Alan Rosen | Holocaust Witness: Back to Basics
October 30, 2018
Accounting for History: Race, Slavery and Institutional Memory
October 25, 2018
Deborah Gray White and Robert Patterson
Dipayan Ghosh | Digital Deceit: The Economics of Internet Platforms, the Spread of Disinformation, and the Way Forward
October 17, 2018
Fenggang Yang | Is China the New Roman Empire? Christian Growth in China and Its Global Implications
October 15, 2018
Charles Asher Small | Contemporary Global Antisemitism as Rejection of the Other: Implications to Human Rights and Democratic Principles
September 20, 2018
Robin M. Jensen | The 17勛圖厙: Symbol of Victory and Sign of Salvation
September 17, 2018
Rev. Lawrence Fernandes, S.J. | Lived Catholicism, An Indian Experience
September 5, 2018
Spring 2019
Glenn C. Loury | The Ethics of Affirmative Action Policies in Higher Education
April 11, 2019
Derek Chang | A New Curve in the Well-Known Color Line: Race, Respectability and the Multi-Racial South
April 1, 2019
Peter C. Phan | Church of Migrants and Migrant Church: Theology of the Church in the Age of Migration
March 28, 2019
Maeve Lewis | Breaking the Cycle of Child Sexual Abuse
March 20, 2019
Rev. Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, S.J. | Of Ancient Deities and Modern Gods: Making sense of the promises and pathologies of religion and faith in Africa
March 19, 2019
Samuel Moyn | The Christian Invention of Human Dignity
February 26, 2019
Omer Bartov | Holocaust on the Local Level: Coexistence and Genocide in One Galician Town
February 20, 2019
Laura van den Berg | Vocation of the Writer
February 11, 2019
Denis McDonough | Meeting Our Responsibilities to Refugees on the Global, National and Local Levels
February 6, 2019
Fall 2017
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz | Anti-Semitism on the Web
November 6, 2017
Alan Rosen | 'Out of the Depths': Jewish Religious Life and Practice During and After the Holocaust
November 1, 2017
Charles Camosy | Beyond the Abortion Wars: Finding a Way Forward in a Time of Polarization October 24, 2017
Book Launch: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits
October 23, 2017
Featuring Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., Alison Fleming and Rev. James Corkery, S.J.
Conference | Rethinking the Afropolitan: The Ethics of Black Atlantic Masculinities on Display
October 19-21, 2017
Richard Higgins '74 | 'Blown on by God's Breath': The Riddle of Thoreau's Religion
October 17, 2017
Kevin Esvelt | When Should We Edit Nature? Moral Questions Raised by Gene Drive Research
October 16, 2017
Julie Hanlon Rubio | Dare We Hope for Common Ground?
October 4, 2017
Jalane Schmidt | Our Lady of the Slaves: Marian Devotion in Cuba, Race and Revolution
October 2, 2017
Spring 2018
Randy Boyagoda | My Flannery O'Connor Problem, and Yours: Being a Catholic Novelist in 2018
April 23, 2018
Georges Dreyfus | Tradition and Inquiry in Tibetan Buddhism: An Examination of Tibetan Debate Practices
April 20, 2018
Katya Gibel Mevorach | Jews, Intersectionality and Contemporary Anti-Semitism
April 19, 2018
Conference | Francis the Pilgrim: From Personal Devotion to Papal Diplomacy
Featuring Austen Ivereigh, Rev. Thomas Reese, S.J., Elise Harris and In矇s San Mart穩n
April 11-12, 2018
Andrea James | Nothing About Us Without Us: The State of Incarceration for Women
March 20, 2018
Stan Chu Ilo | Pentecostal and Charismatic Catholic Movements in Africa: The Search for Human and Cosmic Flourishing
February 26, 2018
Tricia Bushnell | Race, Poverty and Criminal Justice: Lessons Learned from Wrongful Conviction Cases
February 12, 2018
Fall 2016
Mark K. Shriver '86 | Finding Pope Francis on Mount St. James
November 30, 2016
John T. McGreevy | American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global
November 29, 2016
Miguel De La Torre | A Latinx Political Ethics for the Hopelessness of Our Community
November 16, 2016
Ambassador David N. Saperstein | In Pursuit of Global Religious Freedom
November 14, 2016
Rabbi Joseph A. Polak | After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring
November 9, 2016
Eric Adler | Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond
October 21, 2016
Jurgen Brauer | Supply and Demand in the U.S. Firearms Industry: A Data-Based Exploration
October 18, 2016
Jonathan Zimmerman | You Can't Say That! Teaching Controversial Issues in the Age of Trump
September 29, 2016
Bernadette J. Brooten | How Catholicism Changed: From Official Approval of Slavery to Prohibiting It
September 19, 2016
Kristin Heyer | Kinship with Migrants in the Year of Mercy
September 14, 2016
Rupert Shortt | Christianophobia: A Neglected Genocide in the Church's Biblical Heartlands?
September 12, 2016
Spring 2017
Robert Frank | Why Luck Matters More than You Might Think
April 24, 2017
Mikhail Shishkin | But to Continue the Life For What Purpose?
April 21-22, 2017
Opening address at the conference "Tolstoy and Spirituality"
Joerg Rieger | What Does Jesus Have to Do with Wall Street?
April 20, 2017
Cyril O'Regan | The Gift of Modernity
April 6, 2017
Calling Ourselves Crusaders: What's in a Name?
April 11, 2017
Featuring Rev. John F. Baldovin, S.J., 69, Sahar Bazzaz, Mark P. Freeman, Kendy M. Hess, Vickie Langohr, and Mathew Schmalz
Samuel Kassow | Time Capsules Under the Rubble: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
April 5, 2017
Danna Nolan Fewell | Does the Bible Really Say That? Reading Religiously in a Bible-Thumping, Bible-Tweeting Culture
April 3, 2017
Carla Nappi | Look at the Fish: Decomposing Global Histories of Science
March 24-25, 2017
Keynote at the conference "The Globalization of Science in the Middle East and North Africa, 18th-20th Centuries"
Kevin Madigan '82 | The Crusades and Crusaders: History and Historiography
March 23, 2017
Joshua Sobol | Theatre as a Form of Resistance to Oppression and Genocide
March 21, 2017
Andrew Delbanco | What is College For?
March 1, 2017
George Weigel | St. John Paul II on the Free and Virtuous Society: Democracy, the Market, and Culture
February 21, 2017
Daniel Byman | Understanding the Islamic State
February 16, 2017
International Visiting Jesuit Fellow Rev. George Karuvelil, S.J. | God: Idea and Experience
February 14, 2017.
Rev. Gregory Boyle, S.J. | Lessons from the Field: Kinship as an Intervention
February 6, 2017
Margaret Gray | Forgotten by the Food Movement?
February 2, 2017
Fall 2015
Mary Jo Bane | Bringing Equal Opportunity for Children to an Unequal Society
November 18, 2015
Wendy Brown | Cultures of Capital Enhancement
November 12, 2015
Rev. James Bernauer, S.J. | Jesuit Kaddish: Encounters Between Jesuits and Jews and Why These Might Matter to Us
October 26, 2015
Frank Graziano | Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico
October 5, 2015
Denise Buell | Fleshy Passages: How Feminist Biblical Studies Can Contribute to Rethinking Health and Illness
September 29, 2015
Paul Walker '68 | Abolition of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Building a Secure and Sustainable World
September 28, 2015
Paul Bloom | Against Empathy
September 24, 2015
Pope Francis on the Globalization of Environmental Responsibility
September 21, 2015
Featuring 17勛圖厙 faculty Kelly Wolfe-Bellin, Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., Matthew Eggemeier, Katherine Kiel, Daina Harvey, and Loren Cass
Yochai Benkler | The Idea of the Commons and the Future of Capitalism
September 18, 2015
Spring 2016
Psaltikon | Six Days Before the Passover: A Concert of Byzantine Chant for Passion Week
April 21, 2016
Preconcert Lecture | Spyridon Antonopoulos
Jay Carney | The Politics and Praxis of Mercy: Ambassadors of Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda
April 14, 2016
Alan Mittleman | Philosophy and Theology or Philosophy vs. Theology: Lessons from Jewish Thought
April 11, 2016
Winnie Byanyima | Building a Better World: A More Human Economy
April 8, 2016
Rev. David Brown, S.J. | Catholicism and Science in the Modern Era: A New Rapprochement
April 6, 2016
Broderick Johnson '78 | My Brother's Keeper: Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Men of Color
March 30, 2016
With students Greyson Ford 16, Jewel Duberry-Douglas 18, Lance Madden 18, Isaiah Baker 16, and Marcellis Perkins 19.
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey | Gender and Genocidal Violence
March 16, 2016
Dorothy Day: A Saint for Today
March 15, 2016
With Robert Ellsberg and George Horton '67
Ethan Hutt | Equity, Schools and Testing: The Challenge of the American School "System"
March 2, 2016
Shaji George Kochuthara | Patriarchy and Gender: Understanding the Spiraling Incidences of Sexual Violence on Women in India
February 29, 2016
David Kyuman Kim | Choosing Love: Bearing the Weight of the Other
February 25, 2016
Adele Reinhartz | Jesus: Bad Jew or Good Jew?
February 10, 2016
Douglas Gagnon | Equity, Schools and the American Dream: What the Data Tell Us About the Future of Equity-Oriented Policy
February 9, 2016
William Cavanaugh | Does Religion Promote Violence?
February 4, 2016
Fall 2014
Cinthia Gannett | Eloquence for Everyone: The Past, Present and Future of Eloquentia Perfecta in Jesuit Higher Education
November 13, 2014
Paula M. Kane '80 | Stigmata on the Hudson: The Strange Tale of Sister Thorn
November 12, 2014
Adjudicating Sexual Assault on Campus: A Fishbowl Discussion
November 10, 2014
Alan Rosen | To Capture the Fire: The Life and Works of Elie Wiesel
November 3, 2014
Maureen O'Connell | Coloring Outside the Color-line: Community Muralism and Racial Justice
October 30, 2014
Rev. Bryan Massingale | Unconscious Racial Bias and the Challenge of Solidarity: Catholic Social Thought Post Trayvon Martin (and Michael Brown and...)
October 28, 2014
David Yamane | How Do People Become Catholic? Formation, Incorporation, and the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
October 23, 2014
Vern Bengtson | Millennials, Parents and Grandparents: Are families still passing on the faith?
October 2, 2014
Rabbi Eric Yoffie | Understanding American Jews: demographically complicated, religiously diverse, stronger than ever, and still at risk
October 6, 2014
Rachel Delphia | "Most Wonderfully Deceitful to the Eye": The Art and History of the Neapolitan Presepe
September 25, 2014
James Waller | Genocide Awareness Lecture
September 22, 2014
Trigger Warnings in the Classroom: A Fishbowl Discussion
September 16, 2014
Heinrich Watzka, S.J. | Embodied vs. Bodily Existence
September 11, 2014
Spring 2015
Vincent J. Miller | Consumerism, the Architecture of Indifference, and the Work of Solidarity
April 23, 2015
Maggie Popkin | The Roman Triumph in its Urban Context: Building Memories and Identities in Republican Rome
April 20, 2015
Susan Zuccotti | P癡re Marie-Beno簾t and Jewish Rescue
April 15, 2015
Karsonya Wise Whitehead | From the Civil War to Ferguson: The Role of the Black Church as a Training Ground for Activism
March 25, 2015
Luc Bonaventure Amoussou, S.J. | Caesar or God? The Source of Authentic Power According to Matthew 22:15
March 19, 2015
David Kertzer | The Pope and Mussolini
February 24, 2015
Conference | Adam Smith: Moral Philosopher and Economic Theorist
April 3-4, 2014
With Charles Griswold and Ryan Patrick Hanley
Jorge Gracia | Affirmative Action for Latinos
April 15, 2014
Siri Hustvedt: Vocation of the Writer
April 10, 2014
Elisabeth Sch羹ssler Fiorenza | The Apocalypse of John: Its World of Vision and Our Own?
April 10, 2014
Cathleen Kaveny | Prophetic Rhetoric in the Public Square
April 8, 2014
Lisa Dodson | American Poverty and the Rise of a Moral Underground
March 27, 2014
Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus | Food that Divides, Food that Unites: Food Metaphors for the Experience of the Divine in Jewish and Christian Tradition
March 20, 2014
Robert Maryks | The Jesuit Suppression
March 13, 2014
Samuel Martinez | Anti-Haitian Exclusionism in the Dominican Republic: A Biopolitical Turn
March 12, 2014
Dacia Maraini | 'Clare of Assisi: In Praise of Disobedience'
March 11, 2014
Joshua Greene | Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
February 27, 2014
Philip Kitcher | The Scientist's Role
January 30, 2014
Mark Murcko | The Quest for Health: Hunting for Drugs in Large Pharmas and Tiny Biotechs
November 13, 2013
Mary McAleese | Shared Responsibility: Re-imagining the Future of Governance in the Church
October 29, 2013
Mark Kroll | Jewish Music and Musicians from 17th-Century Italy to 21st-Century America: The Sounds of Faith, Perseverance and Optimism
October 24, 2013
Stephen Selka | Our Lady of the Good Death: Afro-Catholicism and the Brazilian Cultural Heritage
October 23, 2013
Richard Murphy '66 | The Changing Face of Biomedical Research, Challenges and Opportunities
October 22, 2013
Padre Melo | The Price of Truth in Honduras: Human Rights Since the Coup
October 9, 2013
James J. Collins '87 | Synthetic Biology and Redesigning Life, Hopes and Challenges
October 2, 2013
Edward Snowden: Whistleblower? Traitor? A Campus Fishbowl Discussion
September 19, 2013
Julia Finomo | The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Oil Drilling in the Niger Delta: An Ethical Perspective
September 12, 2013
The Status of Our Civil Rights: A Fishbowl Discussion
September 11, 2013
James J. O'Connor '58 -
A graduate of the 17勛圖厙 Class of 1958, James J. O'Connor is the retired chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison, Illinois' largest utility company, and is co-chairman of the Big Shoulders Fund, a charity that supports 93 Catholic schools and 24,000 students in inner-city Chicago. He reflects on his 17勛圖厙 days, lessons learned in the corporate world, and the importance of giving back. April 29, 2013
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Robert Audi - The Problem of Evil: Can Faith Be Rational in the Face of the Horrific Evils of this World?
Robert Audi, the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, draws on epistemology, ethics and metaphysics to argue that moral wrongs and natural disasters are rational under God. He is author of 16 books, including "Moral Perception" (Princeton University Press, 2013) and "Rationality and Religious Commitment" (Clarendon Press, 2011).
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Juliet Schor - Climate Responsibility and New Cultures of Consumption
Professor of sociology at Boston College and former associate professor of economics at Harvard University, Juliet Schor is working on issues of sustainable consumption and production, with particular emphasis on political consumption, new patterns of time-use, and alternative economic structures. As a member of a MacArthur Research Network she is studying the emergence of collaborative consumption, the re-use and sharing of local resources. This lecture, held April 17, 2013, was co-sponsored by Sociology and Anthropology, the McFarland Center, and Montserrat.
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Anya Peterson Royce - Journeys of Transformation: Isthmus Zapotec beliefs and rituals surrounding death, healing and pilgrimage
Chancellor's professor of anthropology and comparative literature at Indiana University, Anya Peterson Royce has for four decades studied the Isthmus Zapotec, an indigenous people comprising 70 percent of the population of Juchitan in the south of Mexico. She is author of "Becoming an Ancestor: The Isthmus Zapotec Way of Death." In this lecture, she talks about their unique blending of Catholic and indigenous spiritual rituals in death, healing and pilgrimage. The lecture, held April 4, 2013, is part of , understanding the religious lives and practices of Catholics around the world.
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Yaakov Katz - Israel's Security in a Changing Middle East
Israeli military reporter Yaakov Katz offers an analysis of "Israel's Security in a Changing Middle East." Katz is military correspondent and defense analyst for the Jerusalem Post, Israel's correspondent for Jane's Defence Weekly, and author of "Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War." He is a 2012-2013 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. His talk, held March 21, 2013, is supported by the .
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Martin Nowak - God and Evolution
Professor of biology and of mathematics at Harvard University, Martin Nowak also directs Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. In this talk, on "God and Evolution," Nowak shares his groundbreaking work on the role of cooperation in evolution and his theological argument that the tension between science and religion is unnecessary. One of the . March 18, 2013
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Rabbi Abie Ingber - From Tolerance to Celebration: Confessions of a Jewish Bridge Builder
Recognized for his work advancing Catholic-Jewish dialogue, Rabbi Abie Ingber is executive director of the Center for Interfaith Community Engagement at Xavier University. His talk offers possibilities for interfaith collaboration and celebration at 17勛圖厙 across all religions. Supported by the . March 14, 2013
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U.S. Use of Drones: Moral, Legal or Effective? A Panel Discussion
In brief presentations and moderated discussion, panelists David Cole, Avery Plaw and Gregory Johnson consider the wisdom of the Obama Administration's policy on drone warfare. Cole is professor of law at Georgetown University and author of "The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable" (2009). Plaw is associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he co-created the UMass DRONE Targeted Killing Database, an online resource that tracks casualties by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. Gregory Johnson is Near East Studies Scholar at Princeton University and a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen. He is author of "The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia," published last year.
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Kelly Askin - Rape as a Weapon of War
Senior legal officer for international justice at the Open Society Justice Initiative, Kelly Askin has spent the last 15 years as a legal consultant for international criminal tribunals and special courts addressing mass atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, East Timor, Cambodia and elsewhere. In this talk, she explains the historical treatment and recent progress in redressing rape as a weapon of war. February 26, 2013
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Dalia Mogahed - Women After the Arab Spring: Rights and Religion
Executive director and senior analyst at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, Dalia Mogahed offers Muslims' attitudes on the Arab Spring revolution, what they want from a new government, the role of religion, and women's rights. Mogahed is co-author of "Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think." February 21, 2013
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After Sandy Hook: How do we prevent similar forms of violence?
A Fishbowl Discussion
In the wake of the massacre of 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on December 14, 2012, a group of 17勛圖厙 students, faculty and staff discuss the possible causes and measures to reduce the incidence of gun violence in America. The participants consider: firearm regulations and the Second Amendment, the mental health care system, cultural and sociological indicators for violence, and the promotion of nonviolence. February 19, 2013
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Robert George - Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
One of the nation's leading conservative Christian thinkers, Robert George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and founder and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is author of "Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality," "In Defense of Natural Law," and "The Clash of Orthodoxies." February 18, 2013
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Pericles Lewis - Burial of the Dead in the Modern Novel
An expert in literary modernism at Yale University, Pericles Lewis explores the treatment of death rituals in the work of authors such as James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Mann. He finds a fascination with Pagan and especially Homeric accounts of death as an alternative to Christianity, and considers the potential of the novel form for ironic treatment of rites surrounding death. Lewis, author of "Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel," is founding president and professor of the humanities at the new Yale-NUS College in Singapore. February 12, 2013
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The Vatican and the Nuns
漍This panel discussion explores the issues behind the recent conflict between the Vatican and the leadership community for American sisters. The conversation looks at the contributions of women religious in shaping American Catholic life, the changes they have undergone since Vatican II, and strategies for moving forward. Panelists are Sr. Jane Morrissey, of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Springfield, who is co-founder and executive director of Homework House, Inc. and Sr. Donna Markham, of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, who is vice president of behavioral health services at Catholic Health Partners in Cincinnati and former president of the Leadership Conference of the Women Religious. Virginia Ryan, visiting assistant professor of religious studies at 17勛圖厙, moderates. February 5, 2013
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Rebeca Pabon - How A Female-Dominated Labor Sector Organized to Win International Rights
Rebeca Pabon is a union organizer for domestic workers in FNV Bondgenoten in the Netherlands. She has worked closely with union members to coordinate the campaign for domestic workers' rights in the Netherlands and she serves on the steering committee of the International Domestic Workers Network to campaign for more countries to ratify the International Labour Organization's domestic workers Convention 189. November 15, 2012
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Kenneth Parker - Coming to Terms with the Past:How Our Understanding of the Christian Past Shapes Our Future
Kenneth Parker is associate professor of historical theology at Saint Louis University. In this talk, "Coming to Terms with the Past," he uses his own experience and the teachings of Vatican II to explore four metanarratives of Christian history that shape our understanding of the Church today. November 7, 2012
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Ervin Staub Passivity of bystanders in genocide and mass killing and generating active bystandership
Ervin Staub is professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and founding director of its Ph.D. concentration in the Psychology of Peace and Violence. He has worked in the field to develop training programs after the Rodney King riots, Hurricane Katrina, and in Rwanda, and served as an expert witness in the Abu Ghraib trials. In a lecture at 17勛圖厙 on November 5, 2012, Professor Staub talks about the passivity of bystanders in genocide and mass killing, and ways to promote active bystandership.
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Mark Shriver '86 A Good Man, and a Great Man
Mark Shriver '86 is senior vice president of U.S. programs for Save the Children and author of the 2012 memoir "A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver." In this talk, he tells personal stories about his dad, who is known for founding the Peace Corps, Jobs Corps, VISTA and Head Start, and directing the War on Poverty in the 1960s. Rev. Anthony Kuzniewski, S.J., professor of history at 17勛圖厙, offers a historical account of Sargent Shriver's life. November 1, 2012
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Bishop Robert McElroy - Catholicism, Citizenship and Conscience: What Does it Mean to Be a Faith-filled Voter in Our Polarized Society?
Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, Robert McElroy explores the nature of conscience and our obligation to call upon conscience in our voting decisions. Bishop McElroy holds degrees from Harvard, Stanford and the Pontifical Gregorian University and is the author of "Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs." October 16, 2012
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Affirmative Action at 17勛圖厙: A Fishbowl Discussion
17勛圖厙 students, faculty members, and an alumnus weigh the benefits and trade-offs of affirmative action policies at 17勛圖厙. October 1, 2012
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Randall Kennedy The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action
Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy highlights key decisions in race-based affirmative action in higher education over the past 34 years and previews the upcoming Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Many observers believe the Court's ruling could effectively end the use of affirmative action in college admissions programs nationwide. Kennedy, who studies the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life, is completing a book on affirmative action. September 17, 2012
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Rev. Paul Mariani, S.J. - Living in China's Highly Politicized Church of Today
Author of "Church Militant: Bishop Kung and Catholic Resistance in Communist China" (Harvard University Press, 2011), Rev. Paul Mariani, S.J. uses the stories of four bishops in Shanghai to explore the divide between state-sanctioned "patriotic" churches and underground churches in China. He is assistant professor of history at Santa Clara University, focusing on religious policy and conflict in China since 1950. October 3, 2012
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes A World Cut in Two: Global Justice and the Traffic in Humans for Organs
Medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes is the Chancellor's Professor at University of California at Berkeley and the co-founder and director of Organ's Watch, a medical human rights project that tracks the organ trafficking trade. In this lecture, she shares case studies of the global networks that facilitate organ trafficking and considers the complex ethics involved. September 24, 2012
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Rev. A. Maria Arul Raja, S.J. - From Culture of Fragmentation to Culture of Communion
An at 17勛圖厙 this year, Rev. A. Maria Arul Raja, S.J. shares his study of India's Dalit and theologies of the oppressed in this public lecture. Fr. Raja is director of Studies in the Theologate at Vidyajyoti College's Arul Kadal Centre and supervisor of Doctoral Studies at the Institute of Dialogue with Cultures and Religions at Loyola College in Chennai. September 11, 2012
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William Julius Wilson
Keynote speaker at the conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark analysis of poverty, The Other America by Michael Harrington '47, William Julius Wilson speaks on "Toward a Holistic Study of Urban Poverty: Why Both Social Structure and Culture Mattter." Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the author of The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; and When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor.
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Maurice Isserman
Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College and author of The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington
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David J. O'Brien
Professor Emeritus of History and Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at the 17勛圖厙
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Thomas J. Sugrue
David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis
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Alan Wolfe
Professor of Political Science and Director of The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College
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Michael Kazin
Professor of History at Georgetown University and co-editor of Dissent
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Peter Dreier
E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Political Science and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College
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Annette Lareau
Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
Author of Unequal Childhoods: Race, Class, and Family Life
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Timothy Black
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hartford
Author of When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers on and off the Streets
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Bruce Western
Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and author of Punishment and Inequality in America
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Dave McMahon
Co-executive director of Dismas House of Massachusetts, Inc. Followed by Arthur Rosenberg, a former prisoner and Dismas House resident who is now its director of operations.
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Zama Coursen Neff
Deputy director of the children's rights division of Human Rights Watch and author of Fields of Peril: Child Labor in US Agriculture, a Human Rights Watch report. Followed by Norma Flores Lopez, a former child farm worker who is now director of the Children in the Fields Campaign, Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
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Marion Kaplan
Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History and professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, Marion Kaplan talks about "Jewish Life in Nazi Germany" focusing on how women and families struggled with the social ostracism, economic hardship and segregation under Nazi oppression in the years leading up to the 1938 pogrom, Kristallnacht. Her talk, given April 25, 2012, was the annual Derrick Lecture, sponsored by the Department of History with support from Peace and Conflict Studies, Philosophy and the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.
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Rena Finder
When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Rena Ferber Finder was a Jewish girl living in Kracow. In this oral history, she shares her stories of life before the war, being relocated to the ghetto, time spent in Auschwitz, and working for German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who ultimately saved her. April 24, 2012
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Eliza Griswold
Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold spent seven years traveling and researching in regions of North Africa and Central Asia where the highest concentrations of Christians and Muslims live together. She talks about her experiences, documented in her New York Times best selling book, "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam." April 19, 2012
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Gabriella Petrick '89
An alumna of 17勛圖厙, Gabriella Petrick '89 is associate professor at George Mason University and an expert on the history of industrial foods and food technology. Her talk traces the development of canned food and the processing of fresh vegetables through much of the 20th century and questions, "Can Industrial Food Be Ethical?" April 12, 2012
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Donna Winn '76
Past president and CEO of OFI Investments, Inc., a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Funds, Donna Winn '76 talks about perseverance in the face of adversity. She was a member of the first co-ed class to graduate 17勛圖厙, she became a pioneer in the male-dominated finance industry, she survived the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center, and she is battling ovarian cancer. Winn, a member of the 17勛圖厙 Board of Trustees, gave the on March 20, 2012.
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Tamara Vukov
Tamara Vukov, visiting research professor and a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University, talks about art and media activities in migrant justice movements such as Kein Mensch Ist Illegal (No One Is Illegal) in Germany; Sans Papier in France; and the Transborder Immigrant Tool in the U.S. She spoke at 17勛圖厙 on March 14, 2012.
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Alan Rosen
A renowned scholar of Holocaust literature and a lecturer at Yad Vashem, Alan Rosen gives a talk on poetry written during the Holocaust and after. Can it be considered a form of spiritual resistance? If so, what and how does it resist? "'The Words, Too, Will Nourish': Poetry and Resistance," explores the poetry of Avraham Sutzkever and others. Supported by the , the lecture was given February 28, 2012.
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Lisa Sowle Cahill
Theological ethicist Lisa Sowle Cahill, the J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College, talks about access to health care in the United States and globally, and explores the positions and priorities expressed by the U.S. Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Health Association, and Catholic voters. Her talk, titled "Catholic Social Teaching, Bioethics and Justice," was given February 2, 2012 and was one of the .
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The Contours of Catholic Life and Practice Today
Video is now available from the inaugural colloquium on Catholics and Cultures held at 17勛圖厙 December 9, 2011. The Colloquium, which introduced the challenges and opportunities in the study of global Catholicism, included an introduction of the global initiative on Catholics and Cultures by Thomas M. Landy, director of the McFarland Center; a talk on Indian Catholicism by Rowena Robinson of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; a panel of 17勛圖厙 seniors who share their lived experiences of global Catholicism; and a talk on "Reimagining Catholic Theology" by Rev. Thomas G. Casey, S.J., of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
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Paula Fredriksen
Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Chair Emerita of the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University, talks about her latest book, Augustiine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism. Her talk, held November 16, 2011, was co-sponsored with the and supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding, the Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts and the Jewish Book Council.
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Rev. Francis Britto, S.J.
An International Visiting Jesuit Scholar with the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture for the Fall 2011 semester, Rev. Francis Britto, S.J., draws connections between current trends in Christianity and the basic tenets of Hinduism in a talk titled, "Are We All Hindus Now?" Fr. Britto, a native of India, is a professor at Sophia University, Tokyo. This talk was held November 15, 2011.
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Lisa Ruddick
Associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, Lisa Ruddick talks about her current book project which makes the case that the ways we approach literature in academe can elicit or negate a feeling of aliveness. She spoke at 17勛圖厙 on November 14, 2011
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Congressman Jim McGovern and Matthew Hoh
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Matthew Hoh, a former Foreign Service officer and former Marine Corps captain, discuss "Ten Years of War in Afghanistan: The Costs, Consequences and a Way Out." McGovern has been a leading critic of U.S. military policy in Afghanistan, coordinating bipartisan initiatives focused on the human and financial costs of the war, proposals for safely withdrawing U.S. forces from the country, and promoting a political solution for Afghanistan and the region. Hoh was the first U.S. official known to resign his post in protest over the Afghan war. Today, he is a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. November 9, 2011
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Rev. Philip Endean, S.J.
Rev. Philip Endean, S.J. gives a lecture on "Ignatius Loyola, and Why It's Not Quite Enough to Do What Jesus Would Do." Tutor of theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, Fr. Endean suggests that knowledge of God is more than any encounter with Jesus Christ and that Ignatian spirituality calls on believers to continue where Jesus left off. Held November 8, 2011, the talk is one of the .
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Esther Duflo
Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT, Esther Duflo explains how randomized trials of strategies to address poverty yield proven outcomes that sometimes contradict anti-poverty policy and popular thinking. She is co-author of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. October 27, 2011
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Monica Duffy Toft
Co-author of God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics, Monica Duffy Toft explains how despite predictions for a secular society modernization, democratization and globalization have actually increased religion's influence on global politics. Toft is associate professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. She spoke at 17勛圖厙 on October 18, 2011 as one of the.
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Nir Eisikovits
Nir Eisikovits, who teaches legal and political philosophy at Suffolk University, gives a talk on Israel titled "Stuck: Why Israel is in so much trouble and how it can dig out." He is a senior fellow at the International Center for Conciliation and author of Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation. His talk at 17勛圖厙, held October 17, 2011, was supported by the and co-sponsored with Peace and Conflict Studies.
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E. Benjamin Skinner
Author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery, E. Benjamin Skinner talks about the atrocities of human bondage and slave trafficking today in Haiti, South Africa, and other parts of the world. Skinner is a fellow at the at Brandeis University. He spoke at 17勛圖厙 on October 5, 2011.
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Rev. George Pattery, S.J.
The author of two books on Gandhi, Rev. George Pattery, S.J., talks of "Memory, Politics and Forgiveness: A Gandhian Perspective" on September 22, 2011. Pattery is a native of India and former Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in Calcutta and Bangladesh. He is an International Visiting Jesuit Scholar and teaching a course on "Gandhi and Religion" at 17勛圖厙 for the Fall 2011 semester.
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Maria Eugenia Ferr矇 Rangel
In the , Maria Eugenia Ferr矇 Rangel '89 explains how her family history and 17勛圖厙 experience gave her the ethical foundation and business acumen to successfully lead Puerto Rico's largest daily newspaper, El Nuevo Dia, and to find ways to serve the greater good. September 8, 2011
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Diana Hayes Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: My Journey to Womanism
Professor of systematic theology at Georgetown University, Diana Hayes talks about her experience as a black, Catholic womanist theologian. Her talk, April 26, 2011, is one of the and co-sponsored by Africana Studies and Women and Gender Studies. Supported by the Rehm Family Endowment.
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Mark Warren Keynote for "Let Justice Roll Down" - A Conference on the Practice and Pedagogy of Organizing in the 21st Century
Mark Warren, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a sociologist concerned with the revitalization of American democratic and community life. He studies efforts to strengthen institutions that anchor inner city communities - churches, schools, and other community-based organizations - and to build broad-based alliances among these institutions and across race and social class. April 1, 2011
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Joanne Pierce, Edward Foley, John Baldovin New Words for Worship: Coming Changes to the Catholic Liturgy
A panel of experts on liturgy including Joanne Pierce, associate professor of religious studies at 17勛圖厙; Edward Foley, Capuchin, Duns Scotus Professor of Spirituality and professor of liturgy and music at the Catholic Theological Union; and Rev. John Baldovin, S.J., '69, professor of historical and liturgical theology at Boston College discuss coming changes to the liturgy of all English-spoken Masses and the implications for clergy and all practicing Catholics. March 22, 2011
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James McCartin '96 Spirituality and the Transformation of 20th-Century American Catholicism
James McCartin, an alumnus of 17勛圖厙 and associate professor of history at Seton Hall University, explores the themes in his recent book Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics. March 21, 2011
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J. Matthew Ashley Living with Hope in a Crucified World: Resurrection Faith, Ignatian Spirituality and Liberation Theology
Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, J. Matthew Ashley explores the impact of Ignatian spirituality on three 20th-century Jesuit theologians. His talk, March 16, 2011, was one of the .
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James Carroll Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
Best-selling author and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll talks about his latest book, which offers a historical account of Jerusalem, a city at the crossroads of deep faith and violence. The lecture, given March 15, 2011, was presented with the Worcester JCC, Temple Sinai, Temple Emanuel and Congregation Beth Israel. It was supported by the Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts and the .
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Alan Rosen Killing Time, Saving Time: Defying the Holocaust by Counting the Days
Renowned Holocaust scholar and educator Alan Rosen explains how and why Holocaust victims in hiding and in ghettos would use both Gregorian and Jewish calendars to keep track of time. His lecture, on March 2, 2011, is supported by the .
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In Our Lifetimes: Environmental Change and StewardshipThis yearlong series encourages students to consider the greatest environmental challenges of our lifetimes and what we might have to change to counter them. Bill McKibben Past the Tipping Point: The global fight for a stable climate Bill McKibben, one of the world's leading environmental activists and the best-selling author of The End of Nature and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, speaks on the issue of climate change and the work of his organization . September 27, 2010 Sr. Elizabeth Johnson An Ecological Inquiry: Jesus and the Cosmos Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, explores the traditional role of Jesus Christ as Savior of the human race and considers if his teachings can be applied to a more bio-centric or cosmos-centric theology. Supported by the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity. October 5, 2010 Steven Solomon When the Well Runs Dry: Finding Solutions for the Freshwater Crisis John Cannon and Katherine Kiel Saving the Environment: What Might Have to Change at 17勛圖厙 Kieran Suckling '88 The Biodiversity Crisis: Why Driving Species Extinct Makes Us Less Human |
Dennis Golden '63 From NFL Prospect to University President
In the Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, Dennis Golden '63 talks about his path from 17勛圖厙 student-athlete to president of Fontbonne University and offers advice for students exploring vocation. February 22, 2011
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Paul Starr Moralities in Conflict: How Health Care Became Such a Hard Problem for America
Pulitzer and Bancroft prize-winning author Paul Starr, co-founder and editor of The American Prospect, explores why the American people are so bitterly divided on health care policy while other wealthy western democracies are not. February 22, 2011
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Rev. Lloyd Baugh, S.J. Jesus De-constructed and Re-constructed: Political, Cultural and Personal Subtexts in the Gospel Films
Rev. Lloyd Baugh, S.J., the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture's International Jesuit Visiting Fellow for the spring 2011 semester, examines the Jesus film genre from late-19th century silent pictures to Mel Gibson's controversial Passion of the Christ to illustrate that the same Gospel scene can take on very different meanings, according to the subtexts at work in the films. February 10, 2011
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Nancy Sherman The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds and Souls of Our Soldiers
University Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown, Nancy Sherman talks about the moral burdens borne by soldiers returning from war and suggests that feelings of guilt may actually be a therapeutic part of their re-integration in civilian life. Sherman, who is author of The Untold War, spoke at 17勛圖厙 on November 18.
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Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., and Rev. James Corkery, S.J. The Modern Papacy: Five-hundred years of change
Co-editors of the recent book, The Papacy since 1500: From Italian Prince to Universal Pastor, Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., professor of history at 17勛圖厙, and Rev. James Corkery, S.J., associate professor of theology at the Milltown Institute, Dublin, Ireland, talk on November 10, 2010 about the major changes in the Papacy over the last half-millennium.
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Stanley Hauerwas Sacrifice and the Sacrifices of War
Distinguished theologian and Christian ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University Divinity School, asserts that the greatest sacrifice of war may be sacrificing our unwillingness to kill. The talk was given as part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity on November 8, 2010.
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Steven Shapin The Scientific Life: Moral Enterprise or Value Free?
Steven Shapin, the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, talks about his book The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, and explains why personal qualities like virtue, trust, reliability and the familiarity continue to matter in science, perhaps more than ever. October 28, 2010
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Eugene Pogany From Brother to Other and Back
Psychologist Eugene Pogany, author of In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust, tells how the disparate experiences of his father and uncle during the Holocaust irreparably severed their twin bond. His lecture, held October 25, 2010, is supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish Christian Understanding.
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Florence Hsia Saints and Mandarins: Science, religion and Jesuits in late imperial China
Florence Hsia, associate professor of the history of science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about her book Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China as part of the Presidential Colloquia on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, held September 30, 2010. Janine Shertzer, a physics professor at 17勛圖厙, will be the respondent.
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Rev. Jeffrey von Arx, S.J. Two Cardinals: John Henry Newman, Henry Edward Manning and the Victorian Church
Rev. Jeffrey von Arx, S.J., president of Fairfield University and an expert in the field of 19th-century British history, commemorates the September 19 beatification of John Henry Newman with a talk on September 13, 2010 about Newman and his contemporary, and sometimes adversary, Henry Edward Manning.
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Biological Foundations of Morality? Neuroscience, Evolution and Morality
Video is now available from this popular two-day conference, held March 18-19, 2010, exploring the roles of emotion, intuition and reasoning in moral decision making and the implications for moral theology, philosophy and virtue ethics. Biological Foundations of Morality? Neuroscience, Evolution and Morality features some of the biggest names in brain science, including Michael Gazzaniga, Patrick Haggard, Joshua Greene and James Blair, along with esteemed philosophers and thinkers Robert Kane, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jeanette Kennett, Stephen Pope and Rachana Kamtekar. Read more about the conference here.
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Christian Smith Understanding the Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Christian Smith, director of the National Study of Youth and Religion, reports on the third wave of data collection of 18-23 year olds. This Deitchman Family Lecture on Religion and Modernity was held April 7, 2010.
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Patricia Omidian Women in Afghanistan, From the Taliban Until Today
Civilian anthropologist Patricia Omidian, based in Pakistan and Afghanistan since 1997, speaks about the situation in Afghanistan duringt the Taliban and after spoke on April 12, 2010.
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Paula Newberg Political Belief and Political Reconciliation: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Problem of the Taliban
Paula Newberg, director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a former advisor to the United Nations, spoke on April 6, 2010.
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Dermot Quinn and Rev. Ian Boyd Chesterton in America and at 17勛圖厙
Dermot Quinn and Rev. Ian Boyd, of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture at Seton Hall University, reflect on the British convert and writer's two American tours and his 1930 visit to 17勛圖厙. The event, sponsored with the G.K. Chesterton Society of Worcester, was held March 25, 2010.
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Rev. Sidney Griffith Christians and Muslims Together: Lessons from Yesterday for Today
Rev. Sidney Griffith, professor and chair of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America, spoke on February 22, 2010.
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Mahmoud Ayoub The Place of Revelation in Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Mahmoud Ayoub, professor of Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations at the Hartford Seminary and professor emeritus at Temple University, spoke on April 8, 2010.
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Trent Pomplun - Inter-Religious Dialogue in Tibet: The Example of Ippolito Desideri, S.J.
Trent Pomplun, associate professor of theology at Loyola University Maryland, talked about his book, Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet, as part of the Presidential Colloquia on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, February 18, 2010.
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Peachy Myers
Peachy Myers, White House Liaison to the Corporation for National and Community Service, speaks about her calling to community service and legislative achievements, including the passage of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. The lecture, held January 28, 2010, was presented by the Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning.
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After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forwardThis yearlong series explored the lessons learned during the recent credit crisis and offered diverse perspectives on how to construct a new economy that is sustainable and just. Jacob Hacker U.S. healthcare and social policy expert, Jacob Hacker, the Stanley Resor professor of political science at Yale University, reported on "The Middle Class at Risk: The New Economic Security and What Can Be Done About It," October 7, 2009. Caner Dagli Caner Dagli, assistant professor in Religious Studies at 17勛圖厙, spoke about the principles of Islamic law and how they relate to and are interpreted in Muslim economics, October 15, 2009. William D. Nordhaus William D. Nordhaus, Sterling professor of economics at Yale University, is one of the main economists working on models that address the true cost of climate change. He talked about "The Challenge of Climate Change" on October 19, 2009. David A. Spina '64 David A. Spina '64, retired CEO and chairman of State Street Corp. and a 17勛圖厙 trustee, talked about "Recasting Banks in 2009: An Insider's View" on November 3, 2009. Aaron Levine Aaron Levine, the Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University and a noted authority on Jewish commercial law, talked about "How to Prevent the Next Great Depression: A Jewish Law Perspective" on November 12, 2009. Daniel Barbezat Daniel Barbezat, professor of economics at Amherst College, talked about behavioral economics and "Flourishing Economies: Supporting and Deepening Personal and Public Awareness" on November 17, 2009. Sr. Catherine Cowley Sr. Catherine Cowley, a former banker and now religious sister and associate director of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Public Life at Heythrop College, University of London, spoke of "Values in Economic Life" on February 16, 2010. Ellen Ruppel Shell Ellen Ruppel Shell, professor of journalism and co-director of the Graduate Program in Science Journalism at Boston University, talked about her book Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture on February 25, 2010. Jonathan Gruber Jonathan Gruber, economics professor at MIT and one of the nation's leading health care economists, talked about "Reforming Health Care in the U.S.: What Now?" on March 11, 2010. |
Susannah Heschel - The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
Susannah Heschel, a scholar of Jewish-Christian relations and the history of anti-Semitism, and the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, talked about her recent book, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany, as part of the Kraft-Hiatt Program for Jewish-Christian Understanding, November 18, 2009.
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Peter C. Phan - Mission of the Church in the Asian Context
Peter C. Phan, the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, spoke October 5, 2009 in a Deitchman Family Lecture on Religion and Modernity.
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Smita Lahiri - Mystical Transfers, Local and Global
Anthropologist and associate professor at Harvard University, Smita Lahiri discussed her research at Mt. Banahaw, a major center of folk-Catholic pilgrimage in the Philippines, as part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity, September 28, 2009.
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Paul Mariani - What Hopkins Can Teach Us
Noted poet, literary biographer and Boston College professor Paul Mariani talked about the life and work of Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Presidential Colloquium on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, September 21, 2009.
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Rev. James Corkery, S.J. - Sent to the Frontiers: Jesuits, Alumni/ae and the Work of the Church
Fr. Corkery, an Irish Jesuit who participated in the General Congregation and helped draft some of its statements, discusses the larger context for the Congregation and its outcomes in the keynote speech of the Alumni/ae Colloquium, on September 26, 2009.
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B.J. Cassin '55
Philanthropist and venture capital investor B.J. Cassin '55 gives the Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, September 24, 2009.
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Colm Toibin
Leading contemporary Irish writer Colm T籀ib穩n reads from his new novel, Brooklyn, April 16, 2009
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Rev. James Keenan, S.J.
"How Jesuitical Were the Jesuits? A brief encounter with the morality of the Jesuits," March 26, 2009
As part of the Presidential Colloquia on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, Fr. Keenan, who holds the founder's chair in theology at Boston College, traces the history of Jesuit casuistry.
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Professor Karen Ober
"An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Darwin and Discovery," March 25, 2009
As part of the "Last" Lecture Series, Karen Ober, assistant professor of entomology and evolutionary biology, explains how tiny beetles kindled her passion for science.
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Chief Justice John T. Broderick, Jr., '69
The Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, March 23, 2009
Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, John T. Broderick, Jr., a member of the 17勛圖厙 Class of 1969, shares lessons learned on his life's path.
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Professor Daniel Bitran
"Lessons from the Shoah: Why we teach the Holocaust at 17勛圖厙," March 17, 2009
With support from the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding, Daniel Bitran, associate professor of psychology, participated in an educators' conference and seminar at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in July 2008. Here, he talks about the life-changing experience and his redefined purpose.
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David Sorkin
"The Religious Enlightenment," March 16, 2009
In a Deitchman Family Lecture on Religion and Modernity, David Sorkin, professor of history and Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests that the Enlightenment, which gave birth to Modernity, should best be understood as a religious, not an anti-religious, project.
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Marvin Meyer
"The Gospels of Judas, Mary and Thomas: The Good News About Marginalized Disciples in Early Christian Literature," March 12, 2009
Marvin Meyer is one of the foremost scholars on early Christianity and texts about Jesus outside the New Testament. He is Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California, where he is also director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute.
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Moral Responsibilities for the Legacies of WarMoral Frameworks for Thinking About the Legacies of War Agent Orange: Consciousness and Conscience Panel Discussion: U.S. Veterans Returning from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Student Panel: Where do we go from here? |
Archbishop Agostino Marchetto
Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity, February 2, 2009
Vatican secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
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Paul La Camera, '64
Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, October 2008
Paul LaCamera '64, general manager of the WBUR group, and a 17勛圖厙 trustee, shares insights on his career, politics, faith and more.
Craig-Ehrman Debate: Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus?
March 28, 2006
William Lane Craig, Research Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology, and Bart D. Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, debate at 17勛圖厙.
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