Calendar
Fall 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
On the Sacredness of Emptiness: Contemporary Art and Religion at St. Peter's Jesuit-Church in Cologne — Fr. Friedhelm Mennekes, SJ, will present an illustrated talk on the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, a late Gothic church in Cologne, Germany that he transformed by inviting some of the world’s leading contemporary artists to install site-specific works in this still-functioning parish. Mennekes is the International Visiting Jesuit Scholar with the Visual Arts department at Holy Cross. The Jesuit community will host a reception for Mennekes following the talk.
4 pm, Rehm Library
Monday, September 21, 2009
Presidential Colloquium on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts: What Hopkins Can Teach Us — Paul Mariani, professor of English at Boston College and author of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life, will speak about the Jesuit poet, his work and its significance for understanding Jesuit life and mission, both in his time and now. Thomas M. Landy, director of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, will respond with some suggestions about what Hopkins' legacy can mean for education at Holy Cross.
4:30 pm, Rehm Library
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life — B.J. Cassin '55, a venture capital investor, is chairman and president of the Cassin Educational Initiative Foundation, which he founded in 2000. CEIF supports private Catholic education for low-income and high-risk students.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Alumni/ae Colloquium: Sent to the Frontiers: Jesuits, Alumni/ae, and the Work of the Church, a day to explore the Jesuit future of Holy Cross and opportunities for involvement in social justice ministries. The Colloquium will feature young alumni Jesuits, the Ignatian Volunteer Corps and a keynote address by Rev. James Corkery, S.J., a theologian at the Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology in Ireland and one of two Irish delegates to the Jesuits 35th General Congregation last year. Registration required.
9 am - 5 pm with optional dinner to follow.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Mystical Transfers, Local and Global: The Modernity of 'Folk' Catholicism in the Philippines — Smita Lahiri, associate professor of anthropology at Harvard University, will talk about a number of individuals she met during her research at Mt. Banahaw, a major center of folk-Catholic pilgrimage in the Philippines. Part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.
4:30 pm, Rehm Library
Monday, October 5, 2009
The Mission of the Church in the Asian Context— Peter C. Phan, the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, will provide an overview of the history and current situation of Catholicism in South and East Asia and then discuss how Christian mission is to be understood in that context. Part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Women in Prison in New England: What Can Be Done to Reduce Reliance on Incarceration? — Russ Immarigeon, editor of the national bi-monthly publication Women, Girls & Criminal Justice, will describe the current state of women's imprisonment in New England and suggest that community-based infrastructures that address economic development, employment, social and mental health, health care, housing and substance abuse could keep more women from unnecessary incarceration. Co-sponsored with the College Honors Program.
6:30 pm, Rehm Library
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward — "The Middle Class at Risk: The New Economic Security and What Can Be Done About It." Jacob Hacker, the Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University, will report on the broad-based risk-shift from society to individuals — across healthcare, pensions, and job security — as a result of philosophical pressure in the political arena, increased opportunity for private industry, and economic pressures.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Pray the Devil Back to Hell: Women Ending the War in Liberia — Watch the documentary film Pray the Devil Back to Hell and learn how Liberian women, both Christian and Muslim, came together to end the war in Liberia and restore peace to their country. Later, hear from one of the women featured in the film, Janet Johnson Bryant, a former journalist for Liberian Catholic radio who helped launch the Liberian Mass Action for Peace. Co-sponsored with Peace and Conflict Studies, Women and Gender Studies and Africana Studies.
4:30 pm film screening, 7 pm lecture, Rehm Library
Thursday, October 15, 2009
After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward — "Islamic Law, Shariah-based Finance, and Economic Theory." Caner Dagli is assistant professor in the Religious Studies department at Holy Cross. He was an interfaith affairs consultant at the Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan, providing consultative support to HM King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein and his special advisor HRH Ghazi bin Muhammad.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Monday, October 19, 2009
After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward — "The Challenge of Climate Change." William D. Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, is one of the main economists working on climate change models. He recently chaired a panel of the National Academy of Sciences that produced a report, Nature's Numbers, recommending approaches to integrate environmental and other non-market activity into the national economic accounts.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: A Problem of State Formation — Ranjith Amarasinghe is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Peradeniya and former director of the Peace Building Unit in the Ministry of Constitutional Affairs and National Integration in Sri Lanka. Co-sponsored with the ISLE study abroad program.
7 pm, Rehm Library
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward — "Recasting banks in 2009: An insider's view." David A. Spina ’64, retired chairman and CEO of State Street Corporation, the world's leading provider of services to institutional investors, and a Holy Cross trustee, will share lessons learned from the collapse of the financial markets and changes that would improve the banking system.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Everyday Practice of Science: From Discovery and Credibility to Integrity and Faith — Fred Grinnell, professor of cell biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, will explore the boundary between science and philosophy, when the goal of doing science is to inform science policy decisions and advance science education and public understanding. Co-sponsored with Montserrat and the Biology Department.
7 pm, Seelos Theater
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Summer in the Holy Land — Two students, Amy Lazarus '10 and Miriam Westin '11, share their experiences as part of the Rothberg Summer Institute at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, last summer. Amy will speak at 4:45 pm in Rehm Library about studying Judaism in Jerusalem and of her interactions with local Israelis and fellow international students. At 7:45 pm in the Millard Drawing Studio, Miriam will share what was unearthed during her three-week archaeological dig at Tel Hazor in Northern Israel and talk about her experiences living in a kibbutz. The scholarship study abroad program is supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Program for Jewish-Christian Understanding.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward — "How to Prevent the Next Great Depression: A Jewish Law Perspective." Aaron Levine is the Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics and chairman of the department at Yeshiva University. A noted authority on Jewish commercial law, he recently published "The Global Recession and Jewish Law” in American Economist and is editor of the forthcoming publication Judaism and Economics (Oxford University Press, Spring 2010).
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward — Flourishing Economies: Supporting and deepening personal and public awareness. Daniel Barbezat, professor of economics at Amherst College, will explore consumption versus consumerism and the pursuit of happiness. Do economists know how to deliver happiness? How do our dominant economics models implicitly understand what it means to be happy? In light of what we are learning from behavioral studies, how does that have to change?
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany — Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, will discuss her book as part of the Kraft-Hiatt Program for Jewish-Christian Understanding.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Genetic Nonsense: From Bench to Bedside — Allan Jacobson, professor and chair of the department of molecular genetics and microbiology at UMass Medical School, will recount how his decades of lab research on mRNA in yeast led to the development of a new drug with the potential to treat genetic disorders, including cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, caused by nonsense mutations. Sponsored by the Departments of Biology and Chemistry, the National Science Foundation, and the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Spring 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward — "Values in Economic Life." Sr. Catherine Cowley, RA, PhD, associate director of the Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life at Heythrop College, University of London, will speak about the economy from a Catholic perspective.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The Representation of the Holocaust in Poetry — Marc Lee Raphael, professor and chair of religious studies, Nathan and Sophia Gumenick professor of Judaic Studies and director of the program and minor in Judaic Studies at the College of William and Mary will give this talk as part of the Kraft-Hiatt Program for Jewish-Christian Understanding.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Understanding the Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults in America — Christian Smith, director of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), will talk on the religious and spiritual lives of teens and young adults, based on the third wave of NSYR data collection of 18-23 year olds. Part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion & Modernity.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
Monday, April 12, 2010
Rwandan Genocide — Fr. Romain Rurangirwa, a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda, will lead a panel discussion on the origins, chronology and scope of the genocide; the situation of survivors; and the Gacaca system of restorative justice.
7:30 pm, Rehm Library
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