Berkley Center

Jocelyne Cesari's publication in The Review of Faith & International Affairs, now publicly available, analyzes the challenges with regard to the concept of laïcité and addresses religious pluralism in France. 

Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville contributed an essay examining how strategic rivals are advancing global agendas through religion to a new McCain Institute report, "The State of Religious Freedom Worldwide: An Inside Look at the Axis of Upheaval’s Religious Persecution and How the U.S. Can Counteract It." He will join several coauthors in discussing the report at a June 9 event on Capitol Hill.

In a New Yorker essay, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie reflects on Robert Prevost's first year as Leo XIV—a year in which the first American pope stepped into history the way John Paul II did when he went to Communist Poland in 1979.

At conference hosted by the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from May 4 to 6 titled "AI and the Future of Work," Berkley Center Director Thomas Banchoff moderated a invite-only panel on finding the balance between work, life, and AI with leading thinkers and practitioners.