Berkley Center

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall participated in a panel on religious freedom and global development as part of a June 5 conference hosted by Sovereign Order of Malta to the Holy See, the Atlantic Council, and the Pontifical University Urbaniana to explore innovative frameworks and strategies for fostering religion-sensitive and inclusive policies and engagements.

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari participated in a June 7 webinar on the motivations and practices of women's modesty among Orthodox Jewish and Muslim women in Canada, the United States, and Israel.

A new volume edited by Research Fellow Debora Tonelli and Gerard Mannion explores the differing ways in which religion can contribute to societies and communities exiting situations of violence and hatred. The volume also features a foreword by Senior Fellow Jose Casanova and chapters from Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari, Faculty Fellow Leo Lefebure, and Tonelli.

Senior Fellow Paul Elie joined New York Times best-selling novelist Ayana Mathis for a May 21 conversation hosted by the Library of America about faith, fiction, and The Moviegoer (1961), the novel that established Walker Percy as a peerless examiner of American alienation and redemption.