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Jocelyne Cesari speaks at podium

August 27, 2020

Advancing Issues of Human Rights and Religious Freedom

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari contributed to a webinar on "Advancing Issues of Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Asia Pacific," hosted by Human Rights Media. Cesari presented on the "Securitization of Religion and Its Consequences on Religious Freedom." 

Amelia Uelmen at podium

August 22, 2020

Consecrating the Classroom Space – in a Pandemic

Writing on the Mirror of Justice blog, Senior Research Fellow Amy Uelmen reflects on teaching her Religion and the Work of a Lawyer seminar in a virtual setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Cardinal Robert McElroy speaking in front of a podium in Copley Formal Lounge

January 6, 2025

Georgetown Welcomes Cardinal Robert McElroy as New Archbishop of Washington

Over the past decade, McElroy has visited Georgetown and engaged with events hosted by the Berkley Center and the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. He also contributed a chapter to the Georgetown University Press book A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament, co-edited by the late Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., then a Berkley Center senior fellow.

A family prays at a burial site as the sun comes down on a cloudy day

December 13, 2024

Student Research on Religion and COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

In "The Right to Bury Their Dead," Minahil Mahmud (SFS'25) examines the challenges faced by the Muslim community in Sri Lanka when the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa mandated in April 2020 that all victims of COVID-19 would be cremated, irrespective of their religious beliefs.

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