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Woman wearing a shirt reading "Black Lives Matter" stands among a crowd of demonstrators

July 5, 2020

The Present Belongs to Crowds

In a new Daily Comment for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie reflects on the nature of crowds in this moment characterized by both the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, with special reference to Don DeLillo's novel Mao II.

Police alongside Black Lives Matter protesters

July 2, 2020

SFS On Topic: Institutions Respond to the Black Lives Matter Movement

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall is one of several School of Foreign Service faculty members who have recently shared their expertise on how powerful institutions are responding to widespread, global anti-racism movements that have emerged following the death of George Floyd.

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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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