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May 12, 2020
Managing Director Michael Kessler participated in a May 12 discussion on best practices for teaching and public scholarship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Panelists addressed approaches to teaching religion remotely with fair grading options, conducting phone and videoconference classes in low-resource and low-tech environments, and responding to disruptions to tenure processes.
May 12, 2020
A May 14 Kennedy Institute of Ethics webinar will include Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., on a panel of Georgetown University experts addressing medical, legal, public health, and social justice concerns raised by the COVID-19 pandemic for the people outside the Global North.
May 9, 2020
Crux recaps our "The Papacy Confronts Coronavirus: A Conversation with Austen Ivereigh" event, which featured Austen Ivereigh, Kim Daniels, and Paul Elie discussing Pope Francis's insights and approach to leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 7, 2020
On May 7 Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall participated in a webinar that explored the recent actions taken by religious actors in the United States and Indonesia on pandemic response and identify opportunities to enhance the beneficial role religious institutions can play. Sponsored by the Indonesia-U.S. Council on Religion and Pluralism, video of the event is available on YouTube.
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February 5, 2025
Berkley Center Research Fellow Rev. Gerald J. McGlone, S.J., has been quoted in an article by Religion News Service about recent abuse cases within Anglican denominations.
February 4, 2025
Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky joined Mark Noll and James Patterson on the Law & Liberty Podcast to discuss his new book American Heretics (2024).
January 6, 2025
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.
December 13, 2024
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.
