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September 16, 2025
Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie will participate in an online talk on September 17 with the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago.
September 15, 2025
An article in Catholic Standard highlighted the recent trip by Berkley Center Director Thomas Banchoff and Georgetown University students to Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the eightieth anniversary of the bombings. The group from Georgetown were joined by others from Catholic universities around the world to participate in events and dialogue that promote interreligious understanding and advocate for a world without nuclear weapons.
September 8, 2025
Senior Fellow Paul Elie was recently featured in a September 6 panel discussion at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC. Drawing on Elie's book The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s (2025), the panel explored the legacy of McCarthyism in the postwar era and reflected on how pop culture and faith converged in the 1980s.
September 5, 2025
Senior Research Fellow Amy Uelmen has co-authored an article in America Magazine with William Michael Treanor of Georgetown Law. Their piece reflects on recent government scrutiny of higher education and its implications for Georgetown's Jesuit mission.
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July 1, 2026
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University mourns the loss of William R. Berkley, our inspirational benefactor and devoted friend. Bill passed away recently at the age of eighty. A brilliant business leader who built the W. R. Berkley Corporation from humble beginnings into a global insurance powerhouse, Bill's success was matched by his generosity as a philanthropist. Georgetown is among the many beneficiaries of his vision and steadfast support.
June 22, 2026
In a special NPR segment exploring the origins of American religious liberty, Berkley Center Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky reflects on how early ideals established a fundamental purpose for the United States government: protecting natural, inalienable rights.
June 9, 2026
Melissa Nozell of the Strategic Religious Engagement Hub is participating in "Tools for Sustainable Peacemaking: An Invitation to Learn and Exchange," a series that brings together practitioners, policymakers, faith leaders, and academics to explore approaches to community-level peacebuilding. This second session covered "Education as a Foundation for Peace."
May 13, 2026
Writing for Religion News Service, Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky recaps failed efforts throughout American history to insert explicitly Christian clauses into the U.S. Constitution.
