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José Casanova

June 18, 2019

Casanova Speaks at SFS Centennial Event

Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova offered a keynote lecture on "The Jesuits, Globalization, and Our Historical Juncture" at a May 24 conference in Rome on the past and future of Jesuit global engagement, held to celebrate the centennial of Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Peter Mandaville

June 18, 2019

Mandaville Quoted in New York Times on Morsi

Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville discusses how the death of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, has impacted Egyptian society in the New York Times.

John Martin's painting of the Last Judgment, featuring fire and earthquakes

June 14, 2019

Who Is to Blame for Disasters?

In the Interfaith Observer Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall explores what happens when people blame natural disasters—like the 1755 Lisbon earthquake—on divine retribution brought on by evil living.

Michael Gilligan, Monika Bulaj, Phillip Martin, and Sarah Aziz at the Beyond Religion Conference

June 14, 2019

Casey Speaks at "Beyond Religion" Conference

Shaun Casey, Berkley Center director and former special representative for religion and global affairs in the U.S. Department of State, spoke on a panel examining religion and peacebuilding at the "Beyond Religion" conference, which addressed the role of religion in journalism. The event was organized by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and supported in part by the Berkley Center.

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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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