Berkley Center

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari will moderate a January 16 discussion of Petr Kratochvíl’s new book Geopolitics of Global Catholicism: Politics of Religion in Space and Time (2024) as part of the International Studies Association's Virtual Book Talk Series on Religion and International Relations.

The list published by the School of Foreign Service demonstrates how professors continue to lead in developing, understanding, and analyzing the ideas that will transform the global order. Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition (2024) offers a comprehensive and cohesive analysis of today’s challenges to human rights, suggesting that global realities call for important developments rooted in Catholic ethics.

The University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary announced that Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser will receive the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for Religion for her book Loving Our Own Bones (2023), which uses disability theory and her own experience to rethink biblical texts and rabbinic literature. She will deliver a lecture and accept her award in April 2025.

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari moderated a December 5 discussion of David Buckley’s new book Blessing America First: Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration (2024), which traces how the first Trump administration’s populism affected the foreign policy bureaucracy. The webinar was sponsored by the International Studies Association.