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January 18, 2019
Watch Berkley Center Director Shaun Casey present Carleton College’s January 18 weekly convocation, in which he examined ethics, international politics, and diplomacy. Casey also offered the 2019 Ian Barbour Lecture on Religion and Modernity on January 17, addressing “Competing Conceptions of Religion in American Foreign Policy.”
January 12, 2019
In a Brookings Institution podcast, Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid discuss their new paper, which focuses largely on how both Saudi Arabia and Iran employ Islam as a soft power tool in the conduct of their foreign policy, and also touches on case studies including Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, and Indonesia.
January 2, 2019
In this review for the New Yorker, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie takes a look at Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, describing it as "the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction, the earliest novel to render a set of circumstances and an outlook that still feel recognizably ours."
December 7, 2018
Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville examines the rise of Islamic soft power in a Foreign Affairs article co-authored with Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution.
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June 24, 2025
Rev. Kieran Halloran, S.J., (SFS'14) worked at the Berkley Center from fall 2012 to spring 2014 while he was a student at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. During that time Halloran wrote several pieces on topics at the intersection of peace and world affairs.
June 20, 2025
Berkley Center Faculty Fellow Leo Lefebure will deliver a public lecture titled "Shaping a Culture of Encounter in a Fragmented World: Culture, Politics, and the Promise of Interreligious Dialogue" on June 26 in Blacktown, Australia.
June 17, 2025
Each year, the Berkley Center nominates one student for the prestigious Pulitzer Center International Reporting Fellowship. This year, Nicole Abudayeh (SFS'26) has been selected for that honor. Her reporting will focus on the role of faith-based social activism in protecting migrant populations from human trafficking in Ceuta, Spain. Nicole joins a global cohort of scholars who are working to uncover and amplify underreported stories that shape our world.
May 16, 2025
The application for the 2025-2026 cohort of the Women Faith Leaders Fellowship is open to Catholic sisters from Sub-Saharan Africa who are actively engaged in religious and community service. The fellowship seeks applicants dedicated to the development of their communities and the empowerment of women and girls, in service to the common good.
