Berkley Center

Berkley Center Director Shaun Casey and Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville will each give keynote lectures at "Religious Authority in the Middle East: Implications for U.S. Policy," a March 19 conference sponsored by the Baker Institute Center for the Middle East and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with support from the Henry R. Luce Foundation.

In early March Berkley Center Director Shaun Casey and Senior Fellow José Casanova traveled to Ukraine, where they participated in "Religious Pluralism, Religious Freedom and Challenges for Democracy: Practicing Neighborliness in Ukraine and Beyond," a conference hosted by Ukrainian Catholic University, and met with local religious leaders.

Listen to an audio recording of the March 5 conversation (conducted in English) between Berkley Center Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., and Gaël Giraud, S.J., on addressing growing global displacement of people through a renewed commitment to the transnational common good. It was hosted by the Sèvres Centre, a Jesuit institution in Paris.

On March 4 Berkley Center Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., delivered the 2019 Devlin Lecture at St. Patrick's College Maynooth, speaking on "Human Rights in Catholic Social Thought: A Living Tradition and Some Urgent Challenges Today."