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November 27, 2024

Judd Birdsall Discusses Public Scholarship in Religious Studies

On November 23, Senior Fellow Judd Birdsall joined an American Academy of Religion conference panel featuring scholars who have made significant impacts in engaging broader audiences via popular media outlets and multimedia platforms. Research Fellow Susan Hayward moderated the panel.

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November 19, 2024

Berkley Forum: The G20 Interfaith Forum

A new Berkley Forum series, coordinated by Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall and Director Thomas Banchoff, marks the 2024 G20 Summit in Brazil and the work of the G20 Interfaith Forum to move from dialogue to encounter and impact across critical issues on our global agenda.

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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.

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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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November 26, 2024

Brian Flanagan Quoted on Synod on Synodality Final Report

Religion News Service article quotes Research Fellow Brian Flanagan on the impact of Pope Francis' support for the final report from the Synod on Synodality, the Catholic Church's recently concluded three-year consultation process.

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