Berkley Center

On March 17, Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova will deliver a lecture titled "World Religions in the Emerging Global Disorder," as part of a Birks Forum series on "Faith and Public Discourse in Troubled Times." The following day, March 18, he will participate in a public conversation with Charles Taylor and Hans Joas on the same topic. 

Thomas Banchoff, director of the Berkley Center, was recently published in Commonweal Magazine, where he discusses Pope Francis' stance on artificial intelligence (AI) and advocates for an approach to AI governance grounded in the protection of human dignity. 

On March 7, Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova will join a panel at the "2025 Ukrainian Studies Conference," co-sponsored by Notre Dame and Ukrainian Catholic University. In the discussion, titled "Faithful Hope: Religion and Resilience in Ukraine," Casanova will explore the religious underpinnings of Ukraine's strong civil society networks. 

In a recent interview with Publishers Weekly, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie speaks on secularization in the United States, "crypto-religious" work, and his own experiences attending a Jesuit university in the 1980s—all in the context of his forthcoming book, The Last Supper: Art Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s (2025).