Berkley Center

Writing for America, Joan Rosenhauer quoted Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J.'s Berkley Forum essay on U.S. Catholic attitudes towards refugees, written as part of the Berkley Center's Religion and the Crisis of Displaced Persons project. Both Hollenbach and Rosenhauer are members of the Culture of Encounter Project Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger.

Senior Fellow José Casanova contributed a chapter entitled "Jesuit Contributions to Global Connectivity and Global Consciousness in the Early Modern Era" to the book Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map (Brill, 2024), edited by Laura Hostetler.

Senior Research Fellow Elisa Massimino participated on a January 31 panel hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security (GIWPS) to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Yazidi genocide. Other panelists included Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad, U.S. Ambassador-At-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack, and GIWPS Executive Director Melanne Verveer.

Berkley Center Director Thomas Banchoff and students from the Human Fraternity Fellows Program were featured in the Italian-language edition of L'Osservatore Romano, highlighting the program's study trip to Abu Dhabi for the anniversary of the Document on Human Fraternity. The program is co-sponsored by the Berkley Center, Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, and Muslim Council of Elders.