Religion
“My Contacts with Saint John Paul II at the Fall of the Soviet Union”: The Keeley Vatican Lecture with Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti
His Excellency, The Most Reverend Claudio Gugerotti, the Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain and the Titular Archbishop of Rebellum, will present the Keeley Vatican Lecture at the...
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Brazilian Election 2022: How COVID and Religion May Determine the Future of Brazil
In one of the most anticipated presidential elections in Latin America in 2022, Brazil will prepare for a face-off between ex-president Luís Inácio Lula da Silva and the...
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Never Forget: Religion Beyond Sex & Violence?
This August—just over two decades since the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal—a group of academics, journalists, and faith...
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Russia in Ukraine: What’s Religion Got to Do with It?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly invoked religion in an effort to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine. How, specifically, has Putin used religion—and in...
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Native American Perspectives on Human Dignity
Integral human development is a holistic model of human flourishing articulated in Catholic social teaching and resonant in multiple religious, humanistic, and philosophical...
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Our Shared Paths to Justice: Learning from Desmond Tutu’s Faith and Activism
The late Desmond Tutu’s inspiring activism helped South Africa address the deep injustices that permeated daily life under Apartheid—a crushing system of institutionalized...
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2020 in Hindsight: The View from December 2021
Join the Ansari Institute for this panel discussion and hear insights from academics, journalists, and faith leaders. Together, they will explore the role of faith in the national...
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On Foreign Policy and Seeing the Big Picture
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is a professor of political science and religious studies and the Crown Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University, where she co-directs the...
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Secular Left vs. Religious Right? A Discussion of Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics
American society is rapidly secularizing, a radical departure from its historically high level of religiosity. And politics is a big part of the reason. Join us for a discussion...
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Courageous Christianity
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as we present Jemar Tisby ’02, president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective and author of The Color of Compromise and...
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Black Church Theology
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as Esau McCaulley, assistant professor of New Testament, Wheaton College, and author of Reading While Black: African American...
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Conference: The Trauma of Communism
Tuesday, 06/29/2021, at 7:45 a.m. ET – Scholars, activists, and religious actors whose extraordinary experiences of living under communism, resisting the totalitarian state, and...
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