Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs Kicks Off “Jesuits and Globalization” Project

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Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs Kicks Off “Jesuits and Globalization” Project
18 April 2013



The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., kicks off “The Jesuits and Globalization” initiative this month. The three-year project will bring together leading scholars to explore Jesuit innovations and legacies from a global perspective. Three symposia are planned to address each of the core themes of mission, education and justice.

The first symposium, scheduled for April 19, is titled “The Jesuits, Globalization, and Dialogue,” and will focus on the Jesuit approach to mission and its encouragement of dialogue across the world’s major regions. Jesuit Fathers Francis Clooney, John O’Malley and Antoni Ucerler are scheduled to speak at the event, which will be held at Georgetown University.

The second symposium, to be held at Oxford University in fall 2013, is titled “Jesuit Education, Spiritual Formation, and Care of the Human Person,” and will discuss how the Jesuit model of education can modernize liberal education in a global era.

The third symposium, “Justice and the Common Good,” will be held in Florence, Italy, in spring 2014. The symposium will examine Jesuit efforts to bring religious tradition into dialogue with the secular world. The event will highlight Jesuits’ roles as confessors to Catholic heads of state and politicians and Jesuit contributions to the fields of law, human rights and social justice.

The entire project will culminate with an edited book and capstone conference at the Gregorian University in Rome in fall 2014, to coincide with the bicentennial of the restoration of the Society of Jesus.

“The Jesuits, Globalization, and Dialogue” symposium is open to the public. To attend, an RSVP is required here. Read more about the project and its participants on the Berkley Center website. [Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs]

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