Events

Spring 2024

Cecelia Lynch, Professor of Political Science, University of California Irvine, author of Wrestling with God: Ethical Precarity in Christianity and International Relations 

• Public Lecture: “Wrestling with Violence: Christianity and International Relations” 
  Thursday, Feb. 1st, 6:00–7:00 pm, 4th Floor Programming Room
• Lunch Colloquium: “Political Realism and Religion: Analyzing the Extant, Critiquing Through the Prophetic,”
  Thursday, Feb. 1st, 12:00–1:00 pm, Theology Seminar Room HU 042-R (BYOL)

J. Matthew Ashley, Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, author of Renewing Theology: Ignatian Spirituality and Karl Rahner, Ignacio Ellacuria, and Pope Frances 

• Public Lecture: “Hope at the End of the Anthropocene: Reflections from a Martyred University President,”
  Thursday, Feb. 22nd, 6:00–7:00 pm, 4th Floor Programming Room
• Lunch Colloquium: “The Jesuit University as an Instrument of Consolation:  A Conversation with Ignacio Ellacuría & Pope Francis,”
  Thursday, Feb. 22nd, 12:00–1:00 pm, Theology Seminar Room HU 042-R (BYOL)

Alexandra Dodson, Assistant Professor of Art History at Notre Dame of Maryland University.

• Public Lecture: "Chariots of Fire and Men in White: The Prophet Elijah in the Mendicant Imagination"
  

  Monday, Mar. 18th, 5:00- 6:00 pm, Knott Hall B01

  In this talk, medieval art historian Alexandra Dodson will discuss the medieval mendicants’ appropriation of the Old Testament prophet Elijah in their visual and textual narratives, arguing that references to and representations of the prophet bolstered the legitimacy and authority of these new and sometimes controversial orders, particular the Carmelites, who linked their Holy Land origins to Elijah’s life and legacy on Mt. Carmel.

  Alexandra Dodson is Assistant Professor of Art History at Notre Dame of Maryland University. Her research focuses on the art and architecture of the mendicant orders in Italy in the 13th and 14th centuries. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University where her research was supported by awards from the U.S. Fulbright Commission and the American Association of University Women

Mélisande Short-Colomb, direct descendant of families sold by the Society of Jesus in 1838 and has been an anchoring member of the President’s Task Force Examining Loyola’s Connections to Slavery 

• Public Lecture: "Here I Am"
  Tuesday, March 19th, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m., McManus Theater
  Wednesday March 20th, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m., McManus Theater

Here I Am weaves narrative, music, and multimedia imagery, inviting the audience on an experiential journey celebrating Short-Colomb’s 11 generations of maternal grandmothers and exploring her complicated relationship with the institution that enslaved her ancestors.

Tickets are free and can be reserved at the Loyola box office or here.

Elizabeth Gandolfo, Earley Chair of Catholic Studies and Latin American Studies, Wake Forest University, author of Ecomartyrdom in the Americas: Living and Dying for Our Common Home

• Public Lecture:  “The Struggle for Our Common Home: Ecomartyrdom in the Americas,”
  Friday, Apr. 12th, 5:00–6:00 pm, 4th Floor Programming Room
• Lunch Colloquium: “Narrating and Responding to the Witness: Honoring Ecomartyrs with Our Lives,”
  Friday, Apr. 12th, 12:00–1:00 pm, Theology Seminar Room HU 042-R (BYOL)