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Center for the Study of Justice in Society

2007-08 Calendar

UPCOMING EVENT

Justice Faculty Fellows Reception & Open House
Friday, May 16, 2008
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Hunthausen 100

All faculty members are invited to attend as fifteen faculty members participating in seminars led by three faculty facilitators will present their works-in-progress to the SU community in a roundtable session on Friday, May 16. This year’s CSJS seminars include “Postcolonial Theory: Knowledge, Power & Resistance” (facilitated by Tayyab Mahmud, School of Law); “The Quest for Justice in Latin America” (facilitated by Marc McLeod, College of Arts & Sciences); and "Masculinities" (facilitated by Debby A. Phillips, College of Nursing). For more info, here are this year's topics.


PAST EVENTS

Faculty Summit at Seattle University
Race: Beginning A Holistic Conversation

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Student Center 160

Community Conversations at Seattle University
A RENEWED LEGACY OF SEGREGATION:
From Brown v. Board to PICS v. Seattle School District #1
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Student Center 160

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Justice in Society, Global African Studies Program and the Washington Educators for Social Justice

EMF International Grants &
CSJS Justice Scholarship Series Breakfast    
Thursday, November 8, 2007
8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Student Center 160

Sponsored by the Endowed Mission Fund &
the Center for the Study of Justice in Society

Africans and the Catholic Church Conference
January 31 - February 2, 2008
Seattle University

The conference keynote speaker is Rev. Sr. Anne Nasimiyu-Wasike, professor of religious studies at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. Her keynote address is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Justice in Society. Nasimiyu-Wasike is a systematic theologian who obtained her doctorate from Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, Pa. She has held fellowships in the U.K. and the U.S., and is a leading member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, an ecumenical group of Africa’s foremost women theologians.

Sponsored by the Global African Studies Program, College of Arts & Sciences,
the Endowed Mission Fund and the Center for the Study of Justice in Society

Globalization & Justice:
INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUES

February 21-22, 2008
Seattle University Pigott Hall & Sullivan Hall

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Justice in Society,
the Center for Global Justice (School of Law), the SU School of Law,
the Albers School of Business & Economics and the Endowed Mission Fund

CSJS Justice Scholarship Series &
2008 O'Hara Graff Lecture Series present

Dr. Emilie Townes
Andrew W. Mellin Professor of African American Religion
& Theology at Yale University

February 29, 2008
LeRoux Room, Student Center

Sponsored by the Department of Theology & Religious Studies
and the Center for the Study of Justice in Society

 


PAST CSJS CONFERENCES

Globalization & Justice Conference: February, 2008
Seattle University
Sponsors: The Center for the Study of Justice in Society, the Center for Global Justice, the Endowed Mission Fund, Albers School of Business & Economics and SU School of Law

Debating Globalization Conference: April, 2004
Seattle University
Sponsors: The Wismer Professor, the Center for the Study of Justice in Society, the Office of Mission & Ministry and the Center on Corporation, Law and Society

PAST CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

(Re) Imagining the Family Conference: April 2007
Seattle University
Sponsors: The Albers School of Business & Economics, Albers Global Business Center, the Center for the Study of Justice in Society, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Sociology & Social Work, Endowed Mission Fund, Global African Studies Program, Magis: Alumni Committed for Mission, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, Division of Student Development, SU School of Law, SU Women Studies Program and the Wismer Professor

African Americans & the Catholic Church Conference: April, 2006
Seattle University
Sponsors: the Gaffney Chair, the Center for the Study of Justice in Society and the Global African Studies Program

(Re) Examining Race & Gender Conference: March, 2005
Seattle University
Sponsors: The Wismer Professor, the Center for the Study of Justice in Society, Women Studies, and the Pigott-McCone Chair, in collaboration with Global African Studies and the Diversity, Citizenship & Social Justice Program
 


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