Conferences

2004 CONFERENCE THEME:

Catholic Social Thought and Racism

November 18-19, 2004

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• Race, Poverty and Public Policy
  Mary Jo Bane
  Thorton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy & Management
  Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• Sticking to Your Own Kind
  Anita Allen-Castellitto
  Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law
  University of Pennsylvania Law School

• Disturbing Aesthetics of Race
  Mary Shawn Copeland
  President of the Catholic Theology Society of America
  Department of Theology, Boston College

• Catholic Social Teaching, Racial Reconciliation and Criminal Justice
  John J. DiIulio, Jr
  Fredric Fox Leadership Professor of Politics,
  Religion and Civil Society
  University of Pennsylvania

• Why Housing Segregation Still Matters
  Douglas Massey
  Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology
  Princeton University

• Race and Education: K-12
  Gary Orfield
  Professor of Education and Social Policy
  Founding Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project
  Harvard University

• Racism and Caste: Catholic Social Thought
  & the Asian Context
  Peter Phan
  Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ Professor of Catholic Social Thought
  Georgetown University

• Thomas Merton on Racism in America:
  A View from the Margins
  Albert Raboteau
  Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion
  Princeton University

• Catholic Social Teaching and Environmental Racism
  Sylvia Washington
  Northwestern University
   

• Concurrent Sessions
  Toward a Catholic Understanding of American Multiculturalism
     David Carroll Cochran – Loras College (IA)
  Defining Racism
     Bernard V. Brady – University of Saint Thomas (MN)
     Raymond B. Eby, Partner in Robins, Kaplin, Miller & Ciresi (MN)
  Two Nobel Laureates on the Economics of The Race Problem
     Kishor Thanawala – Villanova University
  Racial Justice & Economic Justice:
  Bridging the Gaps in Catholic Social Thought
     Jill Kress – Catholic Theological Union
  From the Mouths of the Catholic Church: Attending to Structural Racism in the Church and Society
     Marguerite L. Spencer – Ohio State University
  Colorblind Racism: A Kinder, Gentler Supremacy!
     Ann M. Pratt, OP
  "Racism Still Stinks: Reflections on Racism and Mission in 2004!"
     Sr. Alies Therese, Ph.D.
  Catholic Social Thought and Racism in Africa
     Rev. Luke Mbefo, C.S.Sp. – Duquesne University
  Racism in the Catholic Church: The Legacy of Colonial Africa
     Josef Zalot – Mount Marty College
  Affirming Imago Dei: Implications of the Black Catholic Congress Movement’s Reception of Rerum Novearum n. 32 for Moral Reasoning in Suffering
     Laurie Cassidy – Trinity College (CT)
  A Vocation of Space: A Responsible and Necessary Challenge to U.S. Catholic Education in the 21^st Century
     H Alberto Lopez Pulido – University of San Diego
  Educating Christians to Confront Racism
     Hosffman Ospino – Boston College
  The Miracle of Transformation: From Racism to Humanism in Judeo-Christian Sacred Texts
     Lowell Gustafson – Villanova University
  Biblical Roots and Liberation Method: A Christian Response to Racism in the U.S.
     Darren Pearse – Villanova University

Recommended reading for the conference.

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