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Word Became Flesh: The Question of Performance as Method in Biblical Studies
The 2019 Performance Criticism Conference was held on Oct. 4, 2019. This conference, organized by New Testament and Early Christianity graduate students Zach Eberhart and Megan Wines, was centered around the question of how performance works as a methodology within Biblical Performance Criticism. DETAILS
2019-2020 Religion and Nature Speaker Series
Integral ecologists are environmental scientists, ethicists, experts in religion and nature and activists who understand that earth's environmental crisis cannot be solved by one group alone. Environmental experts from all fields must work together. This speaker series is part of the 'Francis Project,' a collaboration between Loyola University's Department of Theology and the Institute of Environmental Sustainability to encourage an integral understanding of the natural world from the perspectives of both science and religion DETAILS
A New Agenda for Catholic Theology and Ministry: Perspectives from Queer Theologians of Color
Dr. Miguel Diaz, John Courtney Murray Chair in Public Service, has been awarded a grant from the Louisville Institute along with project partners Craig Ford Jr (Saint Norbert College) and Bryan Massingale (Fordham University). Their project seeks to "challenge current Catholic theological scholarship in gender and sexuality and open new avenues to reflect on these human experiences from the perspective of race and ethnicity."
Hate is not welcome aquí
Prof. Miguel Diaz (John Courtney Murray University Chair in Public Service) co-authors article in the National Catholic Reporter on recent gun violence, with a specific focus on that in El Paso, and the impact of white nationalist rhetoric on the Latin@ community. (Photo is from the article in NCR, (CNS photo/Reuters/Callaghan O'Hare))
Science, Society, and the Search for Life Elsewhere/The History of Volatiles and the Climate on Mars - Past, Present, and Future
Prof. Bruce Jakosky, Principal Investigator of the Mars Atmospheric Volatile and Evolution (MAVEN) mission will be at Loyola for two presentations on Thursday October 31st. His first presentation will be at 10:30 a.m. on October 31, 2019 in the Palm Court Conference Area located in Mundelein Center. The title of that presentation is “The History of Volatiles and Climate on Mars – Past, Present, and Future.” The second presentation will be a 4:00 p.m. in the Palm Court Conference Area and is titled, “Science, Society, and The Search for Life Elsewhere”. You are most welcome to come to either or both.
Bruce Jakosky is a Professor in both the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and in the Dept. of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His research interests are in the geology of planetary surfaces, the evolution of the Martian atmosphere and climate, the potential for life on Mars and elsewhere, and the philosophical and societal issues in astrobiology. He headed the University of Colorado’s team in the NASA Astrobiology Institute for more than ten years. He is the Principal Investigator of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission to Mars which is a P.I.-led mission developed through the Mars Scout program. It has been orbiting Mars since fall of 2014; results have been published in more than 200 papers that have appeared in Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Nature, and Space Science Reviews. He has published more than 250 papers in the refereed scientific literature, and has authored or co-authored a number of books, including “The Search for Life on Other Planets” and “Science, Society, and the Search for Life in the Universe”.