February / March 2009

Fr. Michael Braden, Vice President of Mission and Ministry
Fr. Braden's article about enriching identity through diversity was published in the February 2009 issue of the monthly Jesuit magazine, Connections.

Dr. William Luhr, Professor of English
Dr. Luhr organized and co-chaired a round-table presentation entitled “Oscar Micheaux and the Third Generation of African American Film Scholarship“ on February 5, 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Speakers included Matthew Bernstein of Emory University, Terry Francis of Yale University, Allyson Field of UCLA, Charlene Regester of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Jacqueline Stewart of Northwestern University and Thomas Cripps of Morgan State University.

Fr. Robert Kennedy, Professor of Theology and Anna Brown, Assistant Professor of Political Science
The Rev. Robert Kennedy, S.J., and Anna Brown presented a Zen meditation and forum on social justice activism at The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, on Saturday, February 14, 2009. Father Kennedy led an ecumenical meditation program followed by Professor Brown’s forum on contemplation and social justice activism. Father Kennedy has been a Zen teacher since 1991, and leads a daily meditation at Saint Peter's College. He was given the moniker “Roshi” in 1997.

Fatima Shaik, Lecturer of Communications
Fatima Shaik participated in "Crossing Cultures, Changing Skins: Writing Across Race, Ethnicity, Class and Culture," an event that discussed the buzzword "multiculturalism" in children's book publishing.  This program took place February 10, 2009 at Instituto Cervantes in New York City.