Center Associate Director Dan Kanstroom quoted in article in The Nation on deportation. Read the article here.
humanrights
Nov. 30 presentation of Taking Flight: When Jesus Was a Refugee, The Flight to Egypt in Western Art with Leo O'Donovan, SJ. See video of this lecture and slideshow by clicking the photo
News & Announcements
The Center is now accepting applications for 2012 Summer Research Grants! BC graduate and undergraduate students eligible to apply. Application deadline March 29. See details here.
The Center is looking for a BC undergrad for a summer 2012 intern! Application deadline March 16. See details here.
The Center is pleased to announce the addition of new Associate Director Professor Jennie Purnell, who will be leading initiatives with undergraduate students at BC. Join us in welcoming her to the CHRIJ Community! Learn more here.
Center Director David Hollenbach SJ and Center Affiliated Faculty Lisa Cahill and James Keenan SJ publish in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Moral Theology, available free online here.
Center Director David Hollenbach S.J. recently wrote an article published in Political Theology titled “Migration as a Challenge for Theological Ethics”. The article serves as an introduction to a special edition of the journal focusing on migration issues. The article can be read here.
Center Associate Director Brinton Lykes and PDHRP Supervising Attorney Jessica Chicco publish “Deportation Policy and Practices in the Obama Administration: “The More Things Change the More they Stay the Same” in Encuentro, the magazine of the University of Central America (UCA). Read the article here.
The Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice has recently published it's 2010-2011 Annual Report! You can read it along with past reports here.
Boston College Post Deportation Project Involved in Major Legal Victory in New York: PDHRP co-authored an amicus brief describing some such cases with which the Project has been involved. The New York Court of Appeals, in a landmark ruling, held that even deportees outside the US have the right to pursue direct criminal appeals post-departure. Read more about the decision here.
More CHRIJ news items here
in the news
On July 9, South Sudan seceded from Sudan to become the newest nation in the world. Al Jazeera recently aired special reports on the future for both the South and the North.
Center Director David Hollenbach, SJ, traveled to Juba, South Sudan in mid-August to conduct a workshop entitled Catholic Social Thought in the Republic of South Sudan, supported by Catholic Relief Services for the Catholic bishops and other church leaders in this new country. Read more and hear an interview here and here.
In March, the Center hosted a panel on Catholic Peacebuilding in Sudan and Eastern Africa. Video can be viewed here.
upcoming events
Children and Conflict in a Changing World
Monday, February 6
7:00 pm -- Gasson 100
With Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Screening of Bringing King to China
Thursday, February 9
7:00 pm -- Cushing 001
With filmmaker Kevin McKiernan
Documentary about young American teacher's process of adapting and introducing Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of peaceful struggle for rights and justice to the Chinese context through production of a play about him using Chinese actors.
Islam, Sharia, and Democratic Transformation in the Arab World
Wednesday, February 15
4:45 pm -- Devlin 008
With Abdullahi A. An-Na’im, Emory University
Co-sponored event with the Islamic Civilization & Societies Program and the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
Screening of Sentenced Home
Wednesday, February 15
6:00 pm -- BC Newton campus, East Wing 120
Part of Center's Migration film Series, a documentary film following young men who, as small children, fled to the US from Cambodia to escape civil strife but are deported back to an unfamiliar Cambodia after run-ins with the law in the US.
Amnesty and Accountability in the Case of the El Salvador Jesuit Assassinations: The Moral Meets the Pragmatic
Thursday, March 22
7:30 pm -- Heights Room, Corcoran Commons
With Pamela Merchant, Center for Justice and Accountability, and José María Tojeira SJ, Rector Emeritus of the University of Central America, El Salvador
Screening of Which Way Home
Wednesday, March 28
7:00 pm -- BC Main campus, location TBD
Part of Center's Migration film Series, a documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States.
The Kims' Three Bodies: How Dynastic Succession Works in North Korea
Thursday, March 29
4:30 pm -- BC Main campus, location TBD
With scholar of Korean history Prof. Bruce Cumings, U. of Chicago
Click here for a look back at earlier Center Events from this 2011-2012 school year.