On March 27 Center Directors Brinton Lykes and Daniel Kanstroom were respondents following a showing of abUSed: the Postville Raid by filmmaker Luis Argueta at Paramount Center in Boston. To learn more about the film and it's mission click here.
humanrights
On March 22, the Center co-sponsored with the Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights, "Amnesty and Accountability in the Case of the El Salvador Jesuits Assassinations: the Moral Meets the Pragmatic". Click on the photo above for the article in the BC Heights newspaper on the event.
News & Announcements
The Spring 2012 edition of the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund Newsletter has finally been released! You can read it here.
David Hollenbach, S.J., of Boston College, was in the world’s newest country, South Sudan, from March 4 to 10. He gave a series of five lectures to the South Sudan National Legislature on The Challenge of Human Dignity, Justice, and the Common Good in South Sudan. Read more about Fr. Hollenbach's trip in the BC Chronicle here.
Center Director David Hollenbach S.J. will be participating in the "Borders and Transnationalism: Religious Perspectives" Symposium taking place at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. Further information on the Symposium can be viewed here.
Center Associate Director Dan Kanstroom gave a major lecture, "Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History" at Northwestern U. on Feb. 23. See the flyer here.
Center Director David Hollenbach, SJ, has co-authored with Thomas Shannon an article for America magazine on the current debates about religious liberty and the official moral teachings of the Catholic Church, “A Balancing Act: What Catholic Teaching Says About the Church's Rights and the Rights of All.” View it here.