Peace and Justice Faculty Lunch Talk Series
The Office of Peace and Justice offers one faculty lunch talk per month, highlighting faculty research and fostering dialogue on campus about peace and justice issues. We also periodically offer student lunch talks.
Free lunch is provided! Registration is requested on the Bridge.
All are welcome to attend, including faculty, staff, administrators, students, and community members.
Thursday, February 12, 2026 12:15pm
Enduring Colonialism and Cultural Injustice: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Literary Genealogies
of an Indigenous Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century Peru
Presented by Dr. Thomas Ward, Professor Emeritus of Spanish.
After the Spanish defeated Peru's ruling Inka class, the novel was banned, and Peru's
first native-born writer Inka Garcilaso de la Vega was also suppressed. Colonial subjects
were not allowed to explore who they were, a cultural injustice. After Independence,
writers began to perceive that they were no longer Spaniards, and they were now free
to read Garcilaso's Inkan chronicles. Dr. Ward will depart from his new book published
with University of Nebraska Press to bring these anticolonial writers from Peru into
focus.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 12:00pm
Bridge-Building, Neurodiversity, Acceptance, Solidarity, and Peacebuilding & The Future
of Academic Freedom
Bridge-Building, Neurodiversity, Acceptance, Solidarity, and Peacebuilding presented
by Sarah Flores and The Future of Academic Freedom presented by Sawyer Little.
Faculty Lunch Talk Series
Autograph Books as Holocaust Objects
During the Holocaust, Jews brought personal objects with them as they were deported
to camps and ghettos; among these, Jewish girls brought "autograph books", small albums
of blank pages intended for the collection of poems and drawings by friends and acquaintances.
This research analyzes several of these books to ask how they functioned inside spaces
of persecution and what they meant to their owners.
Faculty Lunch Talk Series
We're All Stories
The "We're All Stories" presentation will exhibit the stories collected from members
and allies of the LGBTQ+ community and the ten trans memorial portraits completed
in honor of ten trans lives lost to violence.
Monday, November 17
12:00pm-1:00pm
Location: CT*M113 (behind Starbucks)
Contact Us
Heidi ShakerAssociate Professor of French
Director, Office of Peace and Justice
Maryland Hall 351-I
hsbrown@loyola.edu