Past Faculty Lunch Talks
The Office of Peace and Justice hosts one faculty lunch talk per month, highlighting faculty research and fostering dialogue around peace and justice issues on campus.
Please see below for our past lunch talk offerings, and consider joining us at our upcoming events!
2024-2025
"The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization"
Sam Klug, Assistant Teaching Professor of History
Monday, April 14 @ 12 pm in CT*M113
"Justice for Her: The Struggle for Justice Among Female Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina"
Olivia Paré
Tuesday, March 25 @ 12:15 in CT*M114
"Live Free or Die: Resistance Against Colonialism and Slavery in the French Caribbean"
Jade Horwitz and Yamil Hernandez Santos
Tuesday, February 18 @ 12:15 in CT*M113
"Slavery and Its Legacies at Loyola: Curricular Interventions"
Dr. David Carey Jr.
October 30, 2024 at 11 a.m.
AWSC 4th floor program room
"Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa”
Dr. Joan Ricart-Huguet
October 7, 2024 at 11 a.m.
CT*M113 (conference room behind Starbucks)
“Protecting Human Rights in an International System that is Increasingly Multipolar: Challenges (Both Old and New)"
Dr. James Snow
September 16, 2024 at 11 a.m.
CT*M113 (conference room behind Starbucks)
2023-2024
"The Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore’s Philosophy of Peace in Today’s World"
Dr. Sudeshna Basu
Thu, Apr 18, 2024 from 12-12:50 pm
“Rethinking Nigeria’s Nationalist Narrative: The Role of Ethnic Minorities in Shaping Post-Colonial Nigerian Politics"
Dr. Oghenetoja Okoh
Wed, Feb 21, 2024 from 11-11:50 am
"Legacies of Slavery at Loyola: Historical Evidence from the Postbellum Period"
Dr. David Carey Jr.
Wed, Jan 31, 2024 from 11-11:50 am
"Church and Modern Anti-Semitism"
Dr. James Snow
Wed, Dec 6, 2023 from 12-12:50 pm
"Slavery and Its Legacies at Loyola”
Dr. David Carey, Jr.
Wed, Nov 15, 2023 from 12-12:50 pm
"Genocide and Identity: Destruction and Reconstruction of Selfhood in Me, the Last Tutsi”
Dr. Heidi Shaker
Wed, Oct 18, 2023 from 12-12:50 pm
2022-2023
Compassionate Accountability and Collective Responsibility"
Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead
Co-hosted with Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice
Mon, Apr 17, 2023 from 12-12:50 pm
"Democratic Partisanship"
Dr. Fuat Gursozlu
Wed, Mar 22, 2023 from 12-12:50 pm
"The Age of Cain: Western Extractive Colonialism, the Christian Imagination, and the Anthropocene"
Dr. Daniel Castillo
Thursday, Mar 2, 2023 from 12:15-1:15 pm
Contact Us
Heidi ShakerAssociate Professor of French
Director, Office of Peace and Justice
Maryland Hall 351-I
hsbrown@loyola.edu