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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

Sam klug poster

"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

Olivia Pare poster

"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

Olivia and Jade poster

"Slavery and Its Legacies at Loyola: Curricular Interventions"

Dr. David Carey Jr.
October 30, 2024 at 11 a.m.
AWSC 4th floor program room

David Carey lunch talk poster

"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)

Joan Ricart-Huguet lunch talk poster

“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)

Jim Snow lunch talk poster

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

Lunch talk poster for Dr. Sudeshna Basu's talk

“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

Lunch talk poster for Dr. Okoh's talk

"Legacies of Slavery at Loyola: Historical Evidence from the Postbellum Period"

Dr. David Carey Jr.

Wed, Jan 31, 2024 from 11-11:50 am

Poster for Dr. Carey's lunch time talk

"Church and Modern Anti-Semitism"

Dr. James Snow

Wed, Dec 6, 2023 from 12-12:50 pm

poster for Dr. Snow's lunch time talk

"Slavery and Its Legacies at Loyola”

Dr. David Carey, Jr.

Wed, Nov 15, 2023 from 12-12:50 pm

Poster for Dr. Carey's lunch time talk

"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

poster for Dr. Shaker's lunch time talk

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

poster for Dr. Whitehead's lunch time talk

"Democratic Partisanship"

Dr. Fuat Gursozlu

Wed, Mar 22, 2023 from 12-12:50 pm

poster for Dr. Gursozlu's lunch time talk

"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

poster for Dr. Castillo's lunch time talk

Contact Us

Heidi Shaker
Associate Professor of French
Director, Office of Peace and Justice
Maryland Hall 351-I
hsbrown@loyola.edu