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Christine Firer Hinze, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of theology, spoke at the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics from Jan. 8 to 11 in Washington, D.C., during the panel discussion, “The Dignity of Society and a Society of Dignity: The Heritage of Catholic Social Thought Speaks to Political Polarization.”
Also at the Society of Christian Ethics meeting, Thomas Massaro, SJ, ARTS AND SCIENCES, Laurence J. McGinley Chair in Religion and Society, interviewed Elisabeth Kincaid, the author of Law from Below, and convened the presentation, “Memory, Anamnesis, and Ritual: Keeping the 1986 ‘People Power Revolution’ Alive.” Aristotle Papanikolaou, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture and co-founding director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center, interviewed Stephanie Edwards, the author of Enfleshed Counter-Memory: A Christian Social Ethic of Trauma, and spoke on the panel, “Liturgy, Nationalism, and the Ritualization of Power.” Cristina Traina, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, Chair in Catholic Theology, presented a paper titled “Accompanying Trans* and Non-Binary Children.” And doctoral student Sebastián Budinich spoke on two panels: “Future Scholars” and “Families and the Social Responsibility Interest Group.”
Adam S. Libove, SCHOOL OF LAW, adjunct professor of law, was recently promoted to chief of the Public Integrity Bureau at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. He frequently partners with investigative agencies to investigate and prosecute crimes involving city and state employees and contractors. Notable cases include a wiretap investigation into corruption in the construction industry that resulted in more than 50 arrests, the prosecution of an attorney who embezzled nearly $12 million from more than 20 victims, and the trial of an unlicensed contractor whose criminally negligent construction of a stone wall killed a 5-year-old child.
John C. Seitz, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, associate professor of theology, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, held from Jan. 8 to 11 in Chicago, titled “Clericalism as Social Good: Religious and Racial Hierarchy in the Jim Crow South.” He also chaired the panel discussion, “Priests Abroad: Clerics and Culture Across Time and Space.”
Seitz was joined by two doctoral students in the theology department, Alex Gruber and Gabrielle Bibeau. Gruber chaired two discussions, “European Catholicism Across the Modern Period” and “Midwest Is Best: American Catholicism in Regional Studies,” and presented the paper, “Illiberal Arts: Indigenous Communities and Catholic Higher Education.” Bibeau chaired the discussion, “Catholics and Politics in the 20th Century,” and presented the paper, “Healers of Bodies, Caretakers of Souls: Nursing and Pastoral Work of the Little Sisters of the Assumption in Late 19th-Century Paris.”
