Canceled!!
The William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies presents:
We unfortunately announce the need to cancel this lecture. Thank you for your ongoing support of the Shannon Chair speakers. See you in Fall 2018!
Maureen O’Connell
From the Upper Room to Pentecost: Toward an Ethic of Racial Mercy
CANCELED!
Forum, Otto Shults Community Center
Painting across the Color-line: Community Muralism and Social Justice
CANCELED!
Linehan Chapel, Golisano Academic Center
"We find our neighbor not only amid our increasingly diverse communities, but also among people we may never meet, from whom we are separated by vast distances of culture, economics, and geography." ~ Maureen O’Connell
Moral theologian Maureen O'Connell is associate professor of Christian ethics and chair of the Department of Religion at La Salle University. After earning a Ph.D. in theological ethics at Boston College, she taught at Fordham University before returning to her native city of Philadelphia. Working at the intersections of social ethics and theological aesthetics, she probes the roles of art, imagination, and storytelling in the pursuit of justice. Her current research focuses on racial identity formation, racism, and racial justice.
O'Connell's widely acclaimed and award-winning book, If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice, examines mural-making and murals in Philadelphia. "Philadelphia's walls are talking," she writes, and the "images have the potential to transform the 'City of Brotherly Love' into the 'City of Just Love.'" In Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization, O'Connell unpacks the meaning of the Gospel parable of the Good Samaritan for our times.
O'Connell has co-edited, with Laurie Cassidy, She Who Imagines: Contemporary Feminist Aesthetics and Religion, Economics and Culture in Conflict and Conversation.
"How wonderful would it be if the growth of scientific and technological innovation would come along with more equality and social inclusion. How wonderful would it be, while we discover faraway planets, to rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters orbiting around us. How wonderful would it be if solidarity . . . became, instead, the default attitude in political, economic, and scientific choices, as well as in the relationships among individuals, peoples, and countries." ~ Pope Francis
Christine Bochen
William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies
Email: cbochen4@naz.edu
Website: https://www2.naz.edu/shannon-lecture/shannon-chair-catholic-studies/
Location: Nazareth College, East Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States
Phone: 585-389-2728