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Rev. Selva Rathinam, S.J., who teaches Scripture at Jnana-Deepa Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pontifical Athenaeum in Pune, India, applies concepts of the postcolonial method to interpret the text of the last Servant Song from the point of view of the Dalits, the oppressed people of India’s lowest caste. 
Rev. Joachim Zoundi, S.J., a lecturer of systematic theology at Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya, explores the problems of sin and evil, their sources and consequences, and how they are addressed by both African Traditional Religions and Christian revelation. 
On both sides of the Atlantic, campaigns for climate justice tend to be dominated by more privileged voices. This reinforces the perception the issue is an "elite preoccupation" — a perception often cultivated by those opposed to the changes needed to address the climate crisis. In this lecture, the Rev. Angus Ritchie, director of the Centre for Theology and Community and a priest in the Anglican Diocese of London, discusses how community organizing can help build a broader-based and more powerful movement for climate action. For over 20 years, Fr. Ritchie has worked in parishes involved in community organizing in some of England’s poorest neighborhoods. His book, Inclusive Populism, earned praise from Pope Francis for their shared vision of popularism.
Described as “the most important lawyer-poet of our era,” Lawrence Joseph is the author of seven acclaimed books of poems including most recently A Certain Clarity (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020). He is also the author of two books of prose: Lawyerland, a non-fiction novel, and The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose. He is professor of law emeritus at St. John’s University School of Law. Part of the Creative Writing program's Working Writers Series. 
Lawrence Joseph's book A Certain Clarity will be available for sale at the event by 
ow is race discussed in religious studies? And how is religion talked about in ethnic studies? Through a focus on Islam and Muslims in the United States, this lecture explores the intersections, evasions, omissions, and errors that occur in the study of race and religion in the two fields. Sylvia Chan-Malik, associate professor in the departments of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, offers a brief genealogy of each field, explains the challenges confronting scholars working at these junctures, and argues for race/religion as a category of analysis across the humanities and social sciences. Cosponsored with the Department of Religious Studies.
Maria Ressa also will be on hand to sign her new book How to Stand Up to a Dictator, available for sale at the event by 
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