News from MC RELS Department

Dr. Menhaz Afridi was featured in the New York Times article, "Muslim Scholar, Looking to ‘Speak the Truth,’ Teaches the Holocaust and Islam."

Dr. Michele Saracino will be particpating in the Corpus Christi University Parish's Spring 2015 Lecture series on March 31st. Her lecture is entitled, “You're So Needy: The Challenge of Embracing Vulnerability in Everyday Life.”

Dr. Claudia Setzer will be a respondent to Professor Patrick Ryan S.J. at the McGinley lecture at Fordham University on April 14-15. The topic will be how the three Abrahamic traditions address poverty.

Dr. Robert Geraci new essay in December: "A Novel Society: Science Fiction Novels as Religious Actors" in Implicit Religion 17(4).

Dr. Kevin Ahern published an article in a book published by Boston College and Jesuit Refugee Service : Responding to Suffering with Compassion. He also published two blog posts: On Daily Theology - on "The Catholic Campus and the Gospel of the Marginalized" and Networking and the Globalization of Indifference on the Blog of the Website Jesuit Networking.

On March 1st, Dr. Natalia Lee will be in conversation with Andrew Sullivan and Jim Martin at Fordham Preparatory School in an event hosted by America Media. http://www.fordhamprep.org/page.cfm?p=4881

Dr. Philip Francis receieved a Mellon Fellowship at the Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania 2015-2016.