Design & Solidarity Book Launch Party
Design & Solidarity Book Launch Party
Thu, Apr 20, 6:00 PM
7-429 (Long Lounge) MIT School of Architecture and Planning • Cambridge, MA
Free
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Solidarity on Tap | Boston
Don't miss Solidarity on Tap with Maureen O'Connell, author of Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness.
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The Bell In Hand Tavern 45 Union Street Boston, MA 02108
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About this event
Join the Ignatian Solidarity Network and Jesuit Connections with Maureen O'Connell, who will share insights from an excavation of her family's history in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in her newest book, Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness. O'Connell will explore implications for ongoing commitments to racial justice within and beyond the Ignatian family.
ABOUT SOLIDARITY ON TAP:
Solidarity on Tap, sponsored by the Ignatian Solidarity Network and Jesuit Connections is a simple gathering at a local pub for socializing and social justice, and takes place in cities around the country featuring different faith and justice-oriented speakers and topics each time.
ABOUT MAUREEN O'CONNELL, PH.D.:
After eight years in the Theology Department at Fordham University, Maureen H. O’Connell returned in 2013 to her native city of Philadelphia to Chair the Department of Religion at La Salle University where she is also an Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. She holds a B.A. in history from Saint Joseph’s University and a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College. She authored Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization (Orbis Books, 2009) and If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice (The Liturgical Press, 2012), which won the College Theology Book of the Year Award in 2012 and the Catholic Press Association’s first place for books in theology in 2012. Her current research project explores racial identity formation, racism, and racial justice in Catholic institutions of higher education. She serves on the board of the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies and is a member of St. Vincent De Paul parish in Germantown, where is also a member of POWER (Philadelphians Organizing to Witness, Empower, and Rebuild). POWER is an interfaith federation of 90 faith communities committed to making Philadelphia the city of “just love” (as well as “brotherly love and sisterly affection”) through a more just wage for workers, fair funding for public schools, immigration reform and decarceration.
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