Puglia: the Achilles heel in the heel of the boot of Italy
Our task in Italy is to engage students in meaningful ways in hopes that they will develop empathy skills and a sense of self-knowledge anchored in justice thinking. As faculty teaching a community based research course titled Issues in Social Justice: [...]
Continue Reading →The Italy Center students just returned from the 6th Annual Symposium on Human Rights and A Just Society in Poland. The focus of the symposium this year was “Human Rights and the Arab Revolution of 2011.” See the attached documents for more about the conference itineraries.
Poland Human Rights Conference
Continue Reading →Recently, the New York Times Opinion pages featured a piece from Tunisian Professor Hamadi Redissi, a political and community activist and dear friend of the Italy Center. Professor Redissi, who meets with and speaks to our students during our visits to North Africa, provides an insider’s take on the current political situation in Tunisia. Even [...]
Continue Reading →Many of our AJCU Centers (Santa Clara- El Salvador, Marquette-South Africa, The University of San Francisco-Philippines) are anchored in the Ignatian tradition of helping our students to encounter the “other.” As we plant seeds, we hope that our students’ interactions with those who have been marginalized will generate graduates who will commit to the messy [...]
Continue Reading →The Italy Center has just recently announced their Summer 2012 program and all of the details are listed here. Although the program was built off of the last year’s summer program, there have been a few changes made to the program. First of all, starting with Session I, the IC is offering a few more [...]
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