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Extra Credit Opportunities
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Various groups on
campus will organize events during the quarter which are related to our course
or to the study of religion in our world. You are encouraged to attend, both as
a citizen of the University and as a student of religious studies this term.
You will receive extra credit if, in addition to attending the event, you
analyze and reflect on it in a 2-3 page paper. Introduce the speaker, date, and
title of the event in the first paragraph. In the body of your paper, explore
the speaker's career more fully (use links below) and summarize and analyze the
presentation. To do this successfully, break out paragraphs that address the following
questions:
- What has the speaker published,
and/or with what organizations is the the speaker affiliated?
- What were the
central points of the presentation?
- What insights did the speaker offer?
- In
what ways do the speaker's points relate to our course?
In the
final paragraph of your paper, evaluate the speaker's presentation. What did you
appreciate most? What did you learn? Was there anything that was problematic about
the presentation, or any points you would argue with? Why?
This paper
should follow the formatting directions for a short assignment available at Style
Sheet. The paper must be submitted within a week of the event. Each paper
earns at most 2 points, so students often attend two events and do two papers
in order to earn the full 3 points of extra credit available during the quarter.
These points are only applicable to the grade at the end of the quarter if all
required assignments have been submitted.
The following events are eligible
for extra credit in this class. The list will be updated weekly, so check back
in regularly. If you learn of any events that might be appropriate for extra credit,
propose them to the professor beforehand for approval.
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January 30
Monday
12:00-1:00pm
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"Human Rights at Home and Abroad," Panel
Bannan 139 (Law Building)
A panel of local and international legal experts will discuss the Ayotzinapa case (43 disappeared students in Mexico), women's rights, migrants' rights, racial discrimination, adn the work of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Panelists include James L. Cavallaro, President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Margarette May Macaulay, Member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Rapporteur for Women, Afro-Descendents,a dn the U.S., Luis Arriaga SJ, Stanford Human Rights Center and SCU Law School, and Francisco J. Rivera Juaristi, Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at SCU. Co-sponsored by a host of organizations including Santa Clara Law and the Stanford Human Rights Center. Food will be served.
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February 6
Monday
7:00-9:00pm
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"The Church We Want in the Age of Global Syndemics,"
Rev. Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ
Kenna 104
Fr. Orobator is a Nigeran Roman Catholic Jesuit priest and President of Hekima University College Jesuit School of Theology and Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations in Nairobi, Kenya. Editor of the recent book, The Church We Want: African Catholics Look to Vatican II, and contributor to HIV and AIDS in Africa: Christian Reflection, Public Health, Social Transformation, Orobator is a leading voice in the African Catholic Church. Fr. Orobator's presentation will be followed by a panel of respondents convened by Teresia Hinga, Associate Professor in SCU's Religious Studies Department, with panelists Sonja Mackenzie, Assistant Professor in SCU's Public Health Program and Lilian Dube, Associate Professor in USF's Theology & Religious Studies Dept. Light refreshments will be served.
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February 14
Tuesday
3:30-5:00pm
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"Heal, Learn, Thrive: The Work of Jesuit Refugee Services," Rev. Leo O'Donovan, SJ
California Mission Room, Benson
The Executive Director of Jesuit Refugee Services North America, Rev. Leo O’Donovan, S.J. will speak on the global crisis of migration as a call to action. Part of SCU Care Week, co-sponsored by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education and the Office of Student Life.
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February 16
Monday
4:00-5:30pm
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"Racial and Ethnic Justice, Theologically," Vincent Lloyd
Main Dining Room, Adobe Lodge
Recent years have seen the largest protests against anti-Black racism since the civil rights movement a half century ago. Sometimes protesters invoke religious ideas, such as "beloved community," but other times these protests seem decidedly secular. Lloyd, Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University and author or editor of ten books (such as Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics [2017]), will locate the current struggle for racial justice in a long—but often forgotten—tradition of religiously-motivated social justice organizing that is oriented by appeals to God's law. This event is the 2016–2017 Santa Clara Lecture sponsored by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education.
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February 22
Wednesday
5:00-6:00pm
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"Moral Frameworks for Synthetic Biology in the Age of Biohacking," Mildred Cho
Williman Room (Benson)
Cho is Professor in the Stanford University Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics and Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. At a time when gene editing kits can be purchased online for $150, and when pathogenic viruses can be synthesized in vitro from mail order oligonucleotides based on publicly available DNA sequences, it is clear that existing regulatory frameworks are ill-equipped to handle the new and rapidly evolving reality of biotechnology. This talk explores whether "DIY" biology is science, whether DIY biologists have any role-related moral obligations, and what the bases of moral obligations are for "traditional" or "professional" synthetic biologists. Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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February 23
Thursday
4:00-5:00pm
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"The Knowles Sisters' Political Hour: Black Feminist Sonic Dissent at the End of the Third Reconstruction," Daphne Brooks
Wiegand Room, Vari
Both Beyoncé and her sister Solange are, right now, basking in the kind of critical and popular glory that foretells of new and unprecedented barriers being broken by black women pop artists—let alone by two siblings. Together they've pushed forward the form as well as the content of pop dissent, building on centuries of radical sonic expression. This talk will explore the protest music perforrmances that the Knowles sisters have respectively innovated in this the era of Black Lives Matter and what historians are calliing "the end of the Third Reconstruction" in the United States. Brooks is author and Professor of African American Studies at Yale University. Sponsored by The Culture Power Difference Working Group and Speaker Series, with support from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
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February 27
Monday
4:00-5:00pm
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"Civility in the Workplace," Christine Porath
St. Clare Room, Harrington Learning Commons (3rd floor)
Incivility in the workplace takes many shapes, but only now has emerging research shown its true cost. Employee health, creativity, and business performance all suffer in environments of incivility. No longer is politeness a nicety, it’s a business necessity. Hear from Christine Porath, associate professor, Georgetown University, on how employees should confront incivility and how organizations can address and transform an uncivil work environment (click here for her New York Times op-ed, No Time to Be Nice at Work [19 June 2015]). Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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March 9
Thursday
4:00-5:30pm
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"Romero and Grande: Companions on the Journey," Ana María Pineda and Juan Velasco
California Mission Room, Benson
This month we celebrate the anniversaries of the assassinations of Blessed Archbishop Oscar Romero (d. 1980) and Rutilio Grande, S.J. (d. 1977), voices for social justice in El Salvador. The commemoration of their lives will feature excerpts from the recently published book, Romero and Grande: Companions for the Journey, by Dr. Pineda (Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department), along with the dispaly of the University Library's limited edition copy of Archbishop Romero's Positio Super Martyrio, the bound volume containing the documentation prepared in support of Romero's beatification prepared by the Romero Cause. The event is co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Departments of Religious Studies, English, Ethnic Studies and Modern Languages, the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries, the Jesuit School of Theology, the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, the Center for Social Justice and Public Service in the Law School, the Global Engagement Office, Campus Ministry, the Office for Multicultural Learning, the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, the Chicano Latino Alumni Chapter, and the Diocese of San Jose.
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Any day
Any time
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Is There a Common Good in Our Common Home?
Integral: A Weekly Podcast Series
Sponsored by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education
Racial and Ethnic Justice and the Common Good
The following podcasts are being published this quarter. Each podcast counts as one event; the paper you would write based on a single podcast is due by the final class meeting date—Thursday, March 16.
O'Neill is an associate professor of social ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University.
Medina is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition in the Department of English at Santa Clara University.
Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University. She explores present issues of immigration, investigating how assimilation and difference meet in the production of national identity.
Hazard is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Santa Clara University. He explores the ways in which race has been constructed in the national landscape; how anti-racist and racist movements defined national identity from World War II through the Obama and Trump presidencies.
Solomon is Associate Professor in the Child Studies Program at Santa Clara University and currently serves as Interim Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Bannan Faculty Fellow in the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. She looks at the preschool to prison pipeline, asking how implicit racial bias among school teachers results in increased suspensions and expulsions among students of color. How might the development of cultural competence disrupt such implicit and explicit bias?.
Russell is a Bannan Institute Scholar and Professor of Law at Santa Clara University, where she teaches constitutional law, civil procedure, and social justice. She is co-founder of two non-profits: The East Palo Alto Community Law Project and the Equal Justice Society. She is currently co-authoring a book on transitional justice and the US experience entitled Righting Historical Wrongs. In this podcast. she explores how truth and truth telling are a common good. How do experiences of racial injustice in the United States require a truth telling beyond present legal provisions? Might we need to expand the array of resources available to communities to bring about racial justice and the common good? |
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