The Colloquium will take place in Piper Hall from 2-5:30 pm

2pm Welcome

Panel 1: Living Catholic Social Teaching (2:10-3:10pm)

Noah Beissel, “The Italian Apostle of Catholic Social Teaching: Mother Cabrini and late 19th century Italian-American Immigrants”

​Colleen Kenney “ ‘If Peace is to be Built’: Personalism and Spatial Identity in Catholic Worker Houses of Hospitality”

Amanda Malmstrom “Labor of Love: Women, Art, and the Catholic Worker Newspaper

Frieda Rule, “Farm with a View: The Passion, Piety, and Pandemonium of Rural Catholic Worker Life at Tivoli”

Panel 2: Catholic Social Teaching on Campus (3:20-4:00pm)

Carolina Luna, “A Theology of Open Doors: The Creation of New Ministry Leaders in 20th century Chicago by the Hispanic Institute of Mundelein College”

Matthew Day Petersen, “ ‘Blessed are the Peacemakers’: Vietnam War Resistance at Chicago’s Catholic Universities”

Elisabeth Hagemann, “ ‘A Gentle Whirlwind’: Carol Frances Jegen and the Mundelein Graduate Program of Religious Studies”

Panel 3: Catholic Social Teaching and State-Sanctioned Violence (4:10-4:50pm)

Jodie Casleton, “The Berrigan Phase: Symbolic Representation of Space in Anti-War Action”

Matthew Racchini, “No Dignity in Death: Sr. Helen Prejean’s Imprint on America’s Death Penalty Debate at the End of the 20th Century”

Emily Cook, “Finding Humanity Behind Bars: Feminist Prison Reformers in the 1970s”

Reception and Awarding of Ramonat Prize (5-5:30)