David Buckley (Associate Professor; Paul Weber Endowed Chair in Politics, Science, and Religion; Director, Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville — Louisville, KY, USA) 

Min-Ah Cho (Assistant Professor of Theology & Religious Studies, Georgetown University — Washington, DC, USA) 

Dylan Corbett (Founder & Executive Director, Hope Border Institute — El Paso, TX, USA)

Debra Dean Murphy (Professor; Co-Director, Center for Restorative Justice, West Virginia Wesleyan College — Buckhannon, WV, USA)

Rev. Yara González-Justiniano (Assistant Professor, Affiliated Faculty, Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN, USA)

Léonard Katchekpele (Associate Pastor & Diocesan Tribunal Judge, Diocese of Speyer — Speyer, Germany; Visiting Lecturer, Catholic University of West Africa — Lomé, Togo) 

Emmanuel Katongole (Professor, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN, USA; Extraordinary Professor, University of Stellenbosch — Stellenbosch, South Africa) 

Cesar Kuzma (Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná — Curitiba, Brazil) 

Mwila Mulumbi (Head of Africa Church Advocacy Programme [ACAP), Catholic Agency for Overseas Development [CAFOD] — London, UK) 

Vien V. Nguyen, SCJ (Provincial Superior, Priests of the Sacred Heart [Dehonians] — Hales Corners, WI, USA)

Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo (Edith B. & Arthur E. Earley Assoicate Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Wake Forest University School of Divinity — Winston-Salem, NC, USA)

Atalia Omer (Professor, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Keough School of Global Affairs — Notre Dame, IN, USA) 

Antonio D. Sison, CPPS (Professor, Vatican Council II Chair of Theology, Catholic Theological Union [CTU] — Chicago, IL, USA) 

Thursday, May 1

Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation

Respondents: Min-Ah Cho, Emmanuel Katongole, Yara González-Justiniano

Undergrad Presenters & Topics

• Jesse Arroyo: "Life Hangs by a Thread" (poster)
• Jules Cisneros: "Hope in the Face of Genocide" (poster)
• Larissa Díaz: "Why Did Catholic Timorese Possess an 'Unbreakable Spirit'?" (poster)
• Sephi Favela: "Hope Through Environmental Justice" (poster)
• Devyn O'Keefe: "Catholicism and Hope in Vietnam" (poster)
• Julia Staufer-Kaminski: "Not Just a Teacher, But a Mother: Maggy Barankitse" (poster)
• Izabela Suszko: "Fighting an Oppressive Regime Through the Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against Torture" (poster)
• Annabelle Tornio: "The Vicariate of Solidarity: A Beacon of Hope in Pinochet's Chile" (poster)
• Seth Vasquez: "Paride Taban's Holy Trinity Peace Village" (poster)
• Maro Vogel: "Hope Across the Islands: Catholic Resilience in Indonesia" (poster)

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KEYNOTE — Eschatology at the Border

Dylan Corbett — Founder & Executive Director, Hope Border Institute

 

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ROUNDTABLE—Politics, Violence, and Resistance 

• David Buckley—Protection at the Margins: The Catholic Church and the Drug War in the Philippines
• Atalia Omer—Jewish Interrogation of Jewish Violence in Palestine/Israel: The Yeshivah of Unlearners
• Mwila Mulumbi—Resisting Despair: How Zambia’s Debt Crisis Fuels the Practice of Hope Through Community Solidarity, Spiritual Resilience, and Advocacy

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Friday, May 2

ROUNDTABLE—Theologies of Hope

• Léonard Katchekpele—When Hope Has No Time: On Hope as a Gift of Conviviality 
• Vien V. Nguyen, SCJ—The Kingdom of God: From Scripture to Social Justice 
• César Kuzma—Hope, Resistance, and New Possibilities from the Brazilian Reality: Ethical-Theological Implications and Performativity 

ROUNDTABLE—Caring for Creation

• Emmanuel Katongole—Sowing Hope at Bethany: On Being Driven to Hopes the Wrong Size for this World 
• Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo—Wellsprings of Hope: Ecomartyrs in the Fight for Our Common Home 
• Debra Dean Murphy—What Is It Like to Be You in this Place? Climate Grief and Radical Hope in the Heart of Appalachia 

ROUNDTABLE—Ecclesial Practices of Community & Culture

• Min-Ah Cho—Wounds that Bind: Eucharist, Historical Trauma, and South Korea’s Pursuit of Democracy 
• Yara González-Justiniano—Reasons to Hope: Defiant Joy and Ecclesial Frameworks for a Sustainable Hope 
• Antonio D. Sison, CPPS—Inculturation and the Epiphany of Surprise: Serendipitous Currents in Mexican and Filipino Catholic Faith