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Past Events

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Our video library below showcases more than 200 videos of our past conference events and other lectures. You can also find all of these videos on our CWCIT Vimeo page and our YouTube channel.

(Note: We upload videos as edited versions become available. If you have a question about a specific event's video that is not posted here, please e-mail us.)

Academic Year 2023-24

Soccer game, Bidi Bidi refugee camp, Uganda (photo by Jay Carney)
Can Sport Bridge Social Divisions? Pope Francis, Fanatic Fans, and the Culture of Encounter

J. J. (Jay) Carney
(video)

Typical Mami-Wata shrine in Nigeria
Crisis of Faith:
 Today's African Christians and Mami-Wata (Mother-Water) Spirituality
Sr. Gesila Uzukwu, DMMM
(video)


Nigerian women celebrating Our Lady
"A Bird Does Not Fly with One Wing:" Women and the Church in Nigeria
Sr. Caroline Mbonu, HHCJ
(video)

(c) Projets Rosalie
Becoming a Church of the Poor: The Vincentian Charism and Reform
World Catholicism Week 2023
(videos)

Flyer for 5.3.23 Jeannine Hill Fletcher talk
Confronting White Supremacy: Liberation Theology and the North American Context
Jeannine Hill Fletcher
(video)

Flyer for 2/15/23 event
Divine Cosmos, Sacred Earth: Hindu and Christian Approaches to Ecology
Daniel P. Scheid
(video)


Mural at Sembrandopaz, a grassroots peacebuilding nonprofit in Sincelejo, Colombia
Becoming an Uprising: Active Nonviolence and Christian Peacebuilding
Gerald Schlabach, David C. Cramer, and Janna Hunter-Bowman
(video)
May 2022 conference,
The Church of Now: Young People and Global Catholicism Today
World Catholicism Week 2022
(videos)

Black Unity Mass at St. Agatha Church, Chicago, Feb. 1969
Black Catholics from Migration to Revolution 
Matthew J. Cressler
(video)

cover of book,
Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican
Deborah Kanter
(video
Filipino Santo Niño celebration
Vietnamese-American Catholics...or American-Vietnamese Catholics? 
Peter C. Phan
(video
American Warsaw: Polish Catholic Immigrants in Chicago 
Dominic Pacyga
(video)
Mass in Tanzania
African—or Public—Theology? 
Paul Gifford
(video)
Light streaming onto a crucifix in dark room
Healing in a Wounded Church
(video) (flyer)
Red AIDS ribbon superimposed on image of Africa
HIV Risks, Social Conditions, and Theological Ethics in Africa
(video) (flyer)
EKG showing a Christian cross
Rise Up and Walk: Catholicism and Health Care across the Globe
World Catholicism Week 2021
(videos) (flyer)
Excerpt of flyer for
Past is Present: Pandemics and the Promise of Christianity
(video) (flyer)

Painting of Ignatius by Carlos Saenz de Tejada
Confronting Contagion, Fear, and Fascism: Imagining a Way out of the Anthropocene with Ignatius of Loyola
(video) (flyer)
Activist nuns in 1986 People Power Revolution in Philippines
Nonviolent Democratic Insurrection: The People Power Revolution in the Philippines, 1986
(video) (flyer)
Icon of Ben Salmon (www.FrBillMcNichols-SacredImages.com)
The Life and Witness of Ben Salmon: On the Front Lines of the "Army of Peace"
(video) (flyer)
Medical staff of DREAM, Nairobi
Project DREAM: A Collaborative, Vincentian Response to HIV/AIDS in Africa
(video) (flyer)
Map showing SSVP project photos
Systemic Change, Vincentian Style: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul
(video) (flyer)
Indigenous Ngäbe youth of Panama carrying a wooden cross
Harvesting Hope in Panama:
The Prophetic Wisdom of the Indigenous Ngäbe People
(video) (flyer)
Painting in Shrine of Virgen de Caysasay
The Virgin of the Vulnerable Lake:  
Religious Engagements with Climate Change in the Philippines
(video) (flyer)
Yasmine Cajuste with Haitian school children
A Voice of the Vincentian Laity: 
The Haiti Initiative and the FamVin Homeless Alliance  
Vinny Goes to the UN: What Must Be Done for the World's Poor?
(video) (flyer)
St Vincent Circle on DePaul's campus

Sharing the Faith

Catholic Education: From and For Faith
(flyer)
(video)

Mass

Liturgy for the Church as a Field Hospital
(flyer)
(video)

Eastern African women who attended a peacebuilding workshop through Shalom Center for Conflict Resolution & Reconcilation

Forgiving Offenses Willingly

On the Ground in Eastern Africa: Creating Peace Amid Conflict and Religious Extremism
(flyer)
(video)

Zambian man participating in a

Praying for the Living and the Dead

Witchcraft and Demons in a World of Plural Beliefs: Helping the Afflicted—and Accused
(flyer)
(video)

Praying for the Living and the Dead

"Lazarus, Come Forth"—War, Soul Death, and Homecoming
(flyer)
(video)

Populism in Today's Theology and Politics
(flyer)
(video

Salvadoran nun protesting metallic mining

Admonishing the Sinner

The Catholic Church's Role in the Struggle against Metallic Mining in El Salvador
(flyer)
(video

Cathedral in Rio de Janeiro

Counseling the Doubtful

The Challenges of the Changing Religious Imagination in Latin America
(flyer)
(video)

Cathedral in Rio de Janeiro

Put Away Your Sword: Gospel Nonviolence in a Violent World
World Catholicism Week 2019
(flyer)
(videos)

Welcoming the Stranger: In a Throwaway Culture, "Turning Away" People?
(flyer)
(video)

Feeding the Hungry/Giving Drink to the Thirsty: The Challenges in Haiti and South Sudan
(flyer)
(video)

Africa's Contributions to the Catholic Church: Past, Present, and Future
(flyer)
(video)

Burying the Dead: Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines and the Catholic Church's Response
(flyer)
(video)

Ransoming the Captive—A Victim-Centered > Approach to Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
(flyer)
(video)

A Theology of Wealth and Security
(flyer
)
(video)

Daughters of Wisdom: Women and Leadership in the Global Church
World Catholicism Week 2018
(flyer)
(videos)

Clothing the Naked—A Speaker Panel on Ethics and Fashion
Part of DePaul's 2018 Fashion Revolution event
(video)

Visiting the Sick—From Liberation Theology to Health Care: Lessons Learned in Rural Ecuador
(flyer)
(video)

Africa Matters: A Book Discussion
(The Church We Want and HIV & AIDS in Africa)
(flyer)
(video)

Racism and the Catholic Church: The Bishops' Teaching
(flyer)
(video)

The Church as "One" in Southeast Asia: Living Out Intercultural Christian Unity
(flyer)
(video)

The Church and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
(flyer)

Catholics and Coal
(flyer)
(video)

Coming Down to Earth: Doing Fieldwork in Theology
(flyer)
(video)

Democracy, Culture, Catholicism: Voices from Four Continents
(flyer)
(video)

Love, Joy, and Sex: Reflections on Pope Francis' Amoris Laetitia in a Divided Church
(flyer)
(video)

Catholic Radicalism in the Age of Trump
(flyer)
(video)

Gathered in My Name: Ecumenism in the World Church
World Catholicism Week 2017
(flyer)
(videos)

Forgiveness After Solidarity
(flyer)
(video)

Be the Change You Want to See
(flyer)
(video)

Muslim-Catholic Dialogue in Sub-Saharan Africa
(flyer)
(video)

Jubilee Reflections of Korean American Catholics
(flyer)
(videos)

International Colloquium on the Future of African Catholicism
held in Enugu, Nigeria
(information & videos)

Naming Jesus as "Healer" in Africa
(flyer)
(video)

Muslim-Catholic Dialogue in the Middle East
(flyer)
(video)

Fire from Heaven: Pentecostalism, Catholicism & the Spirit in the World
World Catholicism Week 2016
(videos)

Muslim-Catholic Dialogue in the Philippines
(flyer)
(video)

Jesuit Theology as a Global Project
(flyer)
(video)

Doing Theology in a Garbage Dump:
The "Rough Grounds" & Theological Method
(flyer)   
(video)

The Sources & Future of Liberation Theology:
The Legacy of Dom Hélder Câmara
(flyer)
(videos)

Unaffiliated Lay Vincentians:
Trends & Opportunities for the Vincentian Family
(flyer)
(video)

Theology, Conflict & Peacebuilding: An Inter-Continental Conversation
(flyer)
(videos)

Dalit Christians in Contemporary India
(flyer)
(video)

Fragile World: Ecology and the Church
World Catholicism Week 2015
(conference website)
(videos)

Draw a Circle Ever Wider, But Stay on the Page: Liberation Theology & "Political" Brazilian Masses
(flyer)
(video)

Liberation Theology Celebrates St. Francis: The Poverello of Assisi According to Leonardo Boff
(flyer)
(video)

The Fall of the Fall: A Political History
(flyer)
(video)

Born of Lament: The Gift & Discipline of Hope in Africa
(flyer)
(video)

World Catholicism Week 2014
(conference website)
(videos)

Book Launch: Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ
by Matthew J. P. Tan
(flyer)
(video)

Mysticism, Witnessing & Community:
The Martryr Communities of Tibhirine & San Salvador
(flyer)
(video)

Religion of (Under)Development:
Practice v. Performance in Africa
(flyer)
(video)

New World Pope:
Pope Francis & the Future of the Church
(flyer)

(videos)

From Slavery to Sainthood: 2013 Augustus Tolton Essay Contest Awards
(
video) (flyer)


World Catholicism Week 2013
(
videos) (conference website)


The Feminist Case Against Abortion
(video) (flyer)


The Catholic Church in China: A Dynamic Faith-Filled Institution
(
English flyer) (Chinese flyer)


"Living Faithfully" in a Global Age:
The Global Religious Resurgence & the Struggle for Justice
(
video) (flyer)


Witnessing: Prophecy, Politics & Wisdom
(On the 23rd Anniversary of the Salvadoran Martyrs)
(
videos) (flyer)