Author: Digital Hill
Confronting inequalities in health care
Confronting inequalities in health care Submitted by Cindy Voll on May 10, 2019 – 11:48am Grace Munene, Assistant Director, International Summer Service Learning Program for Africa, Institute for Social Concerns, May 2019 The recently concluded Global Health and Innovation Conference convened a wide range of stakeholders in the field of global health from former ministers of health, leaders of […]
The Common Good and the Challenge of Populism
The Common Good and the Challenge of Populism Submitted by Cindy Voll on March 7, 2019 – 11:05am Anna Blackman, Research Fellow, Institute for Social Concerns, March 2019 Over the last several years, populism has become a political buzzword, being used to refer to numerous left and right interpretations, but all approaches share in common […]
Appalachia Seminar
Appalachia Seminar Submitted by Katie Warner on March 7, 2019 – 10:10am Johnny is the son-in-law of a woman whose house we were repairing during my immersion trip. Johnny is a very extroverted and hardworking man who was more than happy to get down in the mud and help us with the work on his […]
Moving Margins through Postgraduate Service
Moving Margins through Postgraduate Service Submitted by Cindy Voll on February 6, 2019 – 1:21pm Karen Manier, Lead Coordinator, Postgraduate Service, Institute for Social Concerns, February 2019. The Center’s theme this year—a lens for focusing our work, given the vast number of social issues confronting our world—is “Moving Margins: Living the Option for the Poor,” an […]
CHALLENGING TRUMP’S BORDER POLICY IN A SONG: ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO’S “SILVER CITY”
CHALLENGING TRUMP’S BORDER POLICY IN A SONG: ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO’S “SILVER CITY” Submitted by Dan Graff on January 23, 2019 – 6:01pm I write this in the midst of the longest government shutdown in US history — 25 days and counting — idling 800,000 federal workers, disrupting public services, and threatening to push the economy into […]
Fleeing West: finding God among the poor and most vulnerable
Fleeing West: finding God among the poor and most vulnerable Submitted by Katie Warner on December 19, 2018 – 3:32pm [Image: “Refugees: La Sagrada Familia” icon by Kelly Latimore, contemporary iconographer] Melissa Marley Bonnichsen, Director, Leadership Formation, Institute for Social Concerns, December 2018. “In the poor [vulnerable], we find the presence of Jesus, who, though rich, became poor.. in […]
Appalachia Seminar
Appalachia Seminar Submitted by Cindy Voll on December 11, 2018 – 10:45am BY BRITTANY BENNINGER, NEW YORK, NY, ECONOMICS, CLASS OF 2019 Catholic social teaching (CST) has given me the language and mindset through which to take in and digest my experiences on Institute for Social Concerns seminars. Framing my week as a challenge to see […]
REALITIES OF RACE SEMINAR: ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO
REALITIES OF RACE SEMINAR: ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO Submitted by Cindy Voll on December 11, 2018 – 9:47am I met so many amazing activists and organizers in my trips to St. Louis and Chicago with the Realities of Race seminar. They were people who have fought and continue to fight for racial equality in a […]
URBAN PLUNGE 2018: PORTLAND
URBAN PLUNGE 2018: PORTLAND Submitted by Cindy Voll on December 11, 2018 – 8:36am A man I met on an Urban Plunge in Portland, Ore., told me nonchalantly during a conversation that he wasn’t homeless, even though he was planning on sleeping on the streets in his tent that night, just as he had the […]
ENVISIONING A JUST WAGE ECONOMY
ENVISIONING A JUST WAGE ECONOMY Submitted by Dan Graff on November 8, 2018 – 3:51pm Taking Catholic Social Teaching (CST) as inspiration, in particular Pope John Paul II’s claim that “a just wage is the concrete means of verifying the justice of the whole socioeconomic system,” the Higgins Labor Program at the Institute for Social Concerns is […]