Category: News
Professor Ryan Juskus brings a spiritual dimension to studies of environmental justice
Over the past 20 years, Ryan Juskus has studied the social, religious, and moral dimensions of environmental justice from the Amazon to Appalachia.
Hacking Catholic social tradition to build a more virtuous internet
“Virtue in Virtual Spaces: Catholic Social Teaching and Technology” is the latest title in the Institute for Social Concerns’ Enacting Catholic Social Tradition series published by Liturgical Press. The book draws on virtue ethics and the Church’s teaching to demonstrate the potential goodness of technology.
ReSEARCHING for the Common Good: Nate Kroeze
The Institute for Social Concerns leverages research to respond to the complex demands of justice and to serve the common good. This series, ReSEARCHING for the Common Good, highlights some of the scholars in our community.
Leveraging faculty research in partnership with South Bend
Regina Williams-Preston, community partnerships program director at the Institute for Social Concerns, is rolling out several initiatives with the goal of leveraging ND’s faculty research in collaboration with community partners to respond to local issues.
Research advancing the common good
Two new faculty members, a senior research associate, and a practitioner in residence are joining the Institute for Social Concerns at the start of the fall 2024 semester.
ReSEARCHING for the Common Good: Georgina Agyei
The Institute for Social Concerns leverages research to respond to the complex demands of justice and to serve the common good. This series, ReSEARCHING for the Common Good, highlights some of the scholars in our community.
McNeill Common Good Fellows explore issues of justice through summer research
This summer, McNeill Common Good Fellows are researching issues of justice in a wide variety of fields — from book bans to lipid nanoparticles — throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Virtues & Vocations hosts 2024 conference on higher education and human flourishing
New York Times columnist David Brooks, Harvard’s Michael Sandel, and other speakers and panels explored the ways a just society requires moral formation, and how higher education can contribute to flourishing.
South Bend’s Clemente Course graduates reflect on ‘taking that first step’ into college
The Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center and the Institute for Social Concerns partnered to make the Clemente Course in the Humanities available locally.
Postdoc Geneva Hutchinson uses art as an entry point to conversations about justice
“I’m happy to make art so that people who may have a harder time talking about things have a space for refuge or conversation if they want that,” she said. “And, hopefully, eventually that will lead to deeper healing.”