Category: News
COVID-19 AND THE REBIRTH OF SOLIDARITY
COVID-19 AND THE REBIRTH OF SOLIDARITY Submitted by Dan Graff on May 12, 2020 – 9:31am BY DAN GRAFF, DIRECTOR, HIGGINS LABOR PROGRAM, & PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME This would seem the perfect time for a blog called “The Labor Question Today,” as the novel coronavirus has upended […]
Reflecting on Dr. King and Prophetic Resilience
Reflecting on Dr. King and Prophetic Resilience Submitted by brittanydavis on April 20, 2020 – 5:00pm Adam Gustine, D.Min., assistant director, social concerns seminars “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” These words of Dr. King are some of his most often quoted and elicit […]
The Pope and the bomb conference: Some emerging insights
The Pope and the bomb conference: Some emerging insights Submitted by brittanydavis on February 10, 2020 – 9:58am Margaret R. Pfeil, professor of theology, joint appointment at the Institute for Social Concerns, faculty fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies February 2020 Responding to: The Pope and the Bomb At the conclusion of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
HOW TO WAGE WAR ON LOW PAY
HOW TO WAGE WAR ON LOW PAY Submitted by Dan Graff on November 8, 2018 – 3:43pm When the stock market crash of 1929 ushered in the worst economic crisis in U.S. history, the American people and policymakers combined to remake the democratic capitalist order with workers and consumers at the center. The New Deal — the […]