Fall 2009:
The Campus Ministry Office, The Center for Global Development
and the Religion and Science Program of the Vincentian Center
invite you to a presentation on "Limits of Hard
Science." Some historical and recent examples of the
concept of limit, when applied to scientific knowledge, help to
discover the need for better comprehension of the human being as
the agent of science.
Introduced by Professor Glenn Statile, Department of
Philosophy
Guest Speaker: Dr. Luis Casasus, M.Id. Professor of Mathematics
at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Wednesday, October 14 2009 - 4:30 p.m.
St. Thomas More Chapel - St. John's University 8000 Utopia
Parkway Queens, NY 11439 For more information contact: Dr. Robert
P. Badilo, M.ld. Philosophy Department (718)
619-2955 email: badillor@stjohns.edu
Summer 2009:
The International Conference on the Effect of the Global
Financial and Economic Crisis on Low Income Countries, at the ICE
(Instituo nationale per il Commercio Estero) in collaboration with
Caritas of Rome. Guest speakers included The Honorable Mario
Baccini (President of the Italian National Committee for
Microcredit); as well as scholars of global economics: Prof.
Beniamino Quintieri (Universita degli Studi di Roma "Tor
Vergata"), Prof. Roberto Pasca di Magliano (Universita di Roma
"Sapienza"), and Dr. Ayumi Kikuchi (Unicaritas Researcher).
Summer 2008:
The International Conference on Global Development and Social
Justice: Multidisciplinary Approaches, at the UN FAO (Food and
Agricultural Organization) Headquarters in collaboration with
Caritas of Rome. Guest speakers included renown world activist
Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Technology, Science and
Environment, Navdanya, India, who spoke on “ The New
Globalization: Survival beyond Development”: Richard Mollica,
Director of the Harvard University Program in Refugee Trauma; and
Marcela Villareal, Director of the Gender, Equity and Rural
Employment, Division of FAO.
Faculty development seminar on “Peace Development” with guest
speaker Mario Marazziti from the Comunita’ di Sant’Egidio at the
Comunita’ di Sant’Egidio Headquarters.
Cultural activities for the students and faculty of the Master
in Global Development and Social Justice, in collaboration with
Caritas of Rome (tour of Villa Adriana at Tivoli, Performance of
Aida at Caracalla Baths).