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Our guest, Tom Landy, is director of the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. A longtime leader in higher education and vocation-related initiatives, Tom is founder of Collegium, a summer colloquy on faith and intellectual life. He is also co-editor of Becoming Beholders: Cultivating Sacramental Imagination and Action in College Classrooms, which includes various essays on how we can encourage students to develop imagination and reflection in their learning. Our conversation highlights the steady patience that vocational discernment entails, as well as the space vocation programming can provide to consider important questions, such as “what do we need to leave behind in order to become the people we are called to be?” Tom talks about pilgrimages, Max Weber, and how a “hermeneutic of wonder” can prompt imaginative acts that help us better experiment with our callings.  

Thomas Landy, PhD, director of the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross, presents the 2018 Zahm Lecture: A Guide to College in 8 Contradictions, 9/12/18. In his talk, Dr. Landy shares why there may have never been a better time than NOW to be a learner. Sponsored by the Garaventa Center. Transcript available under Attachments tab.

Jay Carney, assistant professor of theology and director of the African Studies Program at Creighton University, considers Pope Francis' call for a "Year of Mercy," provides examples of how lay Catholic ministries are practicing mercy in post-genocide Rwanda, but acknowledges the difficulty of adopting a politics of mercy at the church or state level. His talk, April 14, 2016, is part of the McFarland Center's initiative on Catholics & Cultures.

Members of the Holy Cross faculty offer multidisciplinary analyses of Pope Francis' encyclical letter "Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home," released in May 2015. Panelists are: Kelly Wolfe-Bellin, director of biology laboratories and lecturer in biology; Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., professor of history; Matthew Eggemeier, associate professor of religious studies; Katherine Kiel, professor and chair of economics and accounting; and Daina Harvey, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology. Loren Cass, professor of political science and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, moderated the discussion. Co-sponsored by the McFarland Center and Environmental Studies.

Thomas M. Landy, Director of McFarland Center of Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross, presents at the 2015 Catholic College and Universities Forum for Institutional Research (CHERC).

Given the national attention on Title IX investigations of colleges and universities accused of mishandling sexual assault cases, and legislation introduced to improve Campus Accountability and Safety with regard to sexual violence, this discussion considers the pros and cons of adjudicating sexual assaults on campus or in the criminal court system. Featured discussants are: Stephenie Chaudoir, assistant professor of psychology; Elizabeth Inman '15; Paul Irish, associate dean of students; Terry McLaughlin, a representative from the Worcester County District Attorney's office; and Emily Winn '17. Thomas M. Landy, director of the McFarland Center, moderates the discussion. Co-sponsored with Women's and Gender Studies.

What do recent legal decision say about the status of minorities in our country? Discussants consider Supreme Court rulings on the Voting Rights Act and Affirmative Action, the federal court decision against the "Stop-Question-Frisk" program in NYC, and the acquittal of George Zimmerman. They also weigh in on the overturning of the provisions in the Defense of Marriage Act and the legalization of same-sex marriage in many new jurisdictions. Issues of immigration and undocumented aliens also arise. Featured participants are Selina Gallo-Cruz, assistant professor of sociology; Greta Kenney, coordinator of Diversity Leadership & Education; Jacob Love '14, who worked on civil rights during his Washington Semester; and Chuck Stanley, associate director for Residence Life & Housing. Thomas M. Landy, director of the McFarland Center, moderates.

Professor of sociology at Boston College and former associate professor of economics at Harvard University, Juliet Schor is working on issues of sustainable consumption and production, with particular emphasis on political consumption, new patterns of time-use, and alternative economic structures. As a member of a MacArthur Research Network she is studying the emergence of collaborative consumption, the re-use and sharing of local resources. This lecture was co-sponsored by Sociology and Anthropology, the McFarland Center, and Montserrat.

This fishbowl-style campus discussion centers on the possible causes of and solutions for preventing the type of gun violence that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. in December 2012. Participants consider interpretations of the Second Amendment and gun control; mental healthcare access and policies; cultural, structural and social influences that contribute to violence; economic solutions to gun violence; and best practices for promoting nonviolence. Featured are Amy Wolfson, professor of psychology and associate dean for faculty scholarship; Alison Smith Mangiero, political science instructor; Lawrence E. Cahoone, professor of philosophy; Miles Cahill, professor of economics and associate health professions adviser; Robert T. Jones, associate director of multicultural education; Marian Blawie '16; and Chris Tota '13. Thomas M. Landy, director of the McFarland Center, moderates.

As a follow-up to Harvard Prof. Randall Kennedy's talk on "The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action," the McFarland Center sponsors a fishbowl-style discussion to consider how the ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas could change life at Holy Cross, and what competing notions of justice affect how we think about the case.

Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University, has written extensively on how Jews, and particularly Jewish women, negotiated everyday life and coped with the repression of everyday sociability in Hitler's Germany. This lecture was sponsored by the Derrick Lecture Fund of the Department of History, with additional support from Peace and Conflict Studies, Philosophy, and the McFarland Center.

An International Visiting Jesuit Scholar with the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture for the Fall 2011 semester, Rev. Francis Britto, S.J., draws connections between current trends in Christianity and the basic tenets of Hinduism. Fr. Britto, a native of India, is a professor at Sophia University, Tokyo.