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You are invited to a special diversity and inclusion lunch and learn event with Rev. David Collins, S.J., Haub Director of Catholic Studies and Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University on “Jesuits & Slavery: A History in Search of Understanding”

Faculty, staff and students may attend the in-person or Zoom. Persons outside fo the campus community may participate by Zoom.

The presentation with Q&A and discussion will take place via Zoom and with an in-person option on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 from 11:45am-12:45pm.

The event will provide an overview of the participation by the Society of Jesus in slaveholding from the 16^th to the 19^th centuries and will explore what this legacy of racial injustice and anti-Black racism means for all U.S. Jesuit institutions, including The University of Scranton, today.

Fr. Collins is an internationally recognized expert in processes of historical truth and reconciliation. For more than twenty years he has been involved in educational outreach on Jesuit history and slaveholding both to Jesuits and interested communities. He led Georgetown University’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation, which has garnered national attention since 2015, and he continues to play a consultative role for religious schools and other institutions trying to address historical connections to slaveholding and its legacy. He has recently been involved in conversations examining comparative processes of truth and reconciliation between the US, Canada, and Finland. By training, Fr. Collins is an intellectual and cultural historian of religion and science in Europe. For more information, visit www.slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu and www.shmr.jesuits.org 

This program is part of the Diversity & Inclusion “Lunch and Learn” series, an effort of the Council on Diversity and Inclusion’s Institutional Black History subcommittee, and part of the University’s Black History month programs.

It is co-sponsored bythe University’s Jesuit Center, Office of Equity and Diversity, Council on Diversity and Inclusion’s Institutional Black History subcommittee, Multicultural Center, and Office of Community Relations.

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This program is open to the university community and the broader public. An in-person watch party (lunch to-go) will be open to University faculty, staff and students only.

Questions? Contact diversity@scranton.edu