Upcoming Events
Trust in Education: Providing Educational, Economic and Health Care Assistance to Villages in Afghanistan
Budd MacKenzie, from Lafayette, California, is the founder of Trust in Education, a non-profit, grassroots organization in Afghanistan. In a country that has endured centuries of war and colonization, MacKenzie seeks to promote the importance of education among its youth. Over the past 7 years, the organization has expanded tremendously. They began by serving 120 Afghan children in one school, to currently serving 1,250 students in 10 different villages. MacKenzie, having recently returned from Afghanistan, will educate and inform his audience about the work of his organization and the current state of affairs in the country known as a “graveyard of empires.” He will discuss the importance of community based work and intercultural dialogue to promote peace and sustainability.
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011
Time: 1:50-3:15
Location: Rm. 406, D'Angelo Center, St. John's University, Queens Campus
2011 Events
World Food Day 2011: High Food Prices from Crisis to Stability
St. John's University faculty will be presenting on hunger as a violation of human dignity, and access to food as a fundamental human right. They will be dispelling myths about hunger and speaking about the current global crisis of high food prices. The faculty will also assess strategies for promoting food security in New York City. The presenters will discuss fair trade practices and consumption, and potential opportunities for students to take action against hunger with Campus Ministry, Academic Service Learning, and community-based research.
Date: Monday, October 17, 2011
Time: 1:50PM-3:15pm
Location: D'Angelo Rm. 206, St. John's University, Queens Campus
I am not for sale: Global and Local Sex Trafficking: Take Action!
Thought slavery was abolished? Actually, there are more slaves today than ever before in history. Three abolitionists share their stories and successes in the movement to end sex trafficking. Come learn how you can affect this modern-day slave business.
Global and Local Sex Trafficking: Take Action!
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Time: 12:30-1:30
Location: St. John’s University, Queens Campus, D’Angelo Center, Room 416B
Melissa Snow, Director, Shared Hope International,
St. John’s M.A. Student in Global Development and Social Justice
Rachel Lloyd, Founder, GEMS & Author “Girls like Us”
Diana Mao, Founder, NOMI Network
Co: sponsored: Vincentian Center for Church & Society, Center for Global Development, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Student Wellness, Kaplan Test Prep, Inc., Campus Activities Board, Campus Life, Sociology & Anthropology Department, Campus Ministry, Center for Psychological Services, Community Relations, AKD Honor Society, AAUW- Manhattan, Sociology Club
*This event is free of charge and accessible to the handicapped. Refreshments will be served.
2010 Events
Kallari Chocolates: A Model of Fair Trade and Sustainability
Join Earth Club and Anthropology Club or a free, gourmet Chocolate Tasting and Discussion on Fair Trade and Sustainability Topics: The event is free to all. Come prepared to learn, discuss, and eat chocolate!
Date: Friday, November 12, 2010
Time: 12:15-1:15 pm
Location: Bent Hall 101A
Face to Face Aids Project
Date: November 10- December 3, 2010
Location: D'Angelo Center: Second Floor Lounge
Wondering what the panels in the DAC are? Curious about what you can do to help the people in the photos?
Come hear Ken Wong, Director of the Face-to-Face AIDS Project, speak at the opening of the PhotoMosaics on November 10 at 12pm in the DAC Second Floor Lounge.
Ken Wong is the Director of the Face-to-Face AIDS Project. He concentrates his efforts on low-cost holistic programs, strengthening food security, basic health care and education, and community leadership to create communities within the established social structure. Ken has more than 13 years of experience in HIV-related issues, and his photograph installations have been exhibited around the country.
http://www.facetofaceaids. org/index.html
At Risk: A Symposium on Human Trafficking & Modern-Day Slavery
St. John’s University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Center for Global Development will be hosting a symposium on human trafficking on October 28 in the D’Angelo Center on the Queens campus. The event, organized by St. John’s graduate students, features a survivor who will share her personal experience as part of the effort to create awareness of the crime of human trafficking and the impact it has throughout the world.
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Location: D’Angelo Center Room 416, Queens campus
For more information and directions to the event, please call Parvez Mohsin at (718) 990-7476. For media inquiries, please contact Elizabeth Reilly Associate Director of Media Relations at St. John’s University, by calling (718) 990-5789, or by e-mail to reillye@stjohns.edu.
Stereotype and Development: Learning from the Past Menichella - An Italian Story
Date: Friday, April 30, 2010
Time: 6:00-8:15 p.m.
Location: Queens Campus, Little Theatre, St. John’s University
2009 Events
Limits of Hard Science
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
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: St. Thomas More Chapel - St. John's University
For more information contact:
Dr. Robert P. Badilo, M.ld.
Philosophy Department (718) 619-2955
E-mail: badillor@stjohns.edu
Summer 2009
The International Conference on the Effect of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on Low Income Countries
Location: ICE (Instituo nationale per il Commercio Estero)
This conference was held 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
Location: UN FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) Headquarters
This conference was held 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.
Peace and Development
Location: St. Egidio Community Headquarters, Rome
Faculty development seminar on “Peace Development” with guest speaker Mario Marazziti from the Comunita’ di Sant’Egidio at the Comunita’ di Sant’Egidio Headquarters.