Keynote Address: DePaul University World Catholic Week Conference “Fragile World: Ecology & the Church”

Fragile World: Ecology & the Church

Free and open to all DePaul faculty, staff and students, as well as the public, the 7th annual World Catholicism Week will be held April 8-12, 2015, in Chicago at DePaul University’s Lincoln Park Campus. The theme is “Fragile World: Ecology & the Church,” in anticipation of Pope Francis’s forthcoming encyclical on the environment.

Keynote Speakers

Celia Deane-Drummond (bio)
Author, Ecotheology
Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame


Christopher Hamlin (bio)
Coauthor, “The Greening of America, Catholic Style, 1930-1950”
Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Michael S. Northcott (bio)
Author, A Political Theory of Climate Change

Professor of Ethics, University of Edinburgh School of Divinity (Edinburgh)
Michael A. Perry, OFM (bio)
Minister General of the Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor) (Rome)

Christopher Hamlin (bio)
Coauthor, “The Greening of America, Catholic Style, 1930-1950”
Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Brayton Shanley (bio)
Co-founder of the sustainable-living Agape Community, recipient of the 2015 Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice

Other Featured Speakers

Agnes M. Brazal (bio)

Professor of Theology, St. Vincent School of Theology, Adamson University (Manila)
Michael L. Budde (bio)
Chair of Catholic Studies & CWCIT Senior Research Professor, DePaul UniversityChristopher Hamlin (bio)
Coauthor, “The Greening of America, Catholic Style, 1930-1950”
Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Bram Büscher (bio)

Chair, Sociology of Development & Change, Wageningen University (Netherlands)
Daniel P. Castillo
Author, “An Ecological Theology of Liberation”
Assistant Professor of World Christianity, Loyola University Maryland
Christopher Hamlin (bio)
Coauthor, “The Greening of America, Catholic Style, 1930-1950”
Professor of History, University of Notre DamePeter Hughes, SSC (bio)
Executive Secretary, Office of Justice & Solidarity, Conference of Latin American Bishops (Bogotá)

James Igoe (bio)
Author, Conservation & Globalization
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia


Stan Chu Ilo (bio)
Author, The Church & Development in Africa
CWCIT Senior Research Professor, DePaul University

Emmanuel Katongole (bio)
Associate Professor of Theology & Peace Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Christie Klimas (bio)

Researcher funded by EPA’s People, Prosperity & the Planet Program
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Studies, DePaul University

Peter Knox, SJ
Dean & Professor of Theology, Jesuit School of Theology, Hekima College (Nairobi)

Germán Mahecha
Director of Ecotheology Research Group, Pontifical Javeriana University (Bogotá)Randy Odchigue
Vice President, DaKaTeo (Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines)

Daniel F. Pilario, CM (bio)
Dean & Professor of Theology, St. Vincent School of Theology, Adamson University(Manila)

Mark Potosnak (bio)
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Studies, DePaul UniversityReynaldo D. Raluto
Secretary, DaKaTeo (Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines)

Msgr. Luis Alfonso Santos Villeda
President, Fundación Polígono Industrial Copaneco
Bishop Emeritus, Diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras

Roland Tuazon, CM (bio)
Author, “Have We Run Out of Moral Imagination? A Socio-Ethical Consideration on Biotechnology as Solution to World Hunger”
Professor of Theology, St. Vincent School of Theology, Adamson University (Manila)