Arrupe Lecture Series (2009 – Present) Themes and Keynote Speakers
2009 – Genocide and Ethnic Conflict – Elizabeth and Michael Kuch
2010 – Poverty in the United States – Greg Boyle, S.J., Homeboy Industries (audio)
2011 – Immigration – Sean Carroll, S.J., Kino Border Initiative (audio)
2012 – Rights of the Worker – Jim Keady, Team Sweat (audio)
2013 – Environmental Justice – Joseph Carver, S.J. (audio)
2014 – Urban Violence – Jeff Puthoff, S.J., Hopeworks ‘N Camden (audio)
2015 – Masculinity – Dr. Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (audio)
2016 – A Preferential Option for the Poor in Central America – Sr. Peggy O’Neill, S.C., director of Centro Arte para La Paz (audio)
2017 – Mass Incarceration – Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (video)
Arrupe Lecture (1998 – 2008) Speakers
1998 – Bernard Lefkowitz, author of New York Times bestseller Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and The Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
1999 – Daniel Berrigan, S.J., noted peace activist and poet
2000 – Helen Prejean, CSJ, death penalty activist and author of Dead Man Walking
2001 – John Dear, S.J., noted peace activist
2002 – Thomas Gumbleton, D.D., retired bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit and founding president of Pax Christi USA
2003 – Drew Christiansen, S.J., editor of America magazine
2004 – Rabbi Asher Finkel, co-founder of the department of Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University
2005 – Jim Keady, co-director and founder of Educating for Justice
2006 – Roy Bourgiose, founder of the School of the America’s Watch
2007 – Richard Ryscavage, S.J., director of Fairfield University’s Center for Faith and Public Life
2008 – Marc H. Morial, president of the National Urban League and former two-term mayor of New Orleans