Co-sponsored Events
The Office of Peace and Justice is committed to supporting events on campus with interdisciplinary cross-overs and connections to peace and justice studies.
2025-2026:
"Countering Information Manipulation: A Social Change Approach"
Tuesday, October 28 from 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. in LNDL Auditorium
Media Literarcy Week - Learn simple but powerful ways to address propaganda and disinformation. Special Guest Speaker - Deanna Troust, Social Change and Communications Strategist and Co-Speaker - Mallory Sofastaii, Consumer Investigative Reporter, WMAR-2 News.
Event sponored by The Teacher Education Department, The SOE's Center for Research & Evaluation, The Humanities Center, and Peace and Justice Studies.


Daytrip to L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site in Frederick, MD
Saturday, October 25 at 8:00 a.m.
L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site is found within the boundaries of Monocacy National Battlefield. It is the site of l'Hermitage Plantation, founded around 1793 by the Vincendi猫re family. Loyola faculty and students will travel to the preserved French Hermitage Plantation to learn more about the historic sites of slavery in Maryland, as well as their connections to France and Haiti. Faculty and students will also stop at the historic cemetery in Frederick, where several of the plantation鈥檚 former owners and their descendants are buried. There are no remaining physical traces of the women, men, and children who were enslaved. This omission will be discussed.


鈥淩.I.S.E. Against Breast Cancer: Health Care Disparities Among Black Women.鈥
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in McGuire East
Join us for an evening of scholarship, storytelling, and community as we shed light on the intersection of science, history, and health care disparities within the Black community. In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this event will highlight the unique challenges Black women face in accessing equitable care, while also uplifting voices of resilience and empowerment.
Presenters:
- Dr. David O. Fakunle, Assistant Professor of Public and Allied Health (Morgan State University)
- Dr. Armina Kazi, Associate Professor of Biology (Loyola),
- Dr. Cassandra Holbert, Assistant Professor of Biology (Loyola)


2024-2025:
鈥淎n evening of Community-Engaged Research and Storytelling: Presenting the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission鈥
April 22 from 6:15 p.m.-8:30 p.m. in 4th Floor Program Room
History and Sociology
鈥淟oyola鈥檚 Legacy of Desegregation: Charles Dorsey Student, Lawyer, Civil rights advocate鈥
March 31 from 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. in 4th Floor Program Room
History department
鈥淐riminal (In)justice: Laws Without Mercy: An Evening with Tray Jones鈥
February 13 from 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. in McGuire East
Messina
鈥淭he Maghreb and Lebanon: French-Arabic Crossovers鈥
November 8-13
Modern Languages and Literatures
2023-2024:
鈥淎 Piece Of Me Died With You鈥, Devin Allen
Julio Fine Arts exhibit
鈥淕lobal Foodways: The Intersections of Food Politics and Cultural Identity鈥
Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Colloquium on Language, Literature and Society
Modern Languages and Literatures
2022-2023:
"Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Primary Sources from a Revolutionary Life鈥 by Dr. Julia Gaffield
History
"Reclaiming Justice: Testimonial Poetry by Latin American Women" by Dr. Alicia Partnoy
Modern Languages and Literatures
鈥淢agical Thinking: Trauma, Myth, and Storytelling in a Sephardic Jewish Family鈥 by Dr. Nimisha Barton
April 13 from 5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Loyola Notre Dame Library
History
2021-2022:
Coming soon!
2020-2021:
"The Forgotten Genocide: Coercive Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Peru"
脩usta Carranza Ko (University of Baltimore)
Modern Languages and Literatures
"Protecting Civil Rights: Activism Through Culture in the Americas鈥
鈥淐OMloquium Conversations on Racial and Social 闯耻蝉迟颈肠别鈥
Dr. Kaye Whitehead, Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice
2019-2020:
"Disability History in Latin America" by Dr. Heather Vrana
History
鈥淐onnections and Conversations Beyond Borders鈥
2018-2019:
"Interfaith Justice: Beyond Rhetoric"
October 22 at 7:00 p.m. in 4th floor Program Room
Campus Ministry
Contact Us
Heidi ShakerAssociate Professor of French
Director, Office of Peace and Justice
Maryland Hall 351-I
hsbrown@loyola.edu