Events

Nicholas Herring's head-spinning debut novel, Some Hellish, won the prestigious Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Critics described it as "heart-wrenchingly beautiful," "irreverent, screwball, and inspired," and "a winding, raucous ride." His writing has also appeared in The Puritan, and The Fiddlehead.

Herring graduated from St. Jerome's University with an honours degree in English Literature and attended the University of Toronto, where he completed an MA in Creative Writing. He lives in Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island, where he works as a fisherman and a carpenter. Herring's second novel Your Breath in Charcoal has recently been shortlisted for the Giller Prize.

Diverse and discerning reflections on Pope Francis’s 2022 apology to Indian residential school survivors.

John Borrows (in a video presentation), along with Paul Bramadat and David Seljak (both in person) will discuss their new co-edited book, Opening and Closing Relations: Indigenous Spirituality in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2027).

Examining the relationship between the Vatican and the international Zionist movement from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 through the first decade of Israeli statehood, set against the background of centuries of Catholic hostility toward Judaism and papal claims upon the Holy Land.

Abraham, Father of Nations, a case study of a “stranger in search of belonging.”

Dr Sami Helewa, Jesuit in Residence, St Jerome's University

Fr. Paolo Benanti will speak on the topic "The Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence"

Methods Matter: Studying the Urban Religious Landscape in Chicago and Toronto

Kraig Beyerlein, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Notre Dame.