Annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture
Previous Lectures
2021 | David Silberklang, Ph.D.
“Responsible for Each Other: Mutual Assistance and Maintaining Human Dignity in the Holocaust”
2020 | Sr. Norma Pimentel, M.J.
Justice at the Border: The Dignity of Human Life at the Core of our Faith
2019 | Rev. Maurice Henry Sands
Act Justly: Healing Racism through Faith
2018 | Cardinal Joseph Tobin, C.Ss.R.
Reawakening the American Heart
2017 | Scott Alexander, Ph.D. and Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini
The Challenge of Peace Pursued through Christian-Muslim Dialogue
2016 | Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, RN, MS
Catholic Health Care’s Role in Integral Human Development
2015 | Christiana Peppard, Ph.D
Integral Ecology: Pope Francis, Ethical Pluralism, and the Planet
2014 | Rev. Greg Boyle, SJ
Joy and Hope in the Hood
2013 | Clemens Sedmak, Ph.D.
The Deep Practice of Human Dignity
2012 | Sr. Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
An Uncommon Search for the Common Good
2011 | Sr. Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
Building Justice in the World: Confronting Evil
The annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture was created by the Center for Social Concerns in 2009 in order to highlight justice issues and themes affecting the common good. This fall event honors Fr. Bernie who died young but influenced students with the life lesson of a “Theory of Enough.” Past speakers have included scholars and practitioners working to create a more just future for all.
2022 Annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture
Race, Memory, and Public History
featuring Clint Smith, Ph.D.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | 5:00 p.m. | Morris Inn, Smith Ballroom
Reception to follow
Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and a 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Nonfiction, and the poetry collection Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere.
Partners for this event include the Department of Africana Studies, Department of American Studies, Department of History, and the Initiative for Race and Resilience.
