Public Events
Our events offer an important way to engage with a wide range of scholars, leaders, and public thinkers with expertise in areas relating to religion and politics. We offer public lectures and conversations, panel discussions, conferences, and more. All events are videotaped and archived here.

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Tuesday
In Conversation with Michelle Alexander
Prof. Fannie Bialek discusses the state of legal and social movements against mass incarceration with the best-selling author, legal scholar, and social justice activist.
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Monday
The Objects that Remain: Criminal Evidence, Holocaust Artifacts, and Work of Doing Justice
Public lecture by Laura Levitt sponsored with the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (JIMES)
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Monday
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
Public lecture by David I. Kertzer
Sponsored with the Michael and Barbara Newmark Institute for Human Relations at the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis, St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, the Office of Peace & Justice of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, St. Louis County Library, and St. Louis University Division of Mission and Identity.
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