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Garaventa Center Podcast
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Book Debut with Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC
Mar 1101:00:57Tap to summarizeFr. Pat Hannon, C.S.C., debuts his new book, an incisive and ruminative From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. Each page shines with the craft and vision of a spiritual essayist who has lived the insights he has arrived at over more than three decades as a teacher, writer, preacher, and pilgrim. At once a meditation on the Christian tradition regarding pilgrimage as well as a reaching out to the broader cultural understanding of that word, Hannon’s book—which includes a foreword by acclaimed essayist and biographer Michael N. McGregor—offers nourishment for all those seeking wisdom for their own journeys.
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Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma Book Launch
Feb 500:54:31Tap to summarizeWhile liturgy is often viewed as healing for survivors of clergy abuse, Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma reveals how the crisis undermines worship’s ability to offer grace. Authors David Turnbloom, Megan Breen, Noah Lamberger, and Kate Tyschper highlight the church’s role in hindering recovery while offering foundations for genuine liturgical healing.
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Book Launch with Drs. Karen Eifler and Rachel Wheeler
Nov 1300:50:59Tap to summarizeBook launch and talk with the editors of Beneath the Roar and Tumult, Karen Eifler and Rachel Wheeler. Beneath the Roar and Tumult: Promoting Radical Hospitality and Belonging in College Classrooms is a collection of essays from professors across the many disciplines in Catholic colleges and universities who offer portable practices to embolden students to employ a prophetic lens to see the world clearly as it is, and then creatively imagine a better way forward. At a time when higher education is under extraordinary political pressure to be silent rather than prophetic, the volume makes a case for why and how the religious commitments of the institutions and faculty often compel prophetic education.
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Hope Springs Adjacent: Innovating for Global Health with Scott Knackstedt
Nov 401:03:38Tap to summarizeDrawing on his background in science and international affairs, UP alum Scott Knackstedt shares how innovation can be used to advance health equity in low-resource settings around the world, transforming barriers to access into opportunities for impact. As a Senior Commercialization Officer at PATH, a global health nonprofit based in Seattle, Scott helps develop affordable, life-saving technologies that range from low-cost devices to next-generation vaccine platforms. His work focuses on overcoming access challenges through formulation and delivery innovations that make health solutions more effective, scalable, and equitable.
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Feeding the World: Insights from the United Nations World Food Programme with David Austin
Oct 701:00:48Tap to summarizeDrawing on his experience in government, non-profit, and private sector roles, David Austin will shares insights on how technology, innovation, policy-making, and strategic partnerships intersect in the global humanitarian fight against hunger. David Austin, former Director of Strategic Partnerships with the United Nations World Food Programme, has spent the last 30 years working with mission-driven organizations in the relief and development sectors. As board chair for the Children’s Literacy Project, he is currently working on disrupting generational poverty in America through literacy intervention in church-school partnerships. David is a UP School of Business non-profit MBA alum.
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2025 Zahm Lecture with Dr. Eric Anctil - Audio Only
Sep 1901:18:48Tap to summarizeThe Future of Human Engagement: A Guide for Real People Living Through Unreal TimesWhat does it mean to stay human in an age of rapid acceleration and AI? Dr. Anctil offers a grounded, voice-driven guide to building trust, connection, and meaning in a world that feels increasingly unreal.
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Microbial Mind Control, Disgusting Brain-Eating Things, and Other Tiny Forces at Work in Our Lives - A Beckman Humor Event
Dec 4, 202401:12:45Tap to summarizeJoin us for this Beckman Humor Project dive into biology with UP’s Dr. Molly Matty. Dr. Matty’s research is at the intersections of genetics, microbiology and behavioral neuroscience. She aims to inspire everyone to feel empowered to explore biology.
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2024 Zahm Lecture with Vandana Shiva
Sep 18, 202401:24:09Tap to summarize2024 Zahm Lecture - Earth Democracy with Dr. Vandana Shiva, Indian scholar, author, ecofeminist, environmental activist, and food sovereignty advocate based in Delhi. Pope Francis's call for environmental justice and care for the earth in his encyclical Laudato Si makes the connection between our environmental collapse and its impact on the poor and vulnerable: “We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.” (LS, 139)This lecture brings one of the foremost voices in environmental activism to University of Portland to expand on that insight and advocate for "Earth Democracy."
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Frs. Antonelli/Berg and Rutherford on Vatican II
Dec 4, 202300:36:59Tap to summarizeHoly Cross priests Fr. Bob Antonelli, Dick Berg and Richard Rutherford sit down with lay collaborator Karen Eifler to share their memories of attending Vatican II sessions as seminarians, the impact of that Council on their decades of ministry, and the links to the current Synod underway.
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A Conversation with Fr. James Martin, SJ--Building A Bridge: Practicing Full Gospel Inclusion with LGBTQ+ People
Feb 1, 202301:02:07Tap to summarizeA conversation co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center, Office of Student Affairs, OIEDI, and Campus Ministry. Fr, Martin answered several questions from the UP community arising from his book Building a Bridge.
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