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WHO: Notre Dame de Namur University
WHAT: NDNU's Catholic Scholar Series 2008-2009 will begin with Sr. Joan
Burke, SND, Ph.D., who will address the topic, "Where Are We in This
Global World Gone Amuck? The Challenge and Our Responsibility"
WHEN: September 25 at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Ralston Hall Mansion Ballroom located on the NDNU campus at 1500
Ralston Avenue in Belmont.
Sister Joan represents the Sisters of Notre Dame to the United Nations.
She began this appointment in 2002 as the first person to serve the
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as an accredited non-governmental
organization (NGO) in special consultative status with the Economic and
Social Council at the United Nations. She is the current Chairperson for
the NGO Committee on Social Development which focuses on the social
impact of economic and political policy, particularly on persons living
in poverty and other marginalized groups.
She grew up in the Bay Area before entering the Sisters of Notre Dame de
Namur. She completed her undergraduate degree and teacher training at
the then College of Notre Dame, '67, '68, and received graduate degrees
at UC Berkeley '69, and Oxford University '78, '83, '91.
Sister Joan lived and worked in Africa for twenty years, including the
Congo, Nigeria, and Kenya. She is a trained social anthropologist who
has lectured and published extensively on the impact of African cultures
in relation to the expression of the Catholic Sisterhood. Her research
on the evolving African expression of religious life was based on eight
years of experience and field research in what was then, Lower Zaire
(1980-88). She also worked in Nigeria from 1991 to 2002. She served as
the Director of the Centre for Renewal at Jos in the North (1991-95)
which organized leadership training programs and spiritual development
workshops for both priests and the laity.
Sponsored by the Sister Catharine Julie Cunningham Visiting Scholars
Program, the series features the social aspects of contemporary society
and how they affect theology and practice.
WHEN: September 25 at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Ralston Hall Mansion Ballroom located on the NDNU campus at 1500
Ralston Avenue in Belmont.
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