April 2021
Speaker 4/29/21
The Mystery of Julia Episcopa
Author John I. Rigoli will tell the story behind the story of his historical fiction, "The Mystery of Julia Episcopa" about a woman bishop in ancient Rome. This is the first in his series, "The Vatican Chronicles."
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Speaker 5/6/21
“San Francisco: City on the Rocks”
San Francisco’s Native Son returns to Il Cenacolo to share his views on the major issues facing our City and what we can do about them. In particular, among the current challenges is a core of the central city that has become what is best described as a “ghost town.”
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Speaker 5/13/21
“Humanitarian Disaster Relief: A Maritime Perspective”
Steve Kreta will speak about the role maritime organizations have played in recent environmental disasters, and how government, private and educational organizations are responding to the call to help.
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Speaker 5/20/21
“Liberation Ethics and the Production of Knowledge”
What role should ethics play in the production of knowledge? Professor George Barganier will discuss the idea that knowledge produced from the perspective of the most downtrodden has great potential to offer alternatives to the current problems of social inequality.
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Speaker 5/27/21
“High Impact Practices and Co-curricular Partnerships for Student Success”
Mark Jaime of Dominican University will discuss their award-winning approach to the 21st century student––the thinker, the doer, the artist, the activist, the trailblazer, the entrepreneur--in response to the changing landscape of higher education.
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