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Free Film: The State of Arizona with the Filmmaker!
About the Film In 2010, the Arizona Senate passed controversial immigration law SB1070, also known as the “papers please” law, igniting a national maelstrom. Supporters call it a common sense law-enforcement tool; opponents feel it will inevitably lead to racial profiling. Neighborhoods empty, businesses shutter, and immigrants flee the state. Those who choose to stay organize boycotts, mass demonstrations, daring acts of civil disobedience, and prepare families for the possibility of separation by sudden deportation. Mixing in interviews with…
Find out more »Your Government Explained
You're invited to learn how your city and county governments work from A-Z, straight from your local leaders. For the first time in LOOP's history, Judge Nelson Wolff, Mayor Ivy R. Taylor and City Manager Sheryl Sculley will be on hand to explain the basics of government and find out what issues matter most to you. They will also unveil some special ways you can get involved with the City of San Antonio and Bexar County to work on…
Find out more »Community Conversations – Challenges to San Antonio City Elections and Voting @StMarysU
Community Conversations - Challenges to San Antonio City Elections and Voting Community Conversations at St. Mary’s University is a part of the Institute for Public Administration, Politics and Public Policy, which is housed within Graduate Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. One of the primary goals of the Institute is to develop outreach programs that foster dialogue between the University, the public, government agencies and nonprofits to address important public issues. Panelists Ron Nirenberg, San Antonio City District 8…
Find out more »Cultivating a Forest Spirituality in a Clearcut World @ UIW
As part of the university's on-going effort to engage with the realities of climate change raised in Pope Francis's recent encyclical, Laudato Si', the Religious Studies Department at UIW will host a lecture by theologian Colleen Mary Carpenter, Ph.D., of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. Dr. Carpenter will take up the pope's call for our ecological conversion by presenting the possibilities of a forest spirituality, grounded in the human relationship with the landscape of the forest in a…
Find out more »Lecture: The Religion-Demography Nexus
Dr. Christopher Ellison will speak about the Religion-Demography Nexus: Recent Developments and Future Directions. Dr. Ellison holds a B.A. in Religion (1982) and a PH.D. in Sociology (1991) both from Duke University. His research centers on several main issues: the implications of religion and spirituality for mental and physical health and mortality risk; religious variations in family life; the role of religious institutions, practices, and values among racial and ethnic minority populations in the U.S.; the influence of religious factors…
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