The 3rd Annual John Sobrino, S.J. Colloquium on Worship, Theology and Justice: Beauty and the Commitment to Justice
Fr. Jon Sobrino, S.J.
Saturday, November 14, 2027
Loyola University Chicago: 4th Floor, Information Commons
Schedule
8:30am: Mass (Madonna della Strada Chapel)
9:00am: Registration and Light Breakfast
9:30am: Opening and Welcome
9:40am: Panel 1 – Beauty as a Catalyst for Justice
- Ziyiu Cheng – Dante on Beauty, Transformation, and Liturgical Prayer
- Jordyn Mousa – The Beauty of Authenticity: The Language of the Church’s Advocacy
- Ngoc Nguyen – When Beauty Becomes Justice: Reinterpreting the Four Vietnamense Womanly Virtues
10:50am: Coffee Break
11:10am: Panel 2 – Bearing Witness to the Victims of History
- Marco Prieto – Christologies, Presences, and Irruption: The Victims as a Genealogical Critique
- Sarah DeMarais – Be Pretti Good: Memory, Materiality, and a Poetics of Solidarity
12:10pm: Lunch Break
1:15pm: Panel 3 – Community, Beauty, and Justice
- Madison Hadsell – Worship and the Cultivation of Community
- Noman Munya – Augustine on the Riddles of Beauty, Belonging, and Love of Neighbor
1:40pm: Coffee Break
2:00pm: Panel 4 – Popular Protest and the Cultivation of Justice
- Gavin Ros – The Music of Popular Protests as Engine of Transformation
- Ogheneruona Paul-Mark Eroma: Beauty in the Rubble: Nigeria’s #EndSARS Protests, Sacramentality, and the Aesthetics of Justice
2:50pm: Coffee Break
3:10pm: Panel: Music and the Work of Justice
- Kina Ford – Liturgical Music and the Summons to Justice
Brandon Kobrin – Negative Contrasts in Society and Musical Dissonance
4:00pm: Concluding Remarks