The 3rd Annual John Sobrino, S.J. Colloquium on Worship, Theology and Justice: Beauty and the Commitment to Justice

Fr. Jon Sobrino, SJ

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