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Bannan Visitors

Visitors come to Santa Clara for a brief period to engage the campus community on issues and activities that support its Jesuit and Catholic character. They may instruct classes, present their research to faculty and students, arrange exhibits or performances, bring their spiritual or practical expertise to the campus community, provide resources for student organizations, and help faculty and staff through retreats and workshops.

Faculty, staff, and students at Santa Clara University are encouraged to apply to the Ignatian Center's Bannan Institute for a grant when a visitor they would like to invite to campus fits the Center's criteria for funding. See "Invite a Visitor" below.

2008-2009 Bannan Visitors

October 15, 2008 - Patrick Jordan - "Dorothy Day: Her Message in Our Time"

Patrick Jordan is the managing editor of Commonweal, having joined the staff in 1984. He is a former managing editor of the Catholic Worker, and is the editor of Dorothy Day: Writings from Commonweal (Liturgical Press).
February 19, 2009| David Levy - No Time to Think

David M. Levy is Professor in The Information School at University of Washington

...It seems clear ... that the use of ...new technologies has contributed to an accelerated mode of working and living that leaves us less time to think, not more. In this talk I will explore how this state of affairs has come about and how we might now argue for and enable increased time for reflection and contemplation.
March 5 | Jocelyn A. Sideco - Little Faith: When We Find Ourselves Walking onWater

Jocelyn A. Sideco designed and founded Contemplatives in Action, a New Orleanian ministry committed to a faith that does justice.

When Hurricane Kartina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, SCU alum, Jocelyn A. Sideco, had no idea her faith, friends, skill-set and current circumstances would bring her to New Orleans.
April 22, 2009| Abdullah Ahmed An-Na'im - Islam, the State and Human Rights

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
In his lecture Professor An-Na'im will argue that the establishment of secular states throughout the Islamic world can best ensure universal rights as well as religious freedom for both Muslims and non-Muslims in today's globalized societies.
Past Visitors
Apply for a Grant to Invite a Visitor

Faculty, staff and students at Santa Clara University are encouraged to apply to the Ignatian Center's Bannan Institute for a grant when a visitor they would like to invite to campus fits the Center's criteria for funding.