Upcoming Events
Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit
The Summit serves as a spark for connecting and learning together, deepening our resolve, and celebrating collaborative climate solutions. This year’s theme explores the power of sustainable stories to inspire change, bridge divides, and create a resilient, equitable future. Check out this year’s program featuring 100 speakers, 45 exhibitors, an art show, and live performances! June 5, 2025.
Festival of Faiths
The 8th annual Cincinnati Festival of Faiths will begin on Sunday, June 22 from 12:30 - 4:30 PM at the Cintas Center and continue with online programming. The festival is a celebration of all faiths where we can have fun and learn from one another.
Engineering the Planet? Climate Change, Techno-optimism, and the Future of Humanity
Feb. 19th at 3:00pm, Kennedy Auditorium (CLC 412)
Muhammad U. Faruque is Associate Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Cincinnati and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His book, Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021), received the prestigious World Book of the Year Award from the President of Iran. The book examines “what it means to be human” in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of selfhood and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical traditions, including modern philosophy and neuroscience. He is the author of four books and more than fifty academic articles, published (or forthcoming) in leading peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. An internationally recognized scholar, his works have been translated into multiple languages, and he has delivered lectures at universities across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Dr. Faruque is also the recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Templeton Foundation Global Philosophy of Religion grant and the Title IV Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Eco Grief: Love, Loss, and Lament
Year-long Series -- beginning in Fall 2024
As one response to Pope Francis’ call to ecological conversion through a transformation of heart and mind, the Brueggeman Center is launching a year-long program of events on ecological grief and lament. We have partnered with several departments and organizations at Xavier University to create a series of "Eco Grief" events that will use artistic expression (music, fine art, writing, film making) to explore the path from grief and loss toward lamentation and hope.
Father Ben Peace Day
Tuesday, October 15 @ 7:00-9:30 PM in the Kennedy Auditorium
Please join Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) Cincinnati Chapter for a unique film event, co-hosted by XU Peace and Justice Studies Minor, Bellarmine Chapel, Center for Faith and Justice, Brueggeman Center for Dialogue, and Ignite Peace. This inaugural event in an annual series honors the legacy of Fr. Ben Urmston, SJ, a tireless worker for peace and social justice at XU and in the greater Cincinnati area. Pizza will be served from 6:30.
Braver Angels Workshop: Depolarizing Within
Monday, Sept. 16 @ 7:00-8:30pm in the HUB 4th Floor
This workshop will help participants look within to see how we regard and talk in polarizing terms about large groups of ordinary people on the other side of the political aisle.
This event is offered in partnership with: Braver Angels, Catholic Social Action Office, Saint Xavier Church, Bellarmine Chapel, and the Brueggeman Center for Dialogue
Braver Angels Workshop: Skills for Disagreeing Better
Monday, Oct. 14 @ 7:00-8:30pm in the HUB 4th Floor
This workshop will help participants to understand the values and concerns of those who differ from them politically. Learn essential skills for communicating across differences, and how you can find common ground with people from across the political aisle.
This event is offered in partnership with: Braver Angels, Catholic Social Action Office, Saint Xavier Church, Bellarmine Chapel, and the Brueggeman Center for Dialogue
Fellows Reunion and 20th Anniversary of the Brueggeman Fellowship
Saturday, Nov 9 (evening) in the Clocktower Lounge
All current and former Brueggeman Fellows are invited to join us during Alumni Weekend to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Winter-Cohen Family Brueggeman Fellowship. Friends and family will be welcome to attend. Please save the date! More details to come.