Events Schedule

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  Centennial Lecture: Making Space for Women: The Origin of Nuns

  Thursday, April 14, 2016
  1:00 pm
  The Muriel & Virginia Pless Center for Performing Arts

  Centennial Lecture: Making Space for Women: The Origin of Nuns presented by James Blakeley, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History

  This talk will explore the growth of female orders after the Council of Trent in the 16th century. It will highlight the mission of these newly-minted congregations to educate girls, care for the poor and minister to prostitutes. Finally, it will demonstrate that women were vital to the successes of Catholic renewal during the religious upheavals of the early-modern era.

  For more information on this event or other Centennial events, email [email protected] or call 631.687.2653.

• Innocence Project: Exoneree Barry Gibbs

  Thursday, April 14, 2016
  1:00 pm
  Shea Conference Room, O'Connor Hall

  The Criminal Justice Club and Department of Religious Studies will welcome Barry Gibbs, an Innocence Project exoneree who will share his story. 
  
  Barry Gibbs was convicted of committing a murder he didn't commit based on misconduct by a New York City Police Department detective later convicted of arranging and committing several murders and cover-ups on behalf of an organized crime family. Gibbs served 17 years in prison before new evidence led to his release.  
  
  For more information, contact Dr. Barbara Morell at [email protected].