#  RPL in the News 2021-22 

 





June 30, 2022

 

 

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[“‘I want to be in school forever’ Maggie Rogers Graduates from Harvard University,” The Boston Globe, May 26, 2022.](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/26/lifestyle/i-want-be-school-forever-maggie-rogers-graduates-harvard-divinity/)

Singer-songwriter and Grammy Award-nominee Maggie Rogers is one of the inaugural Master of Religion and Public Life graduates.

[“Religious Studies Can Inform, Strengthen Journalism | Faith Matters,” NJ.com, May 15, 2022.](https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/05/religious-studies-can-inform-journalism-faith-matters.html)

Opinion piece covering the joint event by HDS alumni relations and RPL, “Leading toward Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Journalism.”

[“Divinity School Student Discusses Religion as a Determinant of Health,” The Harvard Crimson, April 19, 2022.](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/19/hds-religion-structural-determinant/)

Master of Religion and Public Health candidate Dr. Ans Irfan presents his final project.

[“Divinity School Hosts Conversation on Peace and Power in Palestine,” The Harvard Crimson, April 11, 2022.](/news/rpl-news-divinity-school-hosts-conversation-peace-and-power-palestine)

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative (RCPI) Fellow Noura Erakat’s event, “Decolonize Now: A Conversation about Radical   
Imagination and Justice in Israel/Palestine.”

[“A Century before the First Earth Day, There Was the Forest Festival in the Middlesex Fells,” The Boston Globe, April 9, 2022.](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/09/opinion/century-before-first-earth-day-there-was-forest-festival-middlesex-fells/)

HDS faculty member Dan McKanan authors an op-ed on the history of local forest festivals as a precursor to contemporary Earth Day celebrations.

[“HDS Fellow Presents Art Exhibition on Cultural Activism and Identity,” The Harvard Crimson, March 30, 2022.](/news/rpl-news-hds-fellow-presents-art-exhibition-cultural-activism-and-identity)

Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative (RCPI) Fellow Taurean J. Webb’s event, “A Home for the Human Spirit: Cultural Activism and the Moral Imagination in the Inherit Art Project.”

[“Santa Monica Police To Host Discussion About Race And Policing,” Patch Santa Monica, March 8, 2022.](https://patch.com/california/santamonica/santa-monica-police-host-discussion-race-policing)

Mention of RPL Organizing Fellow Álvaro Huerta participating in an upcoming community discussion about race and policing organized by Santa Monica’s Public Safety Reform and Oversight Commission.

[“Ukraine Crisis Coverage Reveals Stark Biases,” Axios, March 6, 2022.](https://www.axios.com/2022/03/06/russia-ukraine-media-bias)

Includes comments by RPL Media and Entertainment Fellow Maytha Alhassen.

[“HDS Alumni Discuss Intersection of Ethics, Religion, and Spirituality,” in The Harvard Crimson, March 2, 2022.](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/3/2/hds-alumni-discuss-humanitarian-work/)

Susie Hayward, associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative at HDS, moderates a panel discussion among HDS alumni on the intersection of religion, ethics, and humanitarian action.

[“Consider This: Panel Discussions around Boston, February 26-March 5,” The Boston Globe, February 26, 2022.](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/26/opinion/consider-this-panel-discussions-around-boston-feb-26-march-5/)

Highlight of the RPL event “Assessing Domestic US Religious Politics’ Impact on Foreign Policy.”

[“A Just World at Peace,” Harvard Magazine, January-February 2022.](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/12/letters-bacow-a-just-world-at-peace)

Harvard University’s President Lawrence Bacow on the opening celebration of newly renovated Swartz Hall and the launch of RPL.

[“Elizabeth Kolbert Sees a World Depleted, and Possibly Defeated, by Climate Change,” by Clea Simon, The Harvard Gazette, November 19, 2021.](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/11/harvard-welcomes-elizabeth-kolbert-for-climate-talk/)

Highlight of the RPL Weather Report with New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert, hosted by Terry Tempest Williams.

[“Chance of Sun in Michael Pollan’s Climate Forecast,” The Harvard Gazette, November 2, 2022, by Alvin Powell. ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/11/chance-of-sun-in-michael-pollans-climate-forecast/)

Highlight of the RPL Weather Report with Michael Pollen, hosted by Terry Tempest Williams.

[“Divinity School Launches New Degree Programs,” by Nancy Kathryn Walecki, Harvard Magazine, September-October 2021.](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/08/jhj-divinity-school-new-religion-public-life-initiative)

Feature on the launch of Religion and Public Life and the promotion of religious literacy in the professions.



 

 

 



 

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