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Thursday, February 26, 2026<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n
4 – 5:30pm<\/td>\nPlenary Address: The Legacy of Father Vincent Machozi<\/strong>
\nDr. Dana L. Robert, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor,
\nBU School of Theology
\n<\/em>Moore Community Center, 745 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n

Watch Recording<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

6 – 8pm<\/td>\nOpening Reception
\n<\/strong>Dahod Family Alumni Center, 225 Bay State Road, “The Castle”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

Friday, February 27, 2026<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
8 – 9am<\/td>\nBreakfast
\n<\/strong>Moore Community Center, 745 Commonwealth Avenue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9 – 10:15am<\/td>\nSession 1: Climate Justice and Activism
\n<\/strong>Mark Shimave, \u201cExtractive Mining and Popular Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Ethical Consideration of Agency from Below\u201d<\/em>
\nDavid Idowu, \u201cWhen Climate Change Becomes an Escape: Examining Nigerian Government\u2019s Response to Ecologically Related Conflicts\u201d<\/em>
\nFilipe Maia, \u201cPlanetary Fever: Affect, Theology, and Rising Temperatures\u201d<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 – 11:45am<\/td>\nSession 2: Ecological Flourishing and Reforestation
\n<\/strong>Samuel Cole-Osborn, \u201cA Forest of Iconographers: African Burseraceae Trees and Icons of an Invisible God\u201d<\/em>
\nStephen Warui, \u201cResistance as Ecological Practice: Wangari Maathai and the Defense of Karura Forest in Nairobi\u201d<\/em>
\nJessica Pulling, \u201cCommunion of Spirit and Land: Food Practices as a Path to Kinship, Justice, and Ecological Flourishing\u201d<\/em>
\nBecky Copeland, \u201cScriptural Resources for Land Reform\u201d <\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 – 1:30pm<\/td>\nLunch
\n<\/strong>Moore Community Center, 745 Commonwealth Avenue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:30 – 2:15pm<\/td>\nSession 3: Theologically Informed Social Movements
\n<\/strong>Justin Brothers, \u201cWe are Dancing Animals: The MST, The American Left, and the Gospel of Revolution\u201d<\/em>
\nFellipe dos Anjos Pereira, \u201cSacred Resistance Against the Devouring of the Earth: The Pinheiro Baptist Church\u2019s Fight Against Predatory Mining in Brazil\u201d<\/em>
\nZachary Mondesire, \u201cAKDN Institutions of Pluralism and Ecologies of Care in Cairo and Abidjan\u201d<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:15 – 3pm<\/td>\nBreak<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3 – 4:30pm<\/td>\nPlenary Address: Odyssey towards building a Nation:
\nEthiopia’s National Dialogue and the Re-imagining of Peace-building
\n<\/strong>Dr. Ambaye Ogato, Commissioner, Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission<\/em><\/p>\n

Watch Recording<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

5 – 6:30pm<\/td>\nDinner
\n<\/strong>BU Fuller’s Pub, 225 Bay State Road<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

Saturday, February 28, 2026<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
8 – 9am<\/td>\nBreakfast
\n<\/strong>Moore Community Center, 745 Commonwealth Avenue
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:15 – 10:15am<\/td>\nSession 4: Vincent Machozi’s Legacy and Impact
\n<\/strong>Daniel Karanja, \u201cSoil, Spirituality, and Conflict: Implications for Peace Makers in Africa\u201d<\/em>
\nElizabeth J. A. Siwo-Okundi, \u201cThe Cross, Christ, and Coltan: A \u2018Small Voice\u2019 Homiletical Analysis of Machozi\u2019s Last Words\u201d<\/em>
\nDerrick Muwina, <\/em><\/em>\u201c<\/em>Beyond Humanitarian Illusions: Fr. Vincent Machozi and the Moral Crisis of Neo-Colonial Intervention\u201d
\n<\/em>Mich\u00e8le Sigg, \u201c\u2018Yet the Darkness did not Overcome it\u2019: Vincent Machozi and the Martyrs of Africa, Light in the Darkness\u201d<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 – 11:45am<\/td>\nSession 5: Interfaith Peacemaking
\n<\/strong>Andre de Quadros, \u201cReimagining Peace as a Collective Cultural Practice: Arts-Based Approaches to Dialogue and Justic\u201d<\/em>
\nNicolette Manglos-Weber, \u201cCooperative Pluralism among Community-based Religious Leaders in Uganda\u201d<\/em>
\nColeman Nwokoro, \u201cInterfaith Coalition and Collaboration: An Aspect of Inclusive Peacebuilding Missing in Nigeria Amid Rising Conflicts\u201d<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 – 1:30pm<\/td>\nLunch<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:30 – 2:15pm<\/td>\nSession 6: Africana Theology and Ethics
\n<\/strong>emilie townes, \u201cLiving in Chaos with an Eye on Justice and Hope\u201d<\/em>
\nJimmy McCarty, \u201cBlack Consciousness, Human Dignity, and the Love of Liberation: Lessons from South Africa\u201d<\/em>
\nNimi Wariboko, <\/em><\/em>\u201c<\/em>Being and Excess: A Psychological Framework For African Ethics\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:15 – 3pm<\/td>\nBreak<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 – 4:30pm<\/td>\nPlenary Address
\n<\/strong>Dr. Emmanuel Katongole, Professor of Theology and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame<\/em><\/p>\n

Watch Recording<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

5 – 6:30pm<\/td>\nDinner
\n<\/strong>Moore Community Center, 745 Commonwealth Avenue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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