7th Biennial JUHAN Conference
"Humanitarian Action and Climate Change
Virtual Event - September 30-October 2
Because the University of Scranton is a co-sponsor, participation is FREE for all students, faculty and staff.
Dr. JoyAnna Hopper (Political Science) and students representing the Center for Service & Social Justice office will be presenters.
Please register ASAP. https://thesdgslab.com/juhan
Our University delegation will gather each day to listen to keynotes and panel presentations and to plan campus initiatives based on the UN’s strategic development goals (SDG’s) and Laudato Si’s Action Platform.
Thursday 5-8pm (Leahy Hall 235 – Kane Forum)
Friday 5-8pm (DeNaples 407 – Ballroom)
Saturday 9am-1pm (Leahy Hall 235 – Kane Forum)
The Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN) is excited to announce our Seventh Biennial JUHAN Student Leadership Conference, “Humanitarian Action and Climate Change.” The conference will be held virtually on the evenings of Thursday, September 30 and Friday, October 1 and the morning of Saturday, October 2 and will bring together students from across our Jesuit network of colleges and universities. The planning committee consists of representatives from Fairfield University, College of the Holy Cross, Fordham University, University of Scranton, John Carroll University and Loyola University Chicago.
Using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to frame our discussions and with modules and facilitation provided by the youth-led sustainable development organization Foundations for Environmental Stewardship (FES), the conference will address climate change as a seminal issue of our time and how it intersects with the field of humanitarian action. The 3-day agenda will include a variety of guest speakers, student skill-building modules, and campus-based action planning sessions. The conference will include a special collaboration with the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam SDB, Coordinator, Ecology sector, who describes the Laudato Si’ Action Platform as a single global framework that unites our distinct experiences and perspectives under one umbrella, promoting local and sectoral initiatives to the fullest possible extent and developing each member of the human family to lead in his or her own way. Students who attend the conference will learn how to plan initiatives on their home campuses using Laudato Si’ and the forthcoming 7-Year Plan as a framework for action.
In April, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock noted, “Climate change is already one of the top drivers of humanitarian need and human suffering, alongside conflict and disease, both of which, by the way, are exacerbated by climate change.” The call to action is clear.
We hope that you and your students will join us!
The Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN) was launched in 2006 by Fairfield, Fordham and Georgetown Universities as a way to raise awareness on Jesuit campuses of the meaning of humanitarian response and its implications for the Jesuit ideology of “men and women for others,” as well as to jointly address the humanitarian needs of those who are suffering. JUHAN sponsors a bi-ennial student leadership conference on different Jesuit campuses. While this upcoming conference will be virtual, JUHAN thanks the campuses that have hosted previous conferences: Georgetown University, Fordham University, Fairfield University, College of the Holy Cross, John Carroll University, and the University of Scranton.
Cathy Seymour, M.A.
(she, her, hers)
Campus Minister for Social Justice
Center for Service & Social Justice
Office of Campus Ministries
The University of Scranton
800 Linden Street
Scranton, Pennysylvania 18510
(570) 941-7409
(570) 941-4837 (fax)
www.scranton.edu/ministries
AMDG