2026 Vincent Harding Memorial Scholar Public Lecture

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Overview

Thursday April 9th Public Lecture from 5pm to 6:30pm in Iliff’s Shattuck Hall. This event is the 2026 Vincent Harding Memorial Lecture.

Dr. Miguel Diaz is this year’s Harding Memorial Visiting Scholar. The title of his Public Lecture is: “Queering Diplomacy: Affirming Differences, Rejecting Division, and Empowering the Catholicity of Humanity.”

Dr. Albert Hernandez will moderate the Q-&-A session with the on-site and YouTube livestream audience.

Details

Date/Time: Thursday April 9, 2026 from 5pm to 6:30pm
Location: Shattuck Hall at Iliff School of Theology
Title: Queering Diplomacy: Affirming Differences, Rejecting Division, and Empowering the Catholicity of Humanity

“The fact that the fear of the other is pathologically inherent in our existence results in the fear not only of the other but of all otherness…When the fear of others is shown to be the fear of otherness we come to the point of identifying difference with division.”
–John Zizioulas

About the Speaker

Dr. Miguel H. Díaz is the John Courtney Murray, S.J. University Chair in Public Service at Loyola University Chicago. He served under President Barack Obama as the 9th U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. He is co-editor of the series from Fordham University Press titled Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente. He is the editor of the multi-authored first volume, The Word Became Culture (2024) and is the author of the third volume, Queer God de Amor (2022). As a public theologian, he engages print, radio, and television media. He participates in several diplomatic initiatives in Washington, D.C., including being a member of the Board and Senior Fellow for Religion and Peacebuilding for the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP).

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