Office for Global and Community Engagement
Summer and Fall 2025 applications for the Rome Center are now open! Applications for other Summer and Fall 2025 Study Abroad programs will open later this semester.
About OGCE
Global and local engagement are interwoven as foundational aspects of Jesuit education. At Loyola, these areas of engagement come together under one office to align with that tradition. LEARN MORE
Events and Initiatives
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The Office of Global and Community Engagement: Forum on Global Affairs
Dialogues Without Borders: Community Sciences in the Face of Socio-Hydrological Crises
April 30, 12pm CT
Water crises addressed through top-down, technocratic solutions are often dismissive of situated ways of knowing, maladapted to local contexts, and misaligned with community self-governance. Solidarity science recognizes the agency and scientific praxis of local communities that are part of interlinked water-life systems, while creating possibilities for long-term relations across local, regional, and transborder scales. In this webinar, a collective of Indigenous campesino scientists, grassroots organizers, and academics from Mexico share how both community science and western science can inform and support socio-hydrological realities. Join us to share in this dialogue on science without borders in the defense of territory to promote buen vivir for people, water and earth.
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The Office of Global and Community Engagement: Forum on Global Affairs
Following the Lithium Frontier: Water, Global Inequality, and Green Extractivism
April 3, 2024, 2PM CT
Lithium is widely recognized as a critical part of the renewable energy transition, yet its extraction affects water resources and the communities that depend on them. In this discussion, moderated by Dr. Maria Akchurin, we will bring together perspectives informed by research and activism to discuss the socioenvironmental implications of intensifying lithium mining in Chile's Atacama Desert, reflecting on how the supply chains that stretch across borders to produce green technologies raise broader questions about global environmental justice.
The Office of Global and Community Engagement: Forum on Global Affairs
A Heating Climate, Extreme Water Events and Health Outcomes among Vulnerable Populations
November 13, 2023 10AM CST
Robust evaluation of the environmental, health and socio-economic outcomes of the heating climate and catastrophic outcomes such as extreme flooding and drought are limited, but especially among vulnerable populations such as those living in Africa. In this webinar leading experts from Chicago, USA and Cape Town, South Africa will share their recent work exploring extreme water events and health outcomes, increasing nighttime temperatures and sleep health, the impact of climate change on diabetes prevalence and a heat adaptation intervention among 4 vulnerable populations in South Africa and Ghana. The speakers bring a range of expertise from the graduate level through international recognition.