Here comes a time when we celebrate a man who has done so much to uplift others. A man who has achieved so much for himself and others, yet still doing more. I present to you Professor (Fr) Stan Chu Ilo. The world celebrates a rare Gem who turns 50 on 6 August and 8 August a global concert is staged mark this special birthday. Read below a Bio of this extra ordinary Priest and Prof.
In 2016, Professor Stan was a special guest speaker at eDundalk annual international networking dinner event where he blew the minds of the participants away with his inspiring speech. In 2017, he sent in a video message to the event.
It's good to give honor to whom it is due.
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EDUCATION |
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Thesis Title: Embracing the Opportunities and Challenges of Multiculturalism and Diversity Education in Ontario’s Separate Schools. Director: Dr Mishack Gumbo.
Summa cum Laude
Research Tesina: “ ‘Who is This of whom I hear such things?’ Exploring Lukan Christology through Herod’s Question in Luke 9.”
Second Class Upper, Best graduating student Award
First Class Honors, Best Graduating Student Award.
Additional Qualifications, Educational, Language and Professional Training |
Post-Graduate Certificate in Global Health, DePaul University, Chicago| in view.
Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic (Harvard Global Health Institute), Certificate of Achievement | Winter, 2019
Fundamentals of Project Management (Sheridan College, Mississauga, ON, Canada) | Winter 2014.
International Project Management (University of Toronto) | Spring 2014.
Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative), Certificate of Achievement | Fall 2016.
From Poverty to Prosperity: Understanding Economic Development (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Certificate of Achievement | Winter 2017.
Certificate in Italian Language, Universita Per Stranieri | Perugia 2001.
Certificate in French Language and Culture, French Language and Culture Institute, Catholic University of Lyon | 2007.
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS and Professional Positions |
2018-present: Convener/Consultant, Pan-African Catholic Congress on Theology, Society and Pastoral Life of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM).
2017:Research Professor of Catholic Studies, African Studies and World Christianity, Coordinator/Editor, African Catholicism Project/ The Handbook of African Catholicism, Center for World Catholicism and Inter- Cultural Theology, Catholic Studies Department, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
2014: Assistant Professor, Research Scholar, Center for World Catholicism and Inter- Cultural Theology, Catholic Studies Department, DePaul University, Chicago, USA.
2010-2014, Assistant Professor of Religion and Education and Director of Field Education/Pastoral Formation, University of St Michael’s College, Toronto.
Courses Taught: Approaches to Multicultural Religious Education; Theories and Praxis of Leadership; Theological Reflection Seminar; Faith Development Across the Life Span; Teaching and Learning in the Spirit of Augustine;
2012 Granted associate status at Toronto School of Theology for advanced degrees and began to supervise graduate thesis.
2013-Present, Member, Social Justice Committee, Toronto Catholic District School Board.
2011-Present, Series Editor, African Christian Studies Series, Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Oregon, USA.
2006-2008, Member, Review Committee on the Curriculum on Religious Education and Family Life, Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland, Clarington District Separate School Board, Peterborough, Ontario.
2007-2008, Instructor, House of Discernment, Sacred Heart College, Peterborough
Course validated by St Augustine’s Seminary, Toronto, a member of the Toronto School of Theology. Course Taught: Introduction to Catholic Studies: Scripture and Tradition.
2002-2006, Diocesan Master of Ceremonies and member Diocesan Clergy Personnel Board, Peterborough Diocese, Ontario, Canada
1999-2001, Special Assistant on Pastoral Affairs and member Pastoral Department, Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, Catholic Secretariat, Lagos, Nigeria
1993-1996, Instructor, Institute of Ecumenical Education, Enugu, Nigeria (now Godfrey Okoye University), an undergraduate teachers’ institute.
Courses taught: Education for Tolerance in Pluralistic Societies; Foundations of African Traditional Religions; Introduction to World Religions.
1993-1994 Students Affairs Officer, Institute of Ecumenical Education, Enugu, Nigeria
2010-Present, Member of the International Advisory Board, Alliance for Vulnerable Mission (AVM).
2011-Present, President of the Board of Trustees, Canadian Samaritans for Africa.
2016-Present, Consultant, Theological Commission, Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM).
2017-Present, Member of the International Advisory Board, Catholics and Cultures, Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA.
2017-Present, Member Equity and Diversity Commission, Canada Theological Society.
2018-Present, Member of the African Steering Committee, Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church.
2019-Present, Member Editorial Board, Concililum Catholic International Journal
2019-Present, African Representative, International Catholic Research (2019-2021), “At the Foot of the Cross.”
GRANTS/SPONSORED RESEARCH AND RECOGNITIONS:
2011: Dean’s Nomination for the Junior Faculty Fellowship, Association of Theological Schools, Pittsburgh, PA.
2012: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and University of St Michael’s Presidential Grant for school-based research on the topic: “Towards Multicultural and Diversity Education in Catholic Education”
2014, Ambassador of Peace Award, for the Universal Federation for Peace
2015: DePaul University, Public Voices Fellowship.
2016: African Catholicism Project grant from an anonymous European agency co-written with Prof Bill Cavanaugh for the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University. Award Money, 153, 000 USD
2017: Global Impact Leadership Award, Afroglobal Excellence Award
2018: My book, A Poor and Merciful Church was named as the one of the Ten Most Outstanding Books on Mission in 2018 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. It also received an honorable mention at the Catholic Press Book Awards, 2018.
2019: Pan-African Catholic Congress on Theology, Society and Pastoral Life, grant for convening and publication of proceedings: Award Money 50,000 Euros.
2019/2020: Alan Richardson Fellow, Durham University, Durham, England
2020, Honorary Professor of Religion and Theology, Durham University, Durham, England
Scholarly and/OR Creative activities |
Stan Chu Ilo, Someone Beautiful to God: Finding Faith and Life’s Purpose in a Wounded World. NY/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2020.
Stan Chu Ilo, ed. Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and the Spirit in the World. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019.
Stan Chu Ilo, ed. Love, Joy, and Sex: African Conversations on Amoris Laetitia and Gospel of Family in a Divided World. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019.
Stan Chu Ilo, A Poor and Merciful Church: The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2018).
Stan Chu Ilo, ed., Wealth, Health and Hope in African Christian Religion: The Search for Abundant Life (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018).
Stan Chu Ilo, ed. Friends of God and Servants of God’s People: Spiritual Reflection on Love and Friendship in the Lives of African Clerics and Religious. (Enugu, Nigeria: De Verge Agencies Publications, 2017).
Stan Chu Ilo, The Church and Development in Africa: Aid and development from the Perspectives of Catholic Social Ethics 2nd edition (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock 2014).
Stan Chu Ilo, Discover your Divine Investment: The Path to Spiritual Joy (Toronto: Catholic Register Publication, 2012).
Stan Chu Ilo, et al, ed., The Church as Salt and Light: Path to an African Ecclesiology of Abundant Life (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2011).
Stan Chu Ilo, The Face of Africa: Looking Beyond the Shadows (Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books, 2008).
Stan Chu Ilo, “Where Hands Don’t Touch: A Biosocial Ethical Analysis of the Ebola Outbreak and Medical Intervention in West Africa” in Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, Vol. 31 (2019): 34-60.
Stan Chu Ilo, “The Dialectics of the City of God and the Earthly City in Nigeria: Towards a Critical and Constructive African Political Theology” in Encounter: Journal of African Life and Religion, Vol. 13 (2019): 49-66.
Stan Chu Ilo, “Poverty and Economic Justice in Pope Francis” in International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 43, 1 (2019): 38-56.
Stan Chu Ilo, “I had the Courage to Climb Higher: The Faith and Future of Youth in Africa” in Hekima Journal of Theology, Governance and Peace Studies Vol. 58 (December, 2018): 9-26.
Stan Chu Ilo, “The Church of the Future in Africa: A Path to the Praxis of Pope Francis’s Illuminative Ecclesiology in Africa” in Concilium: International Journal of Theology, November, 2018: 59-71.
Stan Chu Ilo, “African Ecclesiologies” in Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology, ed. Paul Avis. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018): 615-638.
Stan Chu Ilo, “The Future of Catholic Education in Africa: Narrating our Own Stories” in Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, Vol. 30 (2018): 6-38.
Stan Chu Ilo, “Theology and Literature in African Christianity: Hearers of God’s Word” in Concilium: International Journal of Theology, November, 2017: 119-130.
Stan Chu Ilo, “Contested Moral Issues in Contemporary African Catholicism: Theological Proposals for a Hermeneutics of Multiplicity and Inclusion” in Journal of Global Catholicism, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 2017): 51-73.
Stan Chu Ilo, Currents in World Christianity and the Challenges of Border-Crossing and Intercultural Theology , Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, No. 158 (July, 2017): 37-56.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Rights of African Indigenous People: Lessons from the Struggles of the Ogoni of Niger Delta. Concilium: International Journal of Theology. 2017/3: 111-120.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Enduring Significance of Populorum Progressio for the Social Mission of the Church in Africa in Journal of Moral Theology, vol. 6, no. 1 (January 2017): 57-79.
Stan Chu Ilo, Dialogue in African Christianity: The Continuing Theological Significance of Vatican II in Science et Esprit: Revue de Philosophie et Theologie (May 2016):341-361.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Church of the Poor: Towards an Ecclesiology of Vulnerable Mission in Ecclesiology, Journal of Ministry, Mission and Unity, vol 10, no. 2 (May 2014): 229-250.
Stan Chu Ilo, Africae Munus and the Challenges of Social Transformation and Theological Praxis in Africa’s Social Context in Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, Oxford Center for Mission Studies, vol.31, no. 2 (April 2014): 116-131.
Stan Chu Ilo, Africa’s Place in World Christianity: Towards a Theology of Inter-Cultural Friendship in Toronto Journal of Theology, vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 125-142.
Stan Chu Ilo, Towards an African Theology of Reconciliation: A Missiological Reflection on the Instrumentum Laboris of the Second African Synod in The Heythrop Journal, vol. 53, no. 6 (November 2012): 1005-1025.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Second African Synod and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa’s Social Context: A Missional Theological Praxis of Reconciliation—Part 1 Missiology: An International Review, vol. XL, no. 2 (April 2012): 195-204.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Second African Synod and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa’s Social Context: Missional Theological Praxis of Reconciliation—Part 2 Missiology: An International Review, vol.XL, no. 3 (July, 2012): 249-260.
Stan Chu Ilo, Catholic Education and the Challenges of Human and Cultural Development in Africa: Some Proposals for Inter- University Partnership in ACUHIAM Journal of Education (ACUHIAM: Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar), vol. 2, no. 1 (2011-2012): 55-83.
Stan Chu Ilo, Blacks against Blacks: Homelessness to Reconciliation in African Ecclesial Review, Vol. 51, no1&2 (March-June, 2009), 78-104.
Stan Chu Ilo, Book Review, “African: Decolonization and Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth Foster” in Modern Theology, vol 36, no. 2 (April, 2020): 432-434.
Stan Chu Ilo, Book Review, A Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation by Cyril Orji in Toronto Journal of Theology, vol. 31, no. 2, Fall 2015: 297-298.
Stan Chu Ilo, Book Review, Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A Global History by Brian Stanley in American Academy of Religion, Reading Religion, Winter, 2019.
Stan Chu Ilo and Idara Otu: “Theology of Development” in The Routledge Handbook of African Theology, Elias Bongmba, ed. NY: Routledge, 2020: 220-242.
Stan Chu Ilo, “Reform from the Margins: Pope Francis and the Renewal of Catholic Theology”, in All the Ends of the Earth: Challenges and Celebration of Global Catholicism, Cyril Orji and Jane Linehan, ed. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2020: 87-112.
Stan Chu Ilo, “Introduction: What We have Seen and Heard (1 John 1: 3)” in Pentecostalism, Catholicism and the Spirit in the World. Stan Chu Ilo, ed. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2019: 1-14.
Stan Chu Ilo, “Pathway to the Reform of the Church: Some Theological Proposals for the Church in Africa” in Riforma nella Chiesa, Riforma della Chiesa. Luigi Sabbarese, ed. Rome: Urban University Press, 2019: 135-156.
Stan Chu Ilo, “Receptive Ecumenism in Africa: Lessons Learned from the Actual Faith of Everyday Christians” Virginia Miller et al. ed. Leaning into the Spirit: Pathways for Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Dialogue. NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019: 65-84.
Stan Chu Ilo, “Introduction: The Search for Abundant Life in African Christian Religion: Historical Reinterpretation of Christian Mission in Africa” in Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion: The Search for Abundant Life. Stan Chu Ilo, ed. (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018): xv-xxxii.
Stan Chu Ilo, Chapter Three: Searching for Healing in a Miraculous Stream: The Fate of God’s People in Africa in Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion: The Search for Abundant Life, ed. Stan Chu Ilo, ed. (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018): 45-79.
Stan Chu Ilo, Fragile Earth, Fragile Africa: An African Eco-theology for Human and Cosmic Flourishing in Bill Cavanaugh, ed. Fragile World: Ecology and the Church (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books): 129-150.
Stan Chu Ilo, Stories My Grannies Never Told Me: Memory and Orality in the Narrative of African Christian History in Dana Robert, ed. African Christian Biography: Narratives, Beliefs, and Boundaries (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster Publications,2018): 42-62.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis and the Challenges of Ethical Transformational Servant Leadership for the Church in Africa in Elias O. Opongo, ed. Pope Francis on Good Governance and Accountability in Africa. (Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2017): 11-52.
Stan Chu Ilo, “Amoris Laetitia and Ministry of Mercy in an Illuminative Church” in Nicholaus Segeja and Emmanuel Wabanhu, ed. The Echo of Amoris Laetitia in Africa: Towards Living the ‘Joy of Love Experienced by Families’ in the Church (Nairobi: Catholic University of Eastern Africa Press, 2017:129-152.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Wisdom of the Two Cities in Augustine: A Model for Doing Transformational Theology in Africa in Emmanuel Wabanhu and Marco Moerschbacher, ed. The Shifting Ground of Doing Theology: Perspectives from Africa. Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2017, 151-191.
Stan Chu Ilo, “From Caritas in Veritate to Africae Munus: Pope Benedict XVI’s Social Teaching on Participation and Gratuity: Some Theological Principles and Practices for Catholic Higher Education in Africa” in Stanislaus Iheoma and Stophynus Anyanwu, Evangelical Witness. Owerri, Nigeria: APT Publications, 2017, 133-165.
Stan Chu Ilo, Cross-Currents in African Christianity: Lessons for Inter-Cultural Hermeneutics of Friendship and Participation in Pathways for Interreligious Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century ed. Vladmir Latinovic, Gerard Manion, and Peter C. Phan (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 183-198.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Church of Pope Francis: An Ecclesiology of Accountability, Accompaniment and Action in The Church We Want: African Catholic Look to Vatican III ed. A. Orobator (Maryknoll: NY: Orbis Books, 2016): 27-45
Stan Chu Ilo, Die Illuminative Ekklesiologie von Papst Franziskus und die Mission de Barmherzigkeit fur die Kirche der Armen in Afrika in Pope Francis and the Revolution of Tenderness, Karl Appel, ed. Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 2016: 349-365.
Stan Chu Ilo and Gunda Werner, Identity Within Identities: Communicative Theology Through Biographies in Ander Gemeinsam-Germeinsam Anders? In Ambivalenzen Lebendig Kommunizieren, Maria Jeue, Gunter Pruller-Jagenteufel, Johanna Rahner Zekirija Sejdini, ed. Ostfildern, Germany: Mathias Grunewald Verlag, 2015: 151-158.
Stan Chu Ilo, Methods and Models for Doing Theology in Africa in Orobator, A. , ed. Theological Reimagination: Conversations on Church, Religion, and Society in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2014): 115-130.
Stan Chu Ilo, Beginning Afresh from Christ in the Search for Abundant Life in Africa in Stan Chu Ilo, et al, ed., The Church as Salt and Light: Path to An African Ecclesiology of Abundant Life (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2011): 1-33.
Stan Chu Ilo, Adoption Cannot Help other Countries in Noel Merion, ed., Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints: Adoption (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Cengale Learning, 2009), 36-41.
Some Significant Commissioned Essays, Interviews and Review Essays |
Stan Chu Ilo, Expert Opinion, African Response to Theology Today, Syndicate
https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/syndicate-project-on-the-state-of-theology/
Stan Chu Ilo and Matthew Kukah, commissioned essay, “Nigeria divided when Poverty and Ignorance Kill”https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/17658/nigeria-divided-when-poverty-and-ignorance-kill
Stan Chu Ilo, Expert Witness, I am Through You US Catholic (September, 2017): 18-22.
Stan Chu Ilo, Dealing with Violence Against Women: A Christian and African Traditional Perspective, Expert Interview, Forum on Women, Carter Center, Atlanta (November, 2016).
Stan Chu Ilo, “Being a Black Male in America: Racism and the Police”, Huffpost, January, 2017.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-chu-ilo/being-a-black-male-in-ame_b_7035468.html
Stan Chu Ilo, Canada’s Beauty Reflected in Catholic Universities, commissioned three-page essay in Catholic Register, February 2, 2013.
http://www.catholicregister.org/columns/guest-columnists/item/15791-canada’s- beauty-reflected-in-catholic-universities
Stan Chu Ilo, Why the Next Pope Should Be African, commissioned op-ed for CNN International, February 13, 2013
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/13/opinion/african-pope-stan-llo
Stan Chu Ilo, What Africans Want from the Next Pope commissioned op-ed, for CNN International, March 5, 2013
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/05/opinion/what-africans-want-pope-ilo
Stan Chu Ilo, What Happens in the Catholic Church Matters to Everyone, commissioned op-ed for the CTV, Toronto, March 13, 2013.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/pope/opinion-what-happens-in-the-catholic-church- matters-to-everyone-1.1193979
Rome and the Margins, documentary commissioned and produced together on World Catholicism with Al Jazeera Television Network, March 26, 2013. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/general/2013/03/2013325123233506715.html
Pope Francis: The Reformer
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-chu-ilo/
Obama and the Right Faith
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-chu-ilo/
scholarly papers presented (2014-2018) |
Stan Chu Ilo, The Place of Religion in the Development of Innovation in Science and Technology, Keynote Address, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, December 10, 2019.
Stan Chu Ilo, God in Africa: Modernity, Christianity and Africa’s Futures, Annual Alan Richardson Lectures, Durham University, Durham, England, December 2, 2019.
Stan Chu Ilo, Reform and Renewal in African Catholicism: From the African Synods to Pope Francis, PanAfrican Congress on Theology, Society and Pastoral Life, Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria, December 6, 2019.
Stan Chu Ilo, Rome and the Margins: Reform and Renewal from the Margins in World Christianity, Keynote speaker, College Theological Society, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, May 30, 2019
Stan Chu Ilo, Contesting Northern Epistemological Hegemony in the Search for Transformative Knowledge Production in Africa, Keynote speaker, African Scholars Network, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, December 14, 2018.
Stan Chu Ilo, African Theologies as Narratives of Redemption and Liberation, panel discussion, Racial Justice and Black Theologies, Memorial Lectures in Honor of Kate Cannon and James Cone, University of San Francisco, California, February 8, 2019.
Stan Chu Ilo, Reform of the Church, Reform in the Church, Key note speaker, Pontifical Urban University, Rome, April 15, 2018.
Stan Chu Ilo, Philanthropic Racism and Migration: Between Justice and Mercy, Panel Discussion, Ecclesiological Investigation Network, Toronto, May 27, 2018.
Stan Chu Ilo, Racism, Extremism and Intolerance: The Dual Crisis of Black Identity, Panel Discussion, American Academy of Religion, Boston, November, 17, 2017.
Stan Chu Ilo, Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural World, Congress of Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University, Toronto, May 25, 2017.
Stan Chu Ilo, Cultural Pluralism and the Future of Theology in Africa, international conference on the future of Catholic Theology in Africa, Rome, April 21, 2017 organized by Notre Dame University.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Wisdom of the Two Cities in Augustine and the Task of Transformational Theology in Africa, Missio International Conference on Theology in Africa, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobo, May 10, 2016.
Stan Chu Ilo, The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis and the Future of African Catholicism, International Conference on “Pope Francis and the Revolution of Tenderness”, University of Vienna, Austria, October 25, 2015.
Stan Chu Ilo, Fragile Earth, Fragile Africa, World Catholicism Week, DePaul University, Chicago, April 11, 2015.
Stan Chu Ilo, What My Grand Parents Did Not Tell Me: Biography and Memory in Writing African Christian History, Dictionary of African Christian Biography Project, Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Boston University, Boston, October 21, 2015.
Stan Chu Ilo, Traditions and Transitions in Africa: The Impact of Vatican II, international conference on celebrating 50 Years of Vatican II. Georgetown University, Washington, DC, April 21, 2015.
Stan Chu Ilo, Vatican II and the Challenges of Inter-Faith Dialogue in African Christianity, invited paper presented at the Conference on Vatican II and Dialogue, Center for Research on Vatican II, St Michael’s College, University of Toronto, Canada, May 21, 2014.
Stan Chu Ilo, Ethical Questions in Peace Keeping in the African Sub- Region, panelist at the International Conference on Canada and Peace Keeping in the World, Universal Federation of Peace, Ottawa, May 27, 2014.
Stan Chu Ilo, Africa: A Lost Continent, public lecture at Mission Occasional International Lecture Series, Ottensheim, Austria, June 16, 2014.
Stan Chu Ilo, Retrieving Cultural Biography in Communicative Theology, keynote presentation at the Congress on Communicative Theology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 18, 2014.
Invited Lectures |
Prayer Breakfast Guest Speaker, The Challenge of Cultural Catholicism in a World Church, Holy Name Society of Regional Prayer Breakfast, April 11, 2017.
Guest Speaker, Five Successful Paths to Cultural Immersion for African Migrants, EDunduk Irish-African Business Forum, Dunduk, Ireland, 14 February, 2016.
Public Lecture, The Origin of Hell: Sin and Punishment in the Christian Tradition, DePaul Humanities Salon, October 21, 2015.
Workshop Facilitator, The Dignity of Difference: The Transforming Power of Educating for Diversity: Seven Hopeful Steps for Educators, Equity and Inclusive Education Professional Learning Series, Toronto Catholic District School Board, April 9, 2014.
Plenary Speaker, Method and Model of African Theology, International Colloquium on Theology, Religion and Society in Africa, Hekima Center for Peace and International Studies, Nairobi, Kenya, August 15, 2013.
Panel Chair, Religion and Tolerance in Muslim-Christian Relations in Africa: Going Beyond the Western Paradigm, Ecumenical and Inter-Faith Gathering, The Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network, Belgrade, Serbia, June 17, 2013.
Distinguished Guest Speaker, Currents in World Christianity: The Challenges of Inter-Cultural Communication and Catechesis, Center for Practical Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 14, 2013.
Panel Chair, Internationalizing Christian Higher Education in Africa: Partnership Between African Christian Academies and the West at the International Conference of the International Association of Christian Higher Education (IAPCHE), Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 23, 2013.
Keynote Speaker, Great Lakes Regional Conference, Engineers Without Borders-USA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The Power of WE: Building a Better Possible World as Global Citizens November 6, 2011.
OTHER PARTICIPATION IN SCHOLARLY MEETINGS
Member, Equity and Diversity Committee, Canadian Theological Society, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 24 May, 2017.
OTHER Professional Activities |
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2017: Global Impact Leadership Award, Afroglobal Excellence Award
2017: DePaul Global Learning Experience Award for GLE Course. Award: 3500 USD
2012: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and University of St Michael’s Presidential Grant for school based research on the topic: “Towards Multicultural and Diversity Education in Catholic Education”
2011: Dean’s Nomination for the Junior Faculty Fellowship, Association of Theological Schools, Pittsburgh, PA.
2015: DePaul University, Public Voices Fellowship.
Service to the university |
DePaul, Global Learning Experience (GLE) Ambassador
Member| DEPaul Fulbright Committee
Member | DePaul Public Voices Cohort
Volunteer| Catholic Campus Ministry
Academic mentoring | BlackPassport, for African American and African students
SERVICE TO COLLEGE
Member, DePaul Local Organizing Committee | African Studies Association 2017 Convention
SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT
Member, Events Committee | Department of Catholic Studies
Member, Academic Grants Committee | Department of Catholic Studies
Co-coordinator, African Catholicism Project | Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology
Academic Advising | Catholic Studies Department)
Service to the Community and the Profession |
Courses taught (2014-2017) |
Introduction to Catholicism (CTH 180)
Catholicism in Modern History (CTH 206)
Introduction to Catholicism in Africa (CTH 276)
Catholicism and Slavery (ABD 290, CTH 248)
Multiculturalism Seminar (LSP, 200-326)
Catholic Experience III: From the French Revolution to the Present (CTH 206
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