César "CJ" Baldelomar
Doctoral Candidate
César "CJ" Baldelomar
Contact
Email: baldelom@bc.edu
Education
- LL.M. (Master of Law) in Intercultural Human Rights - St. Thomas University School of Law
- J.D. (Juris Doctor) - St. Thomas University School of Law
- Ed.M. (Master of Education) in Teaching and Learning - Harvard Graduate School of Education
- M.T.S. (Master of Theological Studies) in Religion, Ethics, and Politics - Harvard Divinity School
- B.A. in Religious Studies, Liberal Studies/Philosophy, Global Leadership
Courses
Teaching Fellowship
Fall 2020: Ethics, Religion, and International Politics
Spring 2021: Spirituality, Religion, and the College Experience
Fall 2021: Ethics, Religion, and International Politics - Theological Foundations - Certificate in Reflective and Faithful Teaching (Duke Divinity School)
Fall 2022: Engaging Catholicism & Religion, Ethics, and International Politics
Spring 2023: Engaging Catholicism; Religion and Conquest; Liberation Theology and Sexuality
Summer 2023: Engaging Catholicism (Woods Institute)
Research Interests
Theological education; religious education; decolonizing human rights and religious education;theological imagination; writing as pedagogy; cosmology and ecology; postmodernism,poststructuralism, and continental philosophy; Hispanic ministry; environmental migration;immigration and borders; prison-industrial complex; teaching and learning; sexual ethics;liberation theologies
Publications
Book
Fragmented Theological Imaginings. Miami: Convivium Press (under contract, forthcoming 2023).
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“To Imagine What Never Was: Potential Responses to the Colonial Matrix of Power in Light of the Animal (Rights) Turn,” World Forum for Theology and Liberation Collected Essays (forthcoming 2023).
“The Scandal of the Prison-Immigration Industrial Complex,” in Hispanic Ministry as a Practice of Justice, edited by Luis Fraga and Hosffman Ospino. Miami: Convivium Press (forthcoming).
“Heeding Latinx Dissonant and Dislocated Voices,” in Feet on the Ground: Hispanic Catholic Theology in the Ministerial Trenches, edited by Hosffman Ospino. Miami: Convivium Press (forthcoming 2023).
With Ospino, Hosffman, “Are Our Ministerial Organizations Looking at the Whole Picture?,” in Ministry with Young Hispanic Catholics: Towards a Recipe for Growth and Success, edited by Hosffman Ospino, 73-75. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College, 2023.
“Haunted by (Ontological) Ancestors and Bodies in Precarity: Religious Education Confronts Ontological Terror, Biopower, and Necropolitics, Religious Education 117, no. 5 (2022): 439-451.
“The (Non)Existence of Uprooted Bodies: The Limits of Authorized Imaginations and Languages in Assisting Bodies on the Move Due to Environmental Causes,” in Shifting Climates, Shifting People, edited by Miguel A. De La Torre, 47-60. Cleveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press, 2022.
“A Reimagined Ethical Imagination: Considering Epistemological Nihilism and Afro-Pessimism as a Corrective to an Ethics of Hope,” Perspectivas 18 (2021): 23-42.
“Toward a Reimagined Theological Anthropology: Freeing the Excluded and Re-envisioning Scenes of Instruction,” Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 22, no. 1 (2020): 1-24.
Book Reviews
Review of Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy, Theological Studies (forthcoming 2023)
Review of Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching, Religious Education 116, no. 4 (2021): 399-400
Review of Inclusive Religious Education: International Perspectives, Religious Education 115, no. 4 (2020): 452-453.
Presentations (2022-2023 Only)
Keynote speaker, “Climate Displaced People: A Challenge and Opportunity to Pastoral Ministry,” Continuous Formation Series, Archdiocese of Washington. February 14-15, 2023.
Lecture, “Who Teaches? The Question of the Teacher,” Duke Divinity School CRAFT Program, Duke University, NC. December 9, 2022.
Paper, “Education, Worldviews, and Our Contributions to Planetary Well-Being,” 2022 Earth Charter Conference, University for Peace (Costa Rica). December 1-2, 2022.
Paper, “Beyond Imago Dei: The Prospects of Afropessimism and Epistemologies of the South for Theological Anthropology,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. November 21, 2022.
Lecture, “What is Taught?,” Duke Divinity School CRAFT Program, Duke University, NC. October 21, 2022.
Roundtable Facilitator, “Vocational Calling and the Theological Grounding for Hispanic Educator Discernment,” National Summit on Hispanic Teachers and Leaders in Catholic Schools, Boston College, MA. October 3, 2022.
Paper, “Haunted by (Ontological) Ancestors: Prospects for Religious Education in Light of Necropolitics and Ontological Terror,” Religious Education Association Annual Meeting, Online. July 7, 2022.
Paper, “To Imagine What Never Was: Potential Responses to the Colonial Matrix of Power in Light of the Animal (Rights) Turn,” World Forum on Theology and Liberation Conference, Online. June 9, 2022.
Paper (Portman Research Award), “The Promises of a Fugitive Theology: Transgressing and Fragmenting Borders as Acts of Resistance,” Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States Colloquium, San Diego, CA. June 6, 2022.
Paper, “Seeds Recast: Ecojustice Talk Reimagined,” Yale Conference for Religion and Ecology, Online. February 25, 2022.
Other Publications, Presentations, and Multimedia
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