Each year, LMU's Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts presents the Bellarmine Forum, a weeklong cross-disciplinary symposium organized around a central, big-picture issue. This year's topic was "Vulnerability: Windows to the Human Condition."

Professors William Fulco, S.J., and Roberto Dell’Oro, forum organizers, sought to explore the idea of vulnerability from many different perspectives by gathering LMU faculty, visitors from other universities, community activists, Catholic leaders and artists to take part in panel discussions, art exhibits, film screenings and lectures. Bellarmine College Dean Paul Tiyambe Zeleza said this year's forum was an important opportunity to "reflect on how we respond individually and in solidarity with others to the vulnerabilities each of us faces."

Events included "Channeling the Voices of the Lost: The Case of Africa," which featured a screening of a documentary film about the Rwandan genocide and lectures by Zeleza and Nobel Laureate and President’s Marymount Institute Professor in Residence Wole Soyinka. Other presentations addressed issues such as child abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, and crime and punishment.

To learn more about the Bellarmine Forum and to view webcasts of this year's events, visit bellarmine.lmu.edu/bellarmineforum.