On 29 November, the Chaplain-President, in his capacity as professor of modern history at FUTP Bruxelles, participated in a one-day conference on the cultural and religious aspects of good-neighbourliness, organised by FUTP Bruxelles and CARES Brussels in the magnificent Hôtel communal d'Etterbeek. Jack's paper focused on the ongoing ill effects for the modern Cameroonian diaspora in Europe of French colonialism in Cameroon. Speakers from universities in Paris, Liège, Marseille, Brussels and UCLouvain followed. The day was crowned with a ceremony to award an honorary doctorate to the great French philosopher Olivier Abel (À propos - (olivierabel.fr)).