On the occasion of the international conference Toward a Theology of Hope For and From Ukraine, organized by the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Ukrainian Catholic University and the University of Notre Dame, the exhibition ‘Unissued Diplomas’ The Wall of Transformation was set up in the quadriportico of the Gregorian, curated  by Professor Yvonne Dohna Schlobitten and PhD student Deema Fayyad.

The exhibition in the atrium brings together the faces and stories of forty-one students who lost their lives during the Russian Federation-led war that has been martyring Ukraine for the past two years. Students who never received their diploma. To "let yourself be looked at” by these faces, we chose to use the concept of the "solemn void".  Along with the wall full of faces there is a red line in the form of a cross that, traced on the floor, reaches the sculpture of Christ, in the niche of the quadriportico. They are faces of students, like ours and yours, who question us with their gazes in an almost iconic way. Gazes in which, despite everything, hope has not died. Through their eyes we ask ourselves if we would be capable of losing our lives for the love of Jesus. We ask too if we see hope in today's world.

In his speech at the conference, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, stated that "a theology of hope is a theology that cannot start from books, but from faces".

The project was created by a group of students from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in January 2023. The two side panels displayed the works 'Healing' by Alessandra Parisi and 'The Possibility of Hope' by Amaya Valcárcel.