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Book Discussion: "Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt"

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Location: Jenkins and Nanovic Halls, Room 1030

How can Americans combat our current culture of contempt and end the “outrage industrial complex”? Best-selling author and economist Arthur C. Brooks will offer his vision for healing America’s fractured political discourse, bridging our divides, and making progress as a...

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Life Lunch with Mary O'Callaghan

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Location: Coffeehouse, Geddes Hall

Enjoy a free lunch and seminar-style conversation with Mary O’Callaghan, Ph.D., a developmental psychologist and a Public Policy Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Culture at Notre Dame. Sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life. Registration for this...

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Hibernian Lecture: "A Century of Suffrage: Catholic Activism, Class Consciousness, and the Contributions of Irish American Women"

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Location: Morris Inn Ballroom

Tara McCarthy will deliver the 2019 Hibernian Lecture. McCarthy is associate professor of history at Central Michigan University and author of "Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880-1920" (Syracuse University Press, 2018). 

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Special Film Screening and Discussion: "Burden"

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Location: Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Winner of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, this biopic profiles the life of Mike Burden, who rose through the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan in Laurens, South Carolina, until a relationship stirred his social conscience....

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Lecture: "René Girard and the Present Moment"

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Location: Coffeehouse, Geddes Hall

French theorist René Girard called for forgiveness and the total renunciation of violence. While most focus on his theories about conflict, how do we pursue his solutions in a technological world where we are being more and more conditioned to...

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ISSLP 2020 Information Session

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Location: Geddes Hall, McNeill Library

The International Summer Service Learning Program is a four-credit course and an eight-week summer service-learning program in Catholic social tradition which provides an opportunity to examine causes of poverty and to create links of solidarity across borders. Attend an information...

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Conway Lecture 1: "Taqlīd: Authority and the Intellectual Elite in the Islamic World"

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Location: Oak Room, South Dining Hall

Our 2019 Conway Lecturer will be Professor Peter Adamson, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The title of this year’s lecture series is ""Don’t Think for Yourself: Faith and Authority in Medieval Philosophy," and the lectures will run...

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Choosing a Graduate School Program

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Location: 512 Duncan Student Center

Learn to differentiate between an academic Master’s, professional Master’s, and a Ph.D. Better understand larger factors in graduate school selection. Then hear from five recent alumni on their process in selecting graduate programs and what ultimately led to their decision....

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Conway Lecture 2: "Testing the Prophets: Reason and Medieval Religious Debates"

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Location: Hospitality Room, South Dining Hall

Our 2019 Conway Lecturer will be Professor Peter Adamson, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The title of this year’s lecture series is ""Don’t Think for Yourself: Faith and Authority in Medieval Philosophy," and the lectures will run...

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Conway Lecture 3: "The Right to Speak: Women in Byzantine and Latin Christian Philosophy"

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Location: Oak Room, South Dining Hall

Our 2019 Conway Lecturer will be Professor Peter Adamson, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The title of this year’s lecture series is ""Don’t Think for Yourself: Faith and Authority in Medieval Philosophy," and the lectures will run back-to-back-to-back...

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Saturdays with the Saints Lecture Series

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Location: Andrews Auditorium, Geddes Hall

Blessed John Henry Newman, on the Occasion of his Canonization “The Eucharist and the Making of Saints.” Presented by Cyril O’Regan, Huisking Professor of Theology, Notre Dame Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series that...

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Saturdays with the Saints Lecture Series

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Location: Andrews Auditorium, Geddes Hall

Dorothy Day, Servant of God “The Eucharist Orders Us to the Poor.” Presented by John C. Cavadini, Director, McGrath Institute for Church Life; Professor of Theology, Notre Dame Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series that...

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Saturday Scholar Series: "Optics and 'Natural Magic' in the Renaissance"

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Location: Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art

A different game plan for autumn weekends. You are invited to join in discussion with Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times.

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Open House for Relocated Center for Civic Innovation

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Location: 1045 W. Washington St., South Bend (the former Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture)

The Center for Civic Innovation at Notre Dame has relocated from Innovation Park to the former Center for Arts and Culture in South Bend, closer to its partners in the community.…

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Get the Scoop from Grad Students

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Location: 512 Duncan Student Center

Mingle with upper year graduate students at Notre Dame to learn about the experience from those currently in it. This event is less formal — there will be food, and plenty of opportunities to ask your burning questions. Originally published at...

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Saturdays with the Saints Lecture Series

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Location: Andrews Auditorium, Geddes Hall

Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. “The Eucharist as ‘Sacrament of Charity.’” Presented by Joseph Wawrykow, Professor of Theology, Notre Dame. Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series that combines the university’s rich traditions of Catholic faith...

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Life Lunch with Dr. Kristin Collier

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Location: Coffeehouse, Geddes Hall

Enjoy a free lunch and seminar-style conversation with Dr. Kristin Collier, assistant professor of Internal Medicine, on faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School. Sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life. Lunch is free but you must register. Originally...

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Educating the Whole Physician Lecture Series: "'Fight Abortion, Not Women': Understanding the Challenges of Russian Reproductive Politics"

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Location: 125 DeBartolo Hall

Michele Rivkin-Fish, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Abstract: In 2011, the first grassroots public campaign to defend abortion as a legally accessible procedure emerged in Russia: “Fight Abortion, Not Women,” the on-line campaign...

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