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Lecture: "Coming to Terms with 'Engaged Buddhism' in Asia"

Time: Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 11:00 am - 11:45 am

Location: Zoom webinar

Engaged Buddhism describes a global form of socially and politically active Buddhism that emerged in the 1960s, and has transformed both the Buddhist religion and the world ever since. The Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh coined the...

2020 Red Mass

Time: Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm

Location: Basilica of the Sacred Heart & Online

Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, invites you to this ancient rite to ask God's blessing on all those who serve the people as lawyers, judges, civil government officials, teachers and students of the law and...

Webinar: An Evening with Professor Sylvester James Gates Jr.

Time: Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm

Location: Online

Sylvester James Gates Jr., Ph.D., former science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and director of Brown University's Theoretical Physics Center.

Academic Conference: “Art, Desire, and God: Phenomenological Perspectives”

Time: Fri, Oct 2, 2020, All Day (part of a series)

Location: virtual

"Art, Desire, and God: Phenomenological Perspectives" will gather theologians, philosophers, artists and others to engage in collaborative and interdisciplinary reflection using phenomenology’s method of examining human experience to explore the role of the desire of and for God in art...

Academic Conference: “Art, Desire, and God: Phenomenological Perspectives”

Time: Sat, Oct 3, 2020, All Day (part of a series)

Location: virtual

"Art, Desire, and God: Phenomenological Perspectives" will gather theologians, philosophers, artists and others to engage in collaborative and interdisciplinary reflection using phenomenology’s method of examining human experience to explore the role of the desire of and for God in art...

Discussion: "Are Nuclear Weapons an Absolute Evil?"

Time: Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Location: Virtual Event

Featuring the Most Reverend Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, Archbishop of Nagasaki and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan.

The 22nd Annual Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion, and Peace

Time: Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Location: Virtual Event

Azza Karam is an experienced scholar and practitioner of peacebuilding, religion, and international politics. As Secretary General of Religions for Peace, she helps lead the largest multi-religious leadership platform with 90 national and six regional Interreligious Councils. She has published...

Lecture: "Numbers Can Lie: When algorithms work perfectly but fail miserably"

Time: Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (part of a series)

Location: Online

The famous saying, “numbers don’t lie,” might work when reporting the score of a football game, but even then, the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Algorithms developed by data scientists have implications for not only who may obtain a...

The 27th Annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy

Time: Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Virtual Event

Join the Kroc Institute for a conversation with Angela Davis, world-renowned scholar, activist, educator, and leader in the struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice.

The Big Draw: Exquisite Corpse

Time: Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location: Online (Zoom)

The Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative drawing game that was developed by surrealist artists in 1925. It was a way for them to free their minds of distractions and push their creativity to its fullest potential. It was also a...

[CANCELED] Annual Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture: "Justice at the Border: The Dignity of Human Life at the Core of our Faith"

Time: Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location: Virtual Event

The annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture was created by the Center for Social Concerns in 2009 in order to highlight the issues and themes within the Catholic social tradition, and to inspire students to live out Fr. Bernie’s words...

Lecture: "Numbers Can Lie: When algorithms work perfectly but fail miserably"

Time: Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (part of a series)

Location: Online

The famous saying, “numbers don’t lie,” might work when reporting the score of a football game, but even then, the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Algorithms developed by data scientists have implications for not only who may obtain a...

Lecture: "Health Inequity"

Time: Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Location: via Zoom

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary. Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as Dr. Rhea Boyd, BA '06, Director of Strategy and Equity for the California Children's Trust, explores racial health inequities. Dr. Boyd travels to teach students and trainees...

Lecture: "Voting Rights" by The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Time: Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Location: via Zoom

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary. Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as The Honorable Eric. H. Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States (2009-2015) and Partner, Covington & Burling LLP, explores the intersection of voting rights...

Lecture: "Numbers Can Lie: When algorithms work perfectly but fail miserably"

Time: Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (part of a series)

Location: Online

The famous saying, “numbers don’t lie,” might work when reporting the score of a football game, but even then, the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Algorithms developed by data scientists have implications for not only who may obtain a...

Lecture: "COVID Racial Data Tracking"

Time: Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Location: via Zoom

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary. Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as Rachel Lee, project manager for the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research’s Racial Data Tracker, explores the impact of race and ethnicity on COVID-19 prevalence and outcomes....

Panel Discussion Webinar / Sharon Yoon Book Launch: "The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Mobility and Solidarity in Beijing's Koreatown"

Time: Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Location: Virtual panel discussion

Sharon Yoon and Alyssa Park will examine intra-Asian Korean migration in the context of their new books—Yoon’s The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Park’s…