Bishop Emeritus Robert N. Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg will share his reflections and insights on how the leadership at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops discern their justice education and advocacy work on issues like peacebuilding and economic justice.…
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by Danielle Roper.
Originally published at romancelanguages.nd.edu.…
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This evening of music at Notre Dame will feature two of the perfomers, composers and musical curators Liz Carroll (fiddle) and Marty Fahey (piano) who created the music for the Art Institute of Chicago's 2015 exhibition, Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840, along with guest musician Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick and Visiting Professor, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies).
All Notre Dame staff are invited to their division's Town Hall. Staff are encouraged to attend the session for their division.
(Four options over two days: full schedule at evp.nd.edu/town-hall/.)
Investments, Development, Alumni Association, Public Affairs and Communications, colleges, schools, institutes, centers, Office of the Provost, and other units reporting to the Provost's Office.…
in the Instiute's annual Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture, Rónán McDonald, Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Irish Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, will speak on the concept of "credit" in Seamus Heaney’s work, both as an ascription of value to art and a wily negotiation of faith and belief. It will look at Heaney’s justifications of poetry and its purpose in his critical essays and in his ars poetica (poems about poetry), alert to various configurations of balance and equilibrium.
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Former president and CEO, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (CRDF)
Science diplomacy is the process of integrating science into foreign policy decision-making and utilizing science cooperation to build relations with other countries. Interest in science diplomacy has grown in the last decade as governments, non-governmental organizations and universities have collaborated to build institutional capacity, identify new mechanisms and document case studies.…
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Andrew Card and Denis McDonough, chiefs of staff to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, will discuss U.S. foreign policy in a keynote Notre Dame Forum event at 7 p.m. Oct 4 (Wednesday) in the Leighton Concert Hall of the University’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. “Views from the West Wing: How Global Trends Shape U.S. Foreign Policy” will be moderated by Maura Policelli, executive director of the Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs’ Global Policy Initiative.
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Delinda Collier is associate professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is author of Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art and articles on Southern African, new media, and Cold War era art. Her current book project is on the history of new media art in Africa. …
Speaker: Patrick Regan, professor of political science and peace studies in Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.
Originally published at socialconcerns.nd.edu…
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Enrico Terrinoni, Chair in English Literature at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, and the Italian translator of Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, will speak on the topic: “Joyce, Giordano Bruno, and the ‘Worlds of Words'."
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Professor Simon Richter will deliver a guest lecture on the topic of cultural responses to sea level rise and catastrophic flooding. Richter is professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, a member of their Graduate Groups in Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, and affiliated with their Programs in Cinema Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Women’s Studies. …
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Enjoy a free lunch and seminar-style conversation with Anthony Monta (associate director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies) and the McGrath Institute for Church Life. Monta will present on his area of expertise in literature and how it connects to the pro-life mission of the Catholic Church and the University.…
Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. will deliver his annual President’s Address to the Faculty at the November 7 Faculty Senate meeting. Please RSVP here by Friday, November 3.
Originally published at conductorshare.nd.edu…
Angela Bourke is Professor of Irish-Language Studies and Head of Modern Irish emerita at University College Dublin. She will speak on "Jeremiah Curtin’s Connemara Storytellers, 1892-93."
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