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The 21st Annual Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion and Peace

Time: Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm

Location: Auditorium, Hesburgh Center for International Studies

The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II that organized the largest and most expansive wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in US history. She is...

Work-in-Progress: "Intersections Between the Dirty War and the War on Drugs in Northwestern Mexico (1965-1985)"

Time: Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Kellogg Work-in-Progress Seminars are designed to generate in-depth discussion of new scholarly work. For the pre-circulated paper and to attend, register with kievents@nd.edu…

Lecture: "The Church on a Spiritual Retreat: Leadership Lessons from the Francis Pontificate"

Time: Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Austen Ivereigh is an author, journalist, commentator, and biographer of Pope Francis and is a fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, Oxford. Biographer Austen Ivereigh, will speak on his most recent book, Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His...

Film: "The Waldheim Waltz" (2018)

Time: Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Browning Cinema

A film about truth and lies and how a dishonest man can rise to power. Ruth Beckermann documents the process of uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. It shows the swift succession of new allegations by the...

Ford Program Research Seminar: "Cutting Out the Middleman: Evidence from the Amazon"

Time: Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 8:30 am - 9:30 am

Location: Hesburgh Center C103

Joe Kaboski David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor of Economics Deep in the Amazon region of Brazil, indigenous communities fish a 10-foot, 100+pound prehistoric air-breathing fish called a pirarucu. The supply chain to get the perishable fish to market is...

Sounds of the Sahel Live-Score: "Bloodsport"

Time: Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

When world-renowned Malian musicians Ahmed Ag Kaedy, Dramane Toure, and Belco Guindo (together performing as Amical Blues) live scored Carl Dreyer’s "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1929) last year, they were asked: What film do you want to score next? The...

Conversations with Diplomats: "The New Cold War" with Wolfgang Mossinger, Consul General of Germany in Chicago

Time: Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Wolfgang Mössinger, Consul General of Germany in Chicago, will offer a lecture in the Elizabeth E. Nanovic Seminar Room, entitled "The New Cold War: Liberal Democracy vs Authoritarianism. Why the EU Is Today More Important Than Ever Before," as part of...

"Finnegans Wake": On Infinite Translation

Time: Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Rare Books and Special Collections (102 Hesburgh Library)

Please join the Center for Italian Studies and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies for the presentation of the monumental Italian translation of James Joyce’s "Finnegans Wake" and a roundtable discussion.

Mexico Working Group: "Guerrillas and Mexico’s Dirty War during the 1970s"

Time: Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location: Jenkins Nanovic Halls B079

To obtain the pre-circulated paper and for questions regarding the Mexico Working Group, contact jpensado@nd.edu. Mexico Working Group welcomes Kellogg Visiting Fellow, Adela Cedillo, for the Graduate Student Lecture Series. Adela Cedillo …

Kellogg World Politics Series: "Are Referendums Ever Good for Democracy?"

Time: Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Location: Hesburgh Center C103

The Kellogg Institute welcomes Susan Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, and Faculty Chair, Chicago Center on Democracy at the University of Chicago. With the debacle of the Brexit process in the UK, the sheen has come off referendums. Democratic...

Lecture: "Capturing Africa's Potential? China's Evolving Role and Competition with Global Powers"

Time: Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Jenkins Nanovic Halls 1050

Landry Signé, David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institute. Cosponsored by the Kellogg Institute and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.

Lecture: "Witnessing Peace: Becoming Agents Under Duress in Colombia"

Time: Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies

Janna Hunter-Bowman is assistant professor of peace studies and Christian social ethics at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute during Fall 2019. She is also a member of the Kroc Institute’s Advisory Board....

Human Rights ND Speaker Series: "Human Rights Protection through the Inter-American System"

Time: Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: B036 Geddes Hall

Presented by Mariana Brocca, LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law. The Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights is proud to support this speaker series, presented by HumanRights ND. The HumanRightsND speaker series brings human rights advocates, current master’s students in the LL.M....

Interfaith Conversation: “Commemorating the Sultan and the Saint: A Christian-Muslim Dialogue”

Time: Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm

Location: Nanovic Hall Forum

The University hosts an interfaith conversation between Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, and Daoud Casewit, president of American Islamic College. Titled “Commemorating the Sultan and the Saint: A Christian-Muslim Dialogue,” the gathering commemorates the 800th anniversary of a pivotal...

Lecture: "Gender Equality Reforms in United Nations Mediation"

Time: Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Location: C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies

Catriona Standfield is a postdoctoral scholar with a Ph.D. in political science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute during the 2019-20 academic year.

Talk: "The Troy Davis Case: Executing the Innocent?"

Time: Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: McCartan Courtroom, Notre Dame Law School

On September 21st, 2011, Troy Davis, an African American man, was executed for the murder of a white police officer despite compelling evidence of his innocence. Davis maintained his innocence until his execution, his last words including a plea for...

Kellogg Work-in-Progress: "The Most Vulnerable Voters: Clientelism and Political Behavior among Slum Dwellers"

Time: Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Work-in-Progress Seminars are designed to generate in-depth discussion of new scholarly work. For the pre-circulated paper and to attend, register with kievents@nd.edu…

"Telling Histories of Violence Without Borders": 2019 Laura Shannon Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony

Time: Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm

Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies will present the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize to Max Bergholz, author of "Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community," published by Cornell University Press. Bergholz will deliver a public lecture...

Lecture: "On Water Resources, Cooperation and Conflicts"

Time: Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Location: Hesburgh Center C103

Marc Müller is a Kellogg Faculty Fellow and an assistant professor in hydrology and water resources at Notre Dame’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Science. The availability of water determines where people live and what they do...

Mexico Working Group: "Testimonio: How Do Militant Guerrilleros from the 1970s Narrate Their Histories Today?"

Time: Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location: Jenkins Nanovic Halls B079

For questions regarding the Mexico Working Group and for the pre-circulated paper, contact jpensado@nd.edu. The Mexico Working Group Graduate Student Lecture Series. Aleida García Alguirre is a Fulbright Research Scholar from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of National Polytechnic Institute,...

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