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Stories of Grace

Time: Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location: Log Chapel

Hear members of the Notre Dame community tell their stories of learning to see God active in their lives. Storytelling combines with prayer to create space for reflection. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff. Featured storytellers include: Jose-Miguel Guevara-Hernandez, Old...

Book Launch for Emilia Justyna Powell

Time: Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Powell will discuss her new book "Islamic Law and International Law: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes."

Lecture: "Border Anxieties in a Globalizing World"

Time: Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Professor Beth Simmons leads the Borders and Boundaries Project at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. The project includes several research teams studying border politics across a variety of research areas.

Educating the Whole Physician Lecture Series: "The Messiness of the Moral of Interspecies Encounters in Medical Lab Research"

Time: Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Auditorium, Raclin-Carmichael Hall | IU School of Medicine - South Bend, 1234 Notre Dame Avenue

Lab research is guided by a host of standardized, ethical standards that shape quotidian practices of animal welfare and care while, oddly, obscuring, erasing, or denying human efforts at self-care. An attentiveness to the “messiness of the moral” uncovers the complexities...

The Dialogue Project: Environmental Cooperation in the Middle East

Time: Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: Hesburgh Center for International Studies

Deep in the Negev desert, students from Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and around the world come together to study and practice peace-building through environmental cooperation. Hear from two alumni of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies about their personal journeys toward finding...

Italian Research Seminar: "The Artist and the Police: Decameron 8.3"

Time: Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

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

The first meeting of the Italian Research Seminar in Spring 2020 will host a lecture by Prof. Justin Steinberg, titled “The Artist and the Police: Decameron 8.3.” Boccaccio’s tale of Calandrino and the heliotrope is justly celebrated as a masterful...

Brown-Bag Seminar: "Awakening to Linguistic Otherness in Late Antiquity: A Syriac Case"

Time: Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: 715J Hesburgh Library (Medieval Institute Main Seminar Room)

The Medieval Institute welcomes Yuliya Minets, Postdoctoral Research Associate and 2019–20 NDIAS Residental Fellow, to give a brown-bag seminar on “Awakening to Linguistic Otherness in Late Antiquity: A Syriac Case.”…

Lecture/Reception: "Art and Belief in the Spanish Colonial Andes"

Time: Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Snite Museum of Art

Visual images of the Virgin Mary were instrumental in the spread of Catholicism in the wake of the Spanish invasion and conquest of Peru. Statues of the Virgin were the objects of pious appeals for divine intervention, and their power...

Higgins Labor Café

Time: Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: Geddes Hall Coffee House

The Labor Café convenes the Notre Dame community for coffee and casual conversation on contemporary questions about work, workers, and workplaces. What rights and protections should those who work for others have? What's the proper role for government in the...

Flash Panel: "India's Winter of Protest"

Time: Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Since December, India has been rocked by nationwide protests drawing millions of citizens. The public demonstrations are against a controversial citizenship law passed by the government. Protestors describe the law as discriminatory against Muslims and an assault on the secular...

First Mondays Convocations: “The Creative Process in Marching Band Drill Design; Why Symbols Matter!”

Time: Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

Location: 306 O'Neill Hall of Music

Enjoy talks by Music Faculty on current interests or research. This Monday, Professor Sam Sanchez will discuss “The Creative Process in Marching Band Drill Design; Why Symbols Matter!” This event is free and open to the public. The next First...

Lecture: "Color of Compromise: Why the History of the Church and Race Matters"

Time: Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

Jemar Tisby, Notre Dame alumnus, will speak at a public lecture which is also the opening class session for the spring social concerns seminar, "Act Justly: Racial Justice and the American Civil Rights Movement." In 2019, Tisby released his first book, "Color...

Life Lunch with Clemens Sedmak

Time: Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: Coffeehouse, Geddes Hall

Enjoy a free lunch and seminar-style conversation with Clemens Sedmak, professor of social ethics in the Keough School of Global Affairs and concurrent professor at Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. Sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life. Born in Austria...

Discussion: "Girl Power: Examining the Role of Women Voters in Presidential Elections"

Time: Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: Geddes Hall, Coffee House

Pizza, Pop, and Politics is a monthly event through ND Votes which creates a space to discuss political issues with faculty and engage through civil discourse. Christina Wolbrecht, professor of political science and director of the Rooney Center for the...

Lecture: "You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die: The Perverse Theology of Neoliberalism"

Time: Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: LaFortune Ballroom

Eugene McCarraher is associate professor of humanities at Villanova University and the author of "Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought" and "The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity."

Lecture and Artist Demonstration — Chao Shao-an: "Moments between Worlds"

Time: Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Location: Snite Museum of Art

Join the Liu Institute for a lecture, an ink painting demonstration, and a reception in celebration of the exhibition "Chao Shao-an: Moments between Worlds" at the Snite Museum of Art. The lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Annenberg Auditorium and...

Conference: "John Ruskin: Prophet of the Anthropocene"

Time: Fri, Feb 7, 2020, All Day (part of a series)

The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values is delighted to announce its conference, “John Ruskin: Prophet of the Anthropocene” convening on the weekend of John Ruskin’s 201st birthday, February 7–8, 2020. Leaving behind an enormous body of...

Conference: "John Ruskin: Prophet of the Anthropocene"

Time: Sat, Feb 8, 2020, All Day (part of a series)

The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values is delighted to announce its conference, “John Ruskin: Prophet of the Anthropocene” convening on the weekend of John Ruskin’s 201st birthday, February 7–8, 2020. Leaving behind an enormous body of...

John Ruskin Birthday Lecture: "Ruskin's Guild of St George: Yesterday and Today"

Time: Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: Special Collections

The John J. Reilly Center is delighted to announce the first annual John Ruskin Birthday Lecture. This series, which will be held on or about February 8 each year to mark the birthday of John Ruskin, will address the contributions the...

Lecture: Jose Clemente Orozco and the Epic of "Greater America"

Time: Mon, Feb 10, 2020, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: 200 Riley Hall

Please join us for a talk by Professor Mary Coffey from Dartmouth College about resituating Mexican muralism within U.S. American debates over history and identity, but also suggesting the many ways Orozco’s Epic speaks to our contemporary political moment and the radical politics of Latinidad.

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