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Virtues and Vocations (Conversation): "Character, Higher Education, and Democracy"

Time: Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: Virtual Webinar

Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year, Virtues & Vocations…

Flash Panel — "The War in Ukraine: Is There Hope for Diplomacy?"

Time: Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Online

As an unprovoked act of aggression on a sovereign nation, Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, represented a failure of diplomacy. Now more than six months into the war, is there a role for diplomacy in bringing the...

Conversation — "Ireland and the Great War: Myth, Memory, and History"

Time: Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: Room 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Join the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies for a talk by historian Niamh Gallagher, University Associate Professor in Modern British and Irish History, University of Cambridge, for a wide-ranging talk stretching before and beyond 1914-18 in this, her first appearance in Notre...

The John Burgee Lecture — "Notre-Dame de Paris: Architecting a Legacy"

Time: Tue, Sep 27, 2022, 5:15 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: 109 Walsh Family Hall of Architecture

The School of Architecture will host French architects Philippe Villeneuve and Rémi Fromont, who are leading the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. During their lecture, “Notre-Dame de Paris: Architecting a Legacy,” they will share their experience with...

Roundtable Discussion — (Part of the Law, Justice and Empire in Comparative Perspective series): "Law and Morality in Early China and the Roman Empire"

Time: Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 9:30 am - 11:30 am

Location: Zoom

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Lecture — "Extractive States: How Energy Became Power in the Industrial Age"

Time: Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

In this talk, historian of science Victor Seow introduces his recent book, "Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). Through a history of what was once the largest coal mine in East Asia,...

Images of Etel Adnan: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Alison Rice, and Ammiel Alcalay in conversation with Hana Morgenstern

Time: Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Live on Zoom

This event is taking place in remembrance of Etel Adnan, the beloved Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist, who passed away in November 2021. She is survived by her longtime partner, renowned Syrian Lebanese artist Simone Fattal.

Lecture: "Diversity and Democracy"

Time: Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: via Zoom

Part of the "Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary" lecture series. Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Alvin Tillery, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and author of "Between Homeland and Motherland: Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy and...

Labor Café | The Teacher Shortage: The Labor Question in America's K–12 Classrooms

Time: Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: Geddes Hall

The Labor Café convenes the Notre Dame community for 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 economy? How...

Fall 2022 Seminar in American Religion

Time: Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 9:00 am - 11:30 am

Location: 205–207 McKenna Hall

Philip Jenkins (Baylor University) will discuss his book "Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval," (Oxford, 2021) at the Cushwa Center's fall 2022 Seminar in American Religion.

Ansari Institute Nasr Book Prize Symposium

Time: Sun, Oct 2, 2022, All Day (part of a series)

Location: Morris Inn Smith Ballroom | Zoom Webinar

The Ansari Institute invites you to join us for our Nasr Book Prize Symposium Oct. 2-3. We are delighted to honor Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta, an Indigenous Australian scholar and the author of "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World," with...

Ansari Institute Nasr Book Prize Symposium

Time: Mon, Oct 3, 2022, All Day (part of a series)

Location: Morris Inn Smith Ballroom | Zoom Webinar

The Ansari Institute invites you to join us for our Nasr Book Prize Symposium Oct. 2-3. We are delighted to honor Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta, an Indigenous Australian scholar and the author of "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World," with...

The Suppliants Project: Ukraine [Part of the 2022-23 Notre Dame Forum: "War and Peace"]

Time: Mon, Oct 3, 2022, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Notre Dame Stadium

Join us for a powerful theatrical experience that invites you into a global discussion about war in Ukraine and in many other parts of our world. On October 3, iconic Notre Dame Stadium will provide the backdrop for The...

Discussion — "Exploring the Role of Governance in Fragile States: Lessons Learned from Iraq"

Time: Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Location: Online Zoom Webinar

Conflict narratives in fragile states are often framed by identity groups or other non-state actors along ideological or ethno-sectarian lines to achieve political ends. But in many instances, the main grievances of populations in affected communities are centered around basic...

Lecture — "War in Ukraine, Peace in Europe? Geopolitics, Economics, and Security after Russia's Invasion": The Nanovic Forum with Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Former President of Croatia

Time: Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: Hesburgh Center Auditorium

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs will host Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the youngest president of Croatia as well as the first woman to be elected to the office, at the Nanovic Forum. This in-person lecture,...

Italian Research Seminar: "'Permettereste a vostro figlio di sposare Lola?': Latent Fascism, American Culture, and Blackness in Postwar Italy"

Time: Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: Rare Books and Special Collections 102 Hesburgh Library

The Fall lectures are being planned in a hybrid online and in-person format. The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Jessica Harris of St. John's University.

Signs of the Times Lecture: "Parks as Islands of Opportunity: Stewardship, Innovation, and Public Service"

Time: Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: Geddes Hall, McNeill Library

"The Signs of the Times" series connects campus to community experts around justice topics. The theme for the 2022–23 series is Leadership in Justice and Hope. In October, we are excited to host Jan McGowan, Park Interpreter of St. Joseph County Parks. ...

Lecture "Greening the Church"

Time: Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: via Zoom

Part of "Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary" series. Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Rev. Ambrose Carroll, founder of Green the Church, explores how to create health and prosperity at the community level by transforming how government...

Lecture: "The CROWN Act"

Time: Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: via Zoom

Part of the "Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary" lecture series. Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Wendy Greene, director of the Center for Law, Policy, and Social Action and professor of Law at Drexel University, explores the systematic...

Saturdays with the Saints: Saint Mary in Dante

Time: Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: Andrews Auditorium

Presented by Leonard DeLorenzo, McGrath Institute for Church Life. Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series in Geddes Hall, that combines the university's rich traditions of Catholic faith and spirited game days. The event is free and...

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