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Art and History
Explore human forms of expression, innovation, and creativity that remind us of the uniqueness of the human spirit in the past, present, and future. Discover conversations that impact our shared history, our current cultures, and our potential futures.
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A Conversation with Cynthia Cruz
Born to a father whose education was severed at grammar school for field labor, Cynthia Cruz transformed feelings of shame into a determination that earned her a Ph.D. in philosophy and fueled the publication of nine poetry...
Aria Aber and Jamil Jan Kochai
This event brings poet Aria Aber and author Jamil Jan Kochai into conversation with Mehak Faizal Khan, Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone Literature at the University of Notre Dame. The event is sponsored by Kroc Institute...
Urban Planning in Nazi Germany
Based on his 2025 Architecture Book Award title, Urban Planning in Nazi Germany, Dr. Harald Bodenschatz will speak about urban planning under Hitler’s regime. The award citation reads, “…(the book) is both exhaustive and...
Martyr!
Experience the profound beauty of Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! in this soul-stirring conversation about the ways literature bridges the gaps of exile, turning grief into a vibrant quest for meaning. By examining the mechanics of...
Celebrating 20 Years of the Journal of Global History
Join us at Notre Dame London for a special lecture and reception marking the 20th anniversary of the Journal of Global History (JGH), one of the leading publications in the field. The event will include a distinguished lecture by...
Art in the Ruins: Engaging Secular Culture
Join a Cambridge scholar and former Sons of Bill guitarist, a surf-instructor-turned-governance expert, and a missionary priest as they navigate secular culture. From “balancing the ship” of institutions to finding grace in...
Business
In a time of increasing globalization, American businesses can be greatly impacted by consumer habits around the world. Notre Dame experts expand upon macroeconomic and consumer trends both domestically and internationally.
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Accountability in a Sustainable World Conference
Driving a sustainable future requires more than commitment; it relies on engagement, dialogue, and shared expertise. Now in its 5th year, the 2025 Accountability in a Sustainable World Conference, as the flagship event of ASWQ,...
Looking Back to Look Forward
Priest, professor, historian, and… real estate guru? Get ready to be fascinated by the history of Notre Dame and American Catholicism in a dynamic conversation between Fr. Pete McCormick, C.S.C. ’06 M.Div., ’15 EMBA,...
Why Well-Run Companies Will Continue to Fail
What will the process of creation and renewal look like by 2035? How will we leverage innovation to meet the challenges of the future in areas from our power grid and collaborative intelligence to community health and resilience...
A Brief History of the Future
What will the process of creation and renewal look like by 2035? How will we leverage innovation to meet the challenges of the future in areas from our power grid and collaborative intelligence to community health and resilience...
A (different) Innovation Journey
What will the process of creation and renewal look like by 2035? How will we leverage innovation to meet the challenges of the future in areas from our power grid and collaborative intelligence to community health and resilience...
Game Changers: Unlock Your Career Playbook
Join us for an engaging talk with successful Notre Dame coaches: Volleyball's Salima Rockwell, Fencing's Gia Kvaratskhelia, and the Catalino Family Head Hockey Coach Brock Sheahan ’08. Discover how their approach to building...
Career Development
ThinkND is here to support you over the course of your career and during transitions with series that consider questions of meaning, purpose, and flourishing. Shift your mindsets and think critically about your career.
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Future-proof Your Career: The AI Advantage
We are in a fast-changing marketplace with the bombardment of technological innovation and economic changes. Our experts shared their research-backed insights into how AI and technology will affect the future of work and the...
Future-proof Your Career: The AI Advantage
We are in a fast-changing marketplace with the bombardment of technological innovation and economic changes. Our experts will share their research-backed insights into how AI and technology will affect the future of work and the...
The Role of Motivation and Engagement in Digital Learning: Toward a Learning Experience Design Model
A large body of research clearly indicates that when learners believe that information is interesting, valuable and intrinsically meaningful, they are more likely to learn the information, and to engage in behaviors related to...
Visual Storytelling: Using Graphics to Maximize Vocabulary Acquisition
This presentation examined the use of images, sound, text and video using tools like Thinglink, Adobe Spark, and Panopto to have students learn and enhance language skills through visual storytelling. Presented by the Center for...
Reimagining Fulfillment During Midlife And Beyond
Join us for a conversation with Bernie Borges, host of the Midlife Fulfilled Podcast, who has made it his mission to help others find fulfillment in what he refers to as various “seasons of midlife.” Bernie and the Inspired...
Alumnae Career Panel: Women in Sports Tech, Youth Sports, and Sports Media
Join a panel of industry leaders and Notre Dame alumnae to learn about the work they do in the sports tech, youth sports, and sports communication worlds, how they got there, and what advice they have for students interested in...
Education
Equip yourself for the classroom of the future with insights and innovative strategies for teaching and learning from Notre Dame experts. Explore topics from curriculum design to student well-being to inspire both you and your students.
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Connecting Coursework to Life Through Community-Based Learning and VR
Among the most fundamental promises education makes is this: What you learn here, on campus, will help you when you’re out there, in the world. Learning researchers call this far transfer, describing the process by which...
Bringing the Term Paper into the Classroom
With the advent of AI, many are questioning the traditional model of having students do much of the heavy lifting of a course on their own. If outside of class students can prompt AI to do homework, write essays, and create...
Teaching Students When (Not) to Use AI
When satellite maps became available on our phones, some wondered what we would lose by becoming less oriented to the places we live or visit. But most of us have used these maps for many years now and find them to be incredibly...
Making the Space to Reimagine Teaching
When you become a teacher, you commit to a life of learning—not just for your students, but for yourself. You can feel totally comfortable and confident in your teaching practices, and then suddenly some new technology or some...
Recognizing Not All Brains Think Alike
Over the last couple of decades, we’ve seen an explosion of books and articles about what’s often called “brain-based learning,” as neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists study and explain what circuits are firing...
AI, Cheating, and Trusting Students to be Human
If you follow the conversations about higher education on social media or in the news, a primary topic on people’s minds is the impact of artificial intelligence on the purposes and processes of an education. For better or...
Global Affairs
Learn how Notre Dame aims to affect positive, significant, and sustainable change in the world. From issues surrounding citizenship and migration to human development and international politics, engage in conversations that seek to improve our global society.
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Faithful Hope: Religion and Resilience in Ukraine
This essential panel explores Ukraine’s religious pluralism, where faith galvanizes democratic resilience rather than division. Experts analyze “hope as a discipline” and interfaith solidarity, revealing how historical...
Pathways and Impediments to Peace in Sudan
The conflict in Sudan is a protracted, multi-layered crisis driven by entrenched political divisions, persistent fiscal fragility and corruption, internal ethnic and sectarian tensions, vulnerabilities to climate change, and...
The Age of Global Militarism: Origins and Consequences
Ronald Krebs is Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy (Oxford UP, 2021), and author of Narrative and...
The 32nd Annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy featuring the Honorable Samantha Power
The Honorable Samantha Power, an Irish-American journalist, diplomat, and government official, will headline the 32nd Annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy, hosted by the Kroc Institute for International Peace...
Pathways and Impediments to Peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The conflict in the eastern region of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a protracted, multi-layered crisis driven by competition over mineral resources, internal tensions, and the involvement of numerous armed groups and...
What We Can Learn from Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy
Historian Olesya Khromeychuk challenges us to view democracy not as a static inheritance, but as a grueling “learning curve” forged in resistance. Centering on the concept of “hope as an emergency tool,” Khromeychuk...
Health and Society
From timely issues of public health and caregiving, to the fight for social justice, listen to experts from the University weigh in on the historical impacts and present and future consequences of the topics that matter most to us all.
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Hope and Healing
“I wanted to go to college, do my four years, get out, and start making a bunch of money,” Dr. Tom Catena told a capacity crowd in November 2025 at the Institute for Social Concerns’ 2025 Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C.,...
Preparing for Evaluation
King County Metro and Notre Dame’s LEO lab are re-engineering social service delivery, codifying racial equity through a transformative researcher-practitioner model. This isn’t just data—it’s a co-creative learning...
Dying Well: Medicine, Ethics, and Dignity at the End of Life
Efforts to expand physician-assisted suicide, often called Medical Aid in Dying, or MAiD, are gaining momentum around the country. Twelve states currently allow assisted-suicide and an additional thirteen are currently...
Bridging Gaps, Empowering Communities
AI holds immense promise, yet Ketan Paranjape warns the “last mile” remains a formidable barrier. From rural Indiana to India, infrastructure gaps and cultural nuances challenge the scalability of digital health. Explore how...
AI Meets the Healing Arts
Join Dr. Michelle Hermiston, an Iowa farm kid turned global oncology leader, as she bridges the gap between childhood leukemia survival rates in Vietnam and much higher survival rates in high-income countries. Witness how...
Habit, Ritual, & Well-being
Virtues & Vocations is an aspirational, cross professional learning community that understands thriving professions are the backbone of thriving societies and knows professional excellence requires both competence and character....
Law and Politics
From religious liberty and ethical public policies governing emerging technologies, to political discourse and threats to our democracy, explore the world of law and politics through a uniquely Notre Dame lens.
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A Conversation about Legacy: Apartheid’s Shadow
In celebration of Black History Month 2026 and as one of many signature events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Black Alumni of Notre Dame, Notre Dame clubs around the country are invited to host a screening of the...
Equality, Slavery, and the Founding
In what sense are “all men . . . created equal”? What is human liberty? What is prosperity, and how is wealth created? In 1776 these questions were addressed and acted upon in ways that have created the modern world....
How Anglo-Saxons and Celts Remade the World in 1776
In what sense are “all men . . . created equal”? What is human liberty? What is prosperity, and how is wealth created? In 1776 these questions were addressed and acted upon in ways that have created the modern world....
The Declaration of Independence, Social Compact Theory & Principles of the American Revolution
In what sense are “all men . . . created equal”? What is human liberty? What is prosperity, and how is wealth created? In 1776 these questions were addressed and acted upon in ways that have created the modern world....
Witnessing Hope and Reconciliation: Human Dignity and the Death Penalty
In the Papal Bull for the Jubilee Year of Hope, Spes non Confundit, Pope Francis urged Christian believers to unite in opposition to the death penalty, which is “a provision at odds with the Christian faith and one that...
Looking (More Closely) at Arms Racing
Erik Gartzke is currently serving as Scholar-in-Residence at USCYBERCOM. Join us on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET. For more information visit the event website. Register here Dr. Erik Gartzke is...
Leadership
No matter the industry in which you work, leadership skills are critical to your success. Look to Notre Dame experts for guidance on finding your purpose and becoming a more effective leader.
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Answering Notre Dame’s Call
Lily Joy Santos ’28 and Giovanni Nasello ’27 are much more than just voices in your voicemail. As student callers at ND Listens, they embody the spirit of gratitude, curiosity, and care that makes the Notre Dame family so...
Fr. Monk Malloy Reflects on His Notre Dame Journey
For Rev. Edward “Monk” Malloy, C.S.C., president emeritus of Notre Dame and longtime priest-in-residence at Sorin Hall, leadership at Our Lady’s University begins with faith, humility, and service—virtues instilled by his...
In Tough Times Notre Dame Leans Into Mission
For Shannon Cullinan ’93, executive vice president at the University of Notre Dame, there is no challenge Notre Dame cannot navigate—so long as it leans in and stays true to its mission. In this episode of For Good, Shannon...
Micah Shrewsberry on Coaching with Purpose
Micah Shrewsberry began his career just a few miles away from Notre Dame’s campus in a coaching role that required him to drive the team bus and wash the players’ jerseys. From those humble beginnings, Micah has steadily...
Notre Dame Leaders: Innovators in Medicine
Join YoungND for a virtual Notre Dame Leaders speaker series event, “Innovators in Medicine” for a conversation with 2025 Domer Dozen Honorees about reimagining healthcare through innovation, empathy, and global...
Leading with Integrity and Purpose
During this installment of Leadership in Public Conversation, we heard about leadership from a global perspective from Claudio Orrego, Governor of the Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile. Sharing about his experience attending...
Religion and Philosophy
Guided by the ideal of “faith seeking understanding,” discover lifelong learning at the intersection of faith and reason through the study of Catholicism, history of Christianity, world religions, moral theology, and philosophy.
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God’s Existence
Many philosophers – and even theologians – believe that Immanuel Kant put an end to all attempts to prove God’s existence. However, is the case truly closed? Dr. Sebastian Ostritsch, from Heidelberg University, argues that...
Christology and Christ’s Knowledge
This panel illuminates how Christ’s human intellect—from the Transfiguration to infused knowledge—perfects our nature. Experts navigate the mysterious intersection of divinity and human intellect, offering a high-impact...
An Enduring Habit: Lay Death and Burial in Religious Clothing
Each year, beginning in 2004, the Medieval Institute graduate students organize a lecture, inviting a scholar to speak and conduct a subsequent graduate seminar. This year’s speaker is Dr. Kirsten Schut (King’s College,...
Catholicism and Feminism Roundtable
In a culture increasingly defined by ideological silos and digital fragmentation, the search for a coherent identity can leave women feeling isolated. We invite you to a space of deep encounter and vital conversation that...
Nostra Aetate and Catholic-Jewish Relations
Listen in as Avraham Burg sits down with Dr. Karma Ben Johanan, historian of Jewish-Christian relations and a faculty member at Hebrew University’s Department of Comparative Religion. Together, they discuss how Ben Johanan’s...
Resurrecting Justice
For centuries, the dominant concept of justice in the West has been the constant will to render another his due. The Bible, though, contains a different way of thinking about justice: comprehensive right relationship. This...
Science and Technology
Remain on the cutting edge of education and research in science, technology, engineering, and math while exploring the responsibility of ethical decision-making and how to critically think about and evaluate these new advances.
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Catholicism’s Humanist Perspective on AI
The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence is often framed as a purely technical or economic challenge, yet its most profound impact lies in how it forces us to confront the essence of our own identity. By viewing AI through a...
Shaping the Future of Voting with Technology Innovations
The intersection of Artificial Intelligence, democratic integrity, and election security represents the primary frontier for modern governance. Dr. Juan Gilbert’s pioneering research establishes a strategic benchmark in this...
AI Powered Enterprise Reinvention
How does a major enterprise move AI from isolated projects to the core of its business strategy? Arnab Chakraborty, Co-CEO of the Telstra-Accenture Data & AI Joint Venture and Chief Responsible AI Officer at Accenture, and Dayle...
Ideas, Startups, and Healthcare Tech
How will the next wave of AI transform healthcare? Notre Dame graduate and healthcare investor Kevin O’Brien ’88 offers a fascinating look at agentic AI, the autonomous systems designed to tackle complex workflows. Discover...
Finding Virtue in the Generative Revolution
Generative AI offers incredible power, but how does it shape our human character? Tom Stapleford, associate professor in Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies, applies the timeless wisdom of virtue ethics to the generative...
The Algorithmic Lens: AI in the Film, Television, and Theater Industry
Artificial intelligence is colliding with the art of filmmaking, presenting a new variable in storytelling. Ted Mandell, associate teaching professor of film production at Notre Dame, sits down with The New AI team to explore AI...