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Notre Dame Leaders: Innovators in Medicine
Join YoungND for a virtual Notre Dame Leaders speaker series event, “Innovators in Medicine” for a conversation...
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...
Christology and Christ’s Knowledge
This panel illuminates how Christ’s human intellect—from the Transfiguration to infused knowledge—perfects our...
Is Empathy a Threat? with Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Critic
Jennifer Szalai recently published a piece in the New York Times about several recent books that view empathy...
AI Meets the Healing Arts
Join Dr. Michelle Hermiston, an Iowa farm kid turned global oncology leader, as she bridges the gap between childhood...
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 Age of Global Militarism: Origins and Consequences
Ronald Krebs is Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of...
Pathways and Impediments to Peace in Sudan
The conflict in Sudan is a protracted, multi-layered crisis driven by entrenched political divisions, persistent fiscal...
Urban Planning in Nazi Germany
Based on his 2025 Architecture Book Award title, Urban Planning in Nazi Germany, Dr. Harald Bodenschatz will speak...
Aria Aber and Jamil Jan Kochai
This event brings poet Aria Aber and author Jamil Jan Kochai into conversation with Mehak Faizal Khan, Assistant...
Eclipses in Outer Space
Lauren Weiss Ph.D., assistant professor of physics and astronomy, will explore how astrophysicists use eclipses of...
Preparing for Evaluation
King County Metro and Notre Dame’s LEO lab are re-engineering social service delivery, codifying racial equity...
Bridging Gaps, Empowering Communities
AI holds immense promise, yet Ketan Paranjape warns the “last mile” remains a formidable barrier. From rural...
God’s Existence
Many philosophers – and even theologians – believe that Immanuel Kant put an end to all attempts to prove God’s...
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...
Infinite Persons and Mass Politics: The Case of the Chilean Falange Nacional
Can theology defend democracy? In the twentieth century, prominent political theorists who aimed to protect democratic...
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...
Future-proof Your Career: The AI Advantage
We are in a fast-changing marketplace with the bombardment of technological innovation and economic changes. Our...
Sickness and Healing
This episode of Minding Scripture reflects on sickness, healing, and isolation in the Bible and in the Qur’an, with...
Exploring the Intersection of Faith and Music
Draw on centuries-old tradition of singing Psalms and Canticles in the Liturgy of the Hours to discover a conceptual...
Faithful Hope: Religion and Resilience in Ukraine
This essential panel explores Ukraine’s religious pluralism, where faith galvanizes democratic resilience rather than...
Can Financial Markets Shape Citizens’ Votes? Evidence from the 2022 Brazilian Election
It is well documented that elected politicians care about financial market reactions to political and economic events,...
Everyday Holiness: Nan Tulchinsky
Sit courtside with Nan Tulchinsky, a longtime scorekeeper for Notre Dame Women’s and Men’s Basketball, as she...
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...
Everyday Holiness: Dr. Carol Latronica ’77
Listen as Dr. Carol Latronica ’77, Rector of Welsh Family Hall, provides insight into her life and work in student...
Leaving the Beaten Path
Listen in to a conversation with Dr. Andrea Robiglio, professor of History of Philosophy at KU Leuven, about the wide...
Bill Mattison
Bill Mattison ’03 Th.D. is the Wilsey Professor of Theology at Notre Dame and author of Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on...
A Conversation with Cardinal John Onaiyekan on the Catholic Church as Peacebuilder in Africa
In this episode, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies at the Kroc Institute, hosts a...
A New Humanism
“What is the city but the people,” wrote Shakespeare. In this spirit, architect Christian Sottile will share 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...
Qur’an Criticism
What importance do developments in critical scholarship on the Qur’an have for the life of faith? How have Muslims...
When Numbers Lie: Algorithms and AI
Data is the new gold, mined and used (for better or worse) every single day. Algorithms and artificial intelligence...
Conducting with Conviction
Draw on centuries-old tradition of singing Psalms and Canticles in the Liturgy of the Hours to discover a conceptual...
Going on a Medieval Vision Quest
Listen in to a conversation with Dr. Ryan Szpiech, associate professor of Spanish and director of the Center for Middle...
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...
Everyday Holiness: Sister Mary Lynch, S.S.J.
Listen to Sister Mary Lynch, S.S.J., the longtime rector of McGlinn Hall, and she shares her calling to religious life...
Racism Roadtrip
This episode features three Keough School of Global Affairs students who took part in the course “Racial Justice In...
The Jewishness of the New Testament
This episode we welcome a distinguished New Testament scholar, Amy Jill Levine, who is the world expert on the...
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...
The Secret Social Life of Bacteria
Have you ever wondered how bacteria communicate, cooperate, and even compete in ways that impact our health,...
Exploring Global Catholicism
Draw on centuries-old tradition of singing Psalms and Canticles in the Liturgy of the Hours to discover a conceptual...
Building Rapport in Online Courses
With Notre Dame’s Summer Online courses set to get underway in June, we turn our attention to teaching...
Filming the Birth of the Spanish Language
Listen in to part two of a conversation with Dr. Ryan Szpiech, associate professor of Spanish and director of the...
SheLeads4Peace Summer School
Every year, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) hosts the SheLeads4Peace Summer School, a...
Everyday Holiness: Tami Schmitz
Listen as Tami Schmitz, Associate Director of Pastoral Care in Campus Ministry, tells about her strong foundation of...
Religious Pluralism
Under the conditions of globalization, more religious people than ever find themselves in close contact with members of...
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...
Behind the Folds: The Mathematics of Origami
Origami combines art and science to transform a flat sheet of paper into a 3-dimensional sculpture. This presentation...
Discussing Donkeys in Lion-suits
Listen in to a chat with Dr. Emily Mahan ’21 M.A., ’22 Ph.D., who received her Ph.D. from Notre Dame’s Medieval...
Everyday Holiness: Sr. Gregory Healy, OSB, ’10 M.Div.
Journey with Sr. Gregory Healy, OSB, a Benedictine nun who has discovered God’s calling in life through the beauty of...
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...
Everyday Holiness: Dr. Jim O’Connell ’70
Walk the streets of Boston with Dr. Jim O’Connell as he describes his long path to a medical career and the...
Touring Through Centuries of Philosophy
Listen in to a chat with Dr. Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy in Late Antiquity and in the Islamic World at the...