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Brave New World: Great Power Politics in a Future with Peer Hegemons
Join us on Tuesday, March 14, 2026, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET. for the ONDISC Seminar with John Mearsheimer and...
The Cost of Ambition
Miroslav Volf is the founder & director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. Join us for a discussion of his most...
Millennial Aesthetics and Global Politics
This event brings poet Aria Aber and author Jamil Jan Kochai into conversation with Mehak Faizal Khan, Assistant...
Where are We in the Journey to a Knowledgeable Assistant?
Discover the future of AI with Meta Chief Scientist Xin “Luna” Dong. As AI assistants transition from chatbots to...
Bill Mattison
Bill Mattison ’03 Th.D. is the Wilsey Professor of Theology at Notre Dame and author of Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on...
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...
How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Stop examining the world from the outside and start reading its patterns. Join author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous...
Mammon or Marriage: How to Find Fulfillment in Life and Love
Dating, marriage and childbearing are dropping precipitously among today’s young adults. Yet social science shows...
The Ideas That Made the Modern World
Explore the revolutionary convergence of 1776, where liberty and prosperity intertwined, as you interrogate the...
Conducting with Conviction
Draw on centuries-old tradition of singing Psalms and Canticles in the Liturgy of the Hours to discover a conceptual...
Racism Roadtrip
This episode features three Keough School of Global Affairs students who took part in the course “Racial Justice In...
What Would You Fight For? 20 Years of Storytelling
To commemorate two decades of the iconic What Would You Fight For? series, the University of Notre Dame recently hosted...
Sustainable Hope: Energy, Environment, and the Future of Ukraine
Marking the 80th anniversary of the UN Charter, this panel explores the shift from an “ideology of destruction” to...
AI and the Classrooms of the Future
Navigate the evolving generational divide in our classrooms. Join Fr. Nate Wills, C.S.C., Ph.D. ’99, ’03 M.Ed.,...
A Conversation with Ruben Reyes, Jr.
Listen in to a conversation with author Ruben Reyes, Jr.. interviewed by Notre Dame Ph.D. student Paulina...
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...
Qur’an Criticism
What importance do developments in critical scholarship on the Qur’an have for the life of faith? How have Muslims...
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...
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...
Building Rapport in Online Courses
With Notre Dame’s Summer Online courses set to get underway in June, we turn our attention to teaching...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Religious Pluralism
Under the conditions of globalization, more religious people than ever find themselves in close contact with members of...
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...
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: 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...
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...
Everyday Holiness: Nan Tulchinsky
Sit courtside with Nan Tulchinsky, a longtime scorekeeper for Notre Dame Women’s and Men’s Basketball, as she...
Everyday Holiness: Bishop Bob Lombardo, CFR, ’79
Listen to Bishop Bob Lombardo, CFR, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, as he shares his path towards religious life and...
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...
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...