Notre Dame Forum
Since 2005, the Notre Dame Forum has featured talks on issues of importance to the University, the nation, and the larger world, including globalization, the role of presidential debates, immigration, sustainability, and the place of faith in a pluralistic society.
The Suppliants Project: Ukraine
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.
watch videoIndigenous Responses to Climate Change: Perspectives from the Americas
Please join us for the first ever event organized collaboratively by the University of Notre Dame’s Latin-American Global Centers (Brazil, México, and Chile) and the Americas...
View Event‘Open your aperture’: Notre Dame Forum focuses on climate change, its moral impact and potential solutions
The University of Notre Dame opened the 2021 Notre Dame Forum on Friday (Sept. 10) with an announcement from President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., that the University has...
watch videoNotre Dame commits to carbon neutrality by 2050
The University of Notre Dame committed to becoming a carbon neutral campus by 2050 and to a reduction in carbon dioxide of at least 65 percent from 2005 levels within the next...
Read ArticleArchbishop Charles Scicluna in Conversation with Students
In the second major event of the 2019-20 Notre Dame Forum series, Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna, adjunct secretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the...
watch videoThe Church Crisis: Where Are We Now?
In opening remarks for the inaugural event of the 2019-20 Notre Dame Forum, “‘Rebuild My Church’: Crisis and Response,” Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the...
watch video“Relieved by Prayer:” Power, Shame, and Redemption in Shakespeare’s Drama
Rowan Williams, renowned theologian and former Archbishop of Canterbury, delivered a keynote lecture as part of the 2018-19 Notre Dame Forum. Co-sponsored by “Religion &...
watch videoGlobal Citizenship for Human Development: A Conversation with Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus, a social entrepreneur, banker and economist from Bangladesh who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts...
watch videoViews from the West Wing: How Global Trends Shape U.S. Foreign Policy
Throughout history, U.S. presidential Chiefs of Staff have held a front row seat to some of the most important and influential events in our nation’s history — from tense...
watch videoTension City: The Televised Presidential Debates
As part of the 2016-17 ND Forum, Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission for Public Debates, Dorothy Ridings, former president of the League of Women Voters, and past...
watch videoThe Church and Islam: 50 Years after Nostra Aetate
Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald focuses on “Nostra Aetate,” the Council’s pivotal declaration on non-Christian religions, and the influence it has had on relations between...
watch videoThe Once and Future Liberal Arts
Richard Brodhead, president of Duke University, explored “The Once and Future Liberal Arts” in a talk as part of the 2014-15 Notre Dame Forum on November 4 in the Hesburgh...
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