Saturday Scholars
These discussions feature Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times. Each lecture and Q&A is presented in the Snite Museum’s Annenberg Auditorium on a home football game Saturday.
Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature
World War II was a time of paradox: victory amidst catastrophe, democracy spread by violence, individualism drafted for propaganda. Looking at poetry and novels helps us see how...
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Healing Words, Healing Works: Supporting Recovery from Child Abuse and Neglect
Child abuse and neglect leads to destructive behavioral and physical health problems among millions of children each year. This talk will address how to support recovery from...
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Rembrandt’s Etchings: Intimate Objects of Beauty and Faith
In 1991, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame received a gift of 70 original Rembrandt etchings. For the first time in many years this entire group of...
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God and the Good Life: Notre Dame’s Innovative New Way of Teaching the Big Questions
Philosophy has always been a core component of Catholic education. This lecture looks at how Notre Dame is developing an innovative new curriculum to immerse students in the Big...
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The Power of Evidence: Transforming the Fight Against Poverty Through Research
The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) is answering Fr. Sorin’s challenge to be a “powerful force for good” by using economic research and evaluation to...
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A Rabbi, a Priest, and an Imam Walk into a Coffee Shop
Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived side by side for centuries in the medieval Mediterranean world and, especially among the decently educated, knew a lot about each others’...
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The Ellsworth Outrage, 1854: Or How 19th Century Jesuits Built a Global Catholicism
How did modern Catholicism become global? This talk uses a violent attack on a Swiss Jesuit in a Maine small town to tell a story about globalization in the world’s largest,...
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NARCOMEDIA: Latinidad, Drug Economies, and the Cultural Politics of the Kingpin
This talk features Jason Ruiz, an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Ruiz covers his research which includes discussing...
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Broadcasting the Bicentennial Birthday Bash: History, Myth, and Ideology in Television’s Celebration of 1776
Accompanied by rare clips from the prestigious Peabody Awards Collection, this presentation analyzes how television programming from across the United States in 1976 celebrated...
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What Judges Want: Goals and Personalities on the U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court justices are often viewed as rational actors who strategically pursue multiple goals, including policy influence, collegiality, and leisure. Yet these models...
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Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., Among the Notre Dame Presidents
Notre Dame’s 17 presidents, from Father Edward Sorin to Father John I. Jenkins, have advanced what was initially a regional preparatory school into an internationally recognized...
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