American Studies
Trans Sans Frontières: Transtopia, the Asia Pacific, and the Politics of Historical Difference
Wednesday, 09/07/2022, at 4:00 p.m. ET – The concept of transtopia, which posits a continuum model of transness, activates a space of historical inquiry that exceeds both the...
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On Baseball and Critiquing Things You Love
Katherine Walden is an assistant teaching professor of American studies at Notre Dame and an affiliated faculty member of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center. Her research...
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Fr. Ted Said… Civil & Human Rights: Dianne Pinderhughes
Dianne Pinderhughes, Notre Dame Presidential Faculty Fellow, Chair and Professor in the Department of Africana Studies, and Professor of Political Science, speaks as part of the...
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Transformación
Jason Ruiz, associate professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, does a near-perfect impression of Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Steve Murphy, the...
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The Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign
Join Bob Schmuhl for an analysis of media coverage and how it has shaped the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Schmuhl is the Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American...
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On Real News and Purple Rain
Here, Notre Dame’s Richard Jones, formerly of The New York Times, and WNIT’s Victoria St. Martin, an alumna of The Washington Post, join host Ted Fox to discuss, among other...
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Blessed Miguel Pro: The “Folly” of Martyrdom
Professor Timothy Matovina, Chair of the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, presents on Blessed Miguel Pro. This lecture is the fifth of seven lectures in the...
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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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The 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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The Power of My Pen to Describe: Ten American Diaries, 1750-1900
The Power of my Pen to Describe is a digital exhibit highlighting ten unpublished American manuscript diaries from the holdings in Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh...
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