College of Arts and Letters
The Power of Images: Art in the Public Square
This video discusses āThe Art of Good Government: Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico of Sienaā by Elizabeth Lev, and āMistuned Chords of Memory: Display and...
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Shield or Spear? The Power of Speech
Marc DeGirolami (St. Johnās University) on āHigher Purposes of Free Speechā, and Michael Moreland (Villanova University) on āThe State and Freedom of Speech.ā Session...
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Fr. John Wauck: Mightier than the Sword: St Thomas More and Alexander Solzhenitsyn
This lecture features Fr. John Wauck, a professor at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome. Keynote address at the Center for Ethics and Cultureās 2018 Fall...
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Liberalism and the Invisible Hand
Presented by Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School) at the Center for Ethics and Cultureās 2018 Fall Conference, āHigher Powers.ā The Conference explored the perennial problem...
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Old Forgotten Words and Ancient Melodies
This talk features Carole Baker (Duke Divinity School) on āThe Icon as Exemplary Image: Reflections on Iconology and the Visual Artsā, Jay Martin (University of Notre Dame) on...
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A House Divided – Polarization in Our Common Life
āOvercoming Polarization through Catholic Social Teachingā by John Carr (Georgetown University) and āChurch and State in a Time of Polarizationā by Mark Movsesian (St....
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Mind, Body, Spirit, and State
This session features Lauris Kaldjian, M.D. (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine) on āConscientious Practice, Religious Freedom, and the Sovereignty of Godā and...
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Art and Truth in a Fearsome Century
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, son of Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, discusses his fatherās life, work, and legacy with professor Daniel J. Mahoney (Assumption College). This...
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U.S. Poverty Numbers Continue to Decline, Researchers Find
A more accurate measure of the poverty rate, based on how much people consume, highlights the dramatic decline in poverty over the past four decades, a fact that is missed by the...
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Flushing Peace Down The Toilet: Strategies for the End of the World As We Know It
The question of water and sanitation justice is ubiquitous in the literature about peace, justice, and conflict these days. From Standing Rock to South Africa, people have...
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Notre Dame Researchers to Study Cancer Immunotherapy and the Dengue Virus Vaccine
Two postdoctoral scholars from the University of Notre Dame have received Postdoctoral Training Awards in Translational Research from the Indiana Clinical and Translational...
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Why āFrankensteinā Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences
Mary Shelleyās classic novel, Frankenstein, is the most widely taught novel at the university level around the world. Upon the novelās bicentennial, this talk addresses the...
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