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Le Jongleur de Notre Dame
The year 1939 had been rude to Richard Sullivan. A sweet-tempered and longsuffering professor of English and creative writing at Notre Dame, Sullivan ’30 maintained an active...
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Forum 18-19: “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 &...
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Fighting for Life in the Digital Age
This talk features Ernest Morrell. Morrell is the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education and Director of the Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is an...
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Why ‘Frankenstein’ Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences
Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Frankenstein, is the most widely taught novel at the university level around the world. Upon the novel’s bicentennial, this talk addresses the...
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Writing Thoreau: A ‘Masterpiece’ Biography
Hermit, gadfly, scientist, crank, teacher, saint—and one of America’s greatest writers: even Thoreau’s closest friends said he was too many-sided and mischievous to fit...
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It’s Raining Film at the Browning Cinema!
April is an incredibly busy month in the Browning Cinema with 30 different titles screening. Ted and Ricky do a rundown of some options for indoor fun if the month makes good on...
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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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The Heart of Darkness
Talks given at the 2017 Notre Dame Fall Conference. Speakers include Sr. Ann Astell (Notre Dame) on “Cut to the Heart: Compunction in Henry James’s ‘Altar of the Dead'”...
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Virtuous Evildoers
This talk is given by Gilbert Meilaender at the 2017 Notre Dame Fall Conference. This was a part of the Fall Conference of 2017 called, “Through Every Human Heart.” The...
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From Grammar to Metaphysics, From Adjectives to Evils
The keynote address given by Alasdair MacIntyre was part of the Fall Conference of 2017 called “Through Every Human Heart.” The Conference explored the perennial problem of...
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Wallace Stevens, Beauty, and the Catholic Imagination
Closing keynote address of the 17th Annual Fall Conference, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at the Harvard Law...
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Visions of Lewis and Tolkien
Colloquium presented at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s 17th Annual Fall Conference, “You Are Beauty: Exploring the Catholic Imagination.” The speakers are...
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