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The 2023 Conway Lectures: Women and Knowledge in the Middle Ages (DAY ONE)
The annual Conway Lectures bring senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines. This year, our speakers...
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The 2023 Conway Lectures: Women and Knowledge in the Middle Ages (DAY TWO)
The annual Conway Lectures bring senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines. This year, our speakers...
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Decolonizing Scholarship in Feminist Studies/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies with Marisol LeBrón
Marisol LeBrón is an Associate Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is presenting “Debt and...
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The 2022 Laura Shannon Prize with Pamela Cheek: “The Literary ‘Me Too’ of the 18th Century: Women’s Writing and the Capital of Virtue”
How did eighteenth-century Western European literature explore and exploit sexual assault? And what happened when women wrote about it? This talk examines the literary innovation...
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Mother’s Helper
A decade ago, while working at a foster care agency, Emily Rupchock '20 M.N.A. befriended a girl named Brit, who had been in the system for most of her life. “We would get...
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Empowering Women Through Religious Liberty
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative hosted a discussion about how religious liberty protections can empower women....
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Three-part Zoom series on neuroscience and behavior launches in March
How your brain works impacts not only your behavior, but also your worldview. Early environments and experiences affect the brain and overall health, research has shown....
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Most productive workforce may require indefinite affirmative action, study shows
Affirmative action policies have been debated for decades and Supreme Court rulings have guided how universities structure their admission policies. It stands to reason that...
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The Burden of Lockdown: Understanding Gender Inequality in the Midst of COVID-19
It will come as no surprise that, in many countries of the world, housework and care are still mainly seen as ‘a woman’s job.’ Despite many having full- or part-time work,...
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Tracery
This sculpture was created by Deborah Butterfield, an American artist known for her depictions of horses. Butterfield uses everyday, often discarded objects like sticks and metal...
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Women’s Suffrage and Political Barbies
In the first episode, we drop in on political science professor Christina Wolbrecht. She’s co-authored a book titled, “A Century of Votes for Women,” which looks at how...
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Rising Together: Gender Equity in Business
In this video, Joe Holt, Teaching Professor of Ethics in the Mendoza College of Business, hosts a panel of current Notre Dame MBA students who are involved with gender equality...
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