Art and History
Fighting to Build on Tradition
On the Navajo Nation, a territory encompassing 27,000 square miles across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, sits a lone Catholic school — Saint Michael Indian School. There, 400...
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Treasures of the Sinai Desert: The History and Marvels of the Ancient Monastery of St. Catherine
The biblical importance of Mt. Sinai led to the creation of one of the world’s oldest monasteries, St. Catherine’s in Egypt. Today, this monastery houses some of the finest...
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Professor and Poet James Matthew Wilson on the Importance of Writing
James Matthew Wilson is a poet and associate professor in religion and literature in the department of Humanities and Augustinian Tradions at Villanova University. In this...
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Unearthing the Past
To learn about the past, most students dig into ancient texts. Others dig in ancient lands. At two sites in Israel, Notre Dame students uncovered materials that may enhance common...
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Living Stones
If they were jet-lagged, they didn’t show it. Just as the sun was rising on a Sunday in late July, a dozen Notre Dame undergraduate students filed into the lobby of the...
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Mary Ellen O’Connell and Samuel Moyn on Legal Arguments for Prohibition of Force
This episode is the second part of a four part conversation featuring Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell talking about themes emerging from her 2019 book, “The Art of Law in the...
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Episode 3: Jesus in the Qur’an
Jesus is a figure of great importance in the holy scripture of Islam, in the Qur’an. The portrait of Jesus in the Qur’an has many common features with that of the New...
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Signal Jammer: ‘Recent Paintings’Â
Featuring paintings that combine darkly comedic text with pop-culture images, Lahr forms a narrative about working-class identity and the shaping of gender norms through mass...
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Musician J. J. Wright on His New Album, Prayer, and Sacred Music
J. J. Wright is a composer with roots in jazz and sacred music. He is the director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir, and his gig list includes recording and performing with Caribbean...
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Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell on ‘The Art of Law in the International Community’
Mary Ellen O’Connell, the Robert & Marion Short Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution–Kroc Institute for...
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Dale Ahlquist on G. K. Chesterton
Dale Ahlquist is an author and president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. We chat about Chesterton’s 1930 visit to Notre Dame, the newly-acquired Chesterton...
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Notre Dame Theology Professor Interprets Historical Treasure Discovered at Ancient Monastery in the Sinai Desert
Being in the right place at the right time can change everything. For Nina Glibetić, witnessing a chance discovery changed her research focus — and the trajectory of her...
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