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Art and History
Explore human forms of expression, innovation, and creativity that remind us of the uniqueness of the human spirit in the past, present, and future. Discover conversations that impact our shared history, our current cultures, and our potential futures.
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Byzantine Landscapes of Power and Resilience
Each year, our Byzantine Studies Program offers a workshop with the year’s Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. This year’s workshop is with our 2024–25 fellow, Dr. Tyler Wolford, and speakers Darlene Brooks Hedstrom...
Notre Dame exhibit takes history on the road
Nearly 500 people visited “The Fighting Irish in New York City: A Conversation with Curators and Archivists” on display at the New York Yankees Museum prior to the kickoff of the Shamrock Series game vs. Army on November 23,...
Big Data, Little Women
Some literary scholars are using computer programs to “read” huge collections of texts and draw out patterns. What can these methods tell us about working women’s representation in literature? In this episode, listen in to...
Four Poetas on Catholic Imagination
Experience a Letras Latinas reading and conversation featuring Adela Najarro, Natalia Treviño, Gina Franco, and Sarah Cortez at Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture fall 2024 conference Ever Ancient, Ever New:...
Indigenizing Galleries
How do we go about changing inaccurate representations of Native people and Native artists? How can galleries and museums become safe community spaces for contemporary Indigenous voices? Listen in to Debra Yepa-Pappan, Co-Founder...
That’s Women’s Work (A History)
How did some kinds of labor in the U.S. – care work, teaching, and domestic chores, for example – come to be seen as properly the concern of women, while other kinds of work, like business careers and scholarly pursuits,...
Business
In a time of increasing globalization, American businesses can be greatly impacted by consumer habits around the world. Notre Dame experts expand upon macroeconomic and consumer trends both domestically and internationally.
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Chart Your Venture
What’s your entrepreneurial path? Entrepreneurship expert Professor Michael Morris breaks down four venture types (survival, lifestyle, managed, and aggressive) and provides actionable steps for your journey. Learn from...
Collaborative Intelligence: Leading the Forefront of Enterprise Innovation
What will the process of creation and renewal look like by 2035? How will we leverage innovation to meet the challenges of the future in areas from our power grid and collaborative intelligence to community health and resilience...
Powering the Future: Reimagining the Grid for Tomorrow
What will the process of creation and renewal look like by 2035? How will we leverage innovation to meet the challenges of the future in areas from our power grid and collaborative intelligence to community health and resilience...
Game Changers: From Zoomers to Boomers—The Generations at Work
With multiple generations working side-by-side in today’s organizations, building collaborative, meaningful relationships with colleagues of all ages is as important—and seemingly mysterious—as ever. How do we better...
Game Changers: Decoding AI
In this AI era, humans are challenged by its complexities, limitations, and impact on our work and life. This panel of experts dives into what’s coming and the impact on how we work, learn, and live. Join our panel discussion...
The Courage to Stand Up: CEO of Deloitte Consulting on Ethical Leadership
Skill in enterprise communication, courage to voice values, and willingness to experiment – these are among the “under-appreciated and under-discussed” skills that leaders must embrace for prosperity and impact. Dan...
Career Development
ThinkND is here to support you over the course of your career and during transitions with series that consider questions of meaning, purpose, and flourishing. Shift your mindsets and think critically about your career.
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The Role of Motivation and Engagement in Digital Learning: Toward a Learning Experience Design Model
A large body of research clearly indicates that when learners believe that information is interesting, valuable and intrinsically meaningful, they are more likely to learn the information, and to engage in behaviors related to...
Visual Storytelling: Using Graphics to Maximize Vocabulary Acquisition
This presentation examined the use of images, sound, text and video using tools like Thinglink, Adobe Spark, and Panopto to have students learn and enhance language skills through visual storytelling. Presented by the Center for...
Reimagining Fulfillment During Midlife And Beyond
Join us for a conversation with Bernie Borges, host of the Midlife Fulfilled Podcast, who has made it his mission to help others find fulfillment in what he refers to as various “seasons of midlife.” Bernie and the Inspired...
Alumnae Career Panel: Women in Sports Tech, Youth Sports, and Sports Media
Join a panel of industry leaders and Notre Dame alumnae to learn about the work they do in the sports tech, youth sports, and sports communication worlds, how they got there, and what advice they have for students interested in...
Success Stories of Hispanic Alumni of ND
As part of its Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 series of events, the Institute for Latino Studies will host a virtual panel with members of the Hispanic Alumni of Notre Dame (HAND). Panelist will share their stories of success after...
On Being a Real Estate Entrepreneur
Pat Connaughton ’15 is the Co-Founder and CEO of Three Leaf Development. With a focus on development and property management, Three Leaf has projects in Milwaukee, Portland, and South Bend (Notre Dame), including multi-family...
Global Affairs
Learn how Notre Dame aims to affect positive, significant, and sustainable change in the world. From issues surrounding citizenship and migration to human development and international politics, engage in conversations that seek to improve our global society.
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Master of Global Affairs International Peace Studies Capstone Conference Presentations
Learn about the research of our Master of Global Affairs students concentrating in international peace studies when they present their capstone projects to classmates and Keough School faculty! You are welcome to attend all or...
Master of Global Affairs International Peace Studies Capstone Conference Presentations
Learn about the research of our Master of Global Affairs students concentrating in international peace studies when they present their capstone projects to classmates and Keough School faculty! You are welcome to attend all or...
The Future of Democracy in Europe
With many elections in Europe being decided in the past year and more ahead in 2025, the topic of the future of democracy in Europe is timely. It is also a moment of evolving relations between the United States and the European...
Revolutionary Ukraine: A History and Politics of Hope
This final segment of the 2025 Ukrainian Studies Hub Conference at Notre Dame includes several guests exploring the topic “Revolutionary Ukraine: A History and Politics of Hope,” followed by concluding remarks from Clemens...
In Solidarity with Ukraine: Diplomatic Perspectives on Resilience and Hope
Join a panel discussion as part of the 2025 Ukrainian Studies Hub Conference: Revolutions of Hope: Resilience and Recovery in Ukraine. This plenary session will include insightful remarks from Kateryna Smagliy, William B. Taylor,...
The Power of Hope: The Russo-Ukrainian War through the Eyes of a Historian
This plenary session during the 2025 Ukrainian Studies Hub Conference at Notre Dame features Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi, Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard...
Health and Society
From timely issues of public health and caregiving, to the fight for social justice, listen to experts from the University weigh in on the historical impacts and present and future consequences of the topics that matter most to us all.
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Improving Community Outcomes
Listen in to a conversation among researchers, practitioners, and community partners on how they engaged in deep learning from the unexpected results of a multi-year randomized controlled trial study on preventing homelessness....
Domer Caregiver Stories
Listen in to a conversation with LisaMarie Collins ‘07 J.D., Ray Fraser ‘19 MBA, Black Alumni Board Student Relations Director, Francesca Milles-Dave ’01, and moderator LaDawn Burnett ‘12 J.D., Black Alumni Board...
Character & Transformative Leadership
Nathan Hatch served as the president of Wake Forest University for 16 years and previously served as Provost at the University of Notre Dame. He recently published The Gift of Transformative Leaders. We will discuss this book and...
Thriving Together
Uncover key findings on economic mobility from Opportunity Insights, as they introduce their innovative data tool, The Opportunity Atlas, that demonstrates how opportunity varies across the United States and how it has changed in...
A Family Perspective
“ Addiction does not exist in isolation. Its ripple effects touch the lives of everyone connected to the person suffering from substance abuse disorder... We think about family as providing love, support, and stability, but...
The Battle is in Your Backyard
“The battle is not somebody coming into our borders and attacking us. Our battle is internal…And I came to understand that with every gram of heroin, there’s 10 separate hits. 4,650 hits had been delivered that evening,...
Law and Politics
From religious liberty and ethical public policies governing emerging technologies, to political discourse and threats to our democracy, explore the world of law and politics through a uniquely Notre Dame lens.
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The More War, The Less State: The Inverse Relationship Between War, State Size, and “Stateness”
Join us on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET. For more information visit the event website. Register here Deborah Boucoyannis specializes in comparative politics, especially the theoretical and historical...
Blasting Humanity: Trust, Trusteeship, and Nuclear Colonialism – Oumar Ba
Tuesday, 02/25/2025, at 4:30 p.m. ET – Oumar Ba is an assistant professor of international relations in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research focuses primarily on international law, violence, race,...
The Theoretical and Psychological Foundations of the Grand Strategy Debate
William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth. He is the author or editor of ten books and some 70 articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the Cold War and its end to unipolarity,...
The Power of Sports to Drive Social Change
How can sports influence individual behavior, unite diverse communities, and challenge social inequities? Find out in this episode of the DEI Podcast, when Max Gaston sits down with Diahann Billings, attorney, and CEO of the Ross...
NATO and the Unruly Politics of Alliance
Susan Colbourn is associate director of the Program in American Grand Strategy at Duke University. A historian of post-1945 international affairs, she specializes in the politics of European security, the role of nuclear weapons,...
Killing Precisely: A History of Drones and Precision Warfare
James Patton Rogers is the Executive Director of the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University and the Co-convenor of BISA War Studies. An expert on precision warfare and drone technologies, James is currently...
Leadership
No matter the industry in which you work, leadership skills are critical to your success. Look to Notre Dame experts for guidance on finding your purpose and becoming a more effective leader.
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A Powerful Conversation with Keona Lewis, Ph.D.
Given that demographers estimate that the United States will be a majority-minority country by 2048, what does that mean for the changing face of leadership? Angela Logan, Ph.D., St. Andre Bessette Academic Director of the Master...
Fr. TED Talks: Ideas from the Catholic Social Tradition That We Find Inspiring
Honoring the legacy of legendary University of Notre Dame President Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., the 2024-25 Notre Dame Forum hosted “Fr. TED Talks: Ideas from the Catholic Social Tradition That We Find Inspiring,” a...
Reflecting on the 2024 Election: How We Got Here and What to Watch for in the Days Ahead
Listen in to conversations between scholars, activists, faith leaders, and political strategists at this perilous moment in the history of American democracy as they reflect on the 2024 election from how we got here to what to...
Year in Review: Notre Dame in 2024
As the University of Notre Dame stands on the threshold of its next bold iteration, we celebrate breakthroughs in research and the launch of key strategic initiatives in mental health, democracy, poverty, and more. We celebrated...
Mindset Does Matter: The Role of Higher Education in Fostering the Growth Mindsets Across Generations
Dan Porterfield, President and CEO of Aspen Institute, joins Leadership in Public Conversation for a discussion on his perspective on the importance of, and the role higher education plays, in fostering a growth mindset across...
Insights on Leadership from John Veihmeyer
For John Veihmeyer, Chair of the Notre Dame Board of Trustees, the most moving moment of the recent inauguration of Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., was the blessing bestowed upon Notre Dame’s new president by his two immediate...
Religion and Philosophy
Guided by the ideal of “faith seeking understanding,” discover lifelong learning at the intersection of faith and reason through the study of Catholicism, history of Christianity, world religions, moral theology, and philosophy.
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Jerusalem TalksND: Professor Mouna Maroun
In this episode of Jerusalem TalksND, Avraham (Avrum) Burg sits with Prof. Mouna Maroun, who serves as Rector at the University of Haifa and is a professor of neurobiology. They talk about interplay of identity, memory and the...
Christology
Contemplate Thomas Aquinas’ writings on the predestination of Christ, Christ’s knowledge and our virtue, and Christ’s co-assumption of power through the lens of Christology, the branch of Christian theology concerned with...
Jerusalem TalksND: Bishop Rafic Nahra
In this episode of Jerusalem TalksND, Avraham (Avrum) Burg engages with Bishop Rafic Nahra, an auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, to discuss his unique role in the Holy Land. Bishop Nahra reflects on his...
Jerusalem TalksND: Bishop Jamal Khader
In this episode of Jerusalem TalksND, Avraham (Avrum) Burg explores the personal journey of Bishop Jamal Khader, who previously served as patriarchal vicar for the diocese in Jordan and is currently the head of the dioceses of...
Jerusalem TalksND: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa
In the first episode of Jerusalem TalksND’s second season, Avraham (Avrum) Burg is joined by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa to discuss his responsibilities as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and the challenges facing the...
Natural Philosophy in the Arabic-Hebrew-Latin Landscape: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Corpus
The Medieval Institute is pleased to present the eighteenth lecture in the Graduate Student Invitation Series with Dr. Hanna Gentili of the University of Hamburg, Institut für Jüdische Philosophie und Religion, who will be...
Science and Technology
Remain on the cutting edge of education and research in science, technology, engineering, and math while exploring the responsibility of ethical decision-making and how to critically think about and evaluate these new advances.
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Virtue in the Generative Revolution
In this episode of The New AI, John Behrens ’83, Director of Technology and Digital Studies, introduces Graham Wolfe, Editor in Chief of The New AI Project‘s Explained series in a discussion that also features Professor...
Surveillance, Power Plays, and Digital Minds
In this edition of Expl(ai)ned, a monthly newsletter by The New AI Project, explore DeepSeek’s market-upending release, President Trump’s second-term approach to regulation, and AI in the Super Bowl. In Taming AI, a...
ChatGPT Turns 2
In the December 2024 edition of Expl(ai)ned, a monthly newsletter by The New AI Project, explore the cutting-edge advancements shaping industries and society, from revolutionary tools like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to the...
AI and the very old world order
Over the last few years a growing number of scholars have argued that the impact of AI is repeating the patterns of colonial history. If European colonialism was characterized by the violent capture of land, extraction of...
A Brave New World of AI Governance
Explore the connection between data, geopolitics and governance, regulation, self-regulation while discovering examples of good and bad practices in various sectors, such as healthcare and banking. Speakers: Kay...
Algorethics: potentiality and challenges in the age of AI
Explore the possibilities and challenges in ethical governance of AI through algorethics. Algorethics is a term that has been developed since 2018 to denote the need for a study dedicated to assessing the ethical implications of...