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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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I morsi della carità: Dante e la Bibbia
Please join the Center for Italian Studies for the sixth edition of Le Tre Corone: Texts and Contexts of Medieval Italy, featuring Paola Nasti (Northwestern University), who will present her recent book, I morsi della carità:...
PhotoFutures
Hear artist Sarah Sense discuss her powerful photo weaving Hinushi 10, recently added to the permanent collection of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art through the PhotoFutures initiative. Learn how her work, rooted in the Choctaw...
Introducing: Notre Dame Circle
Staff, faculty, students, alumni, and friends shared warm greetings and exuberant conversations as they gathered on the hot, late-summer afternoon of Friday, September 19, 2025 to celebrate the dedication of Notre Dame’s newest...
Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty
Join Liam O’Connor, the 2025 Richard H. Driehaus Prize Laureate, as he explores how the timeless principles of traditional and classical design focused on enduring beauty, quality of craft, and integration with the landscape...
Poets & Art with Brenda Cárdenas
Award-winning Poet Laureate of Wisconsin Brenda Cárdenas was in residence with Letras Latinas and the Raclin Murphy Museum Art in late September 2025 to launch “Poets & Art: Ekphrasis at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art,” a...
The Invention of Prayer for the Dead in Byzantine Tradition
Join us on for The Fifth Annual Mathews Byzantine Lecture by Prof. Zachary Chitwood of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Far from being a primitive Christian practice, prayer for the dead and, just as importantly, the...
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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Accountability in a Sustainable World Conference
Driving a sustainable future requires more than commitment; it relies on engagement, dialogue, and shared expertise. Now in its 5th year, the 2025 Accountability in a Sustainable World Conference, as the flagship event of ASWQ,...
Looking Back to Look Forward
Priest, professor, historian, and… real estate guru? Get ready to be fascinated by the history of Notre Dame and American Catholicism in a dynamic conversation between Fr. Pete McCormick, C.S.C. ’06 M.Div., ’15 EMBA,...
Why Well-Run Companies Will Continue to Fail
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...
A Brief History of the Future
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...
A (different) Innovation Journey
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: Unlock Your Career Playbook
Join us for an engaging talk with successful Notre Dame coaches: Volleyball's Salima Rockwell, Fencing's Gia Kvaratskhelia, and the Catalino Family Head Hockey Coach Brock Sheahan ’08. Discover how their approach to building...
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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Future-proof Your Career: The AI Advantage
We are in a fast-changing marketplace with the bombardment of technological innovation and economic changes. Our experts will share their research-backed insights into how AI and technology will affect the future of work and the...
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...
Education
Equip yourself for the classroom of the future with insights and innovative strategies for teaching and learning from Notre Dame experts. Explore topics from curriculum design to student well-being to inspire both you and your students.
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Teaching Students When (Not) to Use AI
When satellite maps became available on our phones, some wondered what we would lose by becoming less oriented to the places we live or visit. But most of us have used these maps for many years now and find them to be incredibly...
Making the Space to Reimagine Teaching
When you become a teacher, you commit to a life of learning—not just for your students, but for yourself. You can feel totally comfortable and confident in your teaching practices, and then suddenly some new technology or some...
Recognizing Not All Brains Think Alike
Over the last couple of decades, we’ve seen an explosion of books and articles about what’s often called “brain-based learning,” as neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists study and explain what circuits are firing...
AI, Cheating, and Trusting Students to be Human
If you follow the conversations about higher education on social media or in the news, a primary topic on people’s minds is the impact of artificial intelligence on the purposes and processes of an education. For better or...
Writing Like You Teach
Can you draw lessons from the way you teach and apply them in your writing? Designed for Learning host Jim Lang thinks so—so much so that he’s written a new book about it called Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom...
Building Rapport in Online Courses
With Notre Dame’s Summer Online courses set to get underway in June, we turn our attention to teaching online—specifically ways to create a sense of community among instructors and students when meeting through screens, and...
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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Freedom and the Deep State: Slavery, State Capacity, and Institutional Change in the Americas
A vast literature highlights the political, social, and economic consequences of slavery. Yet previous research – particularly in political science and particularly in work on Latin America – appears to have missed important...
Peace Policy Spotlight: The Power of Art in Peacebuilding
Art has long been a powerful tool for fostering understanding, reconciliation, and healing in conflict-affected societies. By transforming cultural, political, and ideological boundaries, artistic expression allows individuals to...
Preserving Voices, Confronting Violence: Insights from the Legacy Project
Josefina Echavarría Álvarez, director of the Peace Accords Matrix and the Legacy Project at the Kroc Institute, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, explores the power of Colombia’s Truth Commission Transmedia...
Colombia’s JEP Sentences: A Conversation about their Meaning and Impact on Peacebuilding
On Sept. 16 and 18, 2025, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace – referred to as JEP, its acronym in Spanish – issued its first two rulings imposing restorative sanctions on those most responsible for war crimes and...
Getting Beyond the Border: How Immigration Became a Political Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, spoke at the University of Notre Dame on February 26, 2025, in an...
Culture War: Soft Power, Memory, and Identity in the Fight for Ukraine
Ian Kujit, professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame moderates a panel of speakers who explore the emblems of resistance informing the identity of the Ukraine of tomorrow. Speakers include:...
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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Evaluating Impact
As service providers around the country take on poverty in all its complexity, too little is known about what is working and why. Notre Dame’s Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) helps service providers apply scientific...
Public Lecture by Steve Macedo | In Covid’s Wake: Science, Liberal Democracy, and Elite Failure
Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics: science, universities, and serious journalism. Each was politicized and degraded under Covid, falling victim to...
Transforming Childcare
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....
Finding Your Vocation with Karen Swallow Prior
Karen Swallow Prior is is the 2025-26 Karlson Scholar at Bethel Seminary. We’ll discuss her most recent book, which explores the difference between passion and calling, along with how to find meaning in your work. Join us...
Is Empathy a Threat? with Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Critic
Jennifer Szalai recently published a piece in the New York Times about several recent books that view empathy negatively. We will have a conversation with her about these books and the role of empathy in this cultural moment....
Medicine: A Vocation of Head and Heart with David Sandberg, M.D.
Brain and Heart: The Triumphs and Struggles of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon is a medical memoir that explores the thoughts and emotions that accompany the responsibility of making complex choices with life-changing consequences. We...
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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Witnessing Hope and Reconciliation: Human Dignity and the Death Penalty
In the Papal Bull for the Jubilee Year of Hope, Spes non Confundit, Pope Francis urged Christian believers to unite in opposition to the death penalty, which is “a provision at odds with the Christian faith and one that...
Looking (More Closely) at Arms Racing
Erik Gartzke is currently serving as Scholar-in-Residence at USCYBERCOM. Join us on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET. For more information visit the event website. Register here Dr. Erik Gartzke is...
Why Do We Have Politics? Madison’s Catechism, Madison’s Mistake, and the Nation’s Perilous Trajectory
Explore James Madison’s foundational concern: the greatest threat to democracy is tyranny—specifically, tyranny of the majority. His solution was a vast republic with diverse factions to prevent stable majorities from seizing...
Grand Strategy, Military Effectiveness and China
Christopher J. Fettweis is a professor of political science at Tulane University. His most recent book is The Pursuit of Dominance: 2000 Years of Superpower Grand Strategy (Oxford UP, 2022). Join us on Tuesday, October 28, 2025,...
State Failure in an Illegible World
Tuesday, 10/14/2025, at 4:30 p.m. ET – Bridget L. Coggins is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara. Her research concentrates on the intersection of domestic conflict and...
Climate Change and Security – Joshua Busby
Joshua W. Busby is a Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and formerly served as a senior climate adviser to the U.S. Department of Defense. He is the author of three books for Cambridge University...
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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Leading with Integrity and Purpose
During this installment of Leadership in Public Conversation, we heard about leadership from a global perspective from Claudio Orrego, Governor of the Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile. Sharing about his experience attending...
The Legacy of a Call: A 40-Year Journey of Transformation
Forty years ago, a courageous collective of Black alumni, students, and leaders from the Notre Dame Alumni Association answered Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C.’s call to action in a historic meeting that laid the groundwork for...
Notre Dame Leaders: Equity and Resilience
Join YoungND for a virtual Notre Dame Leaders speaker series event, “Equity and Resilience” on Monday, October 27, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. ET for a dynamic conversation with 2025 Domer Dozen Honorees about reimagining justice and...
Notre Dame Leaders: Technology for Humanity
Join YoungND for the next virtual Notre Dame Leaders speaker series event, “Technology for Humanity” on Monday, October 20, 2025 at 6:00pm ET for a dynamic conversation with 2025 Domer Dozen Honorees about reimagining justice...
Muffet McGraw and Ruth Riley Hunter ’01, ’16 EMBA
ND Women Connect thrilled to feature a fireside chat with Ruth Riley ’01, former ND basketball player, WNBA champion, Olympian, executive, mother, and humanitarian, and her former coach, Muffett McGraw, two-time Notre Dame...
Notre Dame’s Global Leadership
Mary Gallagher, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs, recognized something distinctive about Notre Dame from the moment she arrived—the University’s unique ability to lead on the global stage with...
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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Bill Mattison
Bill Mattison ’03 Th.D. is the Wilsey Professor of Theology at Notre Dame and author of Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit. Hear him discuss his background and book, a comprehensive account of growth in virtue in the thought...
Jennifer Newsome Martin, Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
Jennifer Newsome Martin is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies with a joint appointment in the Department of Theology, and, as of July 2024, the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. Hear...
Participation and the Natural Law
What is the deep philosophical connection between divine wisdom and human moral reasoning? Professor Rudi te Velde, member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, unveils Aquinas’ revolutionary understanding of natural...
Catholic Approaches to Mining: A Framework for Reflection, Planning, and Action
Over the past year, Catholic Peacebuilding Network (CPN) has worked with the Laudato Si’ Research Institute (LSRI), Campion Hall, University of Oxford on a series of consultations on the Catholic Church and mining, including a...
The Christology of Demons
What can be known about Jesus Christ intellectually when one doesn’t believe in Him? What exactly did the demons in the Gospels know about Jesus’ identity? Did they see Jesus as a prophet or as a promised Messiah? Consider...
The Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith, and Human Flourishing: Keynote on the DELTA Framework
The Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith, and Human Flourishing brought together a dynamic network of scholars, faith leaders, technologists, journalists, and policymakers who believe in the enduring relevance of Christian ethical...
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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Listen and Learn
Find out how Google is creating tools that accelerate and personalize education for students across the country. Hidden among the headline-stealing AI announcements of 2023, Google released a smaller but highly valuable product:...
The Truth of the Matter in the Age of Generative AI
Join Soc(AI)ety Seminars, for a discussion with Tina Eliassi-Rad, the Inaugural Joseph E. Aoun Professor at Northeastern University, about the challenges of generative AI tools, and how we should consider the challenges of...
Behind the Folds: The Mathematics of Origami
Origami combines art and science to transform a flat sheet of paper into a 3-dimensional sculpture. This presentation includes group demonstrations of different origami pieces and learning about some of the mathematical...
The Secret Social Life of Bacteria
Have you ever wondered how bacteria communicate, cooperate, and even compete in ways that impact our health, environment, and beyond? More than just making us sick, bacteria form alliances, wage wars, and orchestrate remarkable...
When Numbers Lie: Algorithms and AI
Data is the new gold, mined and used (for better or worse) every single day. Algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) are then used to suggest what movies we stream, or send us grocery store coupons in the mail. When our data...
Eclipses in Outer Space
Lauren Weiss Ph.D., assistant professor of physics and astronomy, will explore how astrophysicists use eclipses of other stars to find new planets. Professor Weiss uses observational techniques to discover exoplanets, which are...