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2024 Walk the Walk Week: Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2024 Walk the Walk Week by University of Notre Dame on on Exposure
Read ArticleWe Got Us Now: Walking with Children Impacted by Mass Incarceration
The Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) and the Center for Social Concerns (CSC) brought WE GOT US NOW to ND for Walk The Walk Week on January 18, 2024, Andrews...
View EventWhat’s Your Next Step?
2024 marked the ninth annual campus-wide observance of Walk the Walk Week, a week-long series of University, department, and student-sponsored events designed to help us consider...
View EventAnnual Walk the Walk Week Candlelight Prayer Service
On January 17, 2024, the Notre Dame community gathered to reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and to pray for an end to racism, inequality, and injustice in our...
View EventBuilding a Legacy of Opportunity: A Conversation with Dr. Howard Adams
Throughout his career, Dr. Howard Adams has advised thousands of young adults from underrepresented backgrounds on how to navigate higher education and build careers in both...
View EventPhotoessay: Walk the Walk Week 2023
2023 Walk the Walk Week by University of Notre Dame on on Exposure
Read ArticleHesburgh Library celebrates 60th anniversary
More than 60 years ago, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., dreamed of a new library building that would serve, along with the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and the Main Building,...
Read ArticleBeth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room blessed, dedicated during weekend ceremony
The Beth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room, the newest Hesburgh Library space to undergo a dramatic redesign, is open for students and faculty thanks to a generous gift...
Read ArticleHistoric Urban Environments Lab
The Historic Urban Environments Lab (HUE) at Notre Dame is a new interdisciplinary team of architects, computer scientists, librarians, programmers, anthropologists and GIS...
Read ArticleNavigating Change in Higher Education
During the 2023-2024 academic year, the Inspired Leadership Initiative is exploring the topic of Leadership in Public Conversation. We’ll from leaders across disciplines and...
View EventLeadership in College Athletics
During the 2023-2024 academic year, the Inspired Leadership Initiative is exploring the topic of Leadership in Public Conversation. We’ll from leaders across disciplines and...
View EventBlack Domers: Black Spirituality
“Recent events in our nation have led to a national reckoning, to soul-searching and a demand for action with regard to racial and social injustice…There is a widespread sense...
View EventBlack Domers: Black Well-being
“Recent events in our nation have led to a national reckoning, to soul-searching and a demand for action with regard to racial and social injustice…There is a widespread sense...
View EventBlack Domers: Blazing Trails in 21st Century Business & Entrepreneurship
“Recent events in our nation have led to a national reckoning, to soul-searching and a demand for action with regard to racial and social injustice…There is a widespread sense...
View EventBlack Domers: The Future of Social Justice
“Recent events in our nation have led to a national reckoning, to soul-searching and a demand for action with regard to racial and social injustice…There is a widespread sense...
View EventSafeguarding Democracy in an Era of AI and Digital Disinformation: A Conversation with Maria Ressa
In this lecture and the conversation that follows, Maria Ressa will explore key challenges facing international information ecosystems and global democracy. She will discuss the...
View EventTyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Join us for a dynamic conversation on challenges to U.S. democracy and strategies for reforming and strengthening our political systems. Featuring Steven Levitsky, David...
watch videoCivility and Bipartisanship in a Time of Polarization and Gridlock
As part of the 2023-24 Notre Dame Forum on the “Future of Democracy,” join University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., for a fireside chat with Senator Chris Coons...
watch videoA Conversation with Justice Elena Kagan
As part of the 2023-24 Notre Dame Forum, the Notre Dame Law School will host a conversation between U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and G. Marcus Cole, Joseph A. Matson...
watch videoJustice by Means of Democracy – A Lecture by Danielle Allen
On September 6, 2023 the CCCG hosted Harvard professor Danielle Allen for a Notre Dame Forum lecture on her new book, Justice By Means of Democracy. Dr. Allen is James Bryant...
watch videoForum 22-23: ND Perspectives: Pathways to Peace – Catholic Peacebuilding Around the World
What are the pathways to peace in a world that is fraught with conflict, violence and suffering? We look to Catholic peacebuilding efforts. 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the...
watch videoOVI Seminar Series 2024, IV
Investigating the phenomenon of the so-called ‘rhythmic figures’ in Dante through a new database and query platform for the Commedia, which aims at setting up a new, wide...
View EventOVI Seminar Series 2024, III
Drawing on a research tradition that goes back to the origins of electronic lexicography, the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano has developed, during its activity, models and tools...
View EventOVI Seminar Series 2024, II
The centrality of the figure of Beatrice within the literary work of Dante Alighieri is such a well-known and peacefully accepted assumption in Dante’s modern exegesis that it...
View EventA Farther Shore – the Emergence of Northern Ireland
The Clingen Family Center for the Study of Modern Ireland at the Keough-Naughton Insitute presents the fourth in the series of the Embassy of Ireland’s American Reflections on...
watch videoClingen Conversations: Historical Memory and Public Policy in Modern Ireland
In 2020, the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Modern Ireland launched a new series of moderated events entitled Clingen Conversations in the humanities, culture, and...
watch videoClingen Conversations: Filming Controversy in Ireland, Germany, and Brazil
This Clingen Conversations event explores the challenges that filmmakers face when handling difficult events and historical legacies. What role should films play in the treatment...
watch videoHarnessing and Hedging: The Two Faces of GenAI
Join us for an insightful virtual event, “Harnessing and Hedging: The Two Faces of GenAI,” featuring distinguished speaker Maryam Alavi, Elizabeth D. and Thomas M. Holder...
View EventAI Ethics: Past, Present, and Future
Join us for a thought-provoking virtual event, “AI Ethics: Past, Present, and Future,” featuring Nicholas Berente, Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza...
View EventAdversarial Attacks on Large Language Models
Join us for a captivating virtual event, “Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models,” featuring distinguished speaker Zico Kolter, Associate Professor of Computer Science...
View EventDigital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Join us for a compelling virtual event, “Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology,” featuring Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Distinguished Professor of Law and...
View EventSymbiotic Human-AI Interaction: Examples of AI in Robots and AI in Finance
Join us for an enlightening virtual event, “Symbiotic Human-AI Interaction: Examples of AI in Robots and AI in Finance,” featuring esteemed speaker Manuela M. Veloso, Herbert...
View EventAutonomous Vehicles for Micro-Mobility
Join us for an insightful virtual event, “Autonomous Vehicles for Micro-Mobility,” featuring renowned speaker Henrik I. Christensen, Qualcomm Chancellor’s Professor of...
View EventThe 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...
watch videoVisual 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...
watch videoReimagining 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...
View EventAlumni 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...
watch videoSuccess 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)....
watch videoOn 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...
watch videoClingen Conversations: The Irish Language in the USA
Clingen Conversations is sponsored by the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Modern Ireland at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs...
watch videoLessons for the West from a Small African Country
Alexander Chula is a Thai-British medical doctor and writer, living and working in London. He studied Classics at Oxford then medicine at the University of London. His first book,...
View EventLegacy Project Lecture Featuring Cécile Mouly: “A network analysis of the work of the Colombian Truth Commission on exile”
The Colombian Truth Commission resulted from the 2016 Colombian Peace Accord and was innovative in various respects. It worked with victims of the country’s protracted civil...
View EventCommemorating 10 Years since the Annexation of Crimea: How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies will be hosting a virtual flash panel to commemorate 10 years since the annexation of Crimea by Russia, exploring both the history and...
View EventThe Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images After three months of attacks and occupation by the Israeli Defence Force, Gaza “has become a place of death and...
View EventResistance to Russian/Soviet Imperialism in the Words of the Elite Athletes of the Day
On November 30, 2023, four elite athletes came to Notre Dame to share their story of resistance to Soviet/Russian imperialism during the Cold War. This panel discussion was...
watch videoBlack@ND Update: Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going
It’s been a while since you’ve seen us and there are multiple reasons for that. In this week’s episode, we provide an update on Black@ND regarding where we’ve been why,...
watch videoBuilding an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Podcast: The Use and Misuse of Civil Rights History
The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’ What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial...
View EventBuilding an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Podcast: Athletic Protests
The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’ What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial...
View EventBuilding an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Podcast: Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement
The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’ What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial...
View EventBuilding an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Podcast: Ferguson
The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’ What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial...
View EventBuilding an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Podcast: Racial Wealth Gap
The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’ What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial...
View EventWomen in Leadership: A Conversation with Arlene Foster, Former First Minister of Northern Ireland
Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and its Clingen Center for the Study of Modern Ireland for the first in a new series of public conversations titled...
watch videoProtecting Law Clerks from Harassment
Judicial clerkships are typically characterized as an unadulterated good—lifelong mentor-mentee relationships between judges and law clerks that confer professional benefits....
View EventYoram Hazony: Judaism and Free Speech on Campus
Please join us for a fireside chat with Yoram Hazony and Professor Patrick Deneen. Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, biblical scholar, and political theorist. He currently...
View EventVirtual Flash Panel: Defunding Russia’s War Against Ukraine
David Cortright, professor emeritus of the practice at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Anna Romandash ’22, an award-winning journalist from Ukraine and a...
View EventChina’s Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion
Tuesday, 02/20/2024, at 4:30 p.m. ET – Ketian Vivian Zhang is an assistant professor of international security at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason...
View EventThe Danger of Racial Colorblindess
Have you ever heard the phrase “I don’t see color,” when talking about race or ethnicity? Color blindness is the idea that ignoring or overlooking racial and ethnic...
View EventGiving All of Ourselves
The Lenten painting for the fifth Friday in Lent, presented by economics and political science major Catalina Scheider Galinanes ’25, points us explicitly to the Passion. Christ...
View EventChrist’s Knowing Gaze
Emmanuel Ufio ’24, Master of Science in Finance candidate with the Mendoza College of Business, shares the portrait of Madonna and Child painted by Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli in...
View EventAdam and Eve
Anders Ove, Art Handler at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, shares the artwork entitled Holy Trinity and is attributed to the Byzantine tradition. Although there are doctrinal...
View EventThe Eucharist Commits Us to the Poor
In 2022, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced that the Church in this country would undertake a Eucharistic Revival, as a way to bolster Catholics’...
View EventFaith and Reason
Theology and Marketing major Kolton Koubsky ’24 presents Jacopo Aigoni’s masterpiece, The Adoration of the Magi, painted in the early 18th century. Amid the intellectual shift...
View EventAnd the Holy Spirit
Emily Normand ’20, the Lilly Endowment Museum Fellow for Religion and Spirituality in the Visual Arts at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art introduces our incredibly beautiful...
View EventEssentials of Generative AI
How do we work through the extreme excitement, confusion, and fear that result from the rapid evolution of generative AI to understand and embrace these tools across the arts and...
View EventUND Center for Civic Innovation Internship Program
The Center for Civic Innovation’s Community-Engaged Educational Ecosystem Model (C-EEEM) brings people from different backgrounds and different sectors – educational...
Read ArticleMaking Waves: STEM+Music in Elkhart
A STEM+Music education program in Elkhart, IN sponsored by the Indiana Department of Education 21st Century Community Learning Center and School Improvement grant programs and the...
watch videoWater doesn’t always flow naturally: a human-centered approach to water use and management
This article is part of a series of blog posts published by the Keough School of Global Affairs. Dignity and Development provides in-depth analysis of global challenges through...
Read ArticleOptics and ‘Natural Magic’ in the Renaissance
Most people know the story of Galileo and the telescope, but his marvelous new instrument was only one of many optical oddities and inventions that delighted and puzzled the...
watch videoFighting for the Ethical Use of Technology
Enhanced soldiers. Autonomous weapons systems. Ever-present surveillance. Across the globe weapons technology advancements seem to be developed at an astonishing rate. While these...
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