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Catholicism – Its History and the Role of Kinship
In his recently released book, “Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis”, Notre Dame’s John T. McGreevy, (Charles and Jill Fischer Provost...
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ILI Virtual Exploration Session
The Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI) is for accomplished individuals from all disciplines (business, non-profit, and academic, to name a few) who have completed their chosen...
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Nii Addy on Mental Health & Human Flourishing
As part of the Virtues & Vocations webinar series, Education for Flourishing: Pursuing Purpose in the Professions, we are pleased to welcome Nii Addy, to discuss Mental Health &...
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Karen Bohlin on Education & Character
As part of the Virtues & Vocations webinar series, Education for Flourishing: Pursuing Purpose in the Professions, we are pleased to welcome Karen Bohlin to discuss her...
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Margaret Plews-Ogan, MD on Wisdom & Medicine
As part of the Virtues & Vocations webinar series, Education for Flourishing: Pursuing Purpose in the Professions, we are pleased to welcome Margaret Plews-Ogan, MD to discuss...
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Kinship On and Off the Court
As the head coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Women’s basketball team, Coach Niele Ivey is responsible not only for leading her team on the court during games and...
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Aftermaths II: The Invasion of Iraq in the Present
This event is part of the 2022-23 Notre Dame Forum, focused on the theme “War & Peace.” Twenty years ago the United States invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq, a country of...
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Aftermaths I: The Invasion of Iraq in Historical Perspective
This event is part of the 2022-23 Notre Dame Forum, focused on the theme of “War & Peace.” This year marks the 20th anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq, which...
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New and Old Wars, New and Old Challenges to Peace!
This event is part of the Notre Dame Forum 2022-23, focused on the theme of “War & Peace.” Ukraine and a new Cold War, a new nuclear arms race, “forever wars” in...
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The Suppliants Project: Ukraine
Join us for a powerful theatrical experience that invites you into a global discussion about war in Ukraine and in many other parts of our world.
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Indigenous Responses to Climate Change: Perspectives from the Americas
Please join us for the first ever event organized collaboratively by the University of Notre Dame’s Latin-American Global Centers (Brazil, México, and Chile) and the Americas...
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Notre Dame commits to carbon neutrality by 2050
The University of Notre Dame committed to becoming a carbon neutral campus by 2050 and to a reduction in carbon dioxide of at least 65 percent from 2005 levels within the next...
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Translation . .or a hundred years of ulyssitude
On 02.02.2022 Joyce’s Ulysses will turn a hundred and its author a hundred and forty. Less than a decade ago, on 02.02.2012, my previous Italian translation of Joyce’s...
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“Lockdown Literature,” a pandemic reading list by Prof. Barry McCrea
Listen to Italian Studies faculty affiliate, Prof. Barry McCrea, deliver a radio essay on teaching literature in a pandemic for Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday Miscellany....
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“Bound up with love …” : The extraordinary legacy of Father John Zahm’s Dante Collection
In 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, we celebrated the legacy of the Zahm Dante Collection and the remarkable accumulation of rare Italian material...
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Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
This exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with...
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William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
In collaboration with the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, the Devers Program initiated a series dedicated to the publication of the most significant current...
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OVI-UND Seminar Series: Linguistic, Philological, and Literary Developments in the Italian Middle Ages
Each Spring semester since 2016, in partnership with the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, the Center for Italian Studies sponsors a series of video conference seminars conducted...
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Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing – Recommended Reading
The Institute for Global Investing recognizes that the field of investing perpetually changes and develops as global markets continue to evolve and the history of finance moves...
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Notre Dame Women’s Investing Summit
In February 2023, the Institute for Global Investing hosted the annual Notre Dame Women’s Investing Summit focused on the theme “Defining Your Edge.” The lineup featured...
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Mass Migration: Where Interests and Values Collide
This year marks the 21st anniversary of the Mendoza College of Business signature lecture series, Ten Years Hence. We invite you to join with us to see and hear a variety of...
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Global Trends Shaping the Long-Term Future
This year marks the 21st anniversary of the Mendoza College of Business signature lecture series, Ten Years Hence. We invite you to join with us to see and hear a variety of...
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COVID-19 and the Future of Health Care
This year marks the 21st anniversary of the Mendoza College of Business signature lecture series, Ten Years Hence. We invite you to join with us to see and hear a variety of...
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Global Governance and the War in Ukraine
This year marks the 21st anniversary of the Mendoza College of Business signature lecture series, Ten Years Hence. We invite you to join with us to see and hear a variety of...
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Success Stories of Hispanic Alumni of Notre Dame
As part of the 2022 Hispanic Heritage Month series of events at the Institute for Latino Studies, members of the Hispanic Alumni of Notre Dame will discuss their personal and...
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The Bus Takes a Purposeful Journey
The Inspired Leadership Initiative at Notre Dame welcomed Jerome Bettis on as he explored pursuing a new purpose following his successful football career, his return to campus to...
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In “Rethinking Theology,” five young international Simone Weil scholars from Germany, Denmark, the UK, and the US discuss the political thinker/religious divide in their...
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The Freedom to Listen
Beyond recognizing the inherent importance of public discourse to democracy, a reckoning must be made that listening itself constitutes discourse as much as does speech — that...
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Virtual Panel: Success Stories of Hispanic Alumni of Notre Dame
Members of the Hispanic Alumni of Notre Dame will discuss their personal and career choices since their college years. Many are pioneers and leaders in their career paths and aim...
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New Notre Dame podcast, ThinkND series to explore life’s meaning, mission
How does one find meaning and a mission in our restless world? How can we make decisions that help ourselves and others? How do we find the path that leads us to discover the...
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Kroc Institute Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Myla Leguro
Myla Leguro M.A. ’10 has been selected to receive the Kroc Institute’s 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award, an annual honor that showcases Notre Dame peace studies graduates whose...
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Clingen Conversation: “The Catholic Church and the Irish Civil War: Should the Church Apologize?”
More than twenty years ago, the Catholic Church in Argentina apologized for its behavior during the country’s long “Dirty War” from 1976-1983, in which the Church failed to...
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Enacting Human Dignity through Regional Courts of Human Rights | Dignity & Development Forum Panel
Featuring András Sajó, Margarette Macaulay, and Imani Daud Aboud; moderated by Diane Desierto Three human rights judges discuss how the system of regional human rights courts...
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Politicization and Transitional Justice | Dignity & Development Forum
Featuring Kelebogile Zvobgo; moderated by Andrés Mejía Acosta How frequent are instrumentalization and politicization in transitional justice? Who does it, when, and why? Are...
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Human Dignity in Europe
Featuring András Sajó; moderated by Clemens Sedmak The panel will explore key insights into the understanding of human dignity (and humiliation) through decisions of exemplary...
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The Role of International Courts in the Protection of the Rule of Law: The Inter-American Experience | Dignity & Development Forum
Pablo Saavedra, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and Francisco Urbina, professor of law at Notre Dame, discuss the role of international courts in...
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What is Compassion Science in Medicine?
The Hillebrand Center at Notre Dame works to restore the spirit of compassion in healthcare by advancing the application of the science of compassion at every level of medical...
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Caregiving 101
Whether you are new to caregiving or have lots of experience, this live session will give you practical advice about the keys to caring for yourself so you can be there for...
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Policing in America
Join Assistant Professor of Political Science David Cortez in conversation with ILS Director and Professor of Political Science Luis R. Fraga. They will discuss recent policing...
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Black@ND
BLACK@ND is a podcast where we discuss the experiences of Notre Dame’s African American students, current and alumni, and the steps taken to survive in a community that lacks...
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Handle with Care: Yourself and Others
How can we adapt with resilience to physical and mental health challenges, disabilities, or diagnoses when it happens to us or our loved ones? How do these situations affect the...
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Notre Dame’s Happy Families Project offers paid opportunity to Indiana families seeking better communication tools
Family life isn’t always harmonious, and the stress and anxiety brought on by the pandemic has certainly led to more difficulties for many families living under one roof....
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Free Speech and Legal Education in our Liberal Democracy
Judge Kyle Duncan (US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit) will speak on the topics of free speech and legal education in this talk sponsored by the Center for Citizenship &...
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Lecture: “Catholicism and Constitutionalism: An American Perspective” by James Stoner, LSU
The Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government invites you to join us for a public lecture with Louisiana State University Political Science Professor James Stoner. Join...
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A Culture of Life in Post-Dobbs America
Join the Notre Dame Office of Life and Human Dignity and the Notre Dame Right to Life Club as they welcome Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, and...
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“America: A Redemption Story – A Conversation with Senator Tim Scott”
Please join us for the inaugural Jeanie Poole O’Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture America, A Redemption Story: A Conversation with U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.). Join us on Friday,...
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Lecture by Thomas Pink: “The Church, the State, and the Authority to Coerce”
Historical Catholic teaching is that the church as well as the state is a potestas – a sovereign legal authority with the right to legislate and to enforce its legislation...
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Liz Cheney at Notre Dame
Congresswoman Liz Cheney will visit the University of Notre Dame on Friday, October 14, 2022 to deliver a lecture titled “Saving Democracy by Revering the Constitution.” The...
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Liberal Education and the Restless Soul
Benjamin and Jenna Storey, senior fellows in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies Division of the American Enterprise Institute, and Research Professors at Furman...
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Meetings with the Psalms and Psalters presents “On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos” with Hildegund Müller
Hildegund Müller, associate professor of classics and senior liaison for research at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, presents the next installment of the...
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Conversations That Matter | Virtual Apocalypse: Renewing Christian Culture in a Digital World
Episode 2: The Virtue of Art Explore how the experience of making and enjoying art reminds us what it means to be human in a world of increasing automation and artificial...
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Conversations That Matter | Virtual Apocalypse: Renewing Christian Culture in a Digital World
Episode 1: The Art of Virtue Explores the relationship between the ways that technology is shaping our experiences of faith and community and the virtues required to live well...
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Introduction to PARISH: Preserving and Recording Ireland’s Sacred Heritage
PARISH is a multi-year research project designed to build a digital record of the social history materials held within Ireland’s 3,000+ Catholic Churches. The project will...
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How Moral are Markets? – A Debate
Notre Dame Professor of Business Ethics James Otteson will debate Michael Anton of Hillsdale College on the morality of markets. Admission is free and open to the public. Join us...
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Education and the New AI
Artificial Intelligence is changing rapidly with new technologies that create complex artistic images from scratch and generate human-looking text in seconds. These systems are...
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Wine Marketing Trends & Innovations
Is wine now part of an American lifestyle? As Wine, Behind the Curtain begins to shift the discussion from science to business, in our fourth live session, we will examine the...
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From Grapes Into Wine
The best wines have a bit of mystique – a nebulous area where the science and art of winemaking meet, personified in the winemakers themselves. What is the life of a winemaker...
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TEC Talks Podcast
Hosted by Kirsten Martin, the director of Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND TEC), TEC Talks podcast features conversations on a broad range of topics in technology ethics...
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Terroir: Wine Quality & Context
We all know where we come from can be an important part of who we are. The same is true for wine! The idea that all the factors that go into producing grapes and transforming them...
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His Passion Was Contagious
Even as a young man, George Craig loved learning about mosquitoes. Over his lifetime he became a world-renowned entomologist whose dedication to fighting disease inspired a...
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