Virtual Events

Creative Writing Reading Series featuring Jonathan Escoffery

The Creative Writing Series invites you to our next major event of the season: A Reading from Jonathan Escoffery. Co-sponsored with Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and...

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023 5:15 pm

Middle Eastern Cultural Landscapes: Sustainable Recovery and Development

Focusing on how to build and create continuity and consistency with the remaining historic fabric of a place, landscape architect and designer Annalinda Neglia will speak about...

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Thursday, October 5, 2023 5:00 pm

The Archival Turn and Network approach: Examining evolving translation practices and discourses in the British publishing firm complex, 1950s-1980s by Daniela La Penna

In this lecture, Professor Daniela La Penna adopts a micro-historical approach to bring to light the cultural, economic, and social dynamics surrounding the English translation of...

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Monday, October 9, 2023 8:00 am

The Importance of Inclusion at ND Law

What does it mean to be part of an inclusive law school community? On this episode of The DEI Podcast, Marisa Simon, Director of Admissions at Notre Dame Law School, describes the...

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Monday, October 9, 2023 12:00 pm

 John Silvanus Wilson on Universities, Democracy, & Lessons from HBCUs

As part of the Virtues & Vocations webinar series, Conversations on Character and the Common Good, we are pleased to welcome John Silvanus Wilson to discuss Universities,...

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 5:15 pm

The Neuroscience of Design: What All Architects Need to Know

Mark Hewitt’s research on the neuroscience of design is gaining interest across the architectural field. He will discuss his work and discoveries that are based on scientific...

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023 5:15 pm

Earthen Architecture: Past, Present and Future

During this lecture, Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas will identify multiple types of earthen architectural work around the world which have stood the test of time. In their...

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Thursday, November 2, 2023 5:00 pm

The Dilemmas of Friendship in Dante’s Italy

In late medieval Italy, amicizia was not an unequivocal moral or affective good. Instead, it was an ambiguous term to be deployed strategically, describing a wide range of social...

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 3:30 pm

Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France

Camille Robcis maps the intersections of politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in twentieth-century France. It focuses on a psychiatric movement called “institutional...

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023 5:15 pm

Designing to the Rhythms of Time

The 2023 Richard H. Driehaus Prize Laureate Ben Pentreath will join us to discuss the importance of combining architecture and artistry to create urban environments that are...

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Monday, November 27, 2023 12:00 pm

 Parker J. Palmer on Education and Vocation

As part of the Virtues & Vocations webinar series, Conversations on Character and the Common Good, we are pleased to welcome Parker J. Palmer to discuss Education and Vocation. A...

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Thursday, December 7, 2023 5:00 pm

Desire, Anxiety, Shame: Transatlantic (Re)Mediations and ‘Italian Culture’

In this talk Professor Loredana Polezzi looks at the complex and often fraught processes of linguistic and cultural translation/mediation which characterize the relationship...

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