Open to participants across the world, the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) is an annual conference bringing together scholars of Asian studies from the US Midwest Region (North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin). The MCAA seeks to promote Asian Studies at the university, secondary, and primary levels. Our mission is to encourage scholarly interchange between Asianists in the American Midwest with colleagues from other parts of the US and around the world. The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, is pleased to host the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), September 13 to 15, 2024. For additional information on registration, accommodations, and programming, visit the conference website at mcaaconference.nd.edu. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Open to participants across the world, the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) is an annual conference bringing together scholars of Asian studies from the US Midwest Region (North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin). The MCAA seeks to promote Asian Studies at the university, secondary, and primary levels. Our mission is to encourage scholarly interchange between Asianists in the American Midwest with colleagues from other parts of the US and around the world. The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, is pleased to host the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), September 13 to 15, 2024. For additional information on registration, accommodations, and programming, visit the conference website at mcaaconference.nd.edu. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Register here  The Center for Social Concerns hopes you will join it each month for the Virtues & Vocations lunchtime webinar series, Conversations on Character & the Common Good. There is always time for audience questions. Angel Adams Parham is an associate professor of sociology and a senior fellow with the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature. We will consider how questions of moral purpose and character are integral to education. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops, an annual conference, and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity, and moral purpose through our publications.

Each day brings new dramatic news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukrainian defense measures and counterattacks. Gathering expert panelists from both the University of Notre Dame and Ukraine, this flash panel will assess the situation in Ukraine from different perspectives. The Nanovic Institute for European Studies will host it on September 16, 2024. In August 2024, Ukraine broke through Russian border defense and occupied Russian territory. F-16 fighter jets arrived in the country. Russian aggression seemed to increase with massive air strikes. On August 24, Ukraine’s president Zelensky signed a controversial law banning Russia-linked religious groups with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as the main target – a move criticized by Pope Francis the following day. There are also discussions of peace plans following a “Summit on Peace in Ukraine” in Switzerland in June. What is the situation in the country now (September 2024)? What are the main developments over the summer of 2024? How can we assess the position Ukraine finds itself in? Where is the country heading? What are the expectations for fall and winter in Ukraine? In this 60-minute flash panel, we want to shed light on these questions. Register to AttendPanelistsVolodymyr TurchynovskyyDean of the Social Sciences FacultyUkrainian Catholic UniversityMary Ellen O'ConnellRobert & Marion Short Professor of LawProfessor of International Peace Studies—Kroc InstituteUniversity of Notre DameTaras ZhovtenkoActing Executive DirectorIlko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives FoundationAssociate Professor and Project Lead on Security Studies ProgramUkrainian Catholic UniversityOlha VorozhbytDeputy Editor-in-ChiefUkrayinskyi Tyzhden (Ukrainian Week)Foreign Policy CouncilUkrainian PrismAffiliated expert of the Global Outreach ProgramModerated by Clemens Sedmak, director of the Nanovic Institute and professor of social ethics at the Keough School of Global Affairs.   Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Join the Liturgical Choir of the Notre Dame Children's Choir the second and third Mondays of the month in-person or online for a prayerful Vespers service.  https://youtube.com/live/WjGCPONoGuQ?feature=shareNotre Dame Children's Liturgical ChoirOriginally published at sma.nd.edu.

Finnish American composer Ilari Kaila and Prof. Patrick Yim perform and discuss Kaila's Solitude for solo violin and other works. Notre Dame Professor David Bird will moderate a discussion with Yim and Kaila. Originally published at music.nd.edu.