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- Sep 2810:30 AMSaturdays with the Saints Lecture: "St. Bernadette and the Incorruptibles"Saturdays with the Saints has established itself as a popular Notre Dame football pregame ritual that combines the university’s rich traditions of Catholic faith and spirited game days. In this lecture, Abigail Favale, professor of the practice at the McGrath Institute for Theology and Literature, will present on St. Bernadette and other incorruptible saints. The lectures take place in the Andrews Auditorium on the lower level of Geddes Hall adjacent to Hesburgh Library. The talks are free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early as the events tend to fill to capacity. Come and grab a free T-shirt! Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.
- Sep 2812:30 PMGame Day Festivities: Medieval Combat featuring Theatrica GladiatoriaJoin the Medieval Institute for a thrilling tailgate filled with fencing, excitement, and camaraderie! This gameday, the Medieval Institute is very excited to welcome perennial favorites Theatrica Gladiatoria back to campus. Theatrica Gladiatoria’s professional performers and educators will offer dazzling swordplay alongside fascinating information about martial arts from the European Middle Ages both as historical practice and as living tradition! This is a hands-on event featuring basic instruction in medieval fencing for those who are interested. Complimentary food and drink will be provided. This event is free and open to the public—all people and all ages are welcome! Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.
- Oct 29:00 AMConversation—"Beloved Community at Notre Dame: Pathways, Bridges and Future Engagement"This event will bring together members of the Notre Dame and local communities to consider our roles in building the Beloved Community and supporting a collective vision of establishing love as the measure of success for all of our endeavors. While the sessions are open to all, registration is requested. Please register hereSessions:9 to 10:30 a.m. – Catholic Social Teaching and Building the Beloved Community (Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center)Conversation led by David Lantigua, associate professor of theology, and Deacon Mel Tardy, associate advising professor, Center for University Advising11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. – Love, Bridge Building, and Pathways to theBeloved Community (Legends of Notre Dame)Lunch and discussion led by Rev. Hugh R. Page, Jr., vice president for institutional transformation and advisor to the president, professor of theology and Africana studies1:45 to 3:15 p.m. – Laying the Foundation for the Beloved Community: A Local Expression in South Bend (Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center)Community panel session featuring Darryl Heller, director, Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center; Joseph Luten, CEO and president, Importin’ Joe’s Ethiopian Coffee; Sam Diggins, South Bend Police Department; Regina Williams-Preston, community partnerships program director, Center for Social Concerns3:30 to 5 p.m. – Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Building the Beloved Community at Notre Dame (Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center)Keynote Session featuring Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, assistant director for partnerships and fellowships at Yale University’s Center for Public Theology and Public Policy5 to 6 p.m. – Post-event reception and networking (Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center)Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove will be signing free copies of his book (co-written with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II), White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class can Reconstruct American Democracy, at the reception on a first-come, first-served basis.Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Office of Institutional Transformation, and the Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. Originally published at diversity.nd.edu.
- Oct 44:00 PMSocial Concerns FairThe Social Concerns Fair is open to students, faculty, and staff looking to engage more deeply with the city of South Bend. Meet representatives from community organizations addressing a range of issues, including education, housing, health care, disability, food security, immigration, and human rights. Booths will be set up throughout Geddes Hall. Find more info at socialconcerns.nd.edu/fair.
- Oct 44:30 PM2024–25 Cushwa Center Lecture: “Francis S. MacNutt and the Globalization of Charismatic Christianity”Candy Gunther Brown (Indiana University, Bloomington) will deliver the 2024–25 Cushwa Center Lecture. Brown received a Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center in 2023 for a biography of Francis MacNutt, to be published in the Eerdmans Library of Religious Biography series. More recently, she secured a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers in support of the book. The Cushwa Center recently interviewed Brown about her research on MacNutt and the dramatic growth of charismatic Christianity over the past half century. This event is free and open to all. About the speaker Candy Gunther Brown is professor of religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington. A historian and ethnographer of religion and culture, her research and writing have dealt with evangelical print culture and U.S. evangelicalism; global Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, science, medicine, and religion; and religious practices related to alternative healing, including yoga and mindfulness. Past projects have received support from, among other sources, the John Templeton Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.Image: Candy Gunther Brown, left; Francis MacNutt, right, at Notre Dame Stadium on June 14, 1974 (courtesy of Notre Dame Archives). Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.
- Oct 45:00 PMLabor Café: "American Workers and the 2024 Election"Hayden Kirwan, a senior majoring in history and minoring in poverty studies, will facilitate a discussion about workers and the 2024 election — jobs, immigration, unions, taxes, tariffs, and more. Kirwan is a Just Wage Research Lab fellow at the Center for Social Concerns. The Labor Café at the Center for Social Concerns convenes the Notre Dame community for casual conversation on contemporary questions about work, workers, and workplaces. What rights and protections should those who work for others have? What’s the proper role for government in the economy? How should we address enduring problems of inequality, poverty, and lack of opportunity? And what does Catholic social tradition have to say about these labor questions? Participants choose the concrete topics, all people are welcome, and all opinions are entertained. Visit socialconcerns.nd.edu/labor-cafe for more information.
- Oct 59:00 AMDolan Seminar/Book Talk: Emily Conroy-Krutz’s "Missionary Diplomacy"Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University) will discuss her book Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations (Cornell, 2024) at the Cushwa Center's fall 2024 Jay P. Dolan Seminar in American Religion. Commentators for this seminar are Heather Curtis (Tufts University) and Amy S. Greenberg (Penn State). From the publisher Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in 19th-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Missionaries served as consuls, translators, and occasional trouble-makers who forced the State Department to take actions it otherwise would have avoided. Yet as decades passed, more Americans began to question the propriety of missionaries' power. Were missionaries serving the interests of American diplomacy? Or were they creating unnecessary problems? As Emily Conroy-Krutz demonstrates, they were doing both. Across the century, missionaries forced the government to articulate new conceptions of the rights of U.S. citizens abroad and of the role of the United States as an engine of humanitarianism and religious freedom. By the time the United States entered the First World War, missionary diplomacy had for nearly a century created the conditions for some Americans to embrace a vision of their country as an internationally engaged world power. Missionary Diplomacy exposes the longstanding influence of evangelical missions on the shape of American foreign relations.Inaugurated in 1980 and named in 2023 to honor the Cushwa Center’s founding director, the Jay P. Dolan Seminar in American Religion convenes each semester at the University of Notre Dame to discuss a notable book recently published in the field. Along with faculty and graduate students from Notre Dame, scholars from throughout the Midwest travel to campus to attend as invited guests of the Cushwa Center. The featured author engages with two invited commentators as well as the larger group. The Saturday morning seminar is free and open to all. Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.
- Oct 712:00 PMWebinar: "Higher Education & Democracy"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. Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., began serving as the 11th president of Spelman College on July 1, 2022. A pediatrician and public health physician with expertise in economic development, humanitarian, and health issues, she previously worked in leadership roles at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and was the president and CEO of the international humanitarian organization, CARE and the Chicago Community Trust. We will have a conversation about her work at Spelman and how higher education can promote democracy and the common good. 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.
- Oct 94:00 PMLecture—"Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values-Driven Leadership"Speaker Mary Gentile is the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good's Practitioner in Residence, and is a world-renowned ethicist, consultant and author. Gentile’s innovative cross-disciplinary curriculum develops and cultivates values-driven leadership in business, and has been used in undergraduate, MBA and executive education in hundreds of business schools. Free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by The Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership.
- Oct 166:00 PMLecture: "Election 2024 and the Economy" (Part of the "Pizza, Pop, and Politics" Series)Join the Klau Institute and NDVotes for this installment of "Pizza, Pop, and Politics" as Chloe Gibbs, assistant professor of economics, discusses the imapct of the economy on the upcoming US election. Originally published at klau.nd.edu.
- Oct 307:00 PMReading by Martina Evans, poet and novelistMartina Evans is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose. American Mules (Carcanet 2021) won the Pigott Poetry Prize in 2022. Her latest narrative poem, The Coming Thing, was published by Carcanet in September 2023 and is shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. She is an Irish Times poetry critic and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. This event is co-sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the Creative Writing Program, and the Center for Social Concerns. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.
- Nov 412:00 PMWebinar: "Generosity & Medicine"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. Sneha Mantri, MD, MS, is a physician and director of Medical Humanities at Duke University School of Medicine. Abraham Nussbaum, MD, is a physician, chief education officer at Denver Health, and an author of several books, including the recently released Progress Notes. Mantri and Nussbaum wrote essays on generosity for the fall issue of the Virtues & Vocations magazine. We will discuss their essays and others from the issue, American healthcare, and medical 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.
- Dec 55:00 PMLecture: "A Reckless and Scandalous Doctrine: Matthias Ferchius, a Franciscan in the Index"The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Eva Del Soldato (University of Pennsylvania) titled: A Reckless and Scandalous Doctrine: Matthias Ferchius, a Franciscan in the Index This paper delves into the intriguing journey of a forgotten booklet by the Franciscan Matthias Ferchius (1583-1669), drawing from recently unearthed material. It uncovers a fascinating blend of Biblical exegesis, poison expertise, medical reasoning, and rhetorical balancing acts, all in an audacious attempt by Ferchius to present no less than a revisionist account of the death of Jesus Christ. The paper will engage in the dialectic between Ferchius and the Holy Office censors, shedding light on the aspects of Ferchius’s text that raised particular concerns. It will also demonstrate how the pursuit of “new” outlooks in philosophy and theology always necessitated a firm reliance on tradition, a fact exemplified by other episodes of Ferchius’ intellectual career. Lastly, it will bring to the fore the paradoxical outcomes of this form of “conspiracy” philology. Eva Del Soldato is associate professor of Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the FIGS Graduate Program and serves as interim director of the Center for Italian Studies. She was trained in philosophy and intellectual history at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Her research is primarily devoted to Renaissance thought and culture, particularly the Aristotelian and Platonic traditions. Her current project is focused on lovesickness treatises in the Counterreformation period. She is the author of the monographs Simone Porzio (2010) and Early Modern Aristotle. On the Making and Unmaking of Authority (2020). She has also published several articles and editions, including the Italian translation of Bessarion's In calumniatorem Platonis. She has co-edited several volumes (the most recent is Plato in the Italian Universities, 2024). She received— among others — fellowships from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Villa I Tatti, the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel, the Huntington Library in Pasadena, and she has been a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Milan, the University of Bergamo, and the 2022/2023 Charles Speroni Chair at UCLA. She has been the interim director (2019/2020) of the Global Medieval Studies Program at Penn, and she is currently the executive secretary of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS). The lecture is co-sponsored by the Medieval Institute.The Italian Research Seminar, a core event of the Center for Italian Studies, aims to provide a regular forum for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and colleagues from other universities to present and discuss their current research. The Seminar is vigorously interdisciplinary, and embraces all areas of Italian literature, language, and culture, as well as perceptions of Italy, its achievements and its peoples in other national and international cultures. The Seminar constitutes an important element in the effort by Notre Dame's Center for Italian Studies to promote the study of Italy and to serve as a strategic point of contact for scholarly exchange.Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.
- Dec 1612:00 PMWebinar: "Character, Leadership & Professional Education"Register here We hope you will join us each month for the Virtues & Vocations lunchtime webinar series, Conversations on Character & the Common Good. There is always time for audience questions. Sanford “Sandy” Shugart served from 2000 to 2021 as the fourth president of Valencia College in greater Orlando, Florida. He is a senior fellow with the Aspen Institute and the author of Leadership in the Crucible of Work: Discovering the Interior Life of an Authentic Leader. Our conversation will consider the broad landscape of higher education — and particularly pre-professional and professional education for flourishing within community colleges — along with issues of leadership and character. 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.