The Creative Writing Series and the Kellogg Institute for international Studies invites you to an evening with Cristina Rivera Garza. A Q&A and book signing will follow. Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore will be on site with copies of the author's books available for purchase.   Cristina Rivera Garza is an author, translator, and critic. Recent publications include Liliana’s Invincible Summer (Hogarth, 2023), a finalist for the 2023 NBA in nonfiction. The Taiga Syndrome, trans. by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana, (Dorothy Project, 2018), 2019 Shirley Jackson Award. Grieving. Dispatches from a Wounded Country, trans. by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press, 2020), a finalist for the NBCC In Criticism. She is M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor and founder of the PhD Program in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston, Department of Hispanic Studies.  Garza is also a MacArthur Fellow 2020-2025, a member of Mexico’s National College since 2023, and artist-in-Residence DAAD 2023-2024, Berlin.

AI Ethics - Past, Present, and Future is presented by Nicholas Berente, Professor of Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations at the Mendoza College of Business and Dr. Heather Domin, Global Leader, Responsible AI Initiatives, IBM Office of Privacy &Responsible Technology. Berente studies how digital innovations such as artificial intelligence technologies drive change in organizations and institutions. He teaches courses on Strategic Business Technology and is Co-Director of the GAMA Lab and affiliated faculty in Notre Dame's Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, as well as the Notre Dame Center for Technology Ethics. Domin has been instrumental in developing and executing foundational practices in AI ethics and governance, including building IBM's Ethics by Design program and its Algorithmic Impact Assessment. As Associate Director of the Notre Dame - IBM Tåch Ethics Lab, she has shaped a robust industry-academic ecosystem and delivered novel research. As a World Economic Forum Fellow, she has provided executive and research leadership on research centered on generative AI. This is the seventh of eight lectures in the Ten Years Hence Speaker Series which will focus on Artificial Intelligence: Promise and Peril. See the website for details on additional lectures and speaker bios. All lectures are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public. No tickets or registration required. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment.  

“And is Only Raining”: post-catastrophic Irelands in contemporary fiction Dr Aran Ward Sell is W. B. Yeats Fellow in Irish literature at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, based in the Department of English. His work has appeared in Irish Studies Review, C21 Literature, Alluvium, HJEAS, Antae and elsewhere, and at conferences in the UK, Malta and Belgium. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He specializes in contemporary modernist, experimental and “weird” fiction, and the aftermaths of economic and environmental crisis. In this talk he will introduce himself to the department, and discuss recent fictional Irelands ravaged by the aftermaths of anthropogenic crisis, focusing on Danny Denton’s debut novel The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow (2018).