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- Mar 204:30 PMLecture — “From Dust They Came: Migration, Sanitation, and Missionary Modernity in New Deal California”Jonathan H. Ebel (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will offer this public lecture, cosponsored by Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns and Department of History. It is free and open to all. About the speaker Jonathan H. Ebel studies religion and war, religion and violence, and lay theologies of economic hardship all within the American context. His most recent book, From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California (NYU, 2023) examines the federal migratory farm labor camp system established in California during the Great Depression, as a site of missionary interaction between New Deal reformers and Dust Bowl migrants. He is also the author of G.I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion (Yale, 2015), Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War (Princeton, 2010), and the co-editor of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America (California, 2012). He is currently at work on a religious history of American warfare in five weapons. Ebel is past president of the American Society of Church History and a past Guggenheim Fellow. Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.
- Mar 207:00 PMLecture — "A Theology of Migration: The Bodies of Refugees and the Body Of Christ"Rev. Daniel G. Groody, C.S.C., will offer the fourth in a six-part lecture series called "The Only Solution is Love: The Eucharist and Catholic Social Teaching." This fourth lecture, titled "A Theology of Migration: The Bodies of Refugees and the Body Of Christ," reframes migration through a Eucharistic narrative, rather than the usual political, social, and cultural narratives, aligning the outer journey of migrants, the inner journey of faith, and the divine journey of Christ into our world and back to God. It explores the Body of Christ as encountered inside a Church building in the sacrament of the Eucharist, and also as encountered outside of it in the least and last among us (Mt 25:31-46). In the context of the global migration and refugees crisis, it shows the ways the divine and human intermingle on our earthly pilgrimage, transforming us into the image and likeness of God, so that we become bread for the world through the works of mercy. For more information, please click here. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.
- Mar 224:00 PMLabor Café – "Art and Labor: Engaging Questions of Work, Representation, and Identity at the Raclin Murphy"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. On March 22, the Labor Café will convene at a special time and location for “Art and Labor: Engaging Questions of Work, Representation, and Identity at the Raclin Murphy.” Bridget Hoyt, curator of education academic programs at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, will be the facilitator for the session. All people are welcome at the Labor Café, and all opinions are entertained. See more details at socialconcerns.nd.edu/labor-cafe.
- Mar 2512:00 PMZoom Webinar — "Patience, Courage and the Pursuit of Justice"Register here Sarah Schnitker is an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor University. In the Science of Virtues Lab she studies virtue and character development in adolescents and emerging adults, with a focus on the role of spirituality and religion in virtue formation. She specializes in the study of patience, self-control, gratitude, generosity, and thrift. Schnitker has published more than 75 peer-review articles and edited chapters, and she has procured more than $10 million in funding as a principal investigator on multiple research grants. Schnitker is an associate editor for Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, an editorial board member for the Journal of Research in Personality, and a co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality. There will be time for audience questions. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum housed at the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. You can learn more at virtuesvocations.org.
- Apr 34:30 PMLecture — "Fruit of the Earth and Work of Human Hands: Eucharist as (and) Integral Ecology"In the lecture, Emmanuel Katongole will offer the fifth in a six-part series called "The Only Solution is Love: The Eucharist and Catholic Social Teaching." This fifth lecture will highlight the connections between Eucharist and ecology with a view of making two interconnected claims, namely (1) that an adequate understanding of the Eucharist intensifies and shapes the Christian responsibility for the care of Our Common Home, and (2) that efforts for the care of our Common home are Eucharistic in more than a symbolic sense. They are truly a sacrament (sign and reality) of God’s love for the earth. Drawing from the work of Bethany Land Institute in Uganda, he will display the dynamic relationship between these two claims. For more information, please click here. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.
- Apr 303:30 PMSeminar: "A Brave New World of AI Governance"This session of the Soc(AI)ety Seminars series will touch on the topics of data, geopolitics and governance, regulation and self-regulation, while giving some examples of good and bad practices in various sectors, such as healthcare and banking.Sponsored by the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society.
- May 812:00 AM"Keeping the Republic" ConferenceThe Notre Dame Keeping the Republic Conference brings together a group of both prominent senior researchers and early-career scholars dedicated to a broad revitalization of American democracy—not just in the sense of self-government—but rather as a societal commitment to the equal dignity and inclusion of each person and social institutions that encourage broad and open participation. This conference creates an interdisciplinary community of scholars devoted to studying and advancing the democratization of American culture and institutions across political, legal, civic, commercial, social, religious, and educational life. This conference is not open to the public and is by invitation only. Originally published at rooneycenter.nd.edu.