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, healthcare, disability, food security, immigration, and human rights. Booths will be throughout the first floor of Geddes Hall. Find more info at socialconcerns.nd.edu/fair.

REGISTER HERE Roosevelt Montás, professor, author and director of the Freedom and Citizenship Program at Columbia University, will discuss Freedom, Citizenship and Liberal Learning. Roosevelt specializes in Antebellum American literature and culture, with a particular interest in American national identity. His dissertation, Rethinking America, won Columbia University’s 2004 Bancroft Award. In 2000, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student and in 2008, he received the Dominican Republic’s National Youth Prize. He regularly teaches moral and political philosophy in the Columbia Core Curriculum as well seminars in American studies. Roosevelt speaks widely on the history, place, and future of the humanities in the higher education and is the author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation 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.

The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the HumanitiesConcurrent Professor of Film, Television & Theatre; Professor of European Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs; Director of the Initiative for Global Europe, Keough School of Global Affairs Research and Teaching InterestsContemporary European Studies (migration, refugees, European Union, populism)German literature and filmHolocaust StudiesGerman Jewish StudiesArt as a form of protest, social engagement, and community building TopicThis talk will be based on how the U.S. was a mentor to Germany post-war, and how we now need to look to Germany to recon with our own history w/r/t race in order to bolster our democracy. This is event is free and open to the public. Originally published at rooneycenter.nd.edu.