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- Apr 1910:40 AMTen Years Hence Lecture: "AI Ethics — Past, Present, and Future"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.
- Apr 245:00 PM2024 Duffy Lecture: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in Conversation with Chanté Mouton KinyonThe Department of English is pleased to announce that its 2024 Joseph M. Duffy Lecturer is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. A conversation between Jacobs-Jenkins and Chanté Mouton Kinyon, assistant professor of English, will take place on Wednesday, April 24. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright and producer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Recent theatre credits include Appropriate (currently running on Broadway), The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre), Girls (Yale Rep), Everybody (Signature Theatre), War (Yale Rep; Lincoln Center/LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience), and Neighbors (The Public Theater). He was showrunner, executive producer, and writer for HULU/FX’s drama series, Kindred, based on Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking novel. He currently teaches at Yale University and serves as vice president of the Dramatists Guild council and on the boards of Soho Rep, Park Avenue Armory, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. Honors include a USA Artists fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Chanté Mouton Kinyon is assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Kinyon’s primary research explores transnational Black American literature and culture, with a particular interest in the way in which Black American culture and literature intersects with Irish culture and literature. The 2019–2021 Moreau Postdoctoral Fellow (ND), Kinyon was previously the 2018–2019 NEH Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Co-sponsors Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies Department of American StudiesNotre Dame Initiative on Race and ResilienceDepartment of Film, Television, and Theatre Originally published at english.nd.edu.
- Apr 2512:00 PMSeminar Series 2 — "Meetings with the Psalms and Psalters"International scholars partake in a six-part seminar series devoted to Psalms in the first half of 2024. This series continues from where the 2023 series left off. The format will be a 60-minute lecture followed by a 30-minute discussion. These events are free and open to all, but registration is required. Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS)17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN)18:00 Central European Time (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA; John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM); and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Spring 2024 Schedule January 25, 2024 - "Vernacular Psalters in 12th-Century England"Jane Toswell (University of Western Ontario, Canada) February 22, 2024 - "Reading the Psalms in Early Medieval Ireland: The 'Old Irish Treatise on the Psalter'"Alderik Blom, Prof. Dr. (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany) March 21, 2024 - "Translation Strategies in the Wycliffite Psalms"Elizabeth Solopova (New College, University of Oxford) April 25, 2024 - "12th- to 14th-Century Vernacular Psalter Translations into Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Middle French"Kinga Lis (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) May 23, 2024 - "Visual Arts and the Book of Psalms"Susan Gillingham (Worcester College, University of Oxford) June 27, 2024 - "Christians, Jews, and an Interlinear Superscription: Use of Rabbinic Commentaries in an Early 13th-Century Psalter in England"Loraine Enlow (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City) Previous Sessions To view previous sessions from Series 1 of Psalms and Psalters, please visit the YouTube playlist. Watch Sessions Now Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.
- Apr 2610:40 AMTen Years Hence Lecture — "Harnessing and Hedging: The Two Faces of GenAI"Harnessing and Hedging: The Two Faces of GenAI is presented by Maryam Alavi, the Elizabeth D. and Thomas M. Holder Chair and Professor of IT Management at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. Alavi is a thought leader and researcher on digital innovation and transformation, with extensive experience in organizational capability-building and leadership and talent development for a digital age. This is the final lecture in the Ten Years Hence Speaker Series which focused on Artificial Intelligence: Promise and Peril. See the website for previous lectures, videos and speaker bios. The lecture is 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.
- Apr 293:00 PMLecture and Discussion: “My Path to Anti-Racism as an Asian American Educator” (Part of the Inclusive Leadership Colloquium Lecture Series)Presented by Jennifer Ho, professor of ethnic studies; director, Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder.Lecture and discussion: “My Path to Anti-Racism as an Asian American Educator”(RSVP required)- REGISTRATION CLOSED. The Office of Institutional Transformation — in partnership with Human Resources and the Provost’s Office — is pleased to announce a new collaborative initiative: the Inclusive Leadership Colloquium Lecture Series (ILCLS). ILCLS will bring insightful and innovative leaders in diverse, equitable, and inclusive practice to Notre Dame, where they will share ideas, best practices, and inspiration around DEI-related topics of interest. This series will offer participants an opportunity to hear from experts, receive information about DEI concepts and strategies, and strengthen the community of practice at Notre Dame committed to DEI work on our campus. Registration is open to all faculty and staff. For more information, please contact the Office of Institutional Transformation at 574-631-5618 or transformation@nd.edu. Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Transformation in partnership with Notre Dame Human Resources and the Provost's Office.
- 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.
- May 2312:00 PMSeminar Series 2 — "Meetings with the Psalms and Psalters"International scholars partake in a six-part seminar series devoted to Psalms in the first half of 2024. This series continues from where the 2023 series left off. The format will be a 60-minute lecture followed by a 30-minute discussion. These events are free and open to all, but registration is required. Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS)17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN)18:00 Central European Time (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA; John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM); and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Spring 2024 Schedule January 25, 2024 - "Vernacular Psalters in 12th-Century England"Jane Toswell (University of Western Ontario, Canada) February 22, 2024 - "Reading the Psalms in Early Medieval Ireland: The 'Old Irish Treatise on the Psalter'"Alderik Blom, Prof. Dr. (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany) March 21, 2024 - "Translation Strategies in the Wycliffite Psalms"Elizabeth Solopova (New College, University of Oxford) April 25, 2024 - "12th- to 14th-Century Vernacular Psalter Translations into Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Middle French"Kinga Lis (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) May 23, 2024 - "Visual Arts and the Book of Psalms"Susan Gillingham (Worcester College, University of Oxford) June 27, 2024 - "Christians, Jews, and an Interlinear Superscription: Use of Rabbinic Commentaries in an Early 13th-Century Psalter in England"Loraine Enlow (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City) Previous Sessions To view previous sessions from Series 1 of Psalms and Psalters, please visit the YouTube playlist. Watch Sessions Now Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.
- Jun 2712:00 PMSeminar Series 2 — "Meetings with the Psalms and Psalters"International scholars partake in a six-part seminar series devoted to Psalms in the first half of 2024. This series continues from where the 2023 series left off. The format will be a 60-minute lecture followed by a 30-minute discussion. These events are free and open to all, but registration is required. Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS)17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN)18:00 Central European Time (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA; John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM); and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Spring 2024 Schedule January 25, 2024 - "Vernacular Psalters in 12th-Century England"Jane Toswell (University of Western Ontario, Canada) February 22, 2024 - "Reading the Psalms in Early Medieval Ireland: The 'Old Irish Treatise on the Psalter'"Alderik Blom, Prof. Dr. (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany) March 21, 2024 - "Translation Strategies in the Wycliffite Psalms"Elizabeth Solopova (New College, University of Oxford) April 25, 2024 - "12th- to 14th-Century Vernacular Psalter Translations into Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Middle French"Kinga Lis (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) May 23, 2024 - "Visual Arts and the Book of Psalms"Susan Gillingham (Worcester College, University of Oxford) June 27, 2024 - "Christians, Jews, and an Interlinear Superscription: Use of Rabbinic Commentaries in an Early 13th-Century Psalter in England"Loraine Enlow (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City) Previous Sessions To view previous sessions from Series 1 of Psalms and Psalters, please visit the YouTube playlist. Watch Sessions Now Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.