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- Mar 193:30 PMLecture: "Lessons for the West from a Small African Country"Alexander Chula is a Thai-British medical doctor and writer, living and working in London. He studied Classics at Oxford then medicine at the University of London. His first book, Goodbye, Dr Banda, was published by Polygon in 2023. He has also written for The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and The Critic in the UK, and for The New Criterion and National Review in the U.S. Dr. Chula's book raises compelling questions about the universality of the humanities, the purposes of education, the challenges of nation-building in postcolonial Africa, and cultural transmission and translation. Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.
- Mar 194:00 PM2024 Distinguished Alumni Award Lecture — "The Uneasy Relationship of Peace, Democracy and Human Development: Reflections on the Hopes and Disappointments of Central America's Peace Agreements"Featuring Jorge Vargas Cullell (M.A. '94), director of Estado de la Nación, a Costa Rica-based center of thought that conducts research on sustainable development. The peace agreements that ended civil wars in Central America in the late 1980s and early 1990s were met with huge hope and expectations in societies ravaged by decades of instability, social exclusion, and political violence. However, the hard-fought peace did not usher in a new era of shared prosperity and democratization. Instead, by the turn of the century it became increasingly clear that the absence of military conflict coexisted with high levels of social violence, structural inequalities, persistent public corruption, and stunted democratization. In this lecture, Vargas Cullell will address the question of why peace does not easily blend with democracy and human development. While many international and local factors contributed to this unfortunate course of events — and continue to do so — he will focus on the importance of political power as a bridge (or not) between normative ideals and policy goals, and effective change. Read more about Jorge’s career path and time at Notre Dame here » The Kroc Institute’s Distinguished Alumni Award honors Notre Dame graduates in peace studies whose careers and lives exemplify the ideals of international peacebuilding. Each year the Distinguished Alumnus, who is selected by committee, travels to Notre Dame's campus to deliver a public lecture and meet with current peace studies students. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.
- Mar 196:00 PMMusic Program: "Stuff We Wanna Play" — Zachary Good, clarinet and Daniel Schlosberg, pianoZachary Good, the noted clarinetest of Eighth Blackbird, teams up with faculty pianist Daniel Schlosberg for a program entitled, "Stuff We Wanna Play," featuring works by Tailleferre, Saint-Saëns, David Clay Mettens and Zachary Good, among others. This event is free and open to the public. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- 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 207:00 PM"Safeguarding Democracy in an Era of AI and Digital Disinformation": A Conversation with Maria RessaFeaturing Maria Ressa Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Co-Founder and CEO of Rappler, and Distinguished Policy Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs In this lecture and the conversation that follows, Ressa will explore key challenges facing international information ecosystems and global democracy. Join us as Ressa discusses the possibility of developing artificial intelligence (AI) that respects truth and dissent, and offers strategies for resisting the threat of AI-powered surveillance, persuasion, and control. This conversation will be available in person as well as via livestream. This event is part of the 2023-24 Notre Dame Forum on "The Future of Democracy," and is co-sponsored by the Keough School of Global Affairs.
- Mar 211:00 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.
- Mar 215:00 PMRavarino Lecture: "Enzo Biagi and the Indulgent Memory of Fascism in Postwar Italy"The spring lectures are being planned in a hybrid online and in-person format. Please register here. The Center for Italian Studies presents the seventh annual Ravarino Lecture on March 21, 2024. This year's lecture, titled "Enzo Biagi and the Indulgent Memory of Fascism in Postwar Italy," will be delivered by Giorgio Bertellini of the University of Michigan. The post-1990s public de-mystification of the long celebrated Italian armed resistance against Fascism and Nazism (1943-1945), resulting from the decades-long efforts by a few journalists of either obvious or latent “anti-anti-Fascist” leaning, has appeared to many professional historians as a politically motivated assault against the antifascist foundations of the Italian Republic. Over the years, this accusation claimed, a conspiracy of popular journalists and bestselling authors Indro Montanelli, Giorgio Pisanò, and Arrigo Petacco, among others, produced an indulgent domestication of the memory of Fascism that distracted Italians from the regime’s violent, undemocratic nature. In this talk I explore a complementary explanation by focusing less on those writers’ political motivations and more on the appealing formats of Italy’s postwar cultural industry that authors and journalists of a wider political spectrum were also adopting. To articulate this hypothesis, I focus on the least likely case study: the career of Enzo Biagi (1920-2007), a former member of the Resistance, and one of Italy’s first “total journalists.” A reporter since the late 1930s, after the war Biagi edited a most popular periodical (Epoca) directed a daily newspaper (Il Resto del Carlino), curated richly illustrated authoritative encyclopedias about Fascism and World War II, sold weekly at newsstands, before devoting his time to anchoring news television programs and writing yearly bestsellers. Over the years Biagi maintained an impeccable reputation as truth-telling reporter and principled commentator — a do-gooder, in fact — on world affairs, but especially on 20th century Italian history. Professional historians largely ignored his work even though in most of his roles, I argue, he engaged in a much copied form of entertaining journalism that dealt with Fascism (and history in general) with an influential degree indulgence. A historical witness, he positioned himself as vicarious participant who had chosen to be on the right part of History but who did not linger in moral condemnation. Instead, he reported on the private life, psychology, and the contingent actions of notable figures of the regime and, sometimes, of the Resistenza — whether through biographical profiles or the interview format — and made them relatable. He therefore contributed to reducing World War II, the colonial campaigns and the civil war from historical phenomena impacting millions of lives to a series of sketches and anecdotes featuring colorful, and rarely consequential characters. Fascism emerged as a clumsy and humane regime that was incomparably different from Nazism, as the apologists of Mussolini were also contending. Furthermore, Biagi’s publications and television programs’ extensive use of photographs and film footage of the Istituto Luce — rarely discussed as one-sided source — served as a visible correlative to this forgiving version of the past and gave the impression that nothing more needed to be shown and revealed. The event is free and open to all. If you prefer to join on Zoom, please register in advance. Once registered, you will receive an email containing the Zoom link.Each year, thanks to the Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Endowment for Excellence, the Center for Italian Studies sponsors a public lecture by a distinguished scholar of Italian Studies. Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.
- Mar 217:30 PMConcert — "Cosmic Wonder": Bach, Montgomery, Haydn with new Sacred Music Chamber Orchestra and SoloistsAre Bach’s Brandenburg concertos really secular? Find out and enjoy the cosmic events of a starburst and sunrise depicted in music. With faculty and guest soloists Kola Owolabi, harpsichord; Patrick Yim, violin; Amy Porter, flute; conducted by new faculty member, Cynthia Katsarelis, in collaboration with the South Bend Symphony. With a woman conductor, composer, and soloist, this is also a Women's History Month event. Free for students (with tickets); $20 general admission. GET TICKETS ProgramJessie Montgomery (GRAMMY™ Winner 2024), Starburst Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 for solo Harpsichord, Violin, and Flute Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 6, Le Matin (The Morning)
- Mar 2210:40 AM[CANCELED] Ten Years Hence Lecture — "Symbiotic Human-AI Interaction: Examples of AI in Robot and AI in Finance"IN-PERSON LECTURE IS CANCELED A video of the lecture will be posted to the Ten Years Hence website at a later date.Symbiotic Human-AI Interaction: Examples of AI in Robot and AI in Finance is presented by Manuela M. Veloso, Herbert A. Simon University Professor, Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University. Veloso is currently head of artificial intelligence research for J.P. Morgan. This is the sixth 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.
- Mar 2212:00 PMLecture — “Gender, Justice and Joy: Legal Travels through the Patriarchy, Suppressed Speech and Corporate Crime”Karuna Nundy, a lawyer at the Supreme Court of India and a women’s rights advocate, was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2022” for advocating for the reform of antirape laws and fighting cases related to sexual harassment in the workplace. Nundy has worked with the governments of the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, and Pakistan on constitutional, legal, and human rights reforms. She was invited by the United Nations to advise on legal reform in 192 jurisdictions. Lunch will be provided. RSVP required. RSVP for the lecture Her lecture is sponsored by the Liu Institute’s South Asia Group and cosponsored by the Gender Studies Program, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights. About the Speaker Currently, Nundy serves as an expert on the Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression initiative and a member of the International Bar Association’s High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom chaired by Lord David Neuberger of Abbotsbury with special advisor Amal Clooney. Nundy’s legal work includes fighting for the rights of the victims of a gas leak in central Indian city of Bhopal, contributing to the India’s 2013 anti-rape laws, helping to draft the Right to Food Act, and leading arguments in India’s definitive online free speech case. She is currently leading arguments to criminalize marital rape and to legalize same-sex marriage. Nundy has worked with the governments of the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, and Pakistan on constitutional, legal, and human rights reforms. She was invited by the United Nations to advise on legal reform in 192 jurisdictions. Nundy obtained a degree in economics from St. Stephen’s College at Delhi University. Her first law degree is from the University of Cambridge. She then received a master of laws from Columbia University. Nundy is qualified to practice law in India and New York. All Spring 2024 South Asia Group Events Semester kickoff with chai and samosaWednesday, January 24, 12-1 p.m., 2148 Jenkins Nanovic Halls “Acts of Gods or Governments?: Disasters and Post-disaster Reconstruction as an Issue of Governance in Urban Nepal”Graduate student research presentation by Shana Scogin, political scienceWednesday, February 14, 12-1 p.m., 2148 Jenkins Nanovic Halls “Gender, Justice and Joy: Legal Travels through the Patriarchy, Suppressed Speech and Corporate Crime”Guest lecture by Karuna Nundy, advocate, Supreme Court of IndiaFriday, March 22, 12-1 p.m., 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls “The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Fight for Justice and Democracy in Modern India”Justice and Asia Distinguished Lecture with Alpa Shah, professor of anthropology, London School of Economics and Political ScienceMonday, April 29, 4 p.m., 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls Student PresentationsWednesday, May 1, 12:00–1:00 p.m, 2148 Jenkins Nanovic Halls Register for Spring 2024 Events Originally published at asia.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 225:30 PMLecture — "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Post-apocalyptic Imagination"Eileen M. Hunt is a professor of political science at Notre Dame. She is the author or editor of 10 books on topics ranging from tracing the place of the family in Enlightenment political thought to charting the legacies of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) for children's rights, bioethics, and AI ethics. Her latest book—The First Last Man—is the concluding volume in her trilogy on Shelley and political philosophy for Penn Press. It reclaims the existential meanings of Shelley's postapocalyptic war and plague novel set in the late 21st century—The Last Man (1826)— for our own post-pandemic era of climate crisis, endless war, and other human-made disasters. Lecture followed by wine and cheese reception and book signing. Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.
- Mar 228:00 PMGlee Club ConcertThe Notre Dame Glee Club is a 75-voice, all-male choral ensemble at the University of Notre Dame. Founded in 1915 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, it is the oldest Glee Club at a Catholic University in the United States. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- Mar 231:00 PMThe Met Opera: Live in HD — "Romeo et Juliette" (Gounod)Two singers at the height of their powers — radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim — come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod's sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire's most romantic scores. Bartlett Sher's towering staging also features baritone Will Liverman and tenor Frederick Ballentine as the archrivals Mercutio and Tybalt, mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as the mischievous pageboy Stéphano, and bass-baritone Alfred Walker as Frère Laurent.210 minutes (1 intermission) GET TICKETS!
- 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.
- Mar 264:00 PMLecture: "The Multiple Forms of Micro-Dynamic Agency at Work in Conflict-Affected Societies"Colombia, Lebanon and Northern Ireland served as sites for a recent research project that examined conflict associated with micro-dynamics of everyday inter-group encounters. Drawing on the project's findings, Roger MacGinty will highlight how everyday agency can be identified and categorized. Furthermore, research shows that with this comes the development of non-escalatory tactics that can prevent a conflict from worsening. In some cases, an understanding of these tactics may prolong situations of negative peace, defined as the absence of violence. Drawing on data from on-the-ground everyday encounters, this talk will ask fundamental questions about the utility and purpose of peacebuilding interventions in post-peace accord societies. MacGinty is a professor in defense, development and diplomacy in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University in the United Kingdom. His primary research interests include peace and conflict, particularly the intersection between top-down and bottom-up approaches to peacemaking. The author of four books, he has edited and co-edited seven books on issues related to peace processes and peacebuilding. A co-editor of the journal Peacebuilding, his writings have been published in The Third World Quarterly, Cooperation and Conflict, Security Dialogue, and Review of International Studies. A reception will follow this lecture in the Hesburgh Center Great Hall. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.
- Apr 22:00 PMMasterclass: “God Gives Us a New Song: Renewing Theology through Musical Creativity”Join the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study for a masterclass led by J. J. Wright, director of the University of Notre Dame Folk Choir. His masterclass is titled, “God Gives Us a New Song: Renewing Theology through Musical Creativity.” The Masterclass Series showcases NDIAS Fellows and the “can’t miss” ideas that fuel their research. All sessions are held in 246 Hesburgh Library from 2:00-4:00 p.m. If you’d like to attend, RSVP here. The full Masterclass schedule can be viewed here. Originally published at ndias.nd.edu.
- 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 411:00 AMThe 26th Annual Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion and PeaceThe Kroc Institute has selected Traci C. West as the featured speaker for the 26th Annual Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion, and Peace, presenting “Racism, Gender Violence, and Hypocrisies of Christian Love and Peace." A scholar-activist serving as James W. Pearsall Professor of Christian Social Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School (NJ), Dr. West’s teaching, research, and activism focus on gender, racial, and sexuality justice, with a focus on gender violence. Christianity espouses a core commitment to love and peace, yet hypocrisies persist related to racism and gender violence. Christian public claims can seemingly turn a blind eye to this incongruence, which then preserves it. Dr. West will address the costs associated by not acknowledging hypocrisies, the courage needed to call them out because of the risk involved, and use of historical narratives and lived experiences of antiracist gender justice as tools to help us do so. Lunch and conversation will follow this lecture in C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies. The Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion, and Peace, which began in 1999, were established through a gift to the Kroc Institute from Mrs. Anne Marie Yoder and her family. Each year, the Kroc Institute invites a leading thinker, writer, scholar, and/or peace advocate to deliver a lecture related to nonviolence, religion, and peace. Following the lecture, audience members join in informal dialogue and discussion with the speaker and with each other. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.
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