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- Nov 412:00 PMWebinar: "Generosity & Medicine"Register here The Center for Social Concerns hopes you will join it each month for the Virtues & Vocations lunchtime webinar series, Conversations on Character & the Common Good. There is always time for audience questions. Sneha Mantri, MD, MS, is a physician and director of Medical Humanities at Duke University School of Medicine. Abraham Nussbaum, MD, is a physician, chief education officer at Denver Health, and an author of several books, including the recently released Progress Notes. Mantri and Nussbaum wrote essays on generosity for the fall issue of the Virtues & Vocations magazine. We will discuss their essays and others from the issue, American healthcare, and medical education. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops, an annual conference, and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity, and moral purpose through our publications.
- Nov 512:30 PMTalk—"Bangladesh 2024: Protest, Politics, Possibilities"The July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh has been deemed unprecedented because of its success in deposing a leader whose grip on power seemed unshakable. Angry students steered the opposition who turned their dissatisfaction with a court decision about government job allocation into a one-point demand for the resignation of the prime minister. In a matter of weeks, and in the face of excessive state violence, droves of ordinary citizens came out on the streets and joined the protests. While the speed and manner in which the events unfolded is unprecedented, the student as political agent has a longer history in the political culture of the region. Based on conversations with student activists and leaders, this talk will situate the 2024 uprising within this larger context while identifying the shifts in the performative, aesthetic, and linguistic aspects of the July protests that aimed to draw a sharp line with the past. Nusrat ChowdhuryAssociate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst CollegeKellogg Institute Visiting FellowSusan OstermannAssistant Professor of Global Affairs, Keough School of Global AffairsKellogg Institute Faculty Fellow More event info here. Presented by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and cosponsored with the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
- Nov 53:30 PMLecture — "From Partition to Partnership: The Future of Ireland's Peace Process"As part of the Keough-Naughton Institute's fall 2024 speaker series, Emma DeSouza, founder and co-facilitator of The Civic Initiative, will give a lecture titled, "From Partition to Partnership: The Future of Ireland's Peace Process.” Lecture Abstract The Good Friday Agreement is globally recognized as one of the most successful peace agreements of the last century. Its success was the culmination of decades of civic-led cross-community efforts, tilling the ground for a landslide 'Yes' vote. Emma DeSouza considers how civic society remains the backbone of the peace process today. As a new generation emerges, unburdened by the historically entrenched concepts of identity which came to define prior generations, civic society, and the young people within it, are creating a new path. This lecture explores the changing demographics and dynamics in Northern Ireland, the future of the peace process, and the prospects of a united Ireland. Speaker Biography Emma DeSouza is a journalist, campaigner, and peace builder who changed UK law in a landmark human rights case relating to the Good Friday Agreement. She is the founder and co-facilitator of deliberative democracy platform The Civic Initiative, Director of the Northern Ireland Emerging Leaders Program at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and a transatlantic adviser on peace processes and civic innovation. Emma writes for several publications including the Guardian, Irish Times, Irish News, and Byline Times. In 2023, she hosted a limited podcast series on the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement titled 'Lost in Implementation.' This event is co-sponsored by the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.
- Nov 57:30 PMFilm: "Tommy Guns" (2023)Angolan-Portuguese director Carlos Conceição's audacious and enigmatic Tommy Guns invokes the ghosts of Angola's colonial past while embracing the symbolic power of genre filmmaking. The story begins in 1974, just one year before the country's independence from decades of Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually claim their land back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Another group of soldiers, completely cut off from the outside world, blindly follow the brutal orders of their commander in the name of serving their country. But nothing stays fixed in this genre-shifting cinematic puzzle, which playfully swerves from art house drama to war film to zombie flick to escape thriller with exhilarating control. GET TICKETS!
- Nov 64:00 PMBook Launch — "Victims-Centred Peacemaking: Colombia's Santos-FARC-EP Peace Talks"In this event, professor in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, and director of the Global Insecurities Centre, at the University of Bristol, Roddy Brett will present his monograph, Victim-Centred Peacemaking: Colombia’s Santos-FARC-EP Peace Process (Bristol University Press, 2024), which he wrote during his time as Kroc Institute visiting fellow (2022–23). The book addresses the fundamental question of how, in the face of unrelenting barbary and adversity, survivors of political violence and atrocity have sought to assert agency and contest power as they painstakingly forge a path through which to bring an end to political violence, craft the effective means through which to reckon with the past, and reconstitute their political and moral communities. The book is, in part, about how war is fought, what its impact is, particularly on civilians, and the means that armed groups employ in order to achieve their ends. It is also about how those who survive atrocious violence narrate and make sense of war and attempt to construct peace, and, in so doing, transform political subjectivity, shape formal peacemaking processes and accountability mechanisms, and reconfigure relations of power. Based on unique empirical research into Colombia’s Santos-FARC-EP peace process (2012-2016), this book interrogates, specifically, how, if at all, survivors and victims may assert agency and contribute to formal peacemaking and transitional justice initiatives. The research argues that victim inclusion — through the so-called victims’ delegations — meaningfully transformed victim-perpetrator relations and dynamics in Havana, while partially shaping the content of both the Victims’ Agreement and Final Agreement. As such, the delegations created paths for empowerment at the individual and, in part, collective levels. However, victim inclusion also precipitated experiences of victim depoliticization, revictimization, retraumatization and instrumentalization. Drawing on insights from across academic disciplines, the book proposes an instrumentalization/empowerment spectrum to analyze the complex impact of victim-centered approaches to peacemaking/transitional justice, and is valuable for both researchers and practitioners. Brett will be joined by Kroc Institute PhD student, Patrick McQuestion (peace studies and political science) and visiting scholar, Alison Ribeiro de Menezes as respondents. Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, professor of the practice and director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) will provide opening remarks. This event is cosponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.
- Nov 67:30 PMFilm: "The Zone of Interest" (2023)— (Part of the Nanovic Film Series)Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp. Get Tickets This screening is co-hosted with Nanovic Institute faculty fellows Vittorio Hösle, the Paul G. Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters, and Sarah Edmands Martin, assistant professor of design.This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will be available for pick-up at the Ticket Office one hour prior to the performance. To guarantee your seat, please pick up your tickets at least 15 minutes prior to the show. In the event of a sell-out, unclaimed tickets will be used to seat patrons waiting on standby. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.
- Nov 712:30 PMLecture — "Burning Iraq: Reckoning with Military Injustice"The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, in partnership with its Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) Working Group, as part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, proudly offer a four-part lecture series over the 2024–25 academic year. The series focuses on U.S. imperialism and U.S. military and humanitarian involvement in the Middle East, and in particular Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. Graduate students serve as discussants after each lecture, prior to Q&A with the audience. The series conducts a critical evaluation of U.S. policy in the Middle East and calls for a reassessment of the nature and function of a U.S. presence, and the implications posed for peacebuilding practitioners and contemporary global affairs scholarship. The United States used "burn pits" to dispose of military waste on its bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. These massive incineration fields caused respiratory illness, cancer, and death for thousands of soldiers. Iraqi and Afghan communities continue to endure the consequences of exposure to burn pits as just one form of harm to their health and livelihoods. Recently returned from fieldwork in Fallujah, Iraq, Kali Rubaii, cultural anthropologist and assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University, reports on the condition of Iraq's environment, 20 years since the 2003 US invasion. Her talk poses the question: What are the routes to justice and accountability for the most privatized war in human history? Richard "Drew" Marcantonio, assistant professor of environment, peace, and global affairs, will serve as a respondent.
- Nov 74:00 PMSouth Asia Group Lecture: "Between Mao and Gandhi: Violence and Nonviolence in Nepal’s Revolutionary Uprisings"Ches Thurber is an associate professor of political science at the School of Public and Global Affairs, Northern Illinois University, who studies global conflict and security. Thurber studies international conflict, security, peace-building and global governance. His book, Between Mao and Gandhi: the Social Roots of Civil Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2021), examines dissident choices between violent and nonviolent strategies of resistance. Sponsored by the Liu Institute's South Asia Group. In support of the Liu Institute’s growing commitment to sustainability, we will no longer be offering drinks at our public lectures and panels. We encourage audience members to bring their own water bottles or to drink from nearby water fountains. Thank you for your understanding. Registration Required - Sign Up Here Originally published at asia.nd.edu.
- Nov 75:00 PMLecture — "Literary Celebs: Amalia Guglielminetti, Guido Gozzano and the Price of Fame"The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor John Welle (Notre Dame). “L’unica poetessa che abbia oggi l’Italia,” Gabriele D’Annunzio declared of Amalia Guglielminetti, who began her literary career at the age of eighteen in 1901 with the ode “Al giglio sabuado” celebrating the birth of Princess Jolanda of Savoy. In the following decade, emerging onto the rich cultural scene of her native Turin, the Italian center of both the worker’s movement and the drive for female emancipation, she would bring forth three of the most important books of poetry of the new century: Le vergini folli (1907), Le seduzioni (1909), and L’insonne (1913). Adopting classical forms such as the songbook, the sonnet, and the tercet, her modernizing self-fashioning showcases various masks of the modern “donna nuova,” from the femme fatale to the emancipated woman. While linked to such traditional figures as Gaspara Stampa and other female poets of the Renaissance, she was also praised for her “stupefacente originalità.” Moreover, her early career, in its rapid rise to literary success, parallels that of her intimate friend, confidant and fellow Turin poet, Guido Gozzano. Their epistolary exchanges, numbering some 126 letters, dated between 1906 and 1912, shed light on their mutual admiration, tense romantic engagement — more literary than amorous — and common “will to fame.” Within the context of women writers of the early 20th century, as well as within that of the modern Italian poetic canon, this research seminar proposes revisiting Amalia Guglielminetti’s literary accomplishments for serious critical reconsideration. While focusing on the dialogue in letters and in verse between these two poets from Turin during the high point of their literary celebrity, I will also trace the factors that have marginalized the female writer in relation to her male counterpart(s), denying her the fame that she so richly deserves. John P. Welle is professor of Italian and concurrent professor of film, television and theatre, emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.The Italian Research Seminar, a core event of the Center for Italian Studies, aims to provide a regular forum for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and colleagues from other universities to present and discuss their current research. The Seminar is vigorously interdisciplinary, and embraces all areas of Italian literature, language, and culture, as well as perceptions of Italy, its achievements and its peoples in other national and international cultures. The Seminar constitutes an important element in the effort by Notre Dame's Center for Italian Studies to promote the study of Italy and to serve as a strategic point of contact for scholarly exchange.Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.
- Nov 76:00 PMMusic Program by Renana Gutman, pianistAcclaimed pianist Renana Gutman presents a program of Jewish composers who perished during the Holocaust, alongside works by their contemporaries — Berg, Ravel, and Debussy. This is event is free and not ticketed. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- Nov 76:30 PMFilm: "Fallen Leaves" (2023)Whistleblowers have a prominent place in Hollywood films, and a growing subgenre within focuses on government employees who release classified information. This biopic follows Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney), a former Air Force intelligence specialist, who leaked a private report demonstrating that Russia interfered in the 2016 United States presidential elections. In 2017, the FBI visited Reality's home in Georgia and questioned her about her involvement with the leaks. Her unauthorized release of information landed her a prison sentence of five years, which she wrapped up serving in 2021 with an early release. GET TICKETS!
- Nov 79:30 PMFilm: "Dog Star Man" (1964)Comprised of five short parts (or a prelude and four parts) filmed in sections over a three-year period, Dog Star Man follows a woodsman (Stan Brakhage), his axe, and his dog as they climb a snowy mountain in order to chop down a tree. That odyssey serves as Brakhage's bracketing for the larger story, which includes various visions and abstractions encountered by the woodsman along the way. GET TICKETS
- Nov 83:30 PMLecture: "Wolfe Tone and the Hibernian Catch Club: Sociability in Revolutionary Ireland"As part of the Keough-Naughton Institute's fall 2024 speaker series, Professor Martyn Powell will deliver the lecture, "Wolfe Tone and the Hibernian Catch Club: Sociability in Revolutionary Ireland." Lecture Abstract Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish political radical, best-known of the leaders of the United Irish rebellion of 1798, was a cultural polymath. As Martyn Powell will explain, this is perhaps something that, amidst the memorialising and commemorating that goes on in Irish republicanism, could be a little better understood. Theobald Wolfe Tone was an aspiring novelist; exceptionally accomplished in the genre of diarist and master of the epistolary craft; and even had an early dalliance with amateur theatricals. Less well-known, however, was that he was an accomplished singer, and in 1790 he joined the Dublin musical society, the Hibernian Catch Club. His diary shows that, after a financial windfall, he paid for his membership to the club, but beyond this we are very much in the dark. This lecture will explore his arrival in the club, his network of friends and acquaintances who nominated and supported him, and the tensions that operated in this particular brand of club-life in 1790s Dublin. Political divisions were to be expected, but tense stand-offs also occurred between those who valued a commitment to music-making over sociability. Powell asserts that much more can be said about Tone’s cultural and artistic impulses through a study of Dublin club-life in one of the most fractured periods of Ireland's history. Speaker Biography Martyn J. Powell is professor of history and dean of the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Bristol. He is a specialist in Irish political, cultural and social history, and his publications include Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Empire (2003), The Politics of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2005), Piss-Pots, Printers and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century Dublin (2009), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2010) (edited with James Kelly), and many articles and essays. He is currently working on a study of violence in Irish society, ‘Houghers and Chalkers: The Knife in Revolutionary Ireland, 1760-1815’, a book on the early club-life of Wolfe Tone, and an edition of the political works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, part of a Leverhulme-funded research project, for Oxford University Press. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.
- Nov 83:30 PMThomas H. Quinn Lecture: "Unpacking the Election -- Where Do We Go From Here?"Unpacking the Election: Where Do We Go From Here? is presented by Gerry Baker, editor-at-large of The Wall Street Journal, as part of the Thomas H. Quinn Lecture Series. Widely recognized for his sharp political commentary, Baker writes and speaks on U.S. and global politics, economics and business trends. His weekly column for the WSJ editorial page, “Free Expression,” features some of the world's leading writers, influencers and thinkers about various subjects.Matthew E.K. Hall, the David A. Potenziani Memorial College Professor of Constitutional Studies and director of the Notre Dame Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, will serve as moderator. Hall specializes in interdisciplinary research that spans the fields of American politics, law and society, and organizational behavior. His current research examines popular support for democratic norms in the United States, political psychology and the role of politics in the workplace. The talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required. The Quinn Lecture is sponsored by Notre Dame alumnus and trustee John W. “Jay” Jordan II (BBA ’69) in memory of Quinn (ND ’69), who was Jordan’s college roommate, longtime friend and business partner.
- Nov 86:30 PMFieldworks Short Dance Films ShowcaseDance made for film is a new and innovative way to share the art of dance with a wider audience. Come experience dance in a different format than the live theatre and see how cinematographic techniques offer a unique lens to the storytelling act of movement. Films screened this evening are directed by various local, regional, and national artists. GET TICKETS!
- Nov 88:00 PMFall Concert: Notre Dame Glee ClubThe Glee Club’s annual fall concert features classical and popular music for men’s choirs, ranging from motets of Victoria and songs of Schubert and Mendelssohn to arrangements of hits by The Beach Boys and The Beatles. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- Nov 910:30 AM(Part of Saturdays with the Saints Lecture Series)—"St. Carlo Acutis and the Many Miracles of the Eucharist"Saturdays with the Saints has established itself as a popular Notre Dame football pregame ritual that combines the University's rich traditions of Catholic faith and spirited game days. In this lecture, Timothy O'Malley, Professor of the Practice in theology, will present on St. Carlo Acutis. The lectures take place in the Andrews Auditorium on the lower level of Geddes Hall adjacent to Hesburgh Library. The talks are free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early as the events tend to fill to capacity. Come and grab a free T-shirt! Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.
- Nov 912:00 PMPanel Discussion—"Seeds of Compassion: Nurturing Early Childhood Development Globally in Catholic Communities"This conversation will provide a forum for rich dialogue about evidence-based solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing today's vulnerable youth. Hosted by the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC), this panel conversation features professor and director of the GC-DWC, Neil Boothby, in conversation with Dr. Carrie Quinn, pediatrician and executive director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center and co-chair of the University of Notre Dame’s (UND) For Good Initiative, and Wendy Angst, professor and director of the Powerful Means Initiative and Impact Consulting Minor at UND’s Mendoza College of Business. All three panelists serve children and their families in different vocational capacities, but their work is aligned by the science of early childhood development (ECD) and how it complements Catholic social teaching. The conversation will touch on various themes such as Notre Dame’s unique position to be a strong agent of global change in unifying scientific knowledge with the wisdom of the church, strategies to bolster ECD programs for children enduring crisis, and how Catholic Social Teaching underscores the imperative to cater to marginalized children, while scientific insights guide the methodologies to achieve this. The event’s conversation will provide a forum for rich dialogue about evidence-based solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing today’s vulnerable youth. Immediately following the panel, please join us for fellowship, refreshments, and conversation. Moderated by Nicole McNeil, director of the Center for Educational Research and Action (ERA); professor of psychology. Review the poster. Questions? Contact the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC); bparker2@nd.edu.
- Nov 101:00 PMFilm: "Annie" (2014)The original Broadway production of Annie opened in 1977 to instant success. Soon after that in 1982, the somewhat surprising choice of John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Night of the Iguana) directed the film adaptation. After a standard made-for-TV-Disney remake in 1999, the franchise updated the musical for this adaptation in 2014. For example, it's now set in Harlem, Daddy Warbucks becomes Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), and the Depression Era is swapped out for the mid-2010s tech boom. The musical's bones, however, largely remain. Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) resides at Miss Hannigan's (Cameron Diaz) orphanage with an optimism far beyond what her means should support. A chance encounter with Stacks, a mobile phone mogul running for Mayor of New York City, begins one of the most famous Algeresque Broadway stories ever. GET TICKETS!
- Nov 104:00 PMDocumentary: "Lyd" (2024)Made by a Palestinian from Lyd and a Jewish American, this documentary provides much-needed context for this moment, as it goes deep into the history of the Nakba from the perspective of Palestinians who survived. As the film cuts between fantastical and documentary realities, it ultimately leaves the viewer questioning what future should prevail. The film imagines an alternate reality where Palestine was never occupied and Palestinians of all religions (Muslims, Christians, and Jews) live in a liberated Palestine. Narrated by Palestinian actress Maisa Abd Elhadi who personifies the city, the viewer is guided through the lifespan of a five-thousand-year-old city and its residents. GET TICKETS
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