The 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.

As part of the Keough-Naughton Institute's spring 2024 speaker series, Sophie Cooper, lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen's University, Belfast, will give a lecture titled “‘I Believe Colonists will Always Call Ireland by this Name of “Home”’: Adapting to a New Home Abroad within the Irish Diaspora.” Focusing on Irish migrants during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, this lecture draws together research from Cooper's book and recent work on belonging and the built environment. It will explore some of the ways that a sense of belonging, or a sense of “home,” was created and facilitated abroad. For some in diasporic communities, this was related to the people that they surrounded themselves with, for others, it was the physical changes that they made to the world around them. This research, therefore, examines how lay and religious communities worked together, and in parallel, to make a new “home from home” across different generations. Speaker Biography Sophie Cooper is subject lead and a lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen’s University Belfast. Her 2022 book, Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c.1830-1922, was published by Edinburgh University Press and was awarded the 2023 American Conference for Irish Studies' Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

In the summer of 1993 following the death of her parents, six-year-old Frida moves from Barcelona to the Catalan province to live with her aunt and uncle, who are now her new legal guardians. The country life is a challenge for Frida; time passes differently in her new home and the nature that surrounds her is mysterious. She now has a little sister for whom she has to take care of and has to deal with new feelings, such as jealousy. Often, Frida is naively convinced that running away would be the best solution to her problems. Yet, the family does what it can to achieve a fragile new balance and bring normality to their life. Occasional family outings to a local fiesta or a swimming pool, cooking, or listening to jazz in the garden bring them moments of happiness. Slowly, Frida realizes that she is there to stay and has to adapt to the new environment. Before the season is over, she has to cope with her emotions and her parents have to learn to love her as their own daughter.Directed by Carla SimónWith Valérie Delpierre, Stefan Schmitz, María ZamoraNot Rated, 98 minutes, DCPIn Catalan with English subtitles.Director Carla Simón scheduled to appear via Zoom! GET TICKETSThis is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will only be available for pick-up one hour prior to the performance. To guarantee your reservation please pick-up your Will Call tickets at least 15 minutes prior to the performance. In the event of a sell out, unclaimed Will Call tickets will be used to seat patrons waiting on standby.Part of the Nanovic Film Series. 

Internationally acclaimed virtuoso Timothy Chooi joins faculty pianist Dror Baitel for an eclectic program featuring works by Fazil Say, Beethoven, Heifetz-Gershwin and more. This event is free and open to the public. To watch live. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with Fallen Leaves, a love story about two lonely souls' path to happiness and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Shot through with Kaurismäki's typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy set in contemporary Helsinki is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema's living legends. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. GET TICKETS