Join the Eck Institute for Global Health for a Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Speaker Series event featuring professor William J. Riley, Ph.D. Register here. Drawing from his expertise in leading academic and industry partnerships, Riley will share his insights into improving pregnancy and postpartum experiences. Riley will also illustrate how partnerships can lead to a reduction in health disparities and improve health metrics. Schedule of Events:Date: Friday, October 4, 2024 Venue: McKenna Hall 205/206/207TIMETITLESPEAKER8:30 - 9:00 amArrival, BreakfastN/A9:00 - 9:05 amWelcome RemarksTim Weber9:05 - 9:10 amSpeaker IntroductionJoyce Adams9:10 - 9:55 amPresentation- Perinatal SafetyDr. William Riley9:55 - 10:05 amBREAK - Coffee/Tea 10:05 - 10:20 amEquity and Disparities DiscussionDr. William Riley10:20 - 10:25 amQ & A Panel IntroductionMarie Donahue10:25 - 10:55 amGuided Q & ADr. William Riley TBDTBDJoyce Adams10:55 - 11:00 amClosing RemarksNydia Morales SotoAbout the Invited Speaker:William J. Riley, PhD, is a professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, and founding director of the National Safety Net Advancement Center (SNAC) launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to improve population health and equity. He has led numerous studies to improve perinatal safety including a seven-year national project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). These novel studies provided breakthrough evidence to improve perinatal outcomes. The translational research created new understanding regarding breaches in safety mechanisms and developed interdisciplinary team training approaches to create high reliability in healthcare organizations. Riley currently leads six large academic/industry partnership projects. This includes a five-year $250 million state-wide program funded by the Arizona Medicaid Department to reduce disparities and improve health metrics, involving over 400 health systems/clinics and 2000 physicians. Before joining ASU, Riley served as associate dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining academics, Riley served for over two decades as president and CEO of several medical delivery organizations including a large safety net system, and as senior executive at a public trauma hospital and teaching center. In addition to research, he teaches graduate courses in population health, healthcare finance, and the science of improvement. Register here. About the MNCH Speaker Series: Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH) is committed to addressing the critical healthcare needs of pregnant and postpartum women and their children. The EIGH fosters interdisciplinary collaborations and inspires advancements to improve maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) outcomes within communities in Indiana and around the world. The Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) Speaker Series is hosted by the Eck Institute for Global Health to bring awareness to local and global health-related issues that impact vulnerable populations. Learn more by visiting the MNCH webpage. Originally published at globalhealth.nd.edu.

As part of the Keough-Naughton Institute's fall 2024 speaker series, Ciaran Brady, emeritus professor of early modern history and historiography at Trinity College Dublin, will deliver a lecture based on his forthcoming book about Sir Thomas Cusack. Lecture Abstract Thomas Cusack was at the forefront of Irish politics from the 1530s to the early 1570s. Closely associated with every initiative of Tudor policy in Ireland from the Reformation, the conciliatory policy of surrender, and regrant to the introduction of provincial presidencies, he was the only Irish-born official in the years after 1534 to hold the office of chief governor. Yet he remains one of those elusive figures who appear, positively but fleetingly, in historical studies of sixteenth century Ireland. No monograph devoted to Cusack has ever been attempted, and he has not even been the recipient of a single scholarly article. In this lecture, Ciaran Brady seeks to redress this neglect, but more importantly to question the underlying interpretative assumptions from which it arose. Speaker Biography Ciaran Brady, MRIA, is emeritus professor of early modern history and historiography, and Fellow Emeritus, at Trinity College Dublin. The author of several books, including The chief governors: the rise and fall of reform government in Tudor Ireland (Cambridge, 1994) and James Anthony Froude : an intellectual biography of a Victorian prophet (Oxford, 2013), his latest book, Sir Thomas Cusack: a Tudor career in sixteenth century Ireland, is currently being prepared for publication. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

Candy Gunther Brown (Indiana University, Bloomington) will deliver the 2024–25 Cushwa Center Lecture. Brown received a Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center in 2023 for a biography of Francis MacNutt, to be published in the Eerdmans Library of Religious Biography series. More recently, she secured a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers in support of the book. The Cushwa Center recently interviewed Brown about her research on MacNutt and the dramatic growth of charismatic Christianity over the past half century. This event is free and open to all. About the speaker Candy Gunther Brown is professor of religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington. A historian and ethnographer of religion and culture, her research and writing have dealt with evangelical print culture and U.S. evangelicalism; global Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, science, medicine, and religion; and religious practices related to alternative healing, including yoga and mindfulness. Past projects have received support from, among other sources, the John Templeton Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.Image: Candy Gunther Brown, left; Francis MacNutt, right, at Notre Dame Stadium on June 14, 1974 (courtesy of Notre Dame Archives). Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.

Hayden Kirwan, a senior majoring in history and minoring in poverty studies, will facilitate a discussion about workers and the 2024 election — jobs, immigration, unions, taxes, tariffs, and more. Kirwan is a Just Wage Research Lab fellow at the Center for Social Concerns. 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. What rights and protections should those who work for others have? What’s the proper role for government in the economy? How should we address enduring problems of inequality, poverty, and lack of opportunity? And what does Catholic social tradition have to say about these labor questions? Participants choose the concrete topics, all people are welcome, and all opinions are entertained. Visit socialconcerns.nd.edu/labor-cafe for more information.

Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University) will discuss her book Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations (Cornell, 2024) at the Cushwa Center's fall 2024 Jay P. Dolan Seminar in American Religion. Commentators for this seminar are Heather Curtis (Tufts University) and Amy S. Greenberg (Penn State). From the publisher Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in 19th-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Missionaries served as consuls, translators, and occasional trouble-makers who forced the State Department to take actions it otherwise would have avoided. Yet as decades passed, more Americans began to question the propriety of missionaries' power. Were missionaries serving the interests of American diplomacy? Or were they creating unnecessary problems? As Emily Conroy-Krutz demonstrates, they were doing both. Across the century, missionaries forced the government to articulate new conceptions of the rights of U.S. citizens abroad and of the role of the United States as an engine of humanitarianism and religious freedom. By the time the United States entered the First World War, missionary diplomacy had for nearly a century created the conditions for some Americans to embrace a vision of their country as an internationally engaged world power. Missionary Diplomacy exposes the longstanding influence of evangelical missions on the shape of American foreign relations.Inaugurated in 1980 and named in 2023 to honor the Cushwa Center’s founding director, the Jay P. Dolan Seminar in American Religion convenes each semester at the University of Notre Dame to discuss a notable book recently published in the field. Along with faculty and graduate students from Notre Dame, scholars from throughout the Midwest travel to campus to attend as invited guests of the Cushwa Center. The featured author engages with two invited commentators as well as the larger group. The Saturday morning seminar is free and open to all. Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.

Margaret Tillman is an associate professor of history at Purdue University. Her research focuses on cross-cultural contestations over identity formation and knowledge production in China in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her monograph, Raising China’s Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018), charts the transnational establishment of child welfare as a lens for examining the introduction of new sensibilities about childhood innocence and sentimentalization. Sponsored by the Liu Institute's Chinese Working 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. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

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. Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., began serving as the 11th president of Spelman College on July 1, 2022. A pediatrician and public health physician with expertise in economic development, humanitarian, and health issues, she previously worked in leadership roles at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and was the president and CEO of the international humanitarian organization, CARE and the Chicago Community Trust. We will have a conversation about her work at Spelman and how higher education can promote democracy and the common good. 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.

This week's readings invite us to examine the role of friendship in living well, with particular attention to our often self-serving inclinations or fears of exclusion. This co-curriculum event is designed to offer a nuanced and specified discussion on one form of friendship, romantic friendship. Join Christine Emba and Moreau Peer Leaders in a conversation about romantic friendship. Christine Emba is a writer, reporter, and former columnist and member of the Editorial Board for The Washington Post. In her book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation (2022), Emba argues how consent is a good ethical floor, but a terrible ceiling. She spells out the cultural, historical, and psychological forces that have warped our idea of sex. Reaching back to the wisdom of thinkers like Thomas Aquinas and Andrea Dworkin, and drawing from sociological studies, interviews with college students, and poignant examples from her own life, Emba calls for a more humane philosophy, one that starts with consent but accounts for the very real emotional, mental, social, and political implications of sex—even, she argues, if it means saying no to certain sexual practices or challenging societal expectations altogether."...if all you want is to be in the know, your pleasure will be short-lived... you were not looking for virtue or kindness or loyalty or humour or learning or wit or any of the things that can be really enjoyed. You merely wanted to be 'in.' And that is a pleasure that cannot last." - C. S. Lewis, “The Inner Ring” (1944)Guidelines This event will showcase an interview with Moreau Peer Leaders and Christine Emba as they imagine what friendship in the context of romantic relationships looks like and could look like here at Notre Dame. Register and attend the event with Moreau Peer Leaders and Christine Emba. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome, but registration is limited to 120. After attending the event, record at least five quotes or observations in your commonplace book and reflect upon them. Sign up here After signing up, click below to add this event to your Google Calendar.   Contact whittington@nd.edu for more information.  Originally published at moreaufirstyear.nd.edu.

Jinying Chen, Visiting ScholarJinying Chen, a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs and executive director of the Center for Indian Studies at Shanghai International Studies University, will deliver the lecture "From RCEP to IPEF: the Domestic Politics of Indian Foreign Economy Policy." Chen's main research areas are party politics, Indian government and politics, and comparative studies of China-India development. She joins the University of Notre Dame for the fall 2024 semester as a visiting scholar at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Sponsored by the South Asia Group at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs. 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. Lunch Provided-Registration Required Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

This workshop will cover how faculty, staff, and students can use AI to enhance their day-to-day work, while also addressing areas where caution should be exercised when using AI. Click HERE to register Originally published at ai.nd.edu.

As part of her role as 2024-25 Practitioner in Residence with the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, world-renowned ethicist, consultant, and author Mary Gentile will deliver a public lecture titled "Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values Driven Leadership." This event will be co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership, where Gentile serves on the Advisory Board. Mary is the creator and director of Giving Voice to Values, an innovative approach to leadership development in business education and the workplace. She consults on management education and values-driven leadership for academic, business, government and non-governmental organizations. Gentile was chosen as Practitioner in Residence because of the many connections between her work and ECG’s research theme for 2024-25, “The Good Life.” Originally published at ethics.nd.edu.

Speaker Mary Gentile is the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good's Practitioner in Residence, and is a world-renowned ethicist, consultant and author. Gentile’s innovative cross-disciplinary curriculum develops and cultivates values-driven leadership in business, and has been used in undergraduate, MBA and executive education in hundreds of business schools. Free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by The Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership.

Rima SalahRima Salah provides a Palestinian Christian woman’s perspective on the past, present, and future of women’s empowerment, peace-building, and striving for justice and dignity in the Holy Land.   Rima Salah, Ph.D., served as a member of the United Nations High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations and as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, U.N. Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad. In addition, Salah has had a distinguished career with UNICEF. Her service includes: Deputy Executive Director for UNICEF (2004-07, 2011-12), Regional Director for West and Central Africa (1999-2004). As a highly effective advocate for the rights of children and women in armed conflict and post-conflict situations, she contributed to Security Council Resolution 1612 on child rights violations and Security Council resolution 1325 Women, Peace, and Security. Salah has received many awards of distinction from several non-governmental organizations and U.N. Member States, including the French Legion of Honor. In October 2015, Salah was elected to chair the newly formed Early Childhood Peace Consortium.   Food and refreshments will be available following the formal portion of the event program. This is a free event and advanced registration is not required.  A live-streamed video of this event will appear here at the appointed time.                         The Rev. Drew Christiansen S.J. served as director of the Office of International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Catholic Conference (now the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) and editor-in-chief of the Jesuit weekly America. He taught at the Jesuit School of Theology/Graduate Theological Union-Berkeley and the University of Notre Dame, where he was a member of the founding team of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He was also a frequent consultant to the Holy See and a member of the steering committee of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. Fr. Drew spent the last years of his teaching career at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. When he passed away in the Spring of 2022, Fr. Drew left behind a legacy of applying Catholic Social Teaching to peacebuilding specifically in the Holy Land. This lecture carries forth Fr. Christiansen's enduring spirit.  It is co-sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, Bethlehem University Foundation, and Churches for Middle East Peace. Originally published at ansari.nd.edu.

Join the Klau Institute and NDVotes for this installment of "Pizza, Pop, and Politics" as Luis Fraga, professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, and director of the Institute for Latino Studies, and Erin Corcoran, associate teaching professor and executive director of the  Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, discuss the politics of immigration. Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Join John Marks, the founder and long-time president of Search for Common Ground, as he speaks about how he and his wife, Susan Collin Marks, used the methodology of social entrepreneurship to create the world’s largest peacebuilding organization — with a staff of 600 and offices in 35 countries — and earned a nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. Included in the presentation is a short video, demonstrating how a flexible, opportunistic approach led to breakthroughs in resolving conflict on a societal level and producing media for social change in such places as the Soviet Union, Iran, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

Carlos Eire, the T.L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies, Yale University, will discuss his book, They Flew: A History of the Impossible. Response by Nic Teh, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. Lunch provided by Modern Market. Limited seating of 50 guests. RSVP here. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.

This debate features two articulate law professors and former government officials with very different political perspectives: Professor John Yoo, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, a Republican, former deputy assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush Administration, former general counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has served in all three branches of national government, and who is a regular commentator on FoxNews; and Harry Litman, the senior legal affairs columnist for the Opinion page at the Los Angeles Times; the host and creator of the Talking Feds podcast; a regular commentator on MSNBC, CNN, and CBS News; a Democrat who advised the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004 and (post-election) the Obama-Biden campaign in 2008; and a former U.S. Attorney and deputy assistant attorney general.This matchup promises an animated debate on a range of current political, legal, and constitutional issues facing the nation yet distinctive for its civility and civil engagement of the ideas embodied in the parties' differing perspectives. This event is free and open to the public. Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.

As part of the Keough-Naughton Institute's fall 2024 speaker series, Professor Peter Shirlow will deliver a lecture titled “The Failings of Irish Republicans and the National Question in Ireland.” Lecture Abstract This lecture will explore how, despite post-Brexit Referendum predictions of a united Ireland by as early as 2021, there has been, at best, limited growth in recorded support for ending partition between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Growth of Northern Ireland’s Catholic population has been less dramatic than predicted and the region now has the fastest growing economy in the UK. Peter Shirlow asserts that in this context, pro-united Ireland campaigns and republican activism, especially via civic fora and social media, have failed to significantly close the gap between Irish unity and pro-union proponents. In this lecture, Shirlow will consider how Irish Republican arguments for unity contain internal contractions: underscoring the economic successes of the South while also indicating its structural deficiencies, or pointing to socio-economic deficiencies of Northern Ireland even while Republicans are co-authors of its new found economic growth. Ultimately, Shirlow argues, the shortcomings of Irish republicanism lie in its inability to read and understand the new sociology of Northern Ireland– particularly temporal and social shifts that potentially render the inevitability thesis of Irish unification inconsistent, if not ineffective, in the short to medium term. Speaker Biography Professor Peter Shirlow (FaCSS) is the director at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies. He was formerly the deputy director of the Institute for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, QUB. He is the independent chair of the Executive Office's Employers' Guidance on Recruiting People with Conflict-Related Convictions Working Group and a board member of the mental health charity Threshold. He is a visiting research professor at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. He sits on the editorial boards of Irish Political Studies and International Planning Studies. Professor Shirlow has undertaken conflict transformation work in Northern Ireland and has used that knowledge in exchanges with governments, former combatants and NGOs in the former Yugoslavia, Moldova, Bahrain and Iraq. He has also presented talks to members of the US Senate and House of Representatives and is a regular media contributor. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into 36 languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida. Co-sponsors: Creative Writing Program, Gender Studies Program, Program of Liberal Studies — Join the Center for Social Concerns on Friday afternoons of home football weekends for MVP Fridays: lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose.Learn more

Featuring: Sec. Condoleezza Rice, Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and 66th US Secretary of State (2005 to 2009) In Conversation with: Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., University President In a post-pandemic world, the United States and the global community face a myriad of challenges. From the rise of authoritarianism and military expansionism by China and Russia, to the declining resolve and effectiveness of international institutions, and long-term alliances threatened by ongoing conflicts, we are witnessing a rising tide of populism and isolationism. In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Secretary Rice outlined the perils of choosing isolationism for both the United States and the global order, and offers suggestions for how to best move forward to build an effective internationalist foreign policy to meet the challenges of the current moment. As part of our exploration of this year’s Notre Dame Forum theme, “What Do We Owe Each Other?”, join us to hear Secretary Rice’s reflections on the path forward for our nation and the world. This event is free, but ticketed. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning one hour before the event. This event is co-sponsored by the Hesburgh Women of Impact.About Condoleezza Rice Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow on Public Policy at Stanford University. She is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, she is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm. From January 2005 to January 2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first black woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s National Security Advisor from January 2001 to January 2005, the first woman to hold the position. From February 1989 through March 1991, Rice served on President George H. W. Bush’s National Security Council staff. Rice served as Stanford University’s provost from 1993 to 1999, during which time she was the institution’s chief budget and academic officer. As Professor of Political Science, she has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the university’s highest teaching honors. In 2022, Rice became a part-owner of the Denver Broncos as part of the Walton-Penner Family Ownership Group. In 2013, she was appointed to the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, formerly the Bowl Championship Series, and served on the committee until 2017. Rice currently serves on the boards of C3.ai, an AI software company; and Makena Capital Management, a private endowment firm. In addition, she is Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and a trustee of the Aspen Institute. In 1991, Rice co-founded the Center for a New Generation (CNG), an innovative, after-school academic enrichment program for students in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California, which later merged with the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver; her master’s in the same subject from the University of Notre Dame; and her Ph.D., likewise in political science, from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has authored and co-authored numerous books on international politics, memoirs of her upbringing and her time in government service. Rice is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has been awarded over fifteen honorary doctorates. Originally published at forum2024.nd.edu.