“Rethinking Globalization in an Era of Great Power Politics” is presented by Joseph P. Quinlan, senior fellow at the Transatlantic Leadership Network, with extensive experience in global economics and global corporate strategy. He is a leading expert on the transatlantic economy and a well-known global economist/strategist on Wall Street. He specializes in global capital flows, international trade and multinational strategies. This is the second of eight lectures in the Ten Years Hence speaker series that will discuss Is Globalism Dead?  For a list of additional lectures and speaker, visit the Ten Years Hence website.   Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and the Notre Dame community.  No registration is required.

The Signs of the Times series at the Center for Social Concerns connects campus to community experts around justice topics. The theme for the 2022-23 series is "Leadership in Justice and Hope." The speaker for February 3 is the Hon. Andrew Gammage, magistrate judge at the St. Joseph County Circuit Court. Learn more

Lewis Gordon, professor and department head of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, will present a lunchtime lecture as part of the Nanovic Institute's ongoing series on Decolonizing Scholarship. His books include Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness (2022). Gordon is the 2022 recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Development Studies division of the International Studies Association. This event is free and open to the public.  Lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis starting 30 minutes prior to the lecture (at noon). About the Series The Nanovic Institute, with its strategic emphasis on “peripheries” and de-centering the center, is committed to fostering research and teaching that presents European studies in a new light. The Nanovic Institute is pleased to announce our spring 2023 lecture series, Decolonizing Scholarship. This series will feature scholars from various academic disciplines at the top of their fields engaging issues in disciplines including Philosophy, Theology, French and Francophone Studies, and Ethnic Studies.  View/Download the Poster  Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Many of us struggle to pronounce names that sound foreign to us and attempting to do so can make us feel uncomfortable or nervous. In such a situation, we may ask use another "easier" name, a nickname, or even avoid addressing the person at all. Unfortunately, doing so can lead to the person feeling invalidated, excluded, and otherized. This workshop aims to help participants develop understanding and empathy for our peers, students, and ourselves. By the end of the hour, you'll have new context to make meaning of naming phenomena, tangible linguistic knowledge and skills to help you more confidently and accurately pronounce Mandarin names, and some take-away resources for you to continue to practice on your own. Register via Zoom Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.

“Mass incarceration has changed the social life of the city. It has filtered into the most intimate relationships and deformed the contours of American democracy, one poor (and most often) Black family at a time.” – Reuben Jonathan Miller   MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and University of Chicago sociologist Dr. Reuben Miller is the author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, a “persuasive and essential” (Dr. Matthew Desmond, Evicted) book that offers a “stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation’s carceral system” (Heather Ann Thompson). As a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and as a sociologist studying mass incarceration, he has spent years alongside prisoners, formerly incarcerated people, their families, and their friends to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work reveals is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. Halfway Home is a portrait of the many ways mass incarceration reaches into American life, sustaining structural racism and redrawing the boundaries of our democracy. Drawing from fifteen years of research, over 250 in-depth interviews with citizens whose lives have been touched by the criminal justice system, and his own experience as the son and brother of incarcerated Black men, Miller shows how the American carceral system was not created to rehabilitate. Instead he reveals how its design keeps classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they’ve paid their debt to society. Reception to follow. This event is a part of the Unlocked: Understanding Mass Incarceration in the US series at the Center for Social Concerns. 

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures presents a virtual meeting in which students from the Portuguese Program will talk about and show the songs in Portuguese that they listen to in their Spotify. If you are learning Portuguese, or would like more information, contact Professors Ana Fauri or Marcio Bahia. This will be an online event in which we are going to listen to songs in Portuguese and everyone is invited to join us and suggest songs from their playlists! Zoom Link   Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.