Register here  The Center for Social Concerns hopes you will join it each month for the Virtues & Vocations lunchtime webinar series, Conversations on Character and the Common Good. There is always time for audience questions. Chris Higgins is the chair of the Department of Formative Education at Boston College. He recently published Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education with MIT Press. We will have a conversation about the purpose of education and how universities can educate for flourishing. 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.

Come learn about the history of cross-dressing and cross-gender casting on the Shakespearean stage, as we chat about gender, queerness, and As You Like It. Featuring Peter Holland,  the McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies, and Hannah Hicks, a doctoral student whose research centers on early modern drama and romances.  FREE! Originally published at shakespeare.nd.edu.

Join us immediately after the Friday, Aug. 30 performance of As You Like It for a brief Q&A with members of the cast.  Bring your questions about actors’ roles and the process of bringing characters to life! Originally published at shakespeare.nd.edu.

Sit in on a conversation with ND experts (prior to the Aug. 31 evening performance of As You Like It) as we chat about Shakespeare and the messy realities of building sustainable communities, utopias, and environmental futures. Featuring Notre Daem students Mackenzie Pittman and Westin Smith. FREE! Originally published at shakespeare.nd.edu.

The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government is joined by Notre Dame Law School's Program on Church, State & Society to host its inaugural True Family Lecture Series, programming made possible by Tad and Jen True. Wednesday, September 4 in Eck Hall of Law  1130: “The Great Awakenings of American Religious Freedom: Evaluating the Latest Supreme Court Teachings” Unable to attend in person? Join our livestream on Wednesday the 4th.Thursday, September 5 in Eck Hall of Law 1130: “The Great Awakenings of American Religious Freedom: Comparing the Original Teachings of the American Founders”  Unable to attend in person? Join our livestream on Thursday the 5th. John Witte, Jr. is the Woodruff University Professor, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and director of the Law and Religion Center at Emory University. A leading scholar of legal history, human rights, family law, and law and religion, he has delivered 425 public lectures worldwide and published 325 articles and 45 books, in 15 languages. His most recent monographs include the following, published with Cambridge University Press: The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy (2015), Church, State, and Family (2019), The Blessings of Liberty (2021), as well as Faith, Freedom, and Family (Mohr Siebeck, 2021), and Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (Oxford University Press, 2022). In addition to his administrative duties, Professor Witte serves as editor of the Cambridge Law and Christianity Series and Emory Studies in Law and Religion and coeditor of the Journal of Law and Religion, Brill Research Perspectives on Law and Religion, and the Aranzadi Colección Raíces del Derecho series. He holds degrees in law (Harvard University) and theology (Dr. Theol. h.c., University of Heidelberg). His lectures will be the inaugural True Lectures at the University of Notre Dame. This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.   Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.

Join the School of Architecture for a lecture by Paolo Coen. An exploration into how the Vittoriano Monument honoring Victor Emmanuel II: changed Roman architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries (1880-1911).Walsh Family Hall of Architecture. Register here Originally published at architecture.nd.edu.