Catherine Arnold OBE, the Master of St. Edmund's College at the University of Cambridge and former British Ambassador to Mongolia, will present the spring 2024 Nanovic Forum lecture. It's open to Notre Dame students, faculty, and staff, as well as the general public. This lunch lecture will occur during Ms. Arnold's stay as a Nanovic Forum Diplomat in Residence, during which time she will meet with Notre Dame community members and teach and advise students studying diplomacy in the Keough School of Global Affairs. Her lecture, entitled "Diplomatic Thinking: Lessons in forming thinkers and leaders," will tie diplomacy and education together through her unique perspective as a leader in both fields. Lunch will be available beginning at noon, while supplies last. About the Speaker Catherine Arnold serves as master of St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, a post she took in 2019. Before being named head of the college, Ms. Arnold served with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in the United Kingdom, with posts in Oman, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. In 2015, she was appointed as the British Ambassador to Mongolia, where she served until 2018. Following her ambassadorship, she led units within the FCO, including the Illegal Wildlife Trade Unit, and helped the UK secure its bid to chair the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). About the Nanovic Forum Generously established by Robert and Elizabeth Nanovic, the Nanovic Forum’s mission is to bring Europe’s leaders from many fields to Notre Dame to explore, discuss, and debate the most pressing questions about Europe today. Learn more and see past speakers Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

What do AlphaFold2, ESM1&2, ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and a growing list of generative AI methods have in common? The word disruption comes to mind. Those of us who started our love affair with AI because we wanted to advance scientific enquiry and the human condition are familiar with disruptions. Through representative examples, Amarda Shehu, professor in the Department of Computer Science and associate dean for AI Innovation in the College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University, will showcase her laboratory’s work on generative AI before and after deep learning. Sponsored by the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society.   

In the lecture, Emmanuel Katongole will offer the fifth in a six-part series called "The Only Solution is Love: The Eucharist and Catholic Social Teaching." This fifth lecture will highlight the connections between Eucharist and ecology with a view of making two interconnected claims, namely (1) that an adequate understanding of the Eucharist intensifies and shapes the Christian responsibility for the care of Our Common Home, and (2) that efforts for the care of our Common home are Eucharistic in more than a symbolic sense. They are truly a sacrament (sign and reality) of God’s love for the earth. Drawing from the work of Bethany Land Institute in Uganda, he will display the dynamic relationship between these two claims. For more information, please click here.  Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.

Join the Accomplice Program for a 2-day series on community bridge-building and how this speaks to the University of Notre Dame’s strategic framework. Schedule of Events Tuesday, April 2Hesburgh Auditorium 12:00 pm“History between Notre Dame and harmed communities”Presented by: Zada Ballew, Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dé Bryant, professor of psychology and director of Social Action Project, Indiana University South Bend 1:00 pm“A case for reparations from Notre Dame”Presented by: Clark Power, professor, Program of Liberal Studies and executive director of Play Like a Champion, University of Notre Dame, and Gwendolyn Purifoye, assistant professor of racial justice and conflict transformation, Kroc Institute for International Peace StudiesModerated by: Laurie Nathan, professor of the practice of mediation and mediation program director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Lunch will be available beginning at 11 am. Wednesday, April 3, 5:00 pmO’Rourke’s Public House1044 E. Angela Blvd., #103, South Bend, IN 46617 Meet at O'Rourke's for a walking tour of the Harter Heights neighborhood, led by Derrick Perry, high fidelity wraparound supervisor at Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, South Bend Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

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.