Paper Session 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.Paper Session 2: 12:00 p.m.-1 p.m.Roundtable: 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.Keynote Address: 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. "Listening to Kafka at 100" attends to the sonic landscape of Kafka that has emerged in the century since his death. Despite his self-confessed unmusicality, Kafka's associations with sound, noise, and music have become the subject of recent scholarship. In addition to these sonic affiliations, Kafka’s voice continues to echo through art and literature, philosophy and psychology, theory and politics. The conference seeks not only to explore the sonic symptoms of modernity resonating in Kafka’s oeuvre, but to make audible echoes of the Kafkaesque that continue to reverberate throughout global culture, both high and low.There will be two panels of papers, and a keynote address given by Kata Gellen, associate professor of German studies and Jewish studies at Duke University.   This mini-conference is free and open to the public.  Originally published at music.nd.edu.

The public screening will include intermission performances of the songs that inspired the documentary. Followed by a panel discussion, with the documentarian and several of the individuals in it about the Southeast side of Chicago, their stories, and the documentary itself.   Originally published at latinostudies.nd.edu.

Register here  Parker J. Palmer is an American author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has published 10 books and numerous essays and poems, and is founder and senior partner emeritus of the Center for Courage and Renewal. There will be time for audience questions. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum housed at the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. You can learn more at virtuesvocations.org.

The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) is bringing Ted Chiang, award-winning science fiction writer, to campus for a public lecture entitled "Do You Really Want to Live Forever?" In his lecture, Chiang will explore the ethics of immortality research—which, he notes, is being funded by the ultra wealthy, who are often some of the worst people in the world. That naturally raises the question of whether or not you want to spend eternity with people like that. But it also raises another question: Does wanting the same thing they want make you a bad person, too? During the 2020-2021 academic year, Chiang joined NDIAS as an Artist in Residence as part of the "Nature of Trust" project, and has continued his relationship with the Institute. His work has won four Nebula awards and four Hugo awards. His work often focuses on issues in technology, including artificial intelligence. In 2023, Chiang was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in AI. His critically-acclaimed short stories include “Tower of Babylon” and “Story of Your Life,” which was adapted into the science fiction film Arrival. Exhalation, his second collection of short stories, was named one of the Top Ten Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review. This event is free and open to the public. Originally published at ndias.nd.edu.

Join incoming de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture (dCec) director Jennifer Newsome Martin as she discusses the lifechanging experience of reading The Portal of the Mystery of Hope by Catholic poet Charles Péguy, a narrative poem on the theological virtue of hope. Part of the "Book That Changed My Life" series, presented by the dCEC's Sorin Fellows Program. No RSVP necessary. Originally published at ethicscenter.nd.edu.

Join the Keough-Naughton Institute for an event with Tyler Anbinder, professor emeritus of history at George Washington University, who will discuss his newest book Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York (Hachette, March 2024).  Copies of the book will be available for purchase at this event, which will also be followed by a book signing.  Book Description From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America.  In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland’s potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children—and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous migration, nowhere more than New York: by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped the hunger in Ireland. These so-called “Famine Irish” were the forebears of four U.S. presidents (including Joe Biden) yet when they arrived in America they were consigned to the lowest-paying jobs and subjected to discrimination and ridicule by their new countrymen. Even today, the popular perception of these immigrants is one of destitution and despair. But when we let the Famine Irish narrate their own stories, they paint a far different picture.   In this magisterial work of storytelling and scholarship, acclaimed historian Tyler Anbinder presents for the first time the Famine generation’s individual and collective tales of struggle, perseverance, and triumph. Drawing on newly available records and a ten-year research initiative, Anbinder reclaims the narratives of the refugees who settled in New York City and helped reshape the entire nation. Plentiful Country is a tour de force—a book that rescues the Famine immigrants from the margins of history and restores them to their rightful place at the center of the American story. Speaker Biography Tyler Anbinder is an emeritus professor of history at George Washington University, where he taught courses on the history of American immigration and the American Civil War era. He is the author of three award-winning books and of numerous articles, and his publications have been honored with the Avery Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians, the Mark Lynton History Prize of the Columbia School of Journalism, and the Hubbell Prize of the Society of Civil War Historians. Anbinder has also held the Fulbright Commission’s Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Chair in American History at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and has won three prestigious research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.