Join artist, writer, and Kroc Institute Visiting Fellow Jessica Doe (Aniyunwiya/Cherokee Nation) for an examination of the enduring legacy of “Indian”—also known as “residential”—boarding schools through Indigenous creative expression. This multimedia event features immersive images from her exhibitions and performance/poetry series, a reading of Doe’s short stories, and a screening of the Academy Award-nominated documentary, “Sugarcane.” A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, “Sugarcane,” the debut feature documentary from directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of a Native American residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, “Sugarcane” illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

Work-in-Progress Seminars are designed to generate in-depth discussion of new scholarly work. For the pre-circulated paper and to attend, please register with the link below. Room location information will be shared with preparation materials following your registration. Marianne KneuerKellogg Visiting FellowProfessor of Comparative Politics, Dresden University of TechnologyDirector, Institute of Political Science, Dresden University of Technology   More information here

Register hereDayna L. Cunningham is the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean of Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. Jed Atkins is the director and dean of the School of Civic Life and Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cunningham and Atkins are authors from the spring 2025 issue of Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing. They will discuss the issue, including issues around civic discourse. There will be time for audience questions.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.virtuesvocations.org  

According to a common conception, politics is based on discussion and debate, the exchange of ideas, and rational argumentation, i.e., “logos.” Based on an analysis of the weaponization of antisemitism and other issues, Elad Lapidot, professor for Hebraic Studies at the University of Lille, France, will argue that contemporary political thought is just as importantly premised on the opposite conception: that politics is based not on speaking, but on the suspension of conversation, on the break of rational discourse — on “logoclasm,” or the politics of not speaking. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

The Department of Art, Art History & Design presents the annual Art History Symposium. Serene Wu and Sofia D'Agostino will present their research from their honors theses, followed by a keynote address by Megan Sullivan from the University of Chicago. Her talk, titled "Versions of the Popular: Modernist Painting, Traditional Craft, and Beyond in 20th-Century Peru," will explore artistic traditions in Peru during the 20th century. The formation of a practice of modern painting in early-20th century Peru went hand-in-hand with the creation of a canon of "popular art" formed from selections of regional craft practices. The lecture explores the tense relationship between "high" and "low" that resulted from these parallel constructions, its eventual breakdown in the 1970s, and the reformulations of the idea of the "popular" that followed in the wake of that collapse.    Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.

The Office of Institutional Transformation, in partnership with the Initiative on Race and Resilience, invites students, faculty, and staff to gather weekly for support and fellowship. Wellsprings: A Time for Connection and Care provides a safe space for members of the campus community to discuss fears and concerns related to social divisiveness. Some sessions may feature presentations or information from campus resources. To suggest a topic, please contact Eve Kelly at ekelly11@nd.edu. Originally published at weareall.nd.edu/.