This panel will be held in Spanish live via Zoom, with English translation. On Sept. 16 and 18, 2025, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace — referred to as JEP, its acronym in Spanish — issued its first two rulings imposing restorative sanctions on those most responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed over more than five decades of internal armed conflict in the country. The first ruling addressed the crime of kidnapping carried out under the direction of the last secretariat of former FARC-EP (military and political leaders), while the second focused on extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances committed in the Caribbean region by members of the state armed forces.Register here. Join this event to hear presentations from JEP magistrates who reflect on the progress and challenges with issuing sanctions, as well as the sanctions' impact on the implementation of Colombia’s Final Peace Agreement and peacebuilding in the country, overall. Humberto Sierra Porto, director of the Department of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Externado de Colombia, will welcome attendees, with Ángela María Ramírez Rincón, executive director of the Barometer Initiative, and Steve Hege, director of The Latin American Institute for Peace & Security (ILAPS), offering opening remarks. The JEP panel presentations will be followed by discussion and Q&A with the audience, both virtual and in person, with the hope that Colombian contributions and experiences can inform and assist other peace and transitional justice processes around the world.This event is organized by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, the Universidad Externado de Colombia, and The Latin American Institute for Peace & Security. Panelists:Alejandro Ramelli Arteaga, President, Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)Ana Manuela Ochoa Arias, Magistrate, First Instance Chamber in Cases of Acknowledgement of Truth and ResponsibilityCamilo Suárez Aldana, Magistrate, First Instance Chamber in Cases of Acknowledgment of Truth and ResponsibilityModerator:Gloria Castrillón, The Latin American Institute for Peace & Security (ILAPS)Register here. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics: science, universities, and serious journalism. Each was politicized and degraded under COIVD-19, falling victim to the moral and epistemic tribalism that disfigures our politics and culture. Based on his book, In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us, co-authored with Frances Lee (Princeton University Press, 2025), Macedo will trace how leaders made policy during the worst pandemic in over a century. In so doing, he will contend that educated elites need to soberly examine their performance, assess their own biases and blind spots, and strive to be more worthy of the public’s trust.Stephen Macedo is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2014, and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters since October 2024, he is also immediate past-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He is author, with Princeton Professor Frances Lee, of In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeton University Press, 2025), a comprehensive examination of COIVD-19 policy and discussion around it as a window onto our political dysfunction. Other books include, Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage (2015); Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (2000); Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism (1990); and 20 other co-authored, edited, or co-edited books. As vice president of the American Political Science Association, and the first chair of its Standing Committee on Civic Education and Engagement, he published Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (Brookings Institute Press 2005), co-authored with Robert Putnam, Margaret Levi, William Galston, and others. Current research concerns the pressures on social justice exerted by various forms of globalization, especially immigration, and the problems raised by social media companies and the dangers of government efforts to policy “misinformation.” ** Stephen Macedo writes and teaches on political theory, ethics, public policy, and law, especially on topics related to liberalism, democracy and citizenship, diversity and civic education, religion and politics, and the family and sexuality. From 2001–09, he was director of the University Center for Human Values. As founding director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (1999-2001), he chaired the Princeton Project on Universal Jurisdiction, helped formulate the Princeton Principles on Universal Jurisdiction, and edited Universal Jurisdiction: International Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.

This drop-in tour will introduce you to your Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. Join a student gallery teacher or a member of the museum staff to explore the architecture of the building through some of its most unique spaces and discover works of art that are highlights of the collection. Meet at the Welcome Desk. All are welcome and no registration is required. This tour will explore all gallery levels of the museum. Although the tour will keep moving between spaces, gallery stools are available upon request. Originally published at raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu.

Please join the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Program in Dante Studies for its annual "Dante Now!" event, dedicated to a community recitation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Click here for more information on the event's history. Dante Now! Community Recitation • 2:00–2:30pm – Throughout the Notre Dame Campus: Selections from Dante’s Divine Comedy • 2:30pm – Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes: Dante’s Prayer to the Virgin (Paradiso 33. 1-21) Lecture 3:00–4:15pm: 104 Bond HallTheodore J. Cachey Jr., Pizzo Family Chair in Dante StudiesOriginally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Drop in to meet and speak informally with curator Giulia Maria Gliozzi, a Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate, about the new exhibit, Mapping Global Dante in Translation. Learn how translators, artists, and printers have popularized and reshaped the Divine Comedy over the centuries and across the world and discover the library’s many Dante editions. Free and open to the public.For more information, contact Holly Welch at rarebook@nd.edu or (574) 631-0290. About the Exhibit This exhibit traces the global journey of Dante’s masterpiece through rare and valuable printed editions, highlighting how translators, artists, and printers have popularized and reshaped the Commedia. These volumes reveal a dynamic dialogue between Dante’s poetry and the world. A global literary perspective transforms Dante from a monumental yet isolated figure of the European Middle Ages into a central presence in the ongoing international conversation about humanity, the universe, time, eternity, and the power of literature. This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Program in Dante Studies. It is curated by Salvatore Riolo, Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate, and co-curators Giulia Maria Gliozzi, Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate; Inha Park, Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate; and Peter Scharer, Yale Comparative Literature doctoral candidate. Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Notre Dame, and Jacob Blakesley, Sapienza Università di Roma, served as consultants on the exhibit. This and other exhibits within the Hesburgh Libraries are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment. All exhibits are free and open to the public during business hours.Open to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, postdocs, alumni, friends, and the public.

Join the Institute for Social Concerns on Friday afternoons on select home football weekends for MVP Fridays: lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Reception and book signing to follow! For the weekend of the Boise State game, we welcome Timothy Egan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and award-winning author. Introduction by Darren Dochuk, the Andrew V. Tackes College Professor of History; William W. and Anna Jean Cushwa Co-director, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, the Department of History, the Department of Sociology, and the Initiative on Race and Resilience. Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and award-winning author. His most recent book, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, is a historical thriller that was an immediate New York Times bestseller. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it “a harrowing look at forgotten chapter in American history.” The Immortal Irishman was a New York Times bestseller. His book on Edward Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, was awarded the Carnegie Award for best nonfiction. His account of the Dust Bowl,The Worst Hard Time, won the 2006 National Book Award and he was featured prominently in the 2012 Ken Burns film on the Dust Bowl. A lifelong journalist, Mr. Egan worked as a national correspondent and opinion columnist for the New York Times, roaming the West. As a Times correspondent, he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 with a team of reporters for its series, “How Race is Lived in America.” He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.