Obie Anthony III was 19 years old when he was convicted of murder and attempted robbery in 1995. There was no physical evidence connecting Anthony to the murder. Instead, prosecutors relied on the testimony of a convicted killer who ran a house of prostitution near the scene of the crime, and who claimed to have seen the shooter. In 2008,the Northern California Innocence Project took on Anthony’s case. Three years later the court vacated Anthony’s conviction. After 17 years in prison, Anthony was released and filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, which agreed to settle the claim for $8.3 million. Join us to hear from Mr. Anthony and David McLane, one of the attorneys who represented him in his civil rights lawsuit. Lunch will be served. Undergraduates welcome and encouraged to attend.Presented by the Notre Dame Exoneration Project. Co-sponsored by the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, the Notre Dame Exoneration Law Clinic, The Public Interest Law Forum, The Notre Dame ACLU, the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Constitution Society. Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

[IMPORTANT: Please note that this event has been canceled for September 29, 2023. We are currently assessing if we can find a date to reschedule it.] All Notre Dame faculty, staff, and students are invited to this lunchtime lecture in the Decolonizing Scholarship series. Professor Lydie Moudileno will present "Poaching French Theory as Decolonial Practice." Please plan to attend to be part of this vital addition to the Nanovic Institute's ongoing discussion on decolonization. About the Speaker Lydie Moudileno is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of French and American Studies and Ethnicity and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. About the Series The Nanovic Institute, with its strategic emphasis on “peripheries” and de-centering the center, is committed to fostering research and teaching that presents European studies in a new light. The Nanovic Institute is pleased to announce our fall 2023 lecture series, Decolonizing Scholarship. This series will feature scholars from various academic disciplines at the top of their fields engaging issues in disciplines including Philosophy, Theology, French and Francophone Studies, Ethnic Studies, and more. Attend the Event This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis starting 30 minutes before the lecture (at noon).   Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Jeff Wiltse explores racial disparities in the likelihood of drowning and their historical roots in segregation. Wiltse is professor of history at the University of Montana and authority on issues of social justice and racial inequality in the areas of sports and recreation. He has appeared as a featured commentator for NPR, the BBC, and ABC News. His work appears frequently in leading news publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, National Geographic, Sport Illustrated, the Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Julie Morrissy (Maynooth University) will deliver the 2023 Hibernian Lecture, “Revolutionary Traces: Radical Women, Commemoration, and Public Space.” An Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist, Morrissy was the 2021–22 National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute. As the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland, she created the podcast series Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution and a poetry pamphlet of the same title. Her lecture will draw on research and poetry from her residency to explore the marginalization of women in Irish history and representations of women in Irish life, past and present. The 2023 Hibernian Lecture is cosponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. This event is free and open to the public. In 1978, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians undertook a campaign to establish an endowment at the University of Notre Dame for illuminating the Irish heritage in America. Thanks to their support, since then the Cushwa Center has administered a variety of programs—including the Hibernian Research Award—supporting the study of the Irish experience in Ireland and America. Each year, the center invites a distinguished scholar or author to deliver the Hibernian Lecture at Notre Dame on some aspect of the Irish experience. Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.

Join the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures for an exploration of the themes behind the "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" exhibit. In this panel discussion to open the exhibit's stay at Notre Dame, three panelists will engage with Mann's public life, legacy, and relevance to contemporary issues. This discussion, which is particularly relevant to the 2023 Notre Dame Forum topic "The Future of Democracy," will seek to find the ways that Mann's resistance to populism and nationalism can inform our own engagement with democracy today. The panelists and their topics are as follows:"Thomas Mann and The Coming Victory of Democracy," presented by Tobias Boes, professor and chair of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, as well as a Nanovic faculty fellow "Thomas Mann and Czechoslovak Democracy," presented by Jan Vondráček, postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences "Thomas Mann in Pacific Palisades, 1942/1943," presented by Meike Werner, associate professor of German and European studies, acting chair of the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, chair of the Department of French and Italian, and director of graduate studies in the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies.A Q&A session and a walkthrough of the exhibit will follow. About the Exhibit "It is a terrible spectacle when the irrational becomes popular," said Thomas Mann in his famous speech at the Library of Congress in 1943. His resistance is inspiring and relevant today as we witness the fundamental values of democracy once again being called into question, and that populism and nationalism are putting our democratic society under massive pressure. The exhibition "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" sees itself as a concrete contribution to the current debate on both sides of the Atlantic. The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, California forms the spatial and metaphorical center of the exhibition. From this sanctuary in exile, Thomas Mann campaigned for a new understanding of democracy. Today, the house is once again at the service of intellectual exchange and transatlantic understanding. The first part of the exhibition presents Thomas Mann's political biography in its development from monarchist to powerful opponent of National Socialism and committed fighter for democracy. Photographs, texts, excerpts from the famous radio addresses "To the German Listeners!" and original exhibits trace his intellectual, political, and spatial paths. The second multimedia part connects this history to the present. What makes a political person? How does one become a supporter of democracy? How does one defend one's stance? Examples from the recent past, films and interviews, tweets and quotes from personalities from politics, pop, literature, and society — such as Greta Thunberg or Saša Stanišić, Donald Trump or Barack Obama, Igor Levit or Edward Snowden — illustrate the importance of the question: How can we defend and sustainably strengthen democracy as the only possible form of society? This is a task that is more important than ever today, in times of global migration, climate change, and new pandemics. The terms Beginnings, Zeitgeist, Affirmation, Take Action, and Responsibility structure the exhibition — and show the ambivalences that even a democratic system cannot eliminate. Thomas Mann's life offers numerous points of departure for examining the state and future of democracy — while adhering to Mann's dictum: "DEMOCRACY WILL WIN!" About the SpeakersTobias Boes teaches German Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, where he also chairs the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures. He is the author of the monograph Thomas Mann’s War (2019), which was published in German translation in 2021, and currently working onA Reader’s Guide to Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus,” contracted with Camden House. He was one of the scientific advisors for the traveling show “Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!”    Jan Vondráček is a postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and teaches modern history at Charles University in Prague. His dissertation on local administration and everyday life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was recently published in German and Czech. In this context, he is working on a digital history-related project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which builds on his dissertation and focuses on institutional data.    Meike Werner teaches German and European Literature and Culture at Vanderbilt University, where she also serves as Director of the Max Kade Center for German and European Studies. She has published widely on German literature and culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, most recently Gruppenbild mit Max Weber (2023). She is the recipient of a number of awards, including Vanderbilt’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, and serves as the president of the American Friends of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

The Catholic Church, working with other religious actors, has played a prominent role in promoting human rights, sustainable development, good governance, and peace amidst conflicts in Africa. Cardinal John Onaiyekan, one of Africa's most prominent religious peacebuilders, will reflect on lessons learned from his decades of work for peace in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. This event is cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Keough School of Global Affairs, and the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

Svitlana Khyliuk, director of the Ukrainian Catholic University Law School.Join the Notre Dame Law School and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies as they welcome Svitlana Khyliuk, director of the Law School at Ukrainian Catholic University, for a public lecture "War in Ukraine: Challenges to the National and International Legal Order." Khyliuk is no stranger to Notre Dame, having served as a visiting scholar with the Nanovic Institute during the fall 2021 semester. This lecture is open to all. About the Speaker Svitlana Khyliuk serves as director of the Ukrainian Catholic University School of Law. She previously served as head of the Department of Theory of Law and Human Rights and academic director of the bachelor's program at the law school. Khyliuk serves as a legal expert in the projects of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordinator in Ukraine, the Council of Europe, and the U.S. Department of Justice. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ukraine’s Supreme Court and Constitutional Court. She teaches legal research, analysis, and writing, criminal law, and law of the European Convention on Human Rights. While at Notre Dame as a visiting scholar during the fall 2021 semester, Khyliuk worked on how to leverage two polarities: judicial independence, on the one hand, and judge’s liability, on the other, in order to guarantee democracy and the rule of law in transitional societies. Khyliuk was also featured, together with Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, in a story for Notre Dame Magazine in February 2023.    This event is co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Law School and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

What is the relationship between body, land, and place in a world of unknown future risk? The Himalayas are a region where people forge strong ties of belonging to place. However, disasters such as the 2015 earthquakes epicentred in central Nepal, coupled with increasingly common environmental catastrophes, have forced people to consider relocation due to risk, including that generated by post-disaster reconstruction. At the same time, education- and labor-driven outmigration, coupled with an aging rural population, raises intimate issues of concern related to place, in which homes must be retrofitted, or left entirely as aging bodies are no longer able to navigate traditional architectures and care for themselves on their own. This event brings together two distinguished scholars of Himalayan studies—Sienna Craig, anthropology professor at Dartmouth College, and Sara Shneiderman, associate professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia, to explore movement, mobility, and connection to place in the Himalayas across multiple scales—from the aging body to the displaced community. This panel discussion is part of the Liu Institute's lecture series Global Affairs from the Top of the World: Himalayan Asia Today, which is cosponsored by the Liu Institute's South Asia Group. Brunch will be served. Craig and Shneiderman will participate in the workshop that follows the panel discussion and the link to that event can be found HERE.Sienna Craig is the Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She has been conducting ethnographic and public-health oriented research with Himalayan and Tibetan communities between Nepal and North America for more than twenty-five years. A writer whose work spans multiple genres, she is the author, most recently, of The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York (University of Washington Press, 2020). For the panel, Craig will present "Aging, Care, and Place: Himalayan Elders in an Era of Migration" ABSTRACT: In many places on this planet, we are getting older. Global population aging is increasing in intensity and the structures human communities have relied upon for generations to care for the elderly are cracking and shifting, for many reasons. This presentation emerges from more than two decades of research and relationship with people from Mustang, Nepal –including those who now live in urban Nepal and New York City. I describe preliminary fieldwork conducted in Summer 2023, toward a longer-term comparative and collaborative project that asks: How do individuals, families, communities, and institutions adapt to demographic and socioeconomic changes to allow people to age in a culturally appropriate manner? This work recognize that elder care, support, and wellbeing are crucial issues that require creative responses at times when education and labor-driven migration, climate change induced displacement, and political marginalization will continue to impact the viability of Himalayan communities and shape the lives of their diasporic counterparts. Current and future research aims to contribute to an anthropology of aging and the discipline’s burgeoning concern with care by assessing what ‘successful’ aging means, how ‘aging in place’ is experienced in times of migration and displacement, and how the ‘inner architectures’ afforded by Buddhist concepts such as impermanence and interdependence intersect with the material conditions of rural life — including the homes that anchor people to place and lineage — within a broader context of migration and social change.Sara Shneiderman is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, where she co-leads the Himalaya Program and Disaster Resilience Research Network. She has been conducting ethnographic and policy-engaged research in the Himalaya and South Asia for over 25 years, and is the author of ":Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), along with many journal articles, most recently focusing on Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction. For the panel, Shneiderman will present "Anchoring Mobility, Embodying Risk: Houses as Intimate Infrastructure in Nepal’s Ongoing Transformation"ABSTRACT: How do we ground ourselves in the face of uncertainty? Drawing upon 25 years of research in several districts of rural Nepal, this presentation explores the relationships between people, their houses, and the landscapes in which they live to consider how we comprehend risk and plan for the future amidst radical change. In this photographically illustrated talk, I track how houses have served as an anchor through the social transformations wrought by political conflict and expanded mobility, as well as the environmental upheaval of the 2015 earthquakes and the accelerated infrastructural development that followed in conjunction with reconstruction. At the same time, houses are a bellwether of future risk, as people consider where and how to invest their material, emotional, and labour resources in building shelter, that most fundamental form of infrastructure. Yet all too often, scholarly and political discussions of housing for marginalized communities foreground its functionality at the expense of understanding houses as a site of creativity that bring people into intimate relation with both the terrain and state in which they live. Here, I take a holistic approach that sees both houses and the people who build them as embodied subjects in ongoing processes of transformation, whose ability to thrive in complex sociopolitical and natural environments is dependent upon a balance between structural stability and the capacity to change.Moderator Aidan Seale-Feldman, an assistant professor of anthropology at Notre Dame and a Liu Institute faculty fellow, is a medical anthropologist interested in affliction and its treatments. Grounded in ethnographic explorations of disaster, mental health, and mass hysteria, her research asks how to approach forms of affliction that are not bound within the individual but instead move across bodies, environments, and generations.     Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Workshop Abstract: What does it mean to design and implement collaborative research, particularly across the differences and inequalities inherent in complex multisited partnerships (international or otherwise)? How does collaborative writing get done in such contexts? Where do concepts of trans-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary scholarship intersect with and depart from inter-disciplinary efforts? How does collaboration intersect with a mixed-methods approach to research design? What are some of the unique possibilities and pitfalls related to language, positionality, and power dynamics that collaborative research among multiple, differently situated partners, can at once address and/or reinforce? What are some strategies that have proven useful in navigating the complexities of collaboration? This worksop will be guided by two anthropologists of the Himalaya — Sienna Craig and Sara Shneiderman — who have led and participated in a range of collaborative endeavors. This workshop invites participants to review one relevant article co-authored by each speaker, and come prepared to share their own example for discussion — in the form of a small case study, a core question, or a methodological approach. Register for workshop HERE This workshop follows the panel discussion "Mobility, Infrastructure,  and Affective Worlds in and out of the Himalayas," and the link to the discussion event can be found HERE. Recommended reading:Aijazi, O., Amburgey, E., Limbu, B., Suji, M., Binks, J., Balaz-Munn, C., Rankin, K.Shneiderman, S. (2021). The Ethnography of Collaboration: Navigating Power Relationships inJoint Research. Collaborative Anthropologies 13(2), 56-99. doi:10.1353/cla.2021.0003 Childs, G., Craig, S., Dhakal, D.N., Donohue, M., & Hildebrandt, K. (2017). Narrating Disasterthrough Participatory Research: Perspectives from Post-Earthquake Nepal. CollaborativeAnthropologies 10(1), 207-236. doi:10.1353/cla.2017.0009Sienna Craig is the Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She has been conducting ethnographic and public-health oriented research with Himalayan and Tibetan communities between Nepal and North America for more than twenty-five years. A writer whose work spans multiple genres, she is the author, most recently, of The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York (University of Washington Press, 2020).  Sara Shneiderman is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, where she co-leads the Himalaya Program and Disaster Resilience Research Network. She has been conducting ethnographic and policy-engaged research in the Himalaya and South Asia for over 25 years, and is the author of Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), along with many journal articles, most recently focusing on Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction.   Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Join the Nanovic Institute as it continues its series on Decolonizing Scholarship with a lecture titled "The Possibilities and Limits of Decolonizing Anthropology: Ethics, Methods, and Blind Spots." All Notre Dame faculty, staff, and students are invited to join us for this lunch-time lecture advancing the ongoing scholarly dialogue of this series. About the Speaker Nitzan Shoshan is a cultural anthropologist and professor at the Centro de Estudios Sociológicos at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. His work has focused on nationalism, populism, and right-wing extremism in Germany and beyond, on urban politics and governance in Berlin and Mexico City, and more recently on political conflict in Latin America. His prize-winning book The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany (Princeton University Press, 2016) is an ethnographic study of young nationalists in Berlin’s eastern peripheries. Shoshan has written on the ethics of ethnographic research, on the politics of hate and Islamophobia in Europe, on post-Fordist affect and the temporality of loss, and on urban activism and the semiotics of the cityscape, among other topics. His most recent projects have examined notions of Heimat (home, homeland) in German nationalism and political polarization in Mexico. About the Series The Nanovic Institute, with its strategic emphasis on “peripheries” and de-centering the center, is committed to fostering research and teaching that presents European studies in a new light. The Nanovic Institute is pleased to announce our fall 2023 lecture series, Decolonizing Scholarship. This series will feature scholars from various academic disciplines at the top of their fields engaging issues in disciplines including Philosophy, Theology, French and Francophone Studies, Ethnic Studies, and more. Attend the Event This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis starting 30 minutes before the lecture (at noon). Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Devin Lowell, Pam Spees, and their clients discuss “Cancer Alley,” a locale where residents, primarily Black Americans, face substantially higher rates of cancer and other adverse health outcomes than their peers. Lowell is with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic. In private practice he has litigated a variety of complex matters in both state and federal court, including environmental damage claims, workplace asbestos injuries, pharmaceutical product liability, and consumer class actions. Spees is a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her work focuses on addressing gender-based violence, persecution on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and the support of environmental justice movements and the right to protest. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Angel Hsu explores environmental disparities within cities by race. Angel Hsu is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina and founder and director of the Data-Driven EnviroLab, an interdisciplinary research group that innovates and applies quantitative approaches to pressing environmental issues. Hsu has provided expert testimony to the US-China Economic Security and Review Commission and is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

A conversation with Anthony Annett, professor and author of Cathonomics. Catered reception and book signing to follow. Co-sponsors: Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Department of Economics, Department of Theology, Mendoza College of Business. Join the Center for Social Concerns on home football weekends for MVP Fridays: lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Anthony Annett is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University. Trained as an economist, he spent two decades at the International Monetary Fund, including as speechwriter to the Managing Director. He has a B.A. and an M.Litt. from Trinity College Dublin and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. He is the author of “Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy.”

International scholars partake in a 9-part seminar series devoted to psalms.  The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN) 18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM) and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Series Schedule January 26, 2023 - "Rescuing Rolle: H.R. Bramley edits the English Psalter" Michael P. Kuczynski (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) February 23, 2023 - "Practice and Symbolism in An Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Psalmic Prayer to the Five Wounds" Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford) March 23, 2023 - "On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos" Hildegund Müller (University of Notre Dame) April 27, 2023 - "The Oldest Middle Dutch Translation of the Psalms (c. 1250-1300): Context(s) of Origin, Functions and Nachleben’" Youri Desplenter (Ghent University) May 25, 2023 - "Writing between the Lines: Towards a Typology of Glossing Techniques in the Old English Glossed Psalters" Thijs Porck (Leiden University) June 22, 2023 - "Literary, Exegetical and Theological Aspects of Aramaic Translations of Psalms of Pilgrims (Psa 120-134)" Mirosław Wróbel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach" Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) November 23, 2023 - "Putting the Pieces Back Together: on the Reconstruction of the Fragmentary N-Psalter" Monika Opalińska (Warsaw University) December 14, 2023 - "Psalter in Exile: On an Early Modern English translation of the Psalms from the Vulgate" Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (The Nanovic Institute at University of Notre Dame and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Kamilah Moore explores California’s efforts to produce a workable and effective plan to provide racial justice reparations. Moore is a reparatory justice scholar and an attorney with a specialization in entertainment and intellectual property law. She earned her law degree from Columbia and a master of laws degree in international criminal law from the University of Amsterdam. Moore was appointed to the California Reparations Task Force in 2021. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

At the heart of the Church’s social teaching lies the so-called "social question," which has evolved over time under the effects of cultural, social, political, and economic transformations. As Pope Benedict XVI clearly stated, today the social question has become "a radically anthropological question," touching upon the way human life is manipulated and transformed by technology. This renewed emphasis on the anthropological nature of the social question, strongly reaffirmed by Pope Francis, brings back to one’s attention the deeper meaning of human development, its evolution, and its ultimate end as a social value. Within ecclesial and non-ecclesial organizations, leadership that intends to contribute to integral human development must preserve both the socio-relational and spiritual dimensions of human existence. This leadership style must be combined with management models that are essentially human-centered, oriented to fostering the development of both the organizational structure and the people who work in it. Here some basic principles are identified as necessary conditions for exercising a leadership of care, overcoming a traditionally rigid separation between the personal and the professional domain, driven by a primary concern for the well-being of the people within the organization. About the Speaker Sister Raffaella Petrini, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, was appointed as Secretary-General of the Governorate of Vatican City State by Pope Francis in November 2021. She is the first woman to hold this position making her the highest-ranking woman in the world's smallest state. A native of Rome, Italy, Sr. Petrini holds a degree in political science from the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS), a Master of Organizational Behavior degree from the University of Hartford, and a doctorate from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum), where she taught Welfare Economics and Sociology of Economic Processes at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She has served as an official at the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples since 2005 and as a member of the Dicastery for Bishops and the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) since 2022. About the Lecture The Nanovic Institute deepens Notre Dame’s connection to the Holy See by bringing distinguished representatives from the Vatican to Notre Dame to explore questions involving Notre Dame’s Catholic mission through the Keeley Vatican Lecture series.  The lecture is free and open to the public. Related Reading Raffaella Petrini, number two at the Vatican, explains the role of women in the Church, ewtnvatican.com Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

International scholars partake in a 9-part seminar series devoted to psalms.  The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN) 18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM) and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Series Schedule January 26, 2023 - "Rescuing Rolle: H.R. Bramley edits the English Psalter" Michael P. Kuczynski (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) February 23, 2023 - "Practice and Symbolism in An Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Psalmic Prayer to the Five Wounds" Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford) March 23, 2023 - "On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos" Hildegund Müller (University of Notre Dame) April 27, 2023 - "The Oldest Middle Dutch Translation of the Psalms (c. 1250-1300): Context(s) of Origin, Functions and Nachleben’" Youri Desplenter (Ghent University) May 25, 2023 - "Writing between the Lines: Towards a Typology of Glossing Techniques in the Old English Glossed Psalters" Thijs Porck (Leiden University) June 22, 2023 - "Literary, Exegetical and Theological Aspects of Aramaic Translations of Psalms of Pilgrims (Psa 120-134)" Mirosław Wróbel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach" Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) November 23, 2023 - "Putting the Pieces Back Together: on the Reconstruction of the Fragmentary N-Psalter" Monika Opalińska (Warsaw University) December 14, 2023 - "Psalter in Exile: On an Early Modern English translation of the Psalms from the Vulgate" Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (The Nanovic Institute at University of Notre Dame and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

International scholars partake in a 9-part seminar series devoted to psalms.  The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN) 18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM) and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Series Schedule January 26, 2023 - "Rescuing Rolle: H.R. Bramley edits the English Psalter" Michael P. Kuczynski (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) February 23, 2023 - "Practice and Symbolism in An Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Psalmic Prayer to the Five Wounds" Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford) March 23, 2023 - "On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos" Hildegund Müller (University of Notre Dame) April 27, 2023 - "The Oldest Middle Dutch Translation of the Psalms (c. 1250-1300): Context(s) of Origin, Functions and Nachleben’" Youri Desplenter (Ghent University) May 25, 2023 - "Writing between the Lines: Towards a Typology of Glossing Techniques in the Old English Glossed Psalters" Thijs Porck (Leiden University) June 22, 2023 - "Literary, Exegetical and Theological Aspects of Aramaic Translations of Psalms of Pilgrims (Psa 120-134)" Mirosław Wróbel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach" Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) November 23, 2023 - "Putting the Pieces Back Together: on the Reconstruction of the Fragmentary N-Psalter" Monika Opalińska (Warsaw University) December 14, 2023 - "Psalter in Exile: On an Early Modern English translation of the Psalms from the Vulgate" Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (The Nanovic Institute at University of Notre Dame and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.