Have a problem you want to solve? Pitch it during this year's IDEAs Challenge! How does this work? During this event, you'll be pitching your idea to help solve problems in your community. You'll be presenting your idea during a 60-second pitch competition and competing for cash prizes. No slide deck is needed, just you and a microphone. Come to pitch, come to vote for your favorites, come to see what your peers are excited about! Must RSVP to pitch or to attend. Must Register by 12:00PM (Noon) EST on October 4, 2022. Originally published at ideacenter.nd.edu.

"The Signs of the Times" series connects campus to community experts around justice topics. The theme for the 2022–23 series is Leadership in Justice and Hope. In October, we are excited to host Jan McGowan, Park Interpreter of St. Joseph County Parks.  learn more

Register 14:00 Santiago time / 1:00pm Eastern US time Magda Sepúlveda Professor of Latin American Literature and coordinator of the Gabriela Mistral Chair, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Author of "Gabriela Mistral: Somos los andinos que fuimos" This session will interpret the poem "El maíz" (“Corn”), one of the long poems of the “America” section of Mistral's Tala (1938), from the point of view of Latin American laughter described as mockery and disobedience. This is one of seven lectures in the series "Rereading Gabriela Mistral 100 years after Desolación (1922-2022): A Transhemispheric Encounter," which explores the poetry of Nobel Laureate Chilean Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) amid the political, social, and economic crises of the new millennium. All sessions are offered in Spanish and English with simultaneous interpretation. Click here for more information about the series. Presented by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies with cosponsorship by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), and the Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame.

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. Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year, Virtues & Vocations will host a series of faculty workshops, continue our monthly webinar series, and engage issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. On October 10, we are excited to welcome Brandon Vaidyanathan, associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, Catholic University of America. Register now to join the conversation! REGISTER

Saint Mary in Dante Leonard DeLorenzo, McGrath Institute for Church Life, Notre Dame Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series in Geddes Hall, that combines the university's rich traditions of Catholic faith and spirited game days. The event is free and open to the public. See here for complete schedule. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.

Join the Center for Social Concerns for Friday afternoons on home football weekends for lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Each lecture will be followed by a reception. What happens to people when work disappears?  Farah Stockman, columnist and editorial board member at the New York Times, author of American MadeFarah Stockman is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and a member of the New York Times editorial board. She joined the New York Times in 2016 as a reporter covering politics, social movements, and race for the national desk. She previously spent 16 years at the Boston Globe, serving as that paper’s foreign policy reporter in Washington and as a columnist. She has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, South Sudan, Rwanda, Guantánamo Bay, Kenya, Indonesia, and Japan. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for a series of columns about the legacy of efforts to desegregate schools in Boston. She is the author of "American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears," a book about three steelworkers in Indiana who worked at a factory that moved to Mexico.  learn more

Presented by Rev. Kevin Grove, C.S.C., assistant professor, Department of Theology. Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series that combines the university's rich traditions of Catholic faith and spirited game days. The event, in Geddes Hall, is free and open to the public. See here for complete schedule. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.

The Signs of the Times series connects campus to community experts around justice topics. The theme for the 2022–23 series is Leadership in Justice and Hope. In November, the Center for Social Concerns is excited to welcome Jason Wesaw, Pokagon Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. learn more

Join the Center for Social Concerns for Friday afternoons on home football weekends for lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Each lecture will be followed by a reception. How do we cultivate character for the common good? Anne Snyder, Editor-in-Chief, Comment Magazine Anne Snyder is the editor-in-chief of Comment magazine and oversees its partner project, Breaking Ground. She is the host of The Whole Person Revolution podcast and co-editor of Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year, published in January 2022. Prior to leading Comment, she directed The Philanthropy Roundtable‘s Character Initiative, a program seeking to help foundations and business leaders strengthen “the middle ring” of morally formative institutions. Her path-breaking guidebook, The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Renewing our Social and Moral Landscape, was published in 2019. From 2014 to 2017 Anne worked for Laity Lodge and the H.E. Butt Foundation in Texas, and before that, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, World Affairs Journal, and The New York Times. She is a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum and a Fellow at the Urban Reform Institute. She has published widely, including The Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, Bittersweet Monthly and of course Comment, and now serves as a trustee for Nyack College. Anne spent the formative years of her childhood overseas before earning a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College (IL) and a master’s degree from Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, D.C. learn more

Saints of Our Lady’s University Meg Hunter-Kilmer, Sullivan Family Saints Fellow, McGrath Institute for Church Life Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series that combines the University's rich traditions of Catholic faith and spirited game days. The event is free and open to the public. See here for complete schedule. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.

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. Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year, Virtues & Vocations will host a series of faculty workshops, continue our monthly webinar series, and engage issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. On November 7, we are excited to welcome physician and author of "Compassionomics and Wonder Drug," Stephen Trzeciak, MD. Register now to join the conversation! REGISTER

The annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture was created by the Center for Social Concerns in 2009 in order to highlight justice issues and themes affecting the common good. This fall event honors Fr. Bernie who died young but influenced students with the life lesson of a “Theory of Enough."  Past speakers have included scholars and practitioners working to create a more just future for all.  2022 Annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture featuring Clint Smith, Ph.D. Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and a 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Nonfiction, and the poetry collection Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere. learn more

Join the Center for Social Concerns for Friday afternoons on home football weekends for lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Each lecture will be followed by a reception. How do we find the truth?  Elizabeth Bruenig, staff writer, The Atlantic A Marshall Scholar with an MPhil in Christian theology, Elizabeth Bruenig joined The New Republic in 2015, where she worked until early 2016, when she joined The Washington Post as an assistant editor. Liz spent the next several years conceiving of essays for the Post’s Outlook section and children for herself and her husband, Matt. In 2018, Liz joined the Post’s Opinion section as a columnist, and in 2019, she was named a Pulitzer finalist in feature writing for her investigation of a gang rape that had taken place during her time as a Texan high school student. Liz accepted a role with The New York Times as an opinion writer, in 2020, and in 2021, after an exciting year with the Times, came aboard as a staff writer with The Atlantic, where she publishes columns, essays, reported features, and undertakes a number of multimedia projects. Liz’s reporting focuses on violence in America and its aftermath, with particular focus on capital punishment.  Liz lives in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters and two cats. learn more

Saint Bernard, Doctor Marialis of the Middle Ages Presented by Sr. Ann Astell, Department of Theology, Notre Dame. Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series that combines the university's rich traditions of Catholic faith and spirited game days. The event in Geddes Hall is free and open to the public. See here for complete schedule. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.