"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" John Kerry posed this question in 1971 while testifying before Congress about Vietnam. The question keeps returning to haunt us in other theaters of war. Twenty years ago, America invaded Iraq. As this year's Notre Dame Forum reflects on the aftermaths of that war, this forum invites us into a spiritual space of remembrance and healing. How can we appropriately recognize those who struggled to act with compassion amidst conflict, those who worked toward repair amidst catastrophe? What wisdom do the Abrahamic traditions offer? Join the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion to hear three Abrahamic voices of prayerful reflection.  Light breakfast will be provided. Note: tables will be available for those fasting for Ramadan.  Register Here PanelistsRoy Scranton (Welcome) Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, and climate philosopher, best known for his work on war, war literature, and the Anthropocene. He is the author of five books, and has written widely for publications such as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, MIT Technology Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.Rabbi Karen Companez (Jewish)Rabbi Karen Companez is pleased to be Temple Beth-El’s rabbi.  Her passion for community-building fuels her rabbinate and she relishes the opportunity of leading Temple Beth-El into its next phase, welcoming new people through its doors, and accompanying its members, whether relatively new or long-time, along life’s path with all the attendant joys and trials that life brings, and doing this within the sheltering and nurturing tent of Judaism.Mahan Mirza (Muslim)An Islamic studies scholar and expert on religious literacy, Mirza brings extensive pedagogical and administrative experience to his role, including serving as dean of faculty at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, America’s first accredited Muslim liberal arts college. Immediately before his appointment to the Ansari Institute, Mirza served as the lead faculty member for Notre Dame's Madrasa Discourses project, which equips Islamic religious leaders in India and Pakistan with the tools to confidently engage with pluralism, modern science, and new philosophies. Charles Powell (Catholic)Charles W. Powell, a practical theologian, earned his Ecumenical Doctor of Ministry degree at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He specializes in interreligious dialogue between Christians and Muslims and multifaith engagement. Powell travels extensively throughout the Levant and Gulf States and Europe engaging in conversations with Muslim scholars and practitioners of Islam in order to have a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Islamic milieu. He is a Visiting Academic Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, UK. Additionally, Powell serves as an adjunct professor of Muslim-Christian relations at Holy Cross College. Originally published at ansari.nd.edu.

“COVID-19 and the Future of Health Care” is presented by Bernard Nahlen, director, Eck Institute for Global Health in the College of Science. His career has been spent working to address the many diseases that disproportionately impact people in low- and middle-income countries. This is the sixth of eight lectures in the Ten Years Hence speaker series that will discuss Is Globalism Dead? Visit the Ten Years Hence website for additional lecture dates.  Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and the Notre Dame community. No registration is required.

Click here to watch the livestream »  Twenty years ago the United States invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq, a country of 44 million people that was, at the time, one of the most secular nations in the Middle East. By the time U.S. forces left in 2011, more than 100,000 people had been killed, thousands more had fled, and fundamentalist militias ruled the streets. For the Iraqis who lived through it, nothing would ever be the same. How does such a calamity reverberate through time? How does war live within us, even when we are at peace? Iraqi and Iranian authors join writers and members of the Notre Dame community to discuss the aftermaths of war and peace, and explore how the invasion of Iraq subsists in the present.  This is the second of two events examining the history and legacy of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Join us for Aftermaths I on Thursday, March 30 »   Panelists:Salar Abdoh Salar Abdoh is an Iranian novelist and essayist. He is the author of the novels Out of Mesopotamia, The Poet Game, Opium, and Tehran At Twilight, and the editor and translator of the anthology Tehran Noir. He is also a director of the graduate program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York.Amal Al-Jubouri Amal Al-Jubouri is an Iraqi writer, poet, translator, journalist and publisher. She published her first collection of poems, Wine from Wounds, at the age of 19. After studying English literature at the University of Baghdad, she worked as a journalist and translator, and founded East-West Publishing, whose mission is to introduce works of international literature to the Iraqi literary scene. In 1997, seeking political asylum, Al-Jubouri immigrated to Germany where she launched Al-Diwan, the first and only Arab-German literary magazine. Al-Jubouri is the author of seven collections, translated into 12 languages, and has published 14 books. Her book 99 Veils received the award for best Arabic from the Paris Arabic Literature Society.Mortada Gzar Mortada Gzar is an Iraqi novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist. Born in Kuwait in 1982, he has an engineering degree from the University of Baghdad, and has been a resident at the Iowa International Writers’ Workshop. He has written, directed, and produced several films that have screened at international festivals. His animated short film Language won the Doha Film Award. He is the author of three novels: Broom of Paradise, Sayyid Asghar Akbar, and My Beautiful Cult.Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and has received fellowships from the United States Artists, the Guggenheim, and Kresge. Her honors also include Arab American Book Award, and UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. After graduating from the University of Baghdad, she worked as a journalist and translator for The Baghdad Observer. Facing censorship and interrogation, she left Iraq in 1995, first to Jordan and then to America, settling in Detroit. She earned a Master's degree from Wayne State University and she currently teaches Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan.Watch the Livestream:   Originally published at forum2022.nd.edu.

Laurent Dubois is the John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy and Director for Academic Affairs of the Democracy Initiative in the Department of French at the University of Virginia. A specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic world who studies the Caribbean (particularly Haiti), North America, and France, Dubois joined the University of Virginia in January 2021, and will also serve as the Democracy Initiative’s new co-director for academic affairs. In this role, Dubois will spearhead the Democracy Initiative’s research and pedagogical missions and will serve as the director and lead research convener of the John L. Nau III History and Principles of Democracy Lab—the permanent core lab of the Initiative which will operate as the connecting hub for the entire project. Before coming to UVA, Dubois spent a decade at Duke University, where he founded the Forum for Scholars & Publics and taught as a professor of romance studies and history. Dubois also served as co-director of Duke’s Franklin Humanities Center Haiti Laboratory for three years. 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 spring 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, and ethnic studies.  View/Download the Poster  Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Aiming to balance interdisciplinarity with integrated scholarship, the discipline of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) is characterized by its willingness and ability to engage in a variety of interdisciplinary conversations in its pursuit of creating new images of science. In an effort to better articulate an integrated approach to the History and Philosophy of Science, many groups such as the Committee for Integrated HPS and their &HPS conference series have focused on sorting out the relationship between historical and philosophical methodologies within HPS. In an effort to build upon this work, the graduate students of the University of Notre Dame’s History and Philosophy of Science Ph.D. program, administered by the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, will convene a two day conference on March 31 – April 1, 2023 around the theme of HPS and interdisciplinarity. The conference aims to step beyond conversations of integrated HPS and to explore how HPS scholars can interact with scholars from neighboring fields outside of HPS to promote interdisciplinary research into the place of science and technology in society. The Fourth Annual Notre Dame History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Values (ND HPSTV) Graduate Conference therefore aims to address such theoretical and methodological questions as: How can the historical and philosophical scholarship of HPS influence and be influenced by disciplines such as theology, literature, media studies, or education? Without sacrificing the core of HPS (whatever that might be), what insights can be gained through a study of science that aims to integrate HPS with the humanities more broadly? How can this scholarly interaction help us better understand the place of science and technology in society? Rather than being “passive/neutral observers” of scientific practice, how can HPS scholars more actively engage with practicing scientists to promote the benefits of HPS perspectives?Catherine K Poster  Julia B Poster Andre D Poster Originally published at reilly.nd.edu.

The Labor Café convenes the Notre Dame community for casual conversation on contemporary questions about work, workers, and workplaces. What rights and protections should those who work for others have? What's the proper role for government in the economy? How should we address enduring problems of inequality, poverty, and lack of opportunity? And what does Catholic Social Teaching have to say about these labor questions? Participants choose the concrete topics, all people are welcome, and all opinions are entertained. In March, we are excited to welcome human rights attorney, Monalisa. Monalisa is a visiting practitioner fellow for the Center for Social Concerns.  Learn More

Aiming to balance interdisciplinarity with integrated scholarship, the discipline of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) is characterized by its willingness and ability to engage in a variety of interdisciplinary conversations in its pursuit of creating new images of science. In an effort to better articulate an integrated approach to the History and Philosophy of Science, many groups such as the Committee for Integrated HPS and their &HPS conference series have focused on sorting out the relationship between historical and philosophical methodologies within HPS. In an effort to build upon this work, the graduate students of the University of Notre Dame’s History and Philosophy of Science Ph.D. program, administered by the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, will convene a two day conference on March 31 – April 1, 2023 around the theme of HPS and interdisciplinarity. The conference aims to step beyond conversations of integrated HPS and to explore how HPS scholars can interact with scholars from neighboring fields outside of HPS to promote interdisciplinary research into the place of science and technology in society. The Fourth Annual Notre Dame History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Values (ND HPSTV) Graduate Conference therefore aims to address such theoretical and methodological questions as: How can the historical and philosophical scholarship of HPS influence and be influenced by disciplines such as theology, literature, media studies, or education? Without sacrificing the core of HPS (whatever that might be), what insights can be gained through a study of science that aims to integrate HPS with the humanities more broadly? How can this scholarly interaction help us better understand the place of science and technology in society? Rather than being “passive/neutral observers” of scientific practice, how can HPS scholars more actively engage with practicing scientists to promote the benefits of HPS perspectives?    Originally published at reilly.nd.edu.

Lunch will be provided.  Developing countries increasingly have multiple options for strategic partnerships that meet critical needs from trade and infrastructure to public health and digital technology. These countries may find it convenient to partner with powers like China or Russia without considering the long-term implications of such choices. In a complex and multipolar world, how might the United States and its allies offer a positive agenda that meets the needs and aspirations of partner countries? How might they employ innovative soft-power policies to support broad-based economic growth and good governance, provide specialized help for fragile states, and continue to champion a multilateral international system? How can they engage the private sector, civil society, and voters to help deliver on such an agenda?  Join us to hear from Daniel Runde of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who argues for such an approach in his recent book, The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power, and from Joshua Eisenman, a Keough School faculty member who studies China’s relations with developing countries. Maura Policelli, executive director of the Keough School’s Washington, DC office, will moderate the discussion. Register NowSponsored by the Keough School of Global Affairs.

Tung-Hui Hu is the author of A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015) and Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection (MIT Press, 2022), as well as three books of poetry. For the 2022-23 academic year, he is a Rome Prize Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome and a Humboldt Fellow at the Martin Luther Universität Halle, Germany. A former network engineer, he is now an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. Registration required for this event must take place prior to the virtual book talk.   Life in Pixels hosts an ongoing series of transdisciplinary conversations thinking about how we can make sense of, and live with, our computational social condition today. Considering sociocultural, aesthetic, politicoeconomic, environmental, racial, and historical registers of technology together, the series will bring together people who think and do technology beyond disciplinary boundaries. The events are all designed as an ongoing series of conversations between scholars and practitioners in Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Critical Digital Studies, and Literary Cultural Studies. Life in Pixels is generously sponsored by the Ruth and Paul Idzik College Chair in Digital Scholarship, the Program in History and Philosophy of Science, the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, the Department of English, the Minor in Data Science, and the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Originally published at lucyinstitute.nd.edu.

“At the very time when it most often mouths the word,” writes Aimé Césaire in his Discourse on Colonialism, “the West has never been further from being able to live a true humanism—a humanism made to the measure of the world.” That was in 1950, but it easily describes the various political and ecological crises of the twenty-first century. In this talk, I propose not a retrenchment within humanist ideals, but a redefinition of the human through the category of species-being, a term that comes to us from Marx but has important precedents in Aristotle and Hegel. Moving between episodes in the history of labor, philosophy, and poetry—from Romanticism to the present—I first discuss species-being in general terms before moving onto an extended reading of William Blake’s Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804–1820), focusing on the relationship between Blake’s experimental free verse and his pervasive, often puzzling critique of the social experience he calls “shame.”Presented by Anahid Nersessian, professor, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles. https://notredame.zoom.us/j/92308652183 Originally published at reilly.nd.edu.

Episode 2: The Virtue of Art Featuring: Nick Ripatrazone, Renée Roden, and Stephen Barany How the experience of making and enjoying art reminds us what it means to be human in a world of increasing automation and artificial intelligence. Free and open to the public. Registration is required. For more information, check here. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.

Join the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study and the Mendoza College of Business for a look into the business side of Thom Browne’s fashion empire. Thom Browne is the 2022-23 Artist in Residence at the NDIAS and the chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. The conversation will be moderated by Michael Hainey ('86), a deputy editor of Air Mail and author of the New York Times best-seller, After Visiting Friends. Q&A and reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public. Originally published at ndias.nd.edu.

Online platforms have become ubiquitous in everyday life. Few realize, however, that platforms are also seeking to re-engineer scientific research and the university. By bringing together specialists who are studying this process, this conference will allow us to speculate on the shape of future science. Featuring keynotes by: Naomi Oreskes Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science Harvard University author of Merchants of DeathMario Biagioli Distinguished Professor of Law and Communication University of California Los Angeles author of Gaming the Metrics: New Ecologies of Academic Misconduct   Keynotes and sessions are free and open to the public. View schedule and register Originally published at reilly.nd.edu.

Philosopher and Buddhism scholar Jay Garfield of Smith College will deliver the third annual Justice and Asia Distinguished Lecture by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday, April 13, 2023. The event is cosponsored by Notre Dame's Department of Philosophy, and Mike Zhao, assistant professor of philosophy, will moderate. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.In a lecture titled “Buddhism and Nonviolence in the Contemporary World,” Garfield will present a Buddhist analysis of nonviolence in a way relevant to our contemporary life. He will first explain how violence manifests in the contemporary world. Second, he will present a Buddhist analysis of that violence and its causes. Third, he will ask how a Buddhist ethical framework determines our responsibilities as agents in the context of that violence and a path to its eradication.   Garfield chairs the Department of Philosophy and directs the Buddhist Studies Program and the Tibetan Studies in India Program at Smith College. He is a visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, professor of philosophy at Melbourne University, and adjunct professor of philosophy at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies. Academicinfluence.com has identified him as one of the 50 most influential philosophers in the world over the past decade. His research addresses topics in the foundations of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, the history of modern Indian philosophy, and topics in ethics, epistemology and the philosophy of logic, and topics in Buddhist philosophy, particularly Indo-Tibetan Madhyamaka and Yogācāra. He is the author of more than 30 books, including his most recent titles, “Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self,” “Knowing Illusion: Bringing a Tibetan Debate into Contemporary Discourse,” and “Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration.” The Liu Institute’s Justice and Asia Distinguished Lecture invites top scholars who examine the theme of justice in relation to Asia and with awareness of Asian cultures and traditions. The series is part of the Liu Institute’s organizing theme of “Justice and Asia” that examines and supports thematic work from a range of perspectives, projects, disciplines, and collaborations. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Magatte Wade was born in Senegal, educated in France, and launched her entrepreneurial career in San Francisco. She is fluent in, and conducts business in, Wolof, French, and English. She has launched multiple businesses, including Adina World Beverages and Tiossan, a high-end skin care products line based on indigenous Senegalese recipes. Magatte was named a Young Global Leader by the Davos Global Economic Forum as well as one of the “20 Youngest Power Women in Africa” by Forbes in 2011.  Wade believes that free markets and economic freedom is the pathway for Africa to leapfrog ahead, with Africans taking the uncontested leading role in the co-creation of 21st century prosperity for all, innovation, culture and technology. She speaks about the role of free markets in overcoming poverty and the role of enterprise to tackle social issues and entrepreneurial education. Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.

The Kathleen Cannon, O.P., Distinguished Lecture Series presents:Can Truth Survive Platform Capitalism? Naomi Oreskes Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University A world-renowned earth scientist, historian, and public speaker, Naomi Oreskes is the author of the best-selling book, Merchants of Doubt and a leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in blocking climate action. Her new book, published in February, is The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. Free and open to the public, this keynote is part of Science and Platform Capitalism: the New Organization of Knowledge Production, a conference presented by the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. SponsorsReilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Henkels Lecture Fund Department of EconomicsSr. Kathleen Cannon Distinguished Lecture Series Originally published at reilly.nd.edu.

Rethinking our responsibilities as consumers From the clothes we wear to the influencers we follow, consumers play a significant role in the fashion industry. We buy new garments regularly, often in excess, and discard old clothes with little thought about the implications. In response, the fashion industry now manufactures 52 seasons of clothing every year – one for each week. Consumers who crave the newest trends perpetuate this speedy production, a phenomenon known as fast fashion. There are multiple effects of fast fashion. Clothes must be sold at a lower cost, which translates into extremely low wages and poor working conditions for garment industry workers. Beyond concerns for laborers, fast fashion also harms the environment. Cheap clothes, produced quickly, are made with inferior materials and a higher volume of plastic. Because these clothes are quickly thrown away, a cycle of production and waste results in a large amount of carbon emission among other environmental hazards. Join the Klau Institute as Justine Nolan, director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, shares insights on fast fashion and asks what hope exists for addressing labor and environmental exploitation in global supply chains.   Register at attend in person Register to attend via ZoomJustine NolanJustine Nolan is a professor in the faculty of law and justice at the University of New South Wales Sydney and director of the Australian Human Rights Institute. Justine's research focuses on the intersection of business and human rights, in particular, supply chain responsibility for human rights and modern slavery.Her 2019 co-authored book Addressing Modern Slavery examines how consumers, business and government are both part of the problem and the solution in curbing modern slavery in global supply chains. Other recent books include The International Law of Human Rights (OUP, 2017) and Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Practice (Routledge, 2016).She teaches international human rights law and related courses on global law, development, globalisation and business and human rights. Justine works closely with business, government and civil society and has been a key driver of the Australian business and human rights movement. In 2019 she was named 'Academic of the Year' at the Australian Law Awards. From 2016-2019 she served as Associate Dean Academic at UNSW Law.Photo: "Sweatshop Workers" by zakattak is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Online platforms have become ubiquitous in everyday life. Few realize, however, that platforms are also seeking to re-engineer scientific research and the university. By bringing together specialists who are studying this process, this conference will allow us to speculate on the shape of future science. Featuring keynotes by: Naomi Oreskes Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science Harvard University author of Merchants of DeathMario Biagioli Distinguished Professor of Law and Communication University of California Los Angeles author of Gaming the Metrics: New Ecologies of Academic Misconduct   Keynotes and sessions are free and open to the public. View schedule and register Originally published at reilly.nd.edu.

“Global Trends Shaping the Long-Term Future” is presented by Maria Langan-Riekhof, director of the Strategic Futures Group at the National Intelligence Council. Maria lead the intelligence community’s assessment of global dynamics and charged with producing the quadrennial Global Trends product. She has spent more than 29 years in the intelligence community as both a senior analyst and manager, serving at the CIA and on the NIC. This is the seventh of eight lectures in the Ten Years Hence speaker series that will discuss Is Globalism Dead? Visit the Ten Years Hence website for additional lecture dates. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and the Notre Dame community. No registration is required.

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." The speaker for April 14 is the Most Reverend Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades from the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. Learn more