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News from March 2008
Notre Dame to host genocide conference
The University of Notre Dame will host a conference on genocide and the media titled "Witnessing Genocide: Truth, Reconciliation and the Media" that will take place April 6 and 7 (Sunday and Monday)...
Published March 31, 2008 by Maureen Mullen
Rosenbaum to give lecture on remembering the Holocaust
Thane Rosenbaum, a distinguished novelist, essayist and law professor, will deliver a lecture titled "After Auschwitz and the Twin Towers: Trauma and Memory" at 7:45 p.m. April 7 (Monday)...
Published March 31, 2008 by Maureen Mullen
DeBartolo Center hosts Asian film festival and conference
The University of Notre Dame will host filmmakers and scholars March 27 to 29 (Thursday to Saturday) for the annual Asian Film Festival and conference, this year titled "Love at First Sight: Romance and Relationships in Asian and Asian American Cinema."
Published March 27, 2008 by Maureen Mullen
Reformation historian to lecture at Notre Dame
Irena Backus, professor of Reformation history and ecclesiastical Latin at the Institute of Reformation History of the University of Geneva, will give a lecture on "Reformation Scepticism Revisited: Faith and Reason in Erasmus and Castellio" at 4:30 p.m. April 2 (Wednesday)...
Published March 27, 2008 by Michael O. Garvey
Edith Stein Conference to "redefine feminism"
A group of University of Notre Dame students is hosting a two-day conference to examine the manner in which contemporary culture imperils the dignity of women and to describe the vocation of women in the modern world.
Published March 26, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
CCI director receives national catechetical award
Gerard F. Baumbach, director of the Institute for Church Life's Center for Catechetical Initiatives (CCI) at the University of Notre Dame, will receive the 2008 Catechetical Award from the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership...
Published March 26, 2008 by Michael O. Garvey
Study yields unconventional findings about welfare
Born in Chile, University of Notre Dame sociologist Samuel Valenzuela has an abiding interest in where he grew up, leading him to focus much of his research on questions related to Chilean history and society. How he answers, though, often depends on the experiences of other countries.
Published March 25, 2008 by Ted Fox
Shakespeare at Notre Dame hosts world-renowned historian
Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells will explore issues of sexuality in the age of the Bard in a lecture March 31 (Monday) at 5 p.m. in the Philbin Studio Theatre...
Published March 25, 2008 by Julie Hail Flory
Political columnist E. J. Dionne to deliver lecture March 31
Political columnist and author E. J. Dionne Jr. will deliver a lecture titled "Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics in America" at 7:30 p.m. March 31 (Monday) in the Hesburgh Library's Carey Auditorium...
Published March 24, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
Panel to discuss "Implications of Immigration for South Bend"
A panel discussion titled "Implications of Immigration for South Bend," featuring local religious, legal and educational leaders and healthcare service providers, will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday (March 26)...
Published March 19, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
Labor historian to deliver annual McBride lecture
Nelson Lichtenstein, a pre-eminent historian of American labor from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), will deliver a lecture titled "Can the Unions Organize Again? What Will it Take to Make Wal-Mart a Union Shop?" at 7:30 p.m. March 27 (Thursday)...
Published March 19, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
English professor examines liturgical performance, literacy in new book
Katherine Zieman, assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of a new book titled "Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England."
Published March 18, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
ND Expert: Fed now financial market's "pawn broker"
Though the Federal Reserve's bailout of Bear Stearns was meant to provide a safety net for the nation's economy and keep the credit crisis from destroying the financial industry, University of Notre Dame economist Christopher Waller is skeptical of the move.
Published March 18, 2008 by Susan Guibert
Pope-Davis recognized for research contributions
Don Pope-Davis, vice president and associate provost at the University of Notre Dame, has been recognized as one of the leading scholars of multicultural counseling in a paper analyzing the field over the past two decades.
Published March 18, 2008 by William G. Gilroy
Notre Dame professor publishes study of Christian initiation rites
"The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation," by Maxwell E. Johnson, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, recently was published...
Published March 17, 2008 by Michael O. Garvey
"Magical" Faust story energizes the campus
Once upon a time, in the Middle Ages, a German named Johann Faust made a reputation for himself as an alchemist who claimed magical powers. After he died in a laboratory accident...
Published March 17, 2008 by Gail Hinchion Mancini
Bringing Cuba to Notre Dame
The typical visiting fellow at Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies is a scholar, says interim director Edward N. Beatty. But now and again, someone outside the academy can make an unmatchable contribution.
Published March 14, 2008 by Carol C. Bradley
Notre Dame Energy Center research seeks to improve Indiana Dunes facilities
The University-National Park Energy Partnership Program (UNPEPP) has funded a joint project between the Notre Dame Energy Center and the National Park Service at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore...
Published March 13, 2008 by William G. Gilroy and
Nina Welding
Catholic Theological Union honors Kroc Institute with peacemakers award
Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies has received the 2008 "Blessed are the Peacemakers" Award from Catholic Theological Union (CTU), the largest Catholic graduate school of theology in North America.
Published March 12, 2008 by Joan Fallon
Sullivan Prize winner to give reading
Marilyn Krysl, the winner of the University of Notre Dame's 2008 Sullivan Prize for fiction, will present a reading from her work "Dinner with Osama" at 7:30 p.m. March 19 (Wednesday)...
Published March 12, 2008 by Maureen Mullen
Policy brief details economic effects of Indiana immigration bill
A policy brief recently released by the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) at the University of Notre Dame describes the potential effects of proposed legislation aimed at controlling unauthorized immigration.
Published March 11, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
Harvard theologian to speak at Hesburgh Lectures
Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, an internationally renowned theologian who specializes in Catholic social teaching and international relations, will deliver the 14th annual Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Lectures in Ethics and Public Policy March 25 and 26...
Published March 11, 2008 by Joan Fallon
Notre Dame ranked among "Top 25 Colleges for Latinos"
Hispanic Magazine has ranked the University of Notre Dame 13th on its 2008 list of "Top 25 Colleges for Latinos," the sixth year the University has made the list since its debut in 1999.
Published March 10, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
ND Expert: Parenting in early years forms basis for "ethical brain" development
Language, social skills and physical dexterity are familiar developmental milestones that parents of young children can influence and track with relative ease. But what about the development of compassion and empathy?
Published March 10, 2008 by Susan Guibert
Symposium to focus on redefining black America
The fifth annual Erskine A. Peters Fellowship Symposium, titled "Redefining (Black) America: Socio-Economic Variance in the Black Community," will be held Thursday (March 13) at 7 p.m. in the Eck Visitors' Center auditorium...
Published March 10, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
Statement from Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president
The following statement was issued today (March 10) by Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame: In the spring of 2006, prompted by recurring performances...
Published March 10, 2008 by Dennis Brown
$10 million Rooney Foundation gift to support Center for American Democracy
The University of Notre Dame has received a $10 million gift from the Francis and Kathleen Rooney Foundation to support a new Center for the Study of American Democracy.
Published March 7, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
Report explores how religion shapes Latinos' political, civic involvement
Religion plays a significant role in shaping Latinos' political behavior and civic engagement, according to a report recently released by the Center for the Study of Latino Religion in the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies.
Published March 6, 2008 by Shannon Chapla
A Trans-Atlantic classroom session
As the paradoxically attentive and disciplined students assembled for class, they met here and there, earlier and later, in the morning and in the afternoon, on this and that side of the Atlantic, in North America and Europe, all together and at the same time.
Published March 5, 2008 by Michael O. Garvey
Author Tony D'Souza returns to read from latest novel
Tony D'Souza, award-winning author and University of Notre Dame graduate, will read from his latest novel "The Konkans" March 12 (Wednesday) at 7:30 p.m. in the hospitality room of Reckers...
Published March 4, 2008 by Shannon Chapla