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News from September 2009

Call for Student Research for Human Development Conference

Undergraduate and graduate students alike are being invited to present papers at "People, Power, and Pragmatism: The Future of Development in Our Changing World," a conference on human development scheduled for February 26–27, 2010 on the Notre Dame campus.

Published September 30, 2009 by Arts and Letters

Theater Season to Feature Work of Student Playwrights

Beginning this fall, plays created in the "New Playwrights Workshop" of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) will be part of the regular theater season.

Published September 30, 2009 by Carol C. Bradley

Department of Education Grant to Fund Asian Studies at Notre Dame

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages Program grant of approximately $180,000 to advance Asian language and area studies at the University.

Published September 29, 2009 by Elizabeth Rankin

Notre Dame to Mark 20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall

Notre Dame will host a panel discussion and lecture Oct. 12 (Monday) to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (Nov. 9), celebrate two decades of freedom for the people of East Germany and of united Germany, and discuss what the East German Revolution meant...

Published September 28, 2009 by Shannon Chapla

Pope Appoints ND Theologian Adviser to African Bishops in Vatican Meeting

Rev. Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor, associate professor of theology, will be skipping class for a couple of weeks next month. If his students and colleagues all seem tolerant, even pleased, by his departure, it is likely because of its impressive excuse: Pope Benedict XVI is calling.

Published September 25, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey

God and Moral Law the Topic of Annual Plantinga Lecture

The Center for Philosophy of Religion welcomes Mark C. Murphy, Fr. Joseph T. Durkin, S.J. Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, to deliver the University of Notre Dame's eighth annual Plantinga Lecture.

Published September 25, 2009 by Arts and Letters

Notre Dame Sociologist Receives Funding to Continue Youth and Religion Research

Sociologist Christian Smith of the University of Notre Dame Center for the Study of Religion and Society has received $1,228,000 to continue the National Study of Youth and Religion into a fourth wave of data collection.

Published September 24, 2009 by Marie Blakey and Katie Spencer

Director of White House Faith-Based Initiatives to Speak at Notre Dame

Joshua DuBois, executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, will speak on "Hope in Action Through Faith-Based Initiatives" at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28 (Monday) in the Andrews Auditorium of Geddes Hall.

Published September 23, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey

Crowe to Receive Doggett Prize From American Astronomical Society

Michael J. Crowe, Reverend John J. Cavanaugh Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in the Program of Liberal Studies at Notre Dame, will receive the 2010 LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society.

Published September 22, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey

iNDustry Alliance Festival to Bring Alumni Filmmakers Back to Campus

Four Notre Dame alumni working in the film industry will return to campus to screen and discuss their work at the annual iNDustry Alliance Alumni Documentary Film Festival, to be held Oct. 1 to 3 in the Browning Cinema of the University's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Published September 22, 2009 by Michael Lucien

Notre Dame to Host Catholic Culture Literature Series

Notre Dame will host its eighth annual Catholic Culture Literature Series beginning Tuesday (Sept. 22). The opening lecture, which will focus on poet and playwright T.S. Eliot, will be presented by Dominic Manganiello, professor of English at the University of Ottawa.

Published September 21, 2009 by Michael Lucien

ACE Leads in Service to Catholic Education

Since its inception, Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education program has grown from a service initiative composed of a handful of Catholic school educators to a movement that has commissioned 1,200 teachers and more than 125 administrators to serve Catholic education in the United States.

Published September 18, 2009 by Sarah Greene

Bringing George Rickey Home

Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art will host a symposium Sept. 25 and 26 dedicated to George Rickey, a major modern artist who was a native of South Bend and whose estate has given a significant amount of his work and correspondence to the University.

Published September 18, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey

Working in the White House: An Alumnus Inside the "Bubble"

In 1988, Kevin Dunay left Notre Dame with a doctoral degree in psychology. This year, he returned to campus with a presidential motorcade. Dunay, director of the White House Situation Room, accompanied President Obama during his May 17 visit to deliver the University's commencement address.

Published September 17, 2009 by Josh Stowe

Inter-American Development Bank Official to Speak on Financial Crisis

Eduardo Lora, the chief economist and head of research for the Inter-American Development Bank, will present a lecture titled "The Impact of the Financial Crisis in Latin America" at 6 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 17) in the Hesburgh Center auditorium.

Published September 16, 2009 by Elizabeth Rankin

ND Theologian Father Gutierrez to Receive Niebuhr Medal From Elmhurst College

Rev. Gustavo Gutierrez, O.P., John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Theology at Notre Dame, will receive the Niebuhr Medal from Elmhurst College in a Sept. 20 ceremony. The highest honor given by the college, the Niebuhr Medal is presented in recognition of "extraordinary service to humanity"...

Published September 15, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey

Institute for Latino Studies to Celebrate 10th Anniversary

The University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies will celebrate its 10th anniversary with several events, including an academic symposium titled "Latino Studies: Past, Present and Future" from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday (Sept. 16) in the McKenna Hall auditorium.

Published September 14, 2009 by Shannon Chapla

Newly Opened Geddes Hall Integrates Theology, Sustainability

Notre Dame's Geddes Hall is coming to life. The staff of the University's Center for Social Concerns moved into the newly constructed building this summer and will be joined by other units of the Institute for Church Life...

Published September 11, 2009 by William Schmitt

Kroc, Oxford University Press to Collaborate on Volumes on Peace

Oxford University Press has accepted proposals from Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies to publish a series of books on strategic peacebuilding, beginning this fall, and a handbook on religion, conflict and peacebuilding in 2011.

Published September 9, 2009 by Joan Fallon

Cardinal Mahony to Speak Sept. 18 at Notre Dame

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, archbishop of Los Angeles, will give a lecture titled "Fostering the Baptismal Priesthood in the 'Year for Priests'" at 4 p.m. Sept. 18 (Friday) in the auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies.

Published September 8, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey

Scholars Counter Criticism of Hebrew God

Critics of Abrahamic religious traditions contend that the darker passages of the Hebrew Bible undermine the traditional Jewish and Christian understanding of God as perfectly loving and good. Scholars will address these contentions at the upcoming conference...

Published September 3, 2009 by Katie Louvat

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