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News from November 2009
Busting Myths About Extremist Legislators
John Griffin, associate professor of political science, has helped debunk a myth about ideologically extreme legislators in an award-winning paper he co-wrote, raising the question of whether citizens hold elected officials accountable.
Published November 18, 2009 by Josh Stowe
Performance Will Mark 150th Anniversary of On the Origin of Species
A pair of Notre Dame professors will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species with a performance of a fictionalized dialogue between Darwin and one of his harshest scientific critics at 8 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 17).
Published November 12, 2009 by William G. Gilroy
Schmuhl to Deliver Keynote Address at Dublin Conference
Robert Schmuhl, Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Professor of American Studies and Journalism, will deliver the keynote address at the conference of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland on Nov. 21 (Saturday) in Dublin.
Published November 11, 2009 by Shannon Chapla
Notre Dame Hosts Haiti's Only 2008–09 Fulbright Scholar
Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies is currently hosting Gerald Telfort, the only Fulbright visiting scholar selected from Haiti this academic year in the newly re-launched Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for Central America and the Caribbean.
Published November 11, 2009 by Elizabeth Rankin
Sociologist Hans Joas to Speak at Notre Dame
Internationally known sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas, director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, will present a lecture titled "The Axial Age Debate As Religious Discourse" at 4 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 12) in Geddes Hall.
Published November 10, 2009 by Michael Lucien
Mayor of Rust-Belt "Hell" to Speak at Notre Dame
John Fetterman, the man once dubbed "the mayor of hell," will visit Notre Dame to share his experience of another America—a Rust Belt town plagued by crime and a struggling economy—and his efforts to help revive the place.
Published November 10, 2009 by Josh Stowe
Islam and Contemporary European Literature to be Explored at Symposium
Some of Europe's most prominent Muslim and Muslim-born writers will discuss the place of Islam in their work at a symposium titled "The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature," to be held Nov. 16 and 17 (Monday and Tuesday) at Notre Dame.
Published November 10, 2009 by Michael Lucien
Center for Ethics and Culture to Focus Annual Conference on Freedom and Virtue
Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Culture is hosting its 10th annual fall conference, "The Summons of Freedom: Virtue, Sacrifice, and the Common Good," from Nov. 12 to 14 (Thursday to Saturday) in McKenna Hall.
Published November 9, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey
Reflections on the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later
Notre Dame political scientist James McAdams recalls the first time he stepped over the border from West Germany to East Germany in 1973 as a 19-year-old college student studying in West Berlin. "The first time I entered East Berlin, it felt like I was going to an anti-Disneyland."
Published November 6, 2009 by Susan Guibert
Notre Dame Theologian to Advise Vatican Conference on Migration
Rev. Daniel Groody, C.S.C., assistant professor of theology, is one of seven academic experts selected to participate in the Vatican's sixth World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees, which is being held Nov. 9 to 12 in Rome.
Published November 6, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey
Alumna Joan Orie Melvin Elected to Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Superior Court Judge Joan Orie Melvin of Pittsburgh, a 1978 Notre Dame alumna who majored in economics, was elected Nov. 3 to a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Published November 5, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey
The Review of Politics Turns 70
First published in 1939, The Review of Politics has maintained its status as an indispensable journal of political philosophy.
Published November 5, 2009 by Michael O. Garvey
"What's Next? Week" to Help Students Plan Their Undergraduate Years
"What's Next? Week" is a series of academic and career information sessions designed to help Arts and Letters majors—from first-year students to seniors—make the most of their time at Notre Dame.
Published November 5, 2009 by Arts and Letters
Notre Dame Professor Co-edits Book on History of Religion
Brad S. Gregory, Dorothy G. Griffin Associate Professor of Early Modern History, has co-edited Seeing Things Their Way, a collection of essays that aims to bridge the gap between intellectual history and the history of religion.
Published November 3, 2009 by Michael Lucien
Students Embrace Rare Educational Research Opportunity in India
This summer, four Notre Dame undergraduates had the rare opportunity to conduct research side-by-side with the famous Irish nun Sister Cyril Mooney, who has turned an elite Catholic school for girls in Kolkata, India, into an education center that welcomes the city's street children.
Published November 3, 2009 by Shannon Chapla
Conway Morris to Deliver Closing Lecture for Darwin Conference
British paleontologist Simon Conway Morris will deliver a lecture titled "Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation" at 8 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 3) in the auditorium of Notre Dame's Jordan Hall of Science. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Published November 2, 2009 by William G. Gilroy