Saturday Scholar Series
A different game plan for autumn weekends
Fall 2013 Schedule
Come back to campus! You are invited to experience an intimate discussion with Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty speakers on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times.
Each lecture and Q&A is presented in the Snite Museum’s Annenberg Auditorium at noon (unless otherwise noted) on a “home game” Saturday. All lectures are free and open to the public.
More information about other “home game” events on campus is available on the GameDay website.
8.31.13 (vs. Temple University)
“From Pope Benedict to Pope Francis: Contrasts and Continuities”
Rev. Brian E. Daley, S.J., The Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology
Cyril O’Regan, The Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, associate professor, Department of American Studies; director, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
9.21.13 (vs. Michigan State University)
“Letting Go: From Ancient to Modern Perspectives on Relinquishing Personal Control”
Thomas Merluzzi, professor, Department of Psychology; director, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
9.28.13 (vs. University of Oklahoma)
“Dante and the Birth of Modern Literature”
Zygmunt Baranski, The Notre Dame Professor of Dante and Italian Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
10.19.13 (vs. University of Southern California)
Game at 7:30 p.m.; lecture at 4 p.m.
“Implementing Social Change: A Collaborative Design Project in South Africa”
Robert Sedlack, associate professor, director of graduate studies, associate chair, Department of Art, Art History, and Design
11.2.13 (vs. United States Naval Academy)
“The Chapels of the University of Notre Dame”
Lawrence Cunningham, John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology Emeritus
11.23.13 (vs. Brigham Young University)
“Did Mitt Romney’s Mormonism Cost Him the White House?: Stained Glass Ceilings and American Politics”
David Campbell, professor, Department of Political Science; director, Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, associate professor, Department of Political Science; concurrent associate professor of law; director, Tocqueville Program for Inquiry Into Religion and American Public Life; director, David Potenziani Program in Constitutional Studies
Matthew S. Holland, president, Utah Valley University
Arts and Letters News
Ken Garcia Receives Theology Book Award
Ken Garcia, a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a co-winner of the College Theology Society’s 2013 best book award for his work, Academic Freedom and the Telos of the Catholic University. Read More >
Rising Senior Alex Coccia Named Truman Scholar
Alex Coccia, an Africana studies and peace studies major in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters, has been named a 2013 Truman Scholar. Established in 1975 as a “living memorial” to President Harry S. Truman, the prestigious scholarship includes $30,000 in graduate study funds, priority admission and supplemental financial aid at select institutions, leadership training, career and graduate school counseling, and internship opportunities within the federal government. Nationwide, just 60 to 65 college juniors are selected as Truman scholars each year, based on leadership potential, intellectual ability, and likelihood of “making a difference.” Read More >
Historian Jon Coleman Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
His two books thus far have explored American tales of wolves, bears, mountain men, and the truths behind myths. Now, Notre Dame History Professor Jon T. Coleman has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to work on an environmental history of movement in America before the widespread use of automobiles and airplanes. Read More >
Video: Arts and Letters Summer Internship Program Grants
To support students as they pursue these opportunities across the country and around the world, the College and the Career Center developed the Arts and Letters Summer Internship Program (ALSIP). Open to rising sophomores and juniors in the College, ALSIP provides stipends to defray travel and living expenses that might otherwise make an internship cost prohibitive. Recent ALSIP grant recipients include Kelly Taylor, a film, television, and theatre and American studies major who interned for the Late Show with David Letterman, and Alisa Rantanen, an industrial design major who interned at Insight Product Development in Chicago. Read More >
