Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year, Virtues & Vocations will host a series of faculty workshops, continue our monthly webinar series, and engage issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications.
As an unprovoked act of aggression on a sovereign nation, Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 represented a failure of diplomacy. Now over six months into the war, is there a role for diplomacy in bringing the conflict to a resolution? What effect has the war had on other diplomatic missions, relationships, and endeavors?
Dr. R. Khari Brown is a sociology professor at Wayne State University and the President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. His research explores how race impacts the relationship between religion and social-political behaviors and attitudes.
There has been a call for caution when using the conventional method for Bayesian inference in set-identified structural vector autoregressions on the grounds that the uniform prior over the set of orthogonal matrices could be nonuniform for key objects of interest. This paper challenges this call.
Dr. Niamh Gallagher lectures focus predominantly on political and social history. She is currently co-editing The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution with Professor Richard Bourke and has written more widely on the cultural and social history of the First World War.
Jen Spindel is assistant professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, where her research focuses on international security, foreign policy, and alliance politics.
This lecture will explore this new terrain for Latinx theology and consider how attention to narratives and popular movements are valuable sources to enrich Latinx theologies
Lucy Osler is a philosophy lecturer at Cardiff University specializing in phenomenological and 4E approaches to sociality, psycopathology, and technology. She is particularly interested in the role of the body and bodily experience in social interaction, so-called 'mental' health, and our use of contemporary tech.
Pope Francis recently instituted a new commission to study women and the diaconate. In the words of the press release of Vatican News announcing the commission, one of its foundational tasks is to "study the permanent diaconate that existed in the early church." This panel conversation will examine that question, as well as the theological and pastoral implications of the ways women serve in diaconal roles in our church today.
This roundtable is the third in a series titled, Great Divergence: Law, Justice, and Empire in Comparative Perspective.
Through a history of what was once the largest coal mine in East Asia, this study explores the rise of fossil-fueled developmentalism in China and Japan and, more generally, the relationship between energy and power in the industrial age.
This event is taking place in remembrance of Etel Adnan, the beloved Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist, who passed away in November 2021. She is survived by her longtime partner, renowned Syrian Lebanese artist Simone Fattal.
Join the AMST Department on October 3rd to hear University of Texas Professor Mary Beltran discuss her new book, Latino TV: A History.
Join us for a powerful theatrical experience that invites you into a global discussion about war in Ukraine and in many other parts of our world.
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs will host Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the youngest president of Croatia as well as the first woman to be elected to the office.
As a 2021-22 American Bar Foundation/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Faculty Scholar, Dr. Robin Bartram is collecting data for her next book, which investigates how cities plan for aging housing stock and environmental risks. She is particularly interested in how racialized and gendered articulations of responsibility for damage, repair, maintenance, and depreciation.
The Signs of the Times series connects campus to community experts around justice topics. In October, we are excited to host Jan McGowan, Park Interpreter of St. Joseph County Parks.
Dr. Robin Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, will give a talk as part of the New Perspectives in Anthropology fall 2022 speaker series.
Join the Arts and Letters Staff Advisory (SAS) Committee for Donuts & Donations!
Fall Break (no classes in session).