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Events
Events » Lectures
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Creative Writing Reading Series ft. Jamila Minnicks
Jamila Minnicks' novel Moonrise Over New Jessup (Algonquin Books, 2023) won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her short fiction and essays are published, or forthcoming, in The Sun, CRAFT, Catapult, Blackbird, The Write Launch, and elsewhere, and her piece, Politics of Distraction, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In 2022, Jamila was awarded a Tennessee Williams scholarship for the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and she also earned a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Executive Fellows Program
The Executive Fellows Program gives students the opportunity to receive guidance and advising from experienced industry professionals. This opportunity is open to all students, regardless of class year or intended major.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Lecture by Magatte Wade
Magatte Wade was born in Senegal, educated in France, and launched her entrepreneurial career in San Francisco. Wade believes that free markets and economic freedom is the pathway for Africa to leapfrog ahead, with Africans taking the uncontested leading role in the co-creation of 21st century prosperity for all, innovation, culture and technology. She speaks about the role of free markets in overcoming poverty and the role of enterprise to tackle social issues and entrepreneurial education.
Sheedy Family Program Dinner Speaker Series: Mandy Bynum Mc Laughlin
"Mandy is an advisor, investor, speaker, and entrepreneur. She has held senior sales leadership and head of DEI roles at various scale-ups. She has been a part of two IPOs, Yelp and SurveyMonkey." (1) In addition to leading her own consulting firm, she is the co-founder and CEO of the Race Equality Project and CEO at BLCK VC, which "is transforming the venture capital industry to mirror the diverse demographics of the U.S. Venture Capital is a crucial component of achieving economic equality; it is a vehicle to build wealth, develop future leaders, and strengthen communities." (2)
Friday, April 14, 2023
Workshop: Kant and the 19th Century
Please join us for a workshop on "Kant and the 19th Century" featuring two of our visiting grant recipients!
Sociology Spring Colloquium Series: "Spiderweb Capitalism"
This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the rich and powerful use offshore shell corporations to conceal their wealth and make themselves richer. Drawing on rich interview data this book uncovers the mechanics behind the invisible, mundane networks of lawyers, accountants, company secretaries, and fixers who facilitate the illicit movement of wealth across borders and around the globe.
Virtual Lecture: "The Parallel Geographies of Palestinian Literature"
This event will present the digital research project PalREAD - Country of Words, led by Refqa Abu-Remaileh, which tells the story of Palestinian literature by tracing, collecting, mapping and analyzing the development and evolution of Palestinian literary and cultural production and practices from 1948 to the present across various Arab, European, American, and Latin American countries.
Signs of the Times: The Church as Agent of Justice and Beacon of Hope in Northeast Indiana
The Signs of the Times series connects campus to community experts around justice topics. The theme for the 2022–23 series is Leadership in Justice and Hope.
Lunch Lecture with Marisol LeBron: "Decolonizing Scholarship in Feminist Studies/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies"
The Nanovic Institute, with its strategic emphasis on “peripheries” and de-centering the center, is committed to fostering research and teaching that presents European studies in a new light. The Nanovic Institute is pleased to announce our spring 2023 lecture series, Decolonizing Scholarship. This series will feature scholars from various academic disciplines at the top of their fields engaging issues in disciplines including Philosophy, Theology, French and Francophone Studies, and Ethnic Studies.
Unlocked Lecture: "Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment"
Jessica T. Simes is Assistant Professor of Sociology with a Secondary Appointment in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University. Her scholarship broadly examines the consequences of mass incarceration for communities and neighborhoods in the United States. Her research to date has focused on racial inequality and health disparities in the criminal justice system, from policing to solitary confinement.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Brain Awareness Fair
Join students and faculty from Notre Dame's Neuroscience and Behavior program in hands-on activities to learn how your brain works and how to keep it healthy.
Monday, April 17, 2023
Lecture by Carl Trueman
Carl R. Trueman (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Life in Pixels series with Nick Seaver & Bernard Geoghegan
Life in Pixels hosts an ongoing series of transdisciplinary conversations thinking about how we can make sense of, and live with, our computational social condition today. Considering sociocultural, aesthetic, politicoeconomic, environmental, racial, and historical registers of technology together, the series will bring together people who think and do technology beyond disciplinary boundaries. The events are all designed as an ongoing series of conversations between scholars and practitioners in Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Critical Digital Studies, and Literary Cultural Studies.
Guest Lecturer Christelle Fischer-Bovet: "Political Dynamics in the Ptolemaic Empire"
Professor Christelle Fischer-Bovet of the University of Southern California's Classics Department is presenting in the final of four guest lectures in a series, "How to Talk about (Ancient) Politics."
ND Democracy Talk: "Struggle for the Country's Soul: Christian Nationalism in a Changing America"
Join us for an interactive panel on Christian Nationalism, the rise of secularism, and the implications for American democracy.
Friday, April 21, 2023
Senior Thesis Reception
Dean Sarah Mustillo will host the College's annual reception for undergraduate students who have completed senior thesis project in Arts and Letters.
Unlocked Series: "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration"
Marking Time explores the impact of US incarceration on contemporary visual art, highlighting artists who have been incarcerated alongside artists whose art examines US institutions and systems of confinement. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art.
Monday, April 24, 2023
Conference: "Routes and Roots: History and Literature of Travel, Exploration and Cultural Interaction, from Antiquity to Modernity"
Erika Hosselkus is curator of Latin Americana and subject specialist for Latin American and Latino Studies. The special focus of her research is the colonial history of New Spain, particularly the experiences of indigenous groups. Participants are invited to view a display of relevant rare materials.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Conference: "Routes and Roots: History and Literature of Travel, Exploration and Cultural Interaction, from Antiquity to Modernity"
Erika Hosselkus is curator of Latin Americana and subject specialist for Latin American and Latino Studies. The special focus of her research is the colonial history of New Spain, particularly the experiences of indigenous groups. Participants are invited to view a display of relevant rare materials.