The University of Notre Dame offers a variety of events for faculty, staff, students, and the surrounding community related to the study of religion. Some of these recent and upcoming opportunities are:
October 31, 2008
Title: “The Irish Americans: A History”
Description: The Cushwa Center
Hibernian Lecture presents Jay Dolan, Notre Dame.
Event details: 3:00pm,
Eck Visitors’ Center Auditorium .
October 14, 2008
Title: “Captured! Catholic Sisters, Public Education, and the Mid-Century Protestant Campaign against ‘Captive Schools’”
Description: The Cushwa Center American Catholic Studies Seminar presents Kathleen Holscher, Villanova University.
Event details: 4:15pm, Flanner Hall Room 1140.
September 26, 2008
Title: “The John Howard Yoder Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion & Peace, Forgiveness & Apology: The Amish, Yoder and Peacebuilding"
Description: Featuring Donald B. Kraybill, Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania.Followed by lunch in the Great Hall and dialogue in C-103
Event details: Auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies.
September 20, 2008
Title: “The Religious History of American Religion: Reimagining the Past”
Description: The Cushwa Center Seminar in American Religion presents
Catherine Am Brekus, editor, with contributing authors Anthea Butler and Kristy Nabhan-Warren
with
commentator Thomas Tweed, University of Texas at Austin.
Event details: 9:00am-12:00pm,
McKenna Hall Center for Continuing Education.
September 18, 2008
Title: “Women, Religion, and Agency: Some Reflections on Writing American Women’s Religious History”
Description: The Cushwa Center Lecture presents Catherine A. Brekus, the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Event details: 4:30pm, Location TBD.
September 3, 2008
Title: “Faithful Citizenship and the Catholic Tradition"
Description: David O'Brien, is a leading historian of American Catholicism and a Notre Dame graduate. O’Brien earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Rochester in New York. Over the course of a celebrated academic career, O’Brien distinguished himself as a leading scholar on the history of Catholic social and political thought.
Event details: 7:00pm, DeBartollo Hall Room 101.
April 17-19, 2008
Title: “Catholicism in the American Century”
Description: U.S. historians are increasingly assessing the twentieth century as a distinct historical period, both in their scholarship and in their course offerings. Studies of twentieth-century American Catholicism are also multiplying in areas such as race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, ritual and devotion, intellectual life, and the influence of Vatican II and its aftermath. Throughout the twentieth century, Roman Catholicism, the nation’s largest church and religious community, exercised untold influence on race relations and the civil rights movement, immigration and ethnic-bloc politics, sexual practices and attitudes, social mores and cultural trends. This conference explores several dimensions of “Catholic impact” and asks how the writing of twentieth century U.S. history might be revised and renewed through a more deliberate and thoughtful consideration of the significance of Catholic ideas, institutions, and actors.
Event details: For more information, click here.
April 16, 2008
Title: “ Colombia: The Church as Peacebuilder ”
Description: Lecture by Most Reverend Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, Archbishop of Tunja, and President, Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia, Bogota. Cosponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Event Details: Hesburgh Center Auditorium, Room C100. Preceded by a lunch buffet beginning at 12:00 pm in the Great Hall.
April 13-15, 2008
Title: “Conference on the Future of Catholic Peacebuilding”
Description: This conference on Catholic Peacebuilding is sponsored by the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. For detailed information regarding this conference--including a list of conference sponsors, the tentative schedule and speakers and registration details.
Event Details: McKenna Hall. Please click here for more information.
April 8, 2008
Title: “The Religious Factor in African Politics: Christians, Muslims and Political Culture in Nigeria, Uganda and Senegal ”
Description: Lecture by Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC, Director of the Ford Family Program, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Kellogg Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame.
Event Details: Hesburgh Center, Room C103. Lunch will be provided.
April 5, 2008
Title: “Seminar in American Religion ”
Description: We will discuss Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919 (Stanford, 2007) with author Gerald McKevitt, Santa Clara University. The commentators are Michael E. Engh, SJ, Loyola Marymount University, and Walter Nugent,University of Notre Dame.
Event Details: 9:00am-12:00pm, McKenna Hall.
March 31, 2008
Title: "Reclaiming Faith and Politics in America"
Description: Religious and political winds are changing. Religious Americans are reclaiming faith from those who would abuse it for narrow, partisan, and ideological purposes. And more and more secular Americans are discovering common ground with believers on certain issues. Award-winning journalist and commentator E.J. Dionne explains why the crude exploitation of faith for political advantage is over. Souled Out will help change how we think and talk about religion and politics in the post-Bush era.
Event Details: 7:30pm, Carey Auditorium, Hesburgh Library.
March 26, 2008
Title: "Media's Role in Islamophobia: the New Anti-Semitism"
Description: The Notre Dame Muslim Student's Association will be hosting Dr. Hussein Ibish for a lecture. Dr. Ibish tracks the evolution of ethnic stereotyping in the Entertainment Industry of the 80s and 90s to the present day realm of non-fiction and presents a new model of understanding the phenomenon of Islamophobia in this decade. The talk is sponsored by the campus ministry, CSC, political science, Kellogg, ISSA, Classics.
Event Details: 6:30pm, Main Library auditorium. Refreshments served.
March 25-26, 2008
Title: “ Religious Practice and the Development Sector in the Kyrgyz Republic”
Description: Rev. J. Bryan Hehir is an internationally renowned theologian who specializes in Catholic social teaching and international relations. He is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Event Details: Tuesday 4:15pm with reception to follow, Wednesday 12:30pm
March 18, 2008
Title: “El Caso Romero ”
Description: A panel discussion on understanding conversion, Romero and social teaching. Theology faculty from Notre Dame Fr. Robert Pelton, Margaret Pfeil, Larry Cunningham and Fordham University's Michael E. Lee.
Event Details: 12:30pm, Hesburch Center, Room C-103.
March 13, 2008
Title: “Even In Thy Sanctuary, We Are Yet Men': Scandalous Priests, Holy Priests, and Missionary Catholicism in the Early American Church.”
Description: Michael Pasquier of Florida State University will preside at the spring American Catholic Studies Seminar. His paper is available at the Cushwa Center. Tom Kselman of the Department of History will be the commenator.
Event Details: 4:30pm, 1140 Flanner.
March 12, 2008
Title: "New Women of the Old Faith: Gender, American Catholics, and the Creation of a Usable Past."
Description: Lecture by Kathy Cummings is sponsored by the Dept. of American Studies.
Event Details: 1:30pm, 127 O'Shaughnessy.
February 26, 2008
Title: “14th Annual Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Lectures in Ethics & Public Policy ”
Description: Lecture by Noor Borbieva O'Neill, Professor of Anthropology and Kellogg Visiting Fellow.
Event Details: 12:30-1:30pm, Hesburgh Center, Room C-103. Lunch provided.
November 10, 2007
Title: “Theology vs. Religion: The Case of John Milton”
Description: Despite writing about himself extensively and repeatedly, John Milton, one of the world’s greatest poets and the archetypal Puritan poet, resolutely avoids the obligatory Augustinian narrative of sinfulness and conversion universal among his contemporaries. The doctrine of fall, grace and regeneration around which is built his great epic, “Paradise Lost,” has no discernible effect on his self-understanding. Despite his emphasis on theology, Milton, Fallon will argue, is not a religious writer.
Event details: Annenberg Auditorium of the Snite Museum of Art, one and a half hours before kickoff .
October 4-5, 2007
Title: The Advancement of Knowledge and Religious Identity: Institutions of Higher Learning in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Beyond
Description: Sponsored by the University of Notre Dame's Office of the Provost, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Department of History.
Event details: Auditorium, Hesburgh Center for International Studies.
September 18, 2007
Title: Exit or No Exit? Morality & Withdrawal from Iraq
Description: To stay or to leave? After four years of war in Iraq, that is a political question, a military question—and a moral question. In September, as the results of the “surge” in U.S. involvement become apparent, a panel of distinguished ethicists will examine the moral principles that should govern when and how the United States disengages from Iraq.
Event details: Fordham University (NY) Pope Auditorium 6 - 8 p.m. (EST)
Also broadcast live at Notre Dame (C-103 Hesburgh Center). For more information or to register for the event at Fordham, click here.
April 27, 2007
Title: Student Conference on the Encyclical "God is Love"
Description: A group of undergraduates and some graduate students are in the midst of planning a conference in which they will offer their own reflections and researches about the Encyclical.
Event details: Auditorium, Hesburgh Center for International Studies.
For more information: Please visit
http://www.nd.edu/encyclical
April 23-24, 2007
Title: “Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Views on the Creation of Wealth"
Description: Twelve years ago the Interfaith Declaration of International Business Ethics was developed and promulgated by a group of distinguished Muslim, Christian, and Jewish leaders from business, banking, academia, and religious institutions in order to promote common business values in harmony with their religious teachings. Taking this Declaration as a starting point, the conference examines its impact and explores major challenges these faith traditions are facing in the global economy.
Event details: Heburgh Center Auditorium.
For more information: Please visit http://kroc.nd.edu/events/Wealth_Creation_Flier.pdf
April 12 , 2007
Title: “The Collapse of ‘Intelligent Design’: What Does it Mean for Science and for Faith?"
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Miller, Professor of Biology at Brown University
Event details: Auditorium, Jordan Hall,
4:30pm.
February 26, 2007
Title: "Religious Participation and the Transformation of Urban Students' 'Habitus.'"
Speaker: Dr. Brian Barrett,
Postdoctoral Research Associate in
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO), University of Notre Dame.
Event details: Coleman Room, 1024 Flanner Hall,
3:00pm - 4:30pm.
February 21, 2007
Title: Speech: "Catholicism and the Law"
Description: Honorable Justice Timothy Corrigan
will be speaking on the role of Catholicism within our current law system and the interplay between the two.
Timothy J. Corrigan was sworn in as a United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida on September 14, 2002. From 1996 until 2002, Judge Corrigan served as a United States Magistrate Judge. Prior to those positions, he graduated from Notre Dame in 1978 and went on to Duke Law School.
Event details: DeBartolo 126, 8:00pm.
February 18, 2007
Title: Lecture: "Salvific Option for the Rich: A Gospel Challenge for Mission in the Twenty-First Century"
Description: Third annual Holy Cross Mission Lecture. Sister Teresa Okure, professor of New Testament and gender hermeneutics at the Catholic Institute of West Africa in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Event details: Moreau Seminary auditorium, 7:00pm.
For more information: Please visit http://www.nd.edu/~hcmc/
February 6, 2007
Title: Lecture: "Beyond Legal Compliance: The Moral Life & Business"
Description: Speaker: Dr. Samuel Gregg, Director of Research, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
Event details: Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
February 2, 2007
Title: Film: "Iraq in Fragments"
Description: Directed by James Longley. Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages with English subtitles. Illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity.
Event details: Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, 7:00pm
For more information: Please visit http://www.iraqinfragments.com/
December 6, 2006
Title: Bookreading: Kelly Kerney, author, 2005 Sparks Prize Winner
Description: Kelly Kerney, the 2005 Sparks Prize Winner, returns to Notre Dame to read from her published book, Born Again.
Event details: Hospitality Room of Reckers, South Dining Hall,
7:30pm - 9:30pm
For more information: Please visit
www.nd.edu/~alcwp/activities.html
December 3-5, 2006
Title: Conference: Faith and Health
Description: This conference represents a conversation between disciplines that have developed individual perspectives on faith and health but have only recently begun to integrate them. Undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, health care professionals, therapists and people serving in ministry will be able to enrich their knowledge of this vital interface of theory and practice.
Event details: Auditorium, McKenna Hall, 7:30 PM
Event details: Room 155, DeBartolo Hall, 7:00 PM
November 30, 2006
Title: "Modernity: Yearning for the Infinite"
Description: The conference, “Modernity: Yearning for the Infinite,” will bring together a large group of historians, law scholars, theologians, philosophers and other academics to discuss the relationship between modernity and the Church during the last century as well as the impact of modernity on philosophy, theology, law, literature and the arts.
Event details: Room 155, DeBartolo Hall, 7:00 PM
November 16, 2006
Title: Lecture on "Sex in the City of God" by Lisa Marino
Description: Lisa Marino is a '91 graduate of Saint Mary's College, and the RCIA Director at St. Matthew Cathedral in South Bend.
Event details: Room 155, DeBartolo Hall, 7:00 PM
November 10, 2006
Title: Lecture: "The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe"
Description: What do Europe's Muslims want? The arrests and convictions of many British Muslims on terrorism charges, the protests against the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and last fall's French riots are suggestive of high levels of anger and alienation. Based upon interviews with 300 of Europe's Muslim leaders, Professor Jytte Klausen paints a different picture of what the problems are and what needs to be done to integrate Islam in Europe.
Event details: Hesburgh Center Auditorium,
4:30pm - 6:00pm
November 9-11, 2006
Title: Conference: "Guadalupe, Madre de América: Narrative, Image, and Devotion"
Description: Three day conference (Nov. 9-11). Keynote address on Friday evening by Carlos Fuentes, author, statesman, and scholar.
Event details: McKenna Hall, 7:00 PM
For more information: Please visit
www.nd.edu/~cushwa/
November 7, 2006
Title: Film & Discussion: "Ma Vie En Rose"
Description: Part of the Gender Studies Program's "Body & Soul – Gender, Religion & Identity" Film Series.
Event details: Room 116, DeBartolo Hall, 7:00pm
For more information: Please visit www.nd.edu/~gender/
November 4, 2006
Title: Saturday Scholar Series: "The Role of Religion in Peacebuilding"
Description: The panel will explore the constructive achievements of religiously inspired peace builders, and what those religious actors have done in the past to stimulate the peacebuilding capacity of people suffering in conflicts. The panel also will discuss the role of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute in supporting and promoting peace around the world.
Event details: Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art, 11:00am
For more information: Please visit http://saturdayscholar.nd.edu/
November 2, 2006
Title: Reading by Jason Berry
Description: Author Jason Berry reads from his new work, Last of the Red Hot Poppas. Jason Berry is an alumnus and investigative journalist who has written extensively on Southern politics, culture and religion.
Event details: Hospitality Room of Reckers, South Dining Hall t, 7:30pm - 9:15pm
For more information: Please visit www.nd.edu/~alcwp/activities.html
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