January 17 – 4:15 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Jeffrey Herbst, Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Why Were We Wrong about Zimbabwe?
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
January 17 – 5:00 pm – Medieval Institute Reading Room, 715 Hesburgh Library
Robert G. Babcock, Edwin J. Beinecke Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, Yale University
Mythology and Biblical Exegesis in a Medieval Schoolroom
Sponsored by the Medieval Institute
January 18-19 – McKenna Hall Auditorium
A Great Cloud of Witness: Saints in the Catholic Tradition
Speakers: Lawrence Cunningham, University of Notre Dame; Kenneth Woodward, former Religion Editor of Newsweek; Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame; Msgr. Kevin Kostelnik, Rector, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, DC; Robert Ellsberg, Editor, Orbis Books
For more information see: http://theology.nd.edu/about/news/index.shtml.
Sponsored by the Department of Theology, Beatification Committee for Blessed Basil Moreau, CSC, the Office of the President, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, and the Office of Campus Ministry at Notre Dame
January 20 – 2:00-4:00 pm – Snite Museum of Art
OPENING RECEPTION
Current Exhibitions: Rapture, Recent Paintings by Maria Tomasula
Three Sides to a Sheet of Paper: How Prints Communicate, Represent and Transform (1490-2005)
Rembrandt and the Art of Printmaking in Holland
At 3pm in the gallery Maria Tomasula will speak about the works in her exhibition. All events are free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Snite Museum of Art
January 21 – 12:45 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Stephen Ndegwa, Lead Specialist on Public Sector Governance, The World Bank
Kenya in Crisis
Sponsored by the Africa Working Group of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
January 22 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Kirk Doran, Department of Economics and Econometrics, University of Notre Dame
From the Fields to the Classroom: Using Labor Markets to More Safely Reduce Child Work
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
January 23 – 12:00 pm – Coleman-Morse Student Lounge
Dianne Pinderhughes, Professor, African & African American Studies and Political Science
Telling HERstory
Sponsored by First Year of Studies
January 24-26 – 7:00 & 10:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
Notre Dame Student Film Festival 2008
Admission is $6 for the general public, $5 for faculty and staff and $3 for students. Tickets are available by calling 574-631-2800 or visiting http://performingarts.nd.edu on the web.
Sponsored by the Department of Film, Television and Theatre
January 27 – 7:30 pm – 101 DeBartolo Hall
William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Kennedy School of Government Faculty; Director, Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, Harvard University
Poverty and Inequality in Urban America
Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns
January 29 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Luis Eduardo González, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Católica and at the Univesidad de la Republica; CIFRA and Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
The Nature and Causes of Main Political Crises in Latin America Since the End of the Cold War
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
January 31 – 7:00 & 10:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
Nanovic Film Series 2007-08: Humor in Recent European Film
Im Juli/In July (Germany, 2000, 99 min., English subtitles) Directed by Fatih Akin
Free-spirited romantic comedy from Germany! A humdrum high-school physics professor named Daniel buys a ring from a street vendor that he hopes will lead him to his soul mate. The vendor hopes to have him for herself, but Daniel falls in love instead with a beautiful Turkish girl. He agrees to meet her in Istanbul, but the street vendor joins him for the ride. Hilarious detours ensue.
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
February 1 – 1:00 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Lahra Smith, Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Citizen Education in Multiethnic and Post-Transition States: the Experience of Ethiopia
Sponsored by the Africa Working Group of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 1 – 8:00 pm – South Dining Hall
Carnaval
For dancing, fabulous costumes and live samba music in a family friendly environment don’t miss the Kellogg Institute’s tenth annual Brazilian Carnaval.
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Institute for Latino Studies, Office of International Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Program in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, International Student Services and Activities, La Alianza, the Brazil Club, and Saint Mary’s College La Fuerza
February 1-3 – Browning Cinema, DPAC
SCREENPEACE FILM FESTIVAL
Screenpeace will feature recent, critically acclaimed films and documentaries that present positive, thoughtful models of peacebuilding in situations of injustice and violent conflict. Opportunities for dialogue and discussion will be available following most films in the series. All films are free, but ticketed. Call the DPAC Ticket Office at 574-631-2800 to reserve tickets or pick them up at the door.
Film Schedule: 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama, Director Rick Ray is expected to be present. (Friday, 7:00 pm); Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (Friday, 10:00 pm & Saturday, 7:00 pm); Enemies of Happiness (Saturday, 3:00 pm); Sir, No Sir (Saturday, 10:00 pm); Amazing Grace (Sunday, 4:00 pm)
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Center for Ethical Education, Office of the President’s WORLDVIEW Film Series, Office of Campus Ministry, Center for the Study of Social Movements & Social Change, Department of Film, Television & Theatre, and Saint Mary’s College Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership
February 4 – 4:00 pm – 210 McKenna Hall
Michael Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law and Director, Institute for Higher Education, Law & Governance, University of Houston Law Center
“Colored Men” and “Hombres Aqui”: Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering
Sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies, Office of the Vice President for Research, Graduate School, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, College of Arts & Letters, College of Science, Program in American Democracy, and the Hesburgh Program in Public Service
February 4 – 4:30 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
HIGGINS CENTER LABOR FILM SERIES
Uprising of ‘34 (1995, 90 min.) Filmmakers: Judith Helfand, Susanne Rostock, George Stoney
In 1934, the same year as the massive Teamster strike in Minneapolis, Southern textile workers led a nationwide walkout by half a million people; the largest single-industry strike in US history. Some mill workers were murdered, thousands more were blacklisted, and many were so intimidated that “union” became a dirty word in Southern communities for decades to come. A thoughtful exploration of the paternalistic relationship between mill management and its employees, the dynamics between black and white workers, and the impact of the New Deal on the lives of working people, the film is intended to spark discussion on class, race, economics, and power issues still vital today.
Speaker: Dan Graff, Labor Historian and Director of Undergraduate Studies in History
Sponsored by the Monsignor George Higgins Labor Research Center
February 5 – 12:30 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Vania Smith-Oka, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Kellogg Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame
Analyzing the Unforeseen Local Complexities of National Development Policies in Mexico
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 5 – 5:00-7:00 pm – Galería América, McKenna Hall
GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION: FEATURING JOE SEGURA
A Collective Latin(o) American Identity: Featuring Fine Art Prints from the Segura Publishing Company
Segura Publishing Company produces limited edition prints and monotypes by leading contemporary artists. Their commitment to advancing a dialogue between art and the larger world has led them to publish collaborative works with many diverse talents. Since the founding of Segura Publishing Company in 1981 they have addressed the romantic myths of the American Southwest, often by examining the historical realities of immigration, acculturation, and assimilation.
Sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies
February 6 – 6:00 pm – Hesburgh Center Great Hall
Peru Days
Learn more about Peru: Sample the Cuisine, Learn Traditional Dance, Practice your Spanish, Photography Exhibit and Silent Auction of “Mamacha Candelaria: Reflections of a Multicolored Identity” by Guillermo Rivas
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 7 – 4:00 pm – Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art
Timothy Riggs, curator of collections, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This lecture coincides with the exhibit, Three Sides to a Sheet of Paper: How Prints Communicate, Represent, and Transform (1490-2005)
Sponsored by the Snite Museum of Art
February 7 – 4:15 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Rev. Diego Irarrazaval, CSC, Associate Professor of Theology, Instituto de Ciencias Religiosas, Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez, Santiago, Chile
Culture and Religion in Latin American Theology
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 10 – 7:00 pm – Moreau Seminary
Rev. Diego Irarrazaval, CSC, Associate Professor of Theology, Instituto de Ciencias Religiosas, Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez, Santiago, Chile
Obstacles and Choices in Our Christian Mission
Sponsored by Holy Cross Mission Center, Moreau Seminary, Campus Ministry, Center for Social Concerns, Sisters of the Holy Cross, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Department of Theology, and Institute for Church Life
February 11 – 12:30 pm – Giovanini Commons, Mendoza College of Business
ETHICS WEEK
James Davis and Melissa Paulsen, Gigot Center, University of Notre Dame
Micro-Venturing: Community Development and Ethical Entrepreneurship
Sponsored by the Mendoza College of Business
February 12 – 12:30 pm - Giovanini Commons, Mendoza College of Business
ETHICS WEEK
Robert Schmuhl, Annenberg-Joyce Professor in American Studies and Journalism, University of Notre Dame
Ethical Implications of Political Communications in Electing a President
Sponsored by the Mendoza College of Business
February 12 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Daniel Corstange, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan and Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
Diversity and Development or Pluralism and Poverty? Government Institutions and the Economic Development of Multiethnic Societies
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 13 – 12:30 pm - Giovanini Commons, Mendoza College of Business
ETHICS WEEK
Richard “Digger” Phelps, ESPN analyst and former head men’s basketball coach at Notre Dame
Community Service: An Ethical Imperative
Sponsored by the Mendoza College of Business
February 13 – 5:00 pm – Coleman-Morse Lounge
William Evans, Department of Economics and Econometrics
NDVotes ’08 Issues Series: Healthcare in America
Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns and Social Justice in American Medicine
February 14 – 12:00 pm - Giovanini Commons, Mendoza College of Business
ETHICS WEEK
J. Robert Ouimet, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Holding O.C.B. and other major food companies in Canada
Reconciling Human Well-Being with Productivity and Profits
Sponsored by the Mendoza College of Business
February 18 – 4:00 pm – 125 DeBartolo Hall
Sarah Lindemann-Komarova, Founder of the Siberian Civic Initiatives Support Center and the Community School Movement in Russia
Why Russians Like Putin: The Siberian Perspective
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Program in Russian and East European Studies, Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, Department of Political Science, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 19 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Saving Lives: Social Programs and Infant Mortality Rates in Mexico
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 21 – 4:15 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Jean Oi, William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics; Professor of Political Studies and Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Director, China Program, Stanford University
Political Cross Currents in China's Corporate Restructuring
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 21 – 7:00 & 10:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
NANOVIC FILM SERIES 2007-08: HUMOR IN RECENT EUROPEAN FILM
Tha to metaniossis/Think It Over (Greece, 2002, 95 min., English subtitles) Directed by Katerina Evangelakou
A warm-hearted social comedy about the passions and choices of a gifted woman living in the Greek countryside. When Maraki falls suddenly and lies mysteriously unresponsive in the central town square, the community coheres around her to puzzle it over – only to find Maraki has become more influential than ever. Insightful and amusing, shot with a hand-held digital camera, the film swept the 2002 International Film awards in Thessaloniki and has propelled Evangelakou to the forefront of New Greek Cinema.
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
February 22 – 3:00 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Andrew Walder, Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
The Beijing Red Guard Movement: China’s Cultural Revolution in Retrospect
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 26 – 12:30 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Jo Reger, associate professor of sociology and director of Women’s Studies, Oakland University
Fashion & Feminism in the Contemporary U.S. Women’s Movement
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change
February 26 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Noor S. I. O’Neill, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University and Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
Religious Practice and the Development Sector in the Kyrgyz Republic
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
February 26 – 7:00 pm – McKenna Hall Auditorium
Rick Santorum, Former U.S. Senator (R-Pennsylvania)
The Gathering Storm of the 21st Century
Book signing and reception to follow.
Sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and NDVotes ’08 (Center for Social Concerns)
February 28 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Fr. Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, Kroc Institute Visiting Fellow and director of the Center Ubuntu in Bujambura, Burundi
Transitional Justice & the Role of the Church in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
February 28 – 4:00 pm – Snite Museum of Art
Eleanor Heartney, independent scholar, art critic, and author of the essay for the catalog Rapture: Recent Paintings by Maria Tomasula
A Lecture
Sponsored by the Snite Museum of Art
March 11 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
John Griffin, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Political Parties and Democracy: The Case of the American South
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
March 13 – 4:15 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
March 13 – 4:15 pm – 1140 Flanner Hall
AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDIES SEMINAR
Michael Pasquier, Florida State University
French Missionary Priests and Frontier Catholicism in the United States
Respondent: Tom Kselman, University of Notre Dame
Sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Cathocism
March 13 – 7:30 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
An Evening with Angelus at Notre Dame
A free screening of four short, award-winning films produced, written, and directed by students. The directors will be present to answer questions afterwards. Family Theatre Productions created the Angelus Awards in 1996 to showcase and award emerging filmmakers and encourage them to continue creating visionary projects that honor the fundamental dignity of the human person.
Free tickets are available at the DPAC box office.
Sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture
March 14 – 10:30 am – Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business
George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
The Economics of Immigration and Immigration Policy
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Mendoza College of Business, Ten Years Hence Series
March 14 – 4:00 pm – McKenna Hall Auditorium
THE 23RD ANNUAL J. PHILIP CLARKE FAMILY LECTURE IN MEDICAL ETHICS
Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D., Ph.D., Sisters of Charity in Ethics, St. Vincent’s-Manhattan Professor of Medicine and Director, New York Medical College
Is Health Care a Spiritual Discipline?
Sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture and the University of Notre Dame Alumni Association
March 14 – 4:15 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Herbert P. Bix, author of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning book, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan and professor of history and sociology at SUNY-Binghamton University
War Responsibility and Historical Memory: The Case of Hirohito, Japan’s Last Political Emperor
Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, Undergraduate Studies in Arts & Letters, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Economics & Policy Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, The College of Arts & Letters, and the Department of History
March 15 – 7:00 & 10:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
SOLIDARITY FILM SERIES
Still Life (2007, NR, 100 min.) Directed by Zhang Ke Jiat
This poignant human drama is set against a surreal, metaphorically loaded backdrop—a Yangtze town that will soon be submerged by the Three Gorges Dam. Like the director’s other films (Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World), it’s an empathetic portrait of those left behind by a modernizing society and a unique hybrid of documentary and fiction.
Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns, celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Solidarity, in partnership with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the Browning Cinema
March 17 – 4:30 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Cynthia Robin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
New Discoveries about the Ancient Maya: Peopling the Past
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Department of Anthropology, Department of History and the Gender Studies Program
March 18 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
El Caso Romero
A panel discussion on understanding conversion, Romero and social teaching, and a new sense of martyrdom.
Panelists: Fr. Robert Pelton, University of Notre Dame; Margaret Pfeil, University of Notre Dame; Larry Cunningham, University of Notre Dame; and Michael E. Lee, Fordham University
Sponsored by Latin American/North American Church Concerns (LANAAC), Department of Theology, Center for Social Concerns, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Kellogg Institute for International Studies
March 18 – 5:00 pm – Eck Visitors Center Auditorium
Peter Cole, poet, translator and 2007 MacArthur Fellow
Medieval Hebrew Poetry Reading
A book signing will follow the reading.
Sponsored by the Medieval Institute
March 25 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Paolo Carozza, Associate Professor of Law and Kellogg Faculty Fellow
The Role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the Politics and Law of Contemporary Latin America
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
March 25 – 4:15 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
THE 14TH ANNUAL REV. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C., LECTURES IN ETHICS & PUBLIC POLICY
Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Beyond the “Challenge of Peace”: Pastoral Letter for Our Day
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
March 26 – 12:30 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
THE 14TH ANNUAL REV. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C., LECTURES IN ETHICS & PUBLIC POLICY
Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
The Hardest Case: The Politics and Ethics of Proliferation
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
March 26 – 4:00 pm – 210 McKenna Hall
Kevin R. Johnson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Davis
Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws
Sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies, Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, College of Arts & Letters, College of Science, Program in American Democracy, and the Hesburgh Program in Public Service
March 26 – 4:00 pm – 202 DeBartolo Hall
Christine Engel, University of Innsbruck
Seeking a ‘National Idea’ Russian Cinema Today
Sponsored by the Program in Russian and East European Studies, the Office of International Studies, the College of Arts & Letters, Learning Beyond the Classroom Program, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
March 26 – 4:30 pm – 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Professor Christian Quendler
Theory-in-Motion: Media Blends in Vachel Lindsay’s The Art of the Moving Picture (1915/22)
Sponsored by the Department of American Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
March 26 – 6:30-9:00 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Making a Living Making a Difference: Careers for Social Change
Keynote speaker Sean Litton (JD ’97) will discuss his work with International Justice Mission. Break out panels include alumni speakers from both the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors.
Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns
March 27 – 4:15 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
John Markoff, Professor of Sociology, History and Political Science and UCIS Research Professor, University of Pittsburgh
A Moving Target: Democracy
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
March 27 – 6:30 pm – Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art
Taxi to the Dark Side
Panel discussion to follow film screening. Event is free and open to the public.
Beginning with the case of an Afghan taxi driver beaten to death by U.S. soldiers at Bagram Air Base, the film examines the use of torture and other harsh techniques in the “war against terror.”
The panel discussion will include former Army intelligence interrogator Peter Bauer, attorney and film producer Donald Glascoff, and documentary filmmaker and ND professor Jill Godmilow. Doug Cassel will moderate.
Sponsored by the Center for Civil & Human Rights of the Notre Dame Law School and co-sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns
March 28-29
Toward Integral Healing for Women and Culture
More information on this conference coming soon.
Sponsored by the Identity Project of Notre Dame
March 31 – 7:30 pm – Carey Auditorium, Hesburgh Library
E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics in America
Sponsored by the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism & Democracy, the Department of Political Science, and the Center for Social Concerns NDVotes’08
April 1 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Naunihal Singh, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Kellogg Faculty Fellow
Seizing power: Exploring the first ever dataset of coup attempts and outcomes from 1945-2005
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
April 1 – 4:15 pm – 155 DeBartolo Hall
INAUGURAL LECTURE: REV. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C. CHAIR IN PEACT STUDIES
George A. Lopez, The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Chair in Peace Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
The Sanctions Mystique: The Power and Perils of Multilateral Economic Coercion
Reponses by: Joy Gordon, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University and Andrew Mack, Director of the Human Security Report Project, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
April 1 – Deadline – Call for Papers
Faith, Democracy and Values: The Challenge of Moral Formation in Families, Schools and Societies
More information about the conference and guidelines for submissions can be found at: http://www.nd.edu/~ame2008.
Sponsored by the Center for Ethical Education, the Institute for Educational Initiatives, Bethel College, St. Mary’s College, and Ball State University Teachers College
April 3 – 4:15 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Marifeli Pérez-Stable, Professor of Sociology, FIU and Vice President for Democratic Governance, IAD
Looking Forward: Democracy in Cuba?
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
April 3 – 7:00 & 10:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
SOLIDARITY FILM SERIES
Blood Diamond (2006, R, 143 min.) Directed by Edward Zwick
Set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ex-mercenary from Zimbabwe, and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories and their circumstances are as different as any can be until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond, the kind of stone that can transform a life…or end it.
Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns, celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Solidarity, in partnership with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the Browning Cinema
April 4 – 7:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
War Dance (2007)
The fighting is fiercest in the North of Uganda, and there the L.R.A. recruit many of their soldiers by abducting children from refugee camps and homes in the poverty-stricken villages, where electricity and running water are still luxuries known only to a few. However, in the village of Patongo, located deep in Uganda’s war zone, a group of students (many of whom escaped from the clutches of the L.R.A.) struggles to rise above the violence and desperation that surrounds them.
Sponsored by the Notre Dame Holocaust Project and the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center in cooperation with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
April 4 – 10:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
In S21, Panh brings two survivors back to the notorious Tuol Sleng prison (code-named “S21”), now a genocide museum where former Khmer Rouge are employed as guides. Painter Vann Nath confronts his former captors in the converted schoolhouse where he was tortured, though by chance he did not suffer the fate of most of the other 17,000 men, women and children who were taken there, their "crimes" meticulously documented to justify their execution. The ex-Khmer Rouge guards respond to Nath's provocations with excuses, chilling stoicism or apparent remorse as they recount the atrocities they committed at ages as young as 12 years old. To escape torture, the prisoners would confess to anything, and often denounce everyone they knew - though their final sentence was never in doubt.
Sponsored by the Notre Dame Holocaust Project and the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center in cooperation with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
April 4-5 – Hesburgh Center
2008 STUDENT PEACE CONFERENCE: Bringing Peace Down to Earth
Featuring Dr. Ellis Jones, co-founder of The Better World Network
For more information see: http://kroc.nd.edu/events/08peacecon.shtml.
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
April 5 – 9:00 am – McKenna Hall
SEMINAR IN AMERICAN RELIGION
Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919 (Stanford, 2007)
Author: Gerald McKevitt, Santa Clara University
Commentators: Michael E. Engh, SJ, Loyola Marymount University; Walter Nugent, University of Notre Dame
Sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
April 5 – 7:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
This film tells a provocative and mostly unknown story of the 60-year relationship between Hollywood and the atrocities of Nazi Germany. With scenes from over forty films, rare newsreels, and interviews with leading scholars, filmmakers, and witnesses to the events portrayed, Imaginary Witness takes the viewer on a 60-year journey from the American ambivalence and denial during the heyday of Nazism, through the silence of the post-war years, and into the end of the 20th century.
Tickets can be purchased online at http://performingarts.nd.edu
Sponsored by the Department of Theology, Notre Dame Holocaust Project, The Kurt and Tessye Simon Fund, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Center for Social Concerns, and the Center for Human & Civil Rights
April 6-7 – McKenna Hall
Witnessing Genocide: Truth, Reconciliation and the Media
Featuring Juan Mendez, Special Envoy to the United Nations and several other experts.
For more information see: http://kroc.nd.edu/events/08genocide.shtml.
Sponsored by the Department of Theology, Notre Dame Holocaust Project, The Kurt and Tessye Simon Fund, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Center for Social Concerns, and the Center for Human & Civil Rights
April 7 – 4:30 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
HIGGINS CENTER LABOR FILM SERIES
These Hands (1992, 45 min.) Directed by Flora M’mbugu-Schelling; in Kimakonde and Swahili with English subtitles
The camera acts as a compassionate witness to a day in the life of Mozambican women working in a quarry outside Dar es Salaam. Most of the women are refugees who spend their days painfully and painstakingly, manually mining gravel from the scarred landscape to be used for concrete and urban building projects. The film has an almost meditative quality as these women, lowest in the ranks of the global economy, share endless work, collaborative childcare, and singing and dancing at the end of a day’s work.
Speaker: Ivy Wilson, Assistant Professor of English
Sponsored by the Monsignor George Higgins Labor Research Center
April 7 – 7:45 pm – McKenna Hall
Thane Rosenbaum, Critically-Acclaimed Novelist, Human Rights Law Professor, Essayist on culture and politics
After Auschwitz and the Twin Towers: Trauma and Memory
Sponsored by the Department of Theology, the Notre Dame Holocaust Project, the Kurt and Tessye Simon Fund, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Center for Social Concerns, and the Center for Civil & Human Rights
April 8 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Kellogg Faculty Fellow
The Religious Factor in African Politics: Christians, Muslims and Political Culture in Nigeria, Uganda and Senegal
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
April 8 – 7:30 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Jon Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Can There Be More Than One Abrahamic Religion? The Problematics of a Cliché
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Department of Theology
April 10 – 4:15 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Marta Peixoto, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Language & Literature, New York University
Urban Crisis and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
April 10 – 7:00 & 10:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
NANOVIC FILM SERIES 2007-08: HUMOR IN RECENT EUROPEAN FILM
Mrs. Ratcliffe’s Revolution (UK, 2007) Directed by Bille Eltringham
Producer Leslee Udwin will introduce the film prior to each screening.
Based on a true life story, Mrs. Ratcliffe’s Revolution tells the hilarious adventure of one family’s journey as they defect from Yorkshire to East Germany in the late 1960s. After their arrival, the family’s idealistic Communist dreams are quickly shattered by the stifling realities of state-controlled life. Mrs. Ratcliffe, a very ordinary British housewife with a very dysfunctional family, starts a bizarre chain of events that helps a young boy escape to the West. She must then rely on her untapped inner strengths to formulate her family’s great escape.
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
April 11 – 3:00 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
René van Woudenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Alvin Plantinga Fellow, The Center for the Philosophy of Religion
Religious Belief and the Limits of Science
Sponsored by the Center for Philosophy of Religion
April 11-12 – DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference
The Department of Film, Television and Theatre will host the Second Annual Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference which offers are undergraduate students the opportunity to present papers representing their best work in film and media studies. The conference is free and open to the public. For more information see: http://ftt.nd.edu/mufc.shtml.
Sponsored by the Department of Film, Television and Theatre
April 13-15 – McKenna Hall
The Future of Catholic Peacebuilding
For a full conference schedule, registration details and other information, go to the conference webpage: http://cpn.nd.edu/2008CPNConference.shtml
Sponsored by the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Boston College’s Department of Theology and Center for Human Rights & International Justice, Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Theological Union’s Bernardin Center for Theology & Ministry, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, University of San Diego’s School of Peace Studies, Washington Theological Union, The Catholic University of America’s Office of the President and Life Cycle Institute, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Pax Christi International, Caritas Internationalis, Sant’ Egidio Community in the United States, and Woodstock Theological Center
April 16 – 12:00 pm – Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, President of Episcopal Conference of Columbia
Colombia: The Church as Peacebuilder
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
April 17 – 7:00 & 10:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
NANOVIC FILM SERIES 2007-08: HUMOR IN RECENT EUROPEAN FILM
Bride and Prejudice (UK, 2004, 111 min., English subtitles) Directed by Gurinder Chadha
From the director of BendIt Like Beckham comes a rollicking Bollywood musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel. Set in India, UK, and the United States with vibrant, kaleidoscopic cinematography, the high-spirited Indian heroine and stiff English hero clash in classic fashion as cultural sparks fly. Splashy musical numbers add broad hilarity and intelligent kitsch.
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
April 17-19 – McKenna Hall
Catholicism in the American Century
Speakers: Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University; Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania; Marie Griffith, Princeton University; Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; David Gutiérrez, University of California at San Diego; Robert Orsi, Northwestern University; R. Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame; Matteo Sanfilippo, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
For more information see: http://www.nd.edu/~cushwa/conference/CathinAmCentury.shtml.
Sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
April 19 – 7:00 & 10:00 pm – Browning Cinema, DPAC
CSNY: Déjà vu
Mike Cerre (ND ’69) who wrote CSNY: Déjà vu will be present after the 7pm screening to discuss the film and his career as an Emmy Award winning journalist embedded in Iraq.
Free but ticketed event (631-2800 for tickets)
Sponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and the Department of Political Science
April 22 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Simanti Lahiri, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
Consumed by Commitment: Suicide Protest in the Contentious Politics of South Asia
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
April 22 – 4:30 pm – Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business
2008 FRANK CAHILL LECTURE IN BUSINESS ETHICS
Mary Houghton, President, ShoreBank Corporation
Ron Grzywinski, Chairman, ShoreBank Corporation
Sponsored by the Center for Ethics & Religious Values in Business and the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide
April 22 – 4:30 pm – School of Architecture, Room 104
Branko Mitrovic
To Celebrate the 500th Birthday of Andrea Palladio
Sponsored by the School of Architecture
April 23 – 7:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Marian Crowe, University of Notre Dame
The English Catholic Novel Today: Alive and Well
The book talk will be followed by a book signing and reception.
Sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture
April 24 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Francesco Giumelli, Kroc Institute Visiting Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Italian Institute of Humanistic Sciences in Florence, Italy
Taking Sanctions Seriously: A Realistic Framework for Understanding the Purpose & Effectiveness of International Sanctions
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
April 24 – 4:15 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
Valerie Bunce, Aaron Binkenkorb Professor of International Studies, Professor of Government, and Chair of the Government Department, Cornell University
The Diffusion of Electoral Change in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia, 1996-2005
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
April 26 – 9:30 am-1:00 pm – Medieval Institute Reading Room, 715 Hesburgh Library
MELLON SEMINAR
Cristina Maria Cervone, Assistant Professor of English, Villanova University
Love’s Leap: Incarnational Poetics in Late Medieval England
Respondents: Gary Macy, John Nobili, S.J. Professor of Theology, Santa Clara University; Alastair Minnis, Professor of English, Yale University; Andrew Galloway, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Cornell University
Sponsored by the Medieval Institute
April 29 – 12:30 pm – C-103 Hesburgh Center
