September 22 and 29
October 6 and 13
8:00 p.m., DeBartolo 155
For more information on events at Notre Dame, see the complete Ethics Bulletin.
November 16 – 4:30 PM – 104 Bond Hall
THE JOHN BURGEE LECTURE
George Saumarez Smith, Director, Robert Adam Architects, London
Architectural Tradition: Draughtsmanship and Detail
Sponsored by the School of Architecture
November 16 – 8:00 PM – 155 DeBartolo Hall
Vicki Thorn
What They Didn’t Tell You in Sex Ed: New Research on the Biochemistry of Bonding
Sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture; Office of Family Life, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend; Notre Dame Right to Life; Notre Dame Identity Project; Notre Dame Gender Relations Center
November 16 – 8:00 PM – McKenna Hall
John Fetterman, Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania
The Mayor of Hell?
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science; Center for Social Concerns; College of Arts & Letters; Hesburgh Program in Public Service; Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Henkels Lecturer; Learning Beyond the Classroom; Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor; Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy
November 16-17 – McKenna Hall
The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature
A symposium that aims to enrich understanding of contemporary European literature by addressing how Muslim and Muslim-born writers address the place of Islam in their work.
For more information see http://nanovic.nd.edu/events/2009/11/16/1433-conference-the-place-of-islam-in-contemporary-european-literature.
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies; Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Kellogg Institute for International Studies; Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts; and the College of Arts & Letters
November 17 – 7:00 PM – Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business
BERGES LECTURE SERIES IN BUSINESS ETHICS
David Langstaff, former CEO of Veridian Corporation
Can a Value be Placed on Values?
Sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business and the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide
November 18 – 7:30 PM – 208 DeBartolo Hall
POVERTY STUDIES INTERDISCIPLINARY MINOR FILM SERIES—FALL 2009
Immokalee U.S.A. (2008, 77 min.)
Director Georg Koszulinski will introduce the film.
Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns and the Higgins Labor Studies Program
November 19 – 12:30 PM – C-103 Hesburgh Center
David Backer, Assistant Professor of Government, College of William and Mary; Visiting Fellow, Kroc Institute
Understanding Victims’ Justice: Perspectives from Post-Conflict Settings in Africa
Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
November 20 – 11:45 AM – 319 Hammes-Mowbray
INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON AMERICAN RELIGION
Keith Meador, Duke University
Title: TBD
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Society
November 20 – 3:00 PM – 307 Brownson Hall
Ferenc Horcher, Visiting Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Prudence in an Aristotelian Framework: A Political Philosophy of Conservatism
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science
Fall Conference 2009 - The Summons of Freedom : Virtue, Sacrifice and the Common Good
The Center for Ethics and Culture will hold its tenth annual fall conference November 12-14 on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Registration is available at https://marketplace.nd.edu/cce. Visit the conference homepage for more information about the conference. The full conference schedule is available below.
25th Annual Notre Dame Medical Ethics Conference - Rome, Italy
Join us in Rome March 12-13, 2010 to explore American and European approaches to some of the most difficult global issues in contemporary medical ethics. Hotel packages of 5 to 8 nights are available, as well as various guided tours before or after the conference. For more information visit http://www.anthonytravel.com/event_detail.cfm?EventID=453.
Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life
An exciting new initiative, to be administered by the Center for Ethics and Culture, is The Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life. The Fund, together with the five person committee which will oversee it, will provide a proactive impetus for pro-life activity on the Notre Dame campus, including support of the student right to life clubs as well as involvement of the faculty and administration. For a summary description of the scope and plans for the Fund, click here. To donate, please visit Notre Dame Department of Development http://supporting.nd.edu/make-a-gift/.
Call for Papers - History (1933-1948): What We Choose to Remember
The Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture at the University of Portland announces its call for papers for its conference, History (1933-1948): What We Choose to Remember, which will take place April 15-17, 2010. [More]
Fall Catholic Culture Series - A Celebration of Kindred Spirits
This fall's Catholic Culture Series featured four influential and fascinating authors, none of whom were Catholic. Yet the writings of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, C.S. Lewis, and Fyodor Dostoevsky all shared much in common with Catholic theology and philosophy. For more information, including video recordings of the lectures, visit here.