Last Updated: November 17, 2009

Ethics & Culture in the News:

• November 14 - New Bishop of Fort Wayne - South Bend Praises Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture. More.
  
  
• August 11 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88. More.
  
  
• April 22 - The Food and Drug Administration says seventeen-year-olds will be able to buy the “morning-after” emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription. More.
  
  
• April 22 - Bishop John D’Arcy, much beloved bishop of Fort Wayne -South Bend, released a statement today clarifying the meaning of the USCCB document, “Catholics in Public Life,” and discussing in some detail its implications for Notre Dame’s decision to invite President Obama to speak at this year’s commencement exercises at the University.  You may read his statement here.
  
  
• On March 24, Bishop John D'Arcy of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend issued a statement regarding President Obama's commencement address. Read Bishop D'Arcy's statement here.
  
  

• More News

This Week at Notre Dame:

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.

• Full Schedule
• Full Schedule with Abstracts

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.