The Center for Ethics and Culture is proud to once again sponsor students, faculty, and staff from Notre Dame, Saint Mary's, and Holy Cross College to attend the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Visit the Notre Dame Right to Life Club's website or follow the Facebook event for more details.
Join the Center for Ethics and Culture for a lecture, reception, and book giveaway to celebrate the latest installment in our Catholic Culture Series.
In honor of the centenary of Walker Percy's birth, Professor Peter Lawler will discuss his 1983 masterpiece Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book…
Join the Center for Ethics and Culture for the Spring 2016 Schmitt Lecture, "Taking Responsibility: Science and its Revolutions, from Recombinant DNA to Gene Editing," with Benjamin Hurlbut (Arizona State University).
This lecture will explore the historical origins, contemporary contours, and political effect of this vision of scientific responsibility -- of the role of scientific authority in imagining, enacting, and governing technological futures -- attending in particular to the ways this vision shapes how we imagine, deliberate about, and govern that future.
Professor Benjamin Hurlbut teaches in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, where his research concerns the intersection of science and technology studies, bioethics, and political theory.
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture will award the 2016 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to the Little Sisters of the Poor and their Mother Provincial, Sr. Loraine Marie Maguire, on April 9, 2016. Mass, celebrated by Bishop Kevin Rhoades (Fort Wayne–South Bend), will begin at 5 p.m., followed immediately by a reception and award banquet in the South Dining Hall. Read more about the Little Sisters here. For more information about the event, contact Laura Nash.
“Let us open our eyes and see the misery of the world, the wounds of our brothers and sisters who are denied their dignity, and let us recognize that we are compelled to heed their cry for help! May we reach out to them and support them so they can feel the warmth of our presence, our friendship, and our fraternity! May their cry become our own, and together may we break down the barriers of indifference that too often reign supreme and mask our hypocrisy and egoism!”…
The Center for Ethics and Culture is proud to offer an exclusive installment of our elite pro-life training program for the faithful of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles!
Join us for one and a half days of instruction in the fundamentals of life issues with our world-renowned scholars in biology, philosophy, theology, and law. No prior knowledge of these disciplines is assumed or required; sessions are aimed at enthusiastic pro-life advocates seeking to hone their skill and enhance their knowledge to better advance the Culture of Life. In addition to intellectual formation, participation in the LA Vita Institute will connect you with a community of like-minded champions for the most vulnerable members of our society.…
The Center for Ethics and Culture is proud to be a co-sponsor of the annual Rimini Meeting for the Friendship Amongst Peoples. Since 1980, the Rimini Meeting has been an encounter among persons of different faiths and cultures. A place for friendship where peace, socialization, and a friendship among peoples may be established. These are encounters born from people that share a tension towards what is true, good, and beautiful. Every year great political personalities, managers, representatives of different religions and cultures, intellectuals and artists, athletes and protagonists of the world scene visit the Rimini Meeting. It offers stories of men and women through conferences, exhibitions, shows, and sporting events. At the Rimini Meeting, culture expresses itself as an experience, originated by the desire to discover the beauty of reality. All of this happens in the seven days during which the world’s most attended cultural festival takes place.…
Join the Center staff to welcome back the Sorin Fellows with Mass and social! Mass begins at 4:30pm in the Geddes Hall Chapel, followed by dinner catered by Barnaby's Pizza and the Bonnie Doon ice cream truck, on the Geddes Hall lawn next to the Hesburgh Library. Sorin Fellows are encouraged to bring friends who might be interested in the Sorin Fellowship program…
Save the date to join us for food, fellowship, and fun at a Center for Ethics and Culture Tailgate! We'll cheer on the Irish before two home games this year: September 17 (vs. Michigan State) and October 15 (vs. Stanford). We'll see you under the tent!…
Save the date to join us for food, fellowship, and fun at a Center for Ethics and Culture Tailgate! We'll cheer on the Irish before two home games this year: September 17 (vs. Michigan State) and October 15 (vs. Stanford). We'll see you under the tent!…
Our 17th annual Fall Conference, "You are Beauty: Exploring the Catholic Imagination," will consider “aesthetic contemplation sublimated in faith” (“Letter to Artists,” Pope St. John Paul II), exploring the relationship between the imagination, beauty, truth, and religion in a variety of contexts, particularly the arts, philosophy, theology, political theory, and the sciences.…
Each semester, the Center for Ethics and Culture hosts a Bread of Life dinner, where members of the Notre Dame community are invited to share fellowship while reflecting on and discussing their attitudes toward life issues. This semester's dinner will begin with a brief reflection on a beginning-of-life topic given by Dolly Duffy '84, Executive Director of the Notre Dame Alumni Association. Following Dolly's reflection, students, professors, and university staff will reflect together on their own attitudes toward life issues over dinner.…
This public lecture series and dinner is offered in honor of the generosity of the Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation to the University of Notre Dame. These semi-annual lectures, which are open to the public, bring distinguished speakers from around the world and provide occasions at which the Schmitt Fellows, graduate students in the Colleges of Science and Engineering, join other members of the Notre Dame community to reflect on the ethical, political, and religious dimensions of the studies in which they are engaged.…
