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. Follow the ND contingent's social media posts on Twitter…

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A conversation on family, marriage, and careers, featuring:

• Elizabeth Corey, Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and AEI's Values & Capitalism Visiting Professor
• Jesse Barrett, '96, JD '99, Attorney at South Bank Legal and Adjunct Professor at University of Notre Dame Law School
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Laudato Si’ called the Catholic community to an ecological conversion, a reorientation of our habits of mind toward a deeper consideration of creation and our responsibilities for its care. Is this a radical innovation? Or can we discern an intellectual patrimony at the heart of the discussion? In this lecture, Christopher Thompson invites us to reflect more deeply on the elements of ecological concern and consider the intellectual tradition inspired by St. Thomas Aquinas as a resource and guide going forward. “Green Thomism,” Thompson proposes, opens a path toward a renewed engagement with the Thomistic tradition as well as its contribution to contemporary ecological concern. …

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Join former Planned Parenthood clinic director and author of the memoir "Unplanned" Abby Johnson, alongside co-director and screenwriter Chuck Konzelman ND '82, co-director and producer Cary Solomon, and de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Cardinal George Fellow Mary FioRito for an interactive discussion about the upcoming film Unplanned…

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The McGrath Institute for Church Life hosts the 2019 Human Dignity lecture, with world-renowned speaker, Obianuju “Uju” Ekeocha. Ms. Ekeocha is the founder and president of Culture of Life Africa, and author of “Target Africa: Ideological Neo-colonialism of the Twenty-first Century.” She has spoken before the United Nations and the Canadian Parliament. She has also appeared on the BBC’s “Focus on Africa.”…

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"Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes." – Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization

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Join fellow Notre Dame undergraduates and faculty to meet, reflect on, and discuss culture of life issues over a convivial meal. Our speaker for the Spring 2019 dinner is Rev. Gerry Olinger, C.S.C.

Fr. Olinger serves as Vice President for Mission Engagement and Church Affairs at the university, a role he began in August of 2018. In this position, Fr. Olinger stewards and deepens Notre Dame’s Catholic and Holy Cross mission and is the University’s liaison to the Congregation of Holy Cross, the U.S. Bishops, the USCCB and its affiliates, and the Holy See. He also oversees the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem, the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason in Dublin, and the Grotto Network.…

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Enjoy a free lunch and seminar-style conversation with O. Carter Snead, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Ethics and Culture. Sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life. 

Details and registration at the McGrath Institute for Church Life website…

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The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture will award the 2019 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal — the nation’s most important lifetime achievement award for heroes of the pro-life movement — to the Women’s Care Center Foundation…

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A colloquium under the direction of Gladden J. Pappin, Giulio De Ligio, and Thierry Rambaud, organized by the by the Faculté de droit de l’Université Paris Descartes and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, with the support of the Centre d’études du Saulchoir.…

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A colloquium under the direction of Gladden J. Pappin, Giulio De Ligio, and Thierry Rambaud, organized by the by the Faculté de droit de l’Université Paris Descartes and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, with the support of the Centre d’études du Saulchoir.…

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A colloquium in collaboration with the Centre d’études du Saulchoir and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.

Location: Centre d’études du Saulchoir, salle Christophe Dumont ouest 43 bis, rue de la Glacière, 75013 Paris…

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The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, together with the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at the London Metropolitan University, will jointly host a conference entitled To What End? Narrative, Institutions, and Practices, …

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Students, faculty, staff, and their families are invited to mark the opening of the 2019-20 academic year with Mass in the Purcell Pavilion of the Joyce Center. Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., University President, will serve as presider and homilist. A picnic will follow in the Notre Dame Stadium Concourse.…

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Join the dCEC for a family-friendly tailgate before the Irish home opener! We'll gather on the Geddes Hall Quad beginning at 11:00 a.m. with food, drink, games, and fun. No RSVP necessary.

The other tailgate this season will take place on October 12, before the Irish host USC. Save the date!…

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How can Americans combat our current culture of contempt and end the "outrage industrial complex"? Best-selling author and economist Arthur C. Brooks will offer his vision for healing America's fractured political discourse, bridging our divides, and making progress as a society.
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Enjoy a free lunch and seminar-style conversation with Mary O'Callaghan, a developmental psychologist and Public Policy Fellow of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. She works on ethical issues and policy questions related to individuals with disabilities. Her public policy work has included testimony before the United Nations concerning the scope of international abortions of children with Down syndrome.…

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Why do we travel? Is there a tension between being a "global citizen" and cultivating a vibrant local community? Should the threat of climate change push us to rethink the balance? And how, if at all, do these questions intersect with the Catholic faith?

Anna Keating ND '06 is a freelance writer, chaplain at Colorado College, and co-author of The Catholic Catalogue: A Field Guide to the Daily Acts that Make Up a Catholic Life…

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French theorist René Girard called for forgiveness and the total renunciation of violence. While most focus on his theories about conflict, how do we pursue his solutions in a technological world where we are being more and more conditioned to join mobs?

Cynthia Haven is a 2018/19 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, and writes regularly for The Times Literary Supplement, and has also contributed to The New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many others.…

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George Weigel, a distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, will discuss his latest book, The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform, and how Catholicism offers the twenty-first century essential truths for our survival and flourishing. Lunch served at noon; lecture will begin at 12:30 p.m., with book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.…

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Rooted in an understanding of the human person as imago dei – of being made in the image and likeness of God – the Catholic understanding of health and wellness is informed by certain physical and metaphysical truths. This panel will consider the following questions for the Catholic in and/or interested in pursuing a professional career in medicine today:…

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Join the McGrath Institute for Church Life on Respect Life Sunday for a rosary at the Grotto, offered for a greater love and respect for each human person from conception to natural death. Fr. Terry Ehrman, C.S.C., chaplain to the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, will preside.…

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Join the dCEC for a family-friendly tailgate before the Irish host USC! We'll gather on the Geddes Hall Quad beginning at 3:00 p.m., with food, drink, games, and fun. No RSVP necessary. See you there, and GO IRISH!…

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Enjoy a seminar-style conversation with Dr. Kristin Collier, the University of Michigan Medical School, discussing "The Placenta and Fetomaternal Microchimerism: Radical Mutuality at the Cellular Level."

Kristin M. Collier, MD, FACP…

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Join our Sorin Fellows students for a conversation with author Dale Ahlquist (president, Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton) on the literary criticism of G. K. Chesterton. This lecture, part of our Sorin Salon Series, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. No RSVP necessary.…

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The beloved Dirty Book Sale is back and ready for its best year yet! In addition to the sale, which features incredible prices on overstock, dusty, or slightly damaged books, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to host the first annual Notre Dame Press Book Festival. The Festival will feature book events, a publishing workshop, autographed books, and prizes. The Notre Dame Press Book Festival and Dirty Book Sale will take place in the Hesburgh Library on November 6th and 7th between 12 pm and 8:30 pm daily.…

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The University of Notre Dame Press’s own Editor in Chief will lead a workshop about demystifying the academic publishing process at 5:30 pm on November 6th. This workshop is a part of the Notre Dame Press Book Festival. 

Learn more at undpress.nd.edu/bookfestival…

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The beloved Dirty Book Sale is back and ready for its best year yet! In addition to the sale, which features incredible prices on overstock, dusty, or slightly damaged books, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to host the first annual Notre Dame Press Book Festival. The Festival will feature book events, a publishing workshop, autographed books, and prizes. The Notre Dame Press Book Festival and Dirty Book Sale will take place in the Hesburgh Library on November 6th and 7th between 12 pm and 8:30 pm daily.…

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Celebrating 20 years, this year's conference will explore the theme of friendship, from its ancient understanding as "the crown of life and the school of virtue" (C.S. Lewis) to the present day. What does it mean to make the good of another one's own, and what might be the implications of losing such an understanding of friendship in the modern world? In the interdisciplinary spirit of the Fall Conference, the dCEC will engage these themes from a wide array of fields of inquiry, including theology, philosophy, political theory, law, history, economics, and the social sciences, as well as the natural sciences, literature, and the arts.…

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Judge Stephanos Bibas, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, will speak on "The Decline of Mercy in Criminal Justice and Public Life." This talk is free and open to the public. Complimentary lunch will be provided.

This event is cosponsored by the Notre Dame Law School St. Thomas More Society, the Christian Legal Society, and the Federalist Society.…

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