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!…
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.…
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…
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.…
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.…
