March for Life 2025
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is proud to once again sponsor students, faculty, and staff from Notre Dame, Saint Mary's, and…
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Friday, January 24, 2025
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Having Your Cake and Eating it Too: Research at a Catholic University
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Panel: The Ethics of Precision Medicine
dCEC Mission Fellow Paul Scherz’s The Ethics of Precision Medicine: The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare explores the rapid growth in the use of genetic information and data analytics in healthcare to predict health risks.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
What We Owe to Each Other: Embodiment, Flourishing, and Public Bioethics
In this lecture, Carter Snead, the Charles E. Rice Professor of Law, will explore how presuppositions about human identity and flourishing…
Saturday, March 15, 2025
The Changing Face of Life-Limiting Prenatal Diagnoses: Clinical, Pastoral, and Ethical Considerations
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
'That They May Have Life’: Celebrating 30 Years of Evangelium Vitae
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame presents a roundtable…
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Between Basel and Birmingham: John Henry Newman, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Present Theological Moment
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Bishop Erik Varden: "Living with Wounds: The Passion in Theology and in Our Lives"
The Most Reverend Erik Varden, Bishop of Trondheim, Norway, will present “Living with Wounds: The Passion in Theology and in Our Lives,” with…
Thursday, April 3, 2025
What We Owe to Each Other: Upholding the Dignity of Both Mother and Child
This expert panel discussion, part of the 2024–25 Notre Dame Forum and cosponsored by the de Nicola Center and Notre Dame Right to Life student club, will explore what it means to support women and children and attain true reproductive justice.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Film: The Tree of Life (2011)
This third installment in the dCEC Lenten Film Series presents Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (2011), with an introduction from dCEC Faculty Fellow John O'Callaghan. Free but ticketed event.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
"Vocation as a Principle of Natural Law" A Book Launch and Discussion of Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law
Vocation as a Principle of Natural Law: A Book Launch and Discussion of "Ethics, Politics and Natural Law" by Melissa Moschella
On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, at 5:00 PM, the McGrath Institute for Church Life will sponsor “Vocation as a Principle of Natural Law: A Book Launch and Discussion of Ethics, Politics and Natural Law by Melissa Moschella” at the Andrews Auditorium in Geddes…
Monday, April 28, 2025
Maritain Fellows Lecture: Martin Hähnel on"The Intellectual Legacy of Robert Spaemann"
Join the Maritain Fellows for a its final invited lecture of the academic year. Prof. Martin Hähnel (Philosophy, University of Bremen), will present on, "The Intellectual Legacy of Robert Spaemann," reflecting in…
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal Mass and Dinner
Thursday, July 10, 2025
The Dignity of the Laborer in the Age of AI
Pope Leo XIV argues that Catholic social thought can serve as a response “to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that…
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Book Panel: "Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere" with Christina Bambrick
Christina Bambrick is the Filip Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and Mission Fellow of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, specializing in constitutional theory. Her research and teaching interests range from American and comparative constitutionalism to republican theory and the history of political thought.
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Lecture: "Tradition—Its Defenders and Discontents" by Cyril O’Regan
Cyril O'Regan, the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and recipient of the 2024 Ratzinger Prize, speaks on tradition.
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Tailgate: Irish vs. Texas A&M
Join the de Nicola Center and the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government for a family-friendly tailgate before the Irish host Texas…
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Lecture: "Cultivating Hope in the Context of the Jubilee Year" by Bishop Andrew Cozzens
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Webinar: "A Theology of Health" with Tyler J. VanderWeele
Professor Tyler J. VanderWeele, director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, introduces his new book, A Theology of Health: Wholeness and Human Flourishing. Winner of the Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Research Center Book Award, VanderWeele brings philosophy, theology, empirical research and clinical expertise together to present a Christian understanding of health—both of the body, and of the person—as the wholeness intended by God, but marred by sin. A Theology of Health is an essential theological exploration that seeks to promote health, healing, and flourishing of the whole person.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Conference: "The Changing Face of Prenatal Diagnoses" (Part 2)
Register now to attend this daylong conference featuring experts who will discuss new research concerning the diagnosis…
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Film Screening: Triumph of the Heart
Friday, October 31, 2025
St. John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church: His Relevance Today
Thursday, November 13, 2025
25th Annual Fall Conference
This three-day interdisciplinary conference (November 13–15, 2025) is the de Nicola Center’s flagship event and a vital forum for fruitful dialogue among the world's leading Catholic thinkers, as well as those from other traditions, on the most pressing and vexed questions of ethics, culture, and public policy.
Friday, November 14, 2025
25th Annual Fall Conference
This three-day interdisciplinary conference (November 13–15, 2025) is the de Nicola Center’s flagship event and a vital forum for fruitful dialogue among the world's leading Catholic thinkers, as well as those from other traditions, on the most pressing and vexed questions of ethics, culture, and public policy.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
25th Annual Fall Conference
This three-day interdisciplinary conference (November 13–15, 2025) is the de Nicola Center’s flagship event and a vital forum for fruitful dialogue among the world's leading Catholic thinkers, as well as those from other traditions, on the most pressing and vexed questions of ethics, culture, and public policy.