Dignity and Justice in Global Service-Learning aims to bring visibility and awareness to the history, richness of values and moral dimensions in higher education, including the role of faith-based and secular institutions in supporting community and international development, civic and political engagement, democracy and human rights, while also educating students as faith-filled people and/or socially responsible global citizens.
Dignity and Justice in Global Service-Learning aims to bring visibility and awareness to the history, richness of values and moral dimensions in higher education, including the role of faith-based and secular institutions in supporting community and international development, civic and political engagement, democracy and human rights, while also educating students as faith-filled people and/or socially responsible global citizens.
Dignity and Justice in Global Service-Learning aims to bring visibility and awareness to the history, richness of values and moral dimensions in higher education, including the role of faith-based and secular institutions in supporting community and international development, civic and political engagement, democracy and human rights, while also educating students as faith-filled people and/or socially responsible global citizens.
Muhammad Yunus, a social entrepreneur, banker and economist from Bangladesh who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, will deliver a keynote address at 7 p.m. April 12 (Thursday) in the Dahnke Ballroom of the Duncan Student Center as part of this year’s Notre Dame Forum.
Location: Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business
Priya Parrish is the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Schwartz Capital Group. There, she manages both private and public investments of the firm’s portfolio. Prior to joining Schwartz Capital, she served as a senior member of the investment team at Aurora Investment Management, managing multi-billion dollar hedge fund portfolios. She graduated from Babson College with a BS in Business Management before earning her MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Parrish is also deeply passionate about impact investing and its capacity for generating solutions to social and environmental problems. She is an impact investor in residence at the University of Chicago, teaching and supporting impact investing programs at the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.…
Location: Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary, a first-hand account of his inhumane treatment as a prisoner at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, created a sensation when it was published in January 2015. Though heavily redacted by government censors, Slahi’s story of enduring humanity in the face of extreme hatred and suffering raised the level of discourse concerning our use of torture, approaches to addressing terrorism, and Muslim identity.…
The Catholic Church is fully committed to the twin tasks of ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue, having established offices to advance relations among Christians (The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity) and among believers of different faiths (Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue). At its second international conference – “’The Whole is Greater than Its Parts’: Christian Unity and Interreligious Encounter Today” -- the World Religions World Church (WRWC) program of the University of Notre Dame will bring together experts to study more closely the contemporary state of these two dialogues. Held at Notre Dame’s Global Gateway in Rome, Italy, the conference will feature diverse presentations by Church leaders, theologians, and scholars of global religion on topics including Muslim-Christian relations, the Catholic-Orthodox-Protestant dialogue, the relationship between dialogue and evangelism, and other contemporary questions of religion and culture.…
Renowned Irish composer Patrick Cassidy, who composed the score for the feature film Calvary and for the award winning documentary on the Irish Easter uprising of 1916 produced by Notre Dame, has composed a lush new setting of the Latin Mass for orchestra and Choir which will have its debut in our Church.…
Hosted by the Eck Institute for Global Health in partnership with the Notre Dame Forum, Professor Fran Quigley of Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will present “Access to Medicines as a Moral Imperative and Human Right.” His talk will focus on the challenge of ensuring both robust development of new medicines and access to medicines for those in need–a challenge that is present in our own U.S. communities and in communities across the world. Professor Quigley is the director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law and has written on this issue for multiple international and national publications. Some publications include Foreign Affairs…
We live in difficult times — environmentally, socially, and politically. In his encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis emphasizes that the challenges of sustainable and integral human development are profoundly moral. He calls upon all men and women of good will to honor universal ethical principles such as human dignity, social justice, the common good, and shared well-being, and he asks for profound changes in lifestyle, modes of production, and consumption.…
Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Leighton Concert Hall
Andrew Card and Denis McDonough, chiefs of staff to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, will discuss U.S. foreign policy in a keynote Notre Dame Forum event at 7 p.m. Oct 4 (Wednesday) in the Leighton Concert Hall of the University’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. “Views from the West Wing: How Global Trends Shape U.S. Foreign Policy” will be moderated by Maura Policelli, executive director of the Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs’ Global Policy Initiative.…
