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What happens when pregnancy, miscarriage, contraception, and abortion are treated as crimes?

This moderated virtual panel brings together scholars in the fields of medicine, law, and women's and gender studies to discuss the criminalization of pregnancy and reproduction. Our panel of academic experts will discuss new and historical patterns of punishing people for their reproduction. This discussion contextualizes the ways that racism, sexism, and ableism have shaped reproductive policing over time and examines the new threats ahead now that abortion access has been banned in several states.…

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Pyar Seth is a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University pursuing a dual degree in Anthropology and Political Science. He is also a Visiting Research Scholar at King's College London. Broadly, he studies Black cultural thought, policing and medicalization, and the epistemic organization of health, disease, and risk.

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The University of Notre Dame Washington Program offers students the ability to study off-campus, becoming immersed in the political and cultural life of Washington DC. Students can participate in fall, spring or summer. Regardless of when students go, they experience big city living and culture and have a unique opportunity to gain work experience and engage in career discernment. Returning students rave about the Washington Program being one of Notre Dame's best kept secrets!…

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The next Political Theory Colloquium event will take place on Friday, October 6th, at 12.30 p.m. in JNH B101. Alexandra Oprea (University at Buffalo, Philosophy) will present her paper, "Rousseau's Emile: Education for Citizenship by Consent."…

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Concurrent Associate Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics
and Statistics

Jeff Harden specializes in American politics and political methodology. His research agenda in American politics focuses on political representation, public policy diffusion, and state politics. His methodology interests include the interpretation and communication of statistical models, network inference, and simulation. His most recent book is The Illusion of Accountability: Transparency and Representation in American Legislatures (Cambridge, 2022). He has also published articles in several journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and British Journal of Political Science.…

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Melissa Kearney's discussion of her book, The Two-Parent Privilege, How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind…

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A conversation with Luke Bretherton, professor and author of Christ and the Common Life. Catered reception and book signing to follow.…

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Stella Ghervas is professor of History and the Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research interests include Russia’s intellectual and maritime history and the intellectual and international history of modern Europe, with special reference to the history of peace and peace-making. She received the 2023 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies Award in History and Social Sciences…

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The CCCG will join the Mendoza School of Business in hosting Harvard scholar Arthur Brooks on November 6, 2023.

 

Arthur C. Brooks is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in July of 2019, he served for ten years as president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a public policy think tank in Washington, DC.

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Join us for a panel discussion on Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience by Nathan Chapman and Michael McConnell. In Agreeing to Disagree, Chapman and McConnell detail the theological, political, and philosophical underpinnings of the Establishment Clause, state disestablishment, and the disestablishment norms applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment.…

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Stephen P. Nicholson is the Philip H. Alston Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Georgia. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1998. His research interests include mass public behavior, public opinion, political psychology and direct democracy.…

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Jill Locke (Gustavus Adolphus, Political Science)

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Join our distinguished panel for a discussion ofGrowing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit by William C. Mattison III. Growing in Virtue is the only comprehensive account of growth in virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. 

Panelists: 

• Jennifer Herdt, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University's Divinity School.
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Amy Shuffelton (Loyola Chicago, Philosophy)

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Pamela Ban's research interests are in American politics and political economy. She focuses on electoral politics, legislatures, political parties, and how these institutions influence the behavior of political actors. Currently, she is working on various projects that study congressional committees, power within Congress, and lobbying. She received a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 2018 and a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 2012.…

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Jeremy Bailey (Oklahoma, Classics and Letters)

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Book Manuscript Workshop for Sam Piccolo (Gustavus Adolphus, Political Science)…

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Notre Dame Graduate Conference in Political Theory and Constitutional Studies. All day, panel times TBD, with one at our regular Colloquium time of noon-2pm.…

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Is this the day democracy dies, or will we be able to save it? We certainly hope it is the later, but are deeply concerned about the very real possibility that the US will no longer be a democracy. On January 6th 2025, the US Congress will certify the results of the 2024 Presidential Election - how will it unfold?…

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