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Jan 21

Monday Jan 21, 2019

MLK Celebration Luncheon

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Location: Joyce Center North Dome

The fourth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Luncheon is an opportunity for campus-wide conversation.

Join students, faculty, and staff at this free, but ticketed event. Faculty and staff will receive information regarding ticket distribution from their department leaders. Students…

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Jan 24

Thursday Jan 24, 2019

Is Promoting Democracy Abroad Bad for Maintaining Democracy at Home?

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Location: Jenkins and Nanovic Halls - Room 1030

Please join us for our first debate or 2019, with John Yoo (UC Berkeley) and Michael Desch (Notre Dame).

Members of the Notre Dame, St. Mary's College, and Holy Cross College community are invited to join us on Thursday, January 24, for lunch.  Debate starts at 12:30pm, lunch will be served at noon.

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Feb 7

Thursday Feb 7, 2019

Book Launch - Prof. Elisabeth Köll - Railroads and the Transformation of China

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Location: Oak Room - South Dining Hall

Please join the Department of History at a reception to celebrate the work of Professor Elisabeth Köll
with an introduction by Parks M. Coble, James L. Sellers Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China…

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Feb 16

Saturday Feb 16, 2019

Junior Parents Weekend

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Location: Marie P. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

The College of Arts and Letters Showcase for Junior Parents Weekend will begin at 10 am on Saturday, February 16, with a presentation by Arts and Letters faculty in the Browning Cinema.  From 11:15 am to noon there will be an informal reception for parents and students to meet with faculty…

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Feb 19

Tuesday Feb 19, 2019

Risky Business: Nuclear Dangers in Conventional Wars

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Reading Material – To be provided

Caitlin Talmadge is an Associate Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she serves on the core faculty of the Security Studies Program. She is also Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution.…

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Feb 21

Thursday Feb 21, 2019

How The Federalist Opened the Door to the ‘Antifederalist Appropriation’ of the Constitution

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Location: Jenkins and Nanovic Halls - Room B101

Lecture by Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin) will begin at 12:30 in room 1030 of Jenkins and Nanovic Halls.

Event is free and open to the public  - lunch will be served at noon

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Feb 26

Tuesday Feb 26, 2019

Dispelling the Terrorist Safe Haven Myth: Why Americans Are Safer Than They Think

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic

Read Ahead Material  – To be provided

Risa Brooks’s research focuses on issues related to civil-military relations, military effectiveness, and militant & terrorist organizations; she also has a regional interest in the Middle East. Professor Brooks is the author of Shaping Strategy: The…

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Feb 28

Thursday Feb 28, 2019

“‘A Worse Type of Slavery’: Photographic Witnessing along Georgia’s Jim Crow Roads”, lecture by Steven Hoelscher, University of Texas Austin

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Location: Snite Museum of Art

Steven Hoelscher, Professor of American Studies and Geography at the University of Texas Austin explores a crucial moment in the turbulent history of American race relations, when post-emancipation hopes for African American civic equality and economic independence were crushed by disenfranchisement,…

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Mar 5

Tuesday Mar 5, 2019

Fear and Present Danger: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic

Read Ahead Material – To be provided

Kelly M. Greenhill’s research focuses on foreign and defense policy; the politics of information; the use of military force; and what are frequently called “new security challenges,” including civil wars, (counter-) insurgencies, the use of migration as…

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Mar 7

Thursday Mar 7, 2019

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Guano but Were Afraid to Ask--a lecture by Daniel Immerwahr, Associate Professor, Northwestern University

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Location: 116 O'Shaughnessy Hall

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Guano but Were Afraid to Ask

A lecture by Daniel Immerwahr, Associate Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University  

In 1854, the United States…

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Mar 19

Tuesday Mar 19, 2019

Seeing into the Black, Evidence for Black Holes: Part of the Our Universe Revealed Lecture Series

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Location: Digital Visualization Theater, Jordan Hall of Science

Join Keith Davis, director of the Digital Visualization Theater, on a virtual journey through the universe to explore the dark world of black holes – and how we know they exist.

Originally published at conductorshare.nd.edu.

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Mar 21

Thursday Mar 21, 2019

WIIS Special Event: TBD

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic

Rose Gottemoeller is currently the Deputy Secretary General of NATO.

Gottemoeller took up her position in October 2016, after serving nearly five years as the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. Department of State.…

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Mar 28

Thursday Mar 28, 2019

“Globalization and Latin American Cinema: Toward a New Critical Paradigm”

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Location: Hesburgh Center for International Studies-Auditorium

Visiting professor Sophia A. McClennen from Penn State University will be presenting her latest work, “Globalization and Latin American Cinema: Toward a New Critical Paradigm” (2018), which examines films such as Cidade de Deus (2002), Diarios de motocicleta (2004),…

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Mar 28

Thursday Mar 28, 2019

Rob Gleave | “Safe Passage and the Jihad: The amān contract in the Medieval Islamic Law and Practice.”

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Location: Morris Inn Ballroom - Salon C

Please join the Middle Eastern Studies Committee who will be hosting Rob Gleave, University of Exeter. “Safe Passage and the Jihad: The amān contract in the Medieval Islamic Law and Practice.” Reception to follow.

Originally published at history.nd.edu.

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Apr 2

Tuesday Apr 2, 2019

Power: A Temporal View

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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic

Read Ahead Material – To be provided

Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the writer of Spoiler Alerts for the Washington Post. Prior to Fletcher,…

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Apr 5

Friday Apr 5, 2019

Senior Thesis Reception

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Location: The Great Hall in O'Shaughnessy

Dean Sarah Mustillo will honor the accomplishments of undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Letters by hosting a reception for students completing a senior thesis project, as well as their thesis advisers.

Originally published at al.nd.edu.

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Apr 9

Tuesday Apr 9, 2019

Herman Bennett | “African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic.”

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Location: DeBartolo 208

HERMAN BENNETT: “African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic.” | Tue., Apr. 9  | 4:30 p.m. | DeBartolo 208

Originally published at

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