Upcoming Events By Year

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 will be able to pick up tickets at the LaFortune Box Office during the week of January 14. There will be shuttles available for transportation to/from the luncheon.…

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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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The Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy presents:

What Justices Want Book Launch by Matthew Hall

 

External Discussants: Lee Epstein (Washington University in St. Louis) and Eileen Braman (Indiana University Bloomington)

Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Hall

 

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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 and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present.…

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Notre Dame Law School is bringing award-winning journalist Nina Totenberg to campus for a conversation about her career covering the Supreme Court and legal affairs for NPR.

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Associate Deans Brockmole and Meserve will present. Representatives from ISSA and HR will be in attendance to answer questions after the presentation.

Originally published at 5plus1.nd.edu.…

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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 and other representatives from the College of Arts and Letters.…

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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. Her research focuses on civil-military relations, military effectiveness, defense policy, deterrence and escalation, and Persian Gulf security issues. Her most recent book is ​ The Dictator’s Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes (Cornell University Press, 2015). She is currently writing a book on nuclear escalation in conventional wars. Previously, she was a professor at The George Washington University, where she was also a member of the Institute for Security & Conflict Studies.…

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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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Allen Hicken, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan…

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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 Civil- Military Politics of Strategic Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2008) and editor (with Elizabeth Stanley) of Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness (Stanford University Press, 2007), as well as many articles in the field of international security. She received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego and her professional experiences include positions as Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, U.K.), Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC…

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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, lynching, and a vast array of legal structures aimed at black suppression. Central to that white supremacist project was the South’s notorious penal system that coerced incarcerated African Americans into a new form of state-sponsored slavery. Although widely accepted by whites as a natural and beneficial solution to a labor shortage, the forced use of African American prisoners for the hard and often fatal work of road building and other tasks after the Civil War did not go unchallenged. Among those critics was the radical, investigative journalist John L. Spivak, whose anti-racist work may have helped him earn the moniker “America’s Greatest Reporter” from Time magazine, but who has been largely forgotten.…

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A conversation on family, marriage, and careers, featuring:

• Elizabeth Corey, Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and AEI’s Values & Capitalism Visiting Professor
• Jesse Barrett, ’96, JD ’99, Attorney at South Bank Legal and Adjunct Professor at University of Notre Dame Law School
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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 a weapon, and international crime as a challenge to domestic governance. In addition to her Ph.D. from M.I.T., Greenhill holds an S.M. from M.I.T., a C.S.S. from Harvard University, and a B.A. (with distinction and highest honors) from the University of California at Berkeley. Outside of the Department, Greenhill serves as Research Fellow and as Chair of  the Conflict, Security and Public Policy Working Group at Harvard University’s Belfer Center and as Associate Editor of the journal International Security.…

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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 annexed its final piece of land from Mexico and filled out its familiar continental profile. Yet just three years later, it began to expand overseas by claiming dozens—eventually nearly a hundred—of islands in the Caribbean and Pacific. The guano islands, as they were called, were the source of an extremely valuable fertilizer: seabird feces. It was the pursuit of this “white gold” that made the United States an oceanic empire and laid the foundations for overseas territorial conquests to come.…

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Vinay Lal

Join us for a lecture by Vinay Lal, an associate professor of history at UCLA.

This lecture is part of the Liu Institute’s 2018-19 Legitimacy and Propaganda in Contemporary Asia speaker series…

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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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John Allen and Mahan Mizra discuss Dan Philpott's new book, Religious Freedom in Islam.

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Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. A World Politics Series lecture by Steven Levitsky.

This lecture is part of a larger series organized by Faculty Fellows Michael Coppedge and Andrew Gould…

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Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University on "How Democracies Die."…

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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. As Under Secretary, Gottemoeller advised the Secretary of State on arms control, nonproliferation and political-military affairs. She was acting in this position from 2012 to 2014, while concurrently serving as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (2009-2014). In this capacity, she was the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START…

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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), and Sleep Dealer (2008), and uses cinema to argue for new ways of understanding the relationship between global economies and national cultures. This is a truly innovative and interdisciplinary study, and it will offer new topics of discussion for students and faculty in Romance Languages, Film, Television, & Theatre, Economics, Political Science, and History, to name a few departments.  Mcclennen Poster …

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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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A peace studies conference planned by and for undergraduate and graduate students from around the world

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A peace studies conference planned by and for undergraduate and graduate students from around the world

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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, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND…

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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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Cosponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development.

Income and wealth inequality have become common problems across the Americas. In the USA, the share of pre-tax income in the hands of the top 1% almost doubled between the early 1980s and the present, going from 11% to 20%. In Brazil, the six richest men control as much wealth as the bottom half of the population; even more staggering, the richest 0.1% makes in a month the same as a worker receiving the minimum wage earns in 19 years. What are the causes and consequences of income inequality? Are the challenges and opportunities the same in the United States and in Latin America? This conference will gather a variety of academics and practitioners who will explore the political economy of inequality: its historical origins and evolution, the policies required to revert income concentration, and the role of key political actors in this process.…

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Cosponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development.

Income and wealth inequality have become common problems across the Americas. In the USA, the share of pre-tax income in the hands of the top 1% almost doubled between the early 1980s and the present, going from 11% to 20%. In Brazil, the six richest men control as much wealth as the bottom half of the population; even more staggering, the richest 0.1% makes in a month the same as a worker receiving the minimum wage earns in 19 years. What are the causes and consequences of income inequality? Are the challenges and opportunities the same in the United States and in Latin America? This conference will gather a variety of academics and practitioners who will explore the political economy of inequality: its historical origins and evolution, the policies required to revert income concentration, and the role of key political actors in this process.…

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

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