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Since May, Hong Kong has seen ongoing protests, beginning with demonstrations…

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Join us for a live recording of National Review's "Ordered Liberty" Podcast, with David French and Notre Dame alumna Alexandra DeSanctis.
 

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Sohrab Ahmari (New York Post), David French (National Review), and Professor Charles Kesler (Claremont McKenna) discuss and debate conservatism in the age of Trump.

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The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities and the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy will host a moderated discussion and Q&A with former Speaker of the…

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A different game plan for autumn weekends. You are invited to join in discussion with Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times.

Read More about Saturday Scholar Series: "Listening to Puerto Rico: 'The Importance of Engaged Digital Scholarship in times of Crisis'"

Kathryn Pearson (University of Minnesota) will deliver the 2019 Constitution Day Lecture on Trump and congressional politics. 

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Janina Dill is the John G. Winant Associate Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. She is also a...

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David O’Sullivan, the European Union’s ambassador to the United States, will deliver the 2019 Nanovic Forum Lecture on September 18th (Wednesday) at 5:00 p.m. in the Donald R. Keough Seminar Room, located in 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls.

Sponsored by Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European…

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Arthur Brooks (Harvard) will speak on his most recent book, "Love Your Enemies."

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Tara McCarthy will deliver the 2019 Hibernian Lecture, “A Century of Suffrage: Catholic Activism, Class Consciousness, and the Contributions of Irish American Women,” on Friday,…

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Mark T. Kettler, Ph.D.

Mark T. Kettler, a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies,…

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Kathleen Cummings (Notre Dame), George Weigel (Ethics & Public Policy Center) and Ken Woodward (former Newsweek, Notre Dame '57) discuss Prof. Cummungs' new book. 

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Friday, September 27 - “The Irony of Modern Catholic History”
George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
12:30 pm (lunch at noon)  | Oak Room, South Dining Hall

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Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, former Senator Joe Donnelly ’77, ’81 J.D. of Indiana, and former Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona will participate in the panel discussion. Professor Jimmy Gurulé will serve as moderator.

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Originally published at ndisc.nd.edu.…

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James Ceaser (University of Virgina) will speak on James Madison's political thought.

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A Kellogg Work-in-Progress Seminar with Visiting Fellow Raúl Madrid.

The existing literature on democratic…

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Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari 
I Do Not Care if…

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Ian Johnson is historian of war, diplomacy, and technology. He received his PhD from the Ohio State University in 2016, with a dissertation that explored secret military cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany in the interwar…

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A conversation series with former Congressmen Patrick Murphy (D) and David Jolly (R).

Event is free and open to the public.…

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Please join us as we welcome Condoleezza Rice!

Originally published at rooneycenter.nd.edu.…

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Friday, October 11 - "Things Worth Dying For: The Nature of a Life Worth Living"
Rev. Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia
1:00 pm  | Jenkins and Nanovic Halls, Room 1030

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Forrest Nabors (University of Alaska) will lecture in Prof. Munoz's Constitutional Studies course on our republican constitution.

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At War (2019) Official Trailer from Cinema Libre…

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The lecture analyzes some metapoetical passages of the Metamorphoses. It clarifies how Ovid is speaking through the myths about art—art in general, his own and others’—and how he thus helps us to interpret his main work correctly.

Vittorio Hösle is the Paul Kimball Professor of Arts…

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Alan Guebert is the nationally syndicated columnist of the Farm & Food File and author of “The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey: Memories from the Farm of My Youth”. He grew up on a Dairy Farm in Southeastern Illinois…

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The Kellogg Institute welcomes Herbert Kitschelt, George V. Allen Professor of International Relations at Duke University.…

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When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music and the Politics of Freedom in the post-Civil Rights Era.

Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia

“When Sunday Comes” examines the artistry, politics, and commercial triumphs of African American gospel music during the…

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Workshop organizers: Faculty Fellows Michael Coppedge (political science), Gary Goertz (political science), Aníbal…

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Friday, November 1 -  Public Lecture
Rev. Dominic Legge, O.P., Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and Thomistic Institute
12:30 pm (lunch at noon)  | Jenkins and Nanovic Halls, Room 1030 

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