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Erin Swope | Monday, February 18, 2019
This past weekend, the Identity Project of Notre Dame (idND) hosted the 2019 Edith Stein Project Conference, entitled “Arise: Restoring Identity as Beloved.” The name of the conference was inspired by Edith Stein, a German philosopher who lived from 1891 until her 1942 death in Auschwitz. Born Jewish, she became an atheist in her teenage
Mary Grace Mangano | Monday, February 9, 2015
Janet Easter, co-founder and style editor of Verily magazine, delivered a speech on beauty in the media at the first day of the 10th annual Edith Stein Conference on Friday. Easter said as a senior at Fordham University interning at Elle magazine in New York City, she was miserable. Despite having the dream internship for
Jennifer Flanagan | Sunday, February 8, 2015
David O’Connor, an associate professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, encouraged audience members Friday to think more broadly about the history of concepts of beauty in his keynote address at the 10th annual Edith Stein Project Conference in McKenna Hall Auditorium. “What I wanted to do, to start out the conference, was to think in a pretty broad
J.P. Gschwind | Sunday, February 8, 2015
Fr. Bill Dailey, lecturer at Notre Dame Law School and rector of Stanford Hall, examined the conflict between Catholicism and modern cultural trends in a lecture titled “Hope for Hollow Men? Moving Beyond Illusory Autonomy toward Genuine Freedom” as part of the Edith Stein Project Conference on Saturday in McKenna Hall. Dailey began the lecture
Mercedes de la Rosa | Sunday, February 8, 2015
On Friday, 2014 alumnus Michael Bradley, current managing editor for Ethika Politika and editor of The Whole Story, discussed the effects of pornography on relationships in a lecture titled “Passionless Love, Erotic Healing” as part of the 10th Annual Edith Stein Project conference. Bradley first defined pornographic consumption and production, stating that discovering the intention
Madison Jaros | Sunday, February 8, 2015
Notre Dame professor of theology John Cavadini said society has forgotten what it truly means to be a man in his talk “Media and Manliness: A Brief Study“ at the Edith Stein Conference on Friday. To illustrate his point, Cavadini described the book “How to Be a Man,” which he said profiles individuals whom authors consider great men. Cavadini
Bianca Almada | Tuesday, December 9, 2014
The Identity Project of Notre Dame (IDND), a student club that addresses issues of sexuality and human dignity through the lens of Catholic Church teaching, is in the midst of planning its annual Edith Stein Project Conference. “The Edith Stein Project Conference is the largest student-run conference in the United States,” Hailey Vrdolyak, club co-vice president