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Kathryn Muchnick | Monday, October 4, 2021
The Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights hosted Dr. Jemar Tisby (ND ’02), who spoke on his recent book “How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice,” during its online lecture series “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary” Friday. The lecture series is a component of the three-part “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary”
Megan Fahrney | Thursday, September 2, 2021
The three-part discussion series titled “The Twentieth Anniversary of September 11: Changing the Climate of Conflict” kicked off Wednesday with a conversation on the cause and effect of 9/11 featuring Andrew Bacevich, president of the Quincy Institute and author of “After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed.” The discussion, presented by the Keough
Ryan Peters | Monday, August 30, 2021
Notre Dame is expanding its one-year Master of Science in Global Health (MSGH) program to two years in an effort to provide students with more flexibility to take a wider breadth of courses and have a broader experience in global health, according to director of the Eck Institute for Global Health Dr. Bernard Nahlen. The
Observer Staff Report | Friday, December 11, 2020
On Friday, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Denis McDonough, a professor of the practice of public policy in the Keough School of Global Affairs, to the position of secretary of veterans affairs, permitting Senate approval. McDonough has been a Notre Dame faculty member since 2017, teaching courses on public policy analysis and formulation as well as
Megan Fahrney | Thursday, October 29, 2020
The Keough School of Global Affairs held a virtual screening Wednesday of the new documentary “Hunger Ward: The Last Hope Against War and Starvation,” directed by Skye Fitzgerald. The screening was followed by an expert panel discussion and Q&A. “Hunger Ward“ is centered around the current humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The film follows two women, Dr.
Alysa Guffey | Wednesday, February 19, 2020
When Victoria Nyanjura noticed a hole in the Women’s Advocacy Network in Uganda, she knew she had to act. A graduate student in Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, Nyanjura is a Ugandan native who is a survivor of captivity. At 14 years old, she was abducted in Aboke, Uganda, by the paramilitary group
Ciara Hopkinson | Wednesday, February 19, 2020
This spring break, eight Notre Dame students will travel far outside the Notre Dame bubble to consider the role of religion in politics from a global perspective. Sponsored by the Keough School of Global Affairs and the University, students in the class “Holy Cross-roads: Religion and Politics from South Bend to South Asia” will travel
Christopher Parker | Tuesday, February 4, 2020
In mid-December, protests erupted in India over a law passed by the county’s parliament. In order to discuss these developments, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies hosted a panel called “India’s Winter of Protest” in Jenkins-Nanovic Hall on Monday. The panel consisted of three professors with different viewpoints and focuses regarding the protests
Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, November 27, 2019
The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation has agreed to a $111 million partnership with Notre Dame that will be directed towards programs to fight poverty on a global scale, according to a Monday press release. The partnership will be the largest of its kind at the University, with the endowments focused on serving “the most alienated and
Andrew Cameron | Thursday, November 21, 2019
On Wednesday evening, two religious leaders spoke in Nanovic Hall to discuss the need for interfaith dialogue in modern times, especially between Muslims and Catholics. The Keough School of Global Affairs hosted the event, an interfaith conversation between Daoud Casewit, president of American Islamic College, and Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago. The conversation, entitled