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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
Maria Luisa Paul | Monday, September 2, 2019
As Notre Dame strives to become a more globalized university, the Keough School of Global Affairs is officially launching its new Global Affairs supplementary major. “We are the poster child of that mission. We have always had Notre Dame International, but we represent a real integrative approach to that idea that being a global citizen
Thomas Murphy | Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Even if one attends the best university with the best professors and the best resources, it is rare to receive the opportunity to spend time with someone who has in-depth knowledge in the chosen subject to go with first-hand experience. Fortunately for students majoring in political science, that opportunity is being offered this semester, as
Andrew Cameron | Monday, November 19, 2018
Notre Dame will be offering its first-ever art history course focused on Asia during the spring semester. The course, titled “Introduction to Arts of Asia: Materials, Processes, Contexts,” is being offered by the Liu Institute for Asian Studies and through the Keough School of Global Affairs. Thirty seats are assigned to the class, two of