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20 posts tagged "lecture"

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Saint Mary’s hosts ‘Heritage of Hospitality’ lecture

Maria Leontaras | Thursday, February 7, 2019

Maxwell Johnson, a professor of liturgy at Notre Dame, spoke at Saint Mary’s third installment of its “Heritage of Hospitality” lecture series Wednesday evening. In his talk, entitled “Guests at the Table, Hospitality to Strangers: Receiving the Body of Christ to Be the Body of Christ,” Johnson explored how communion and the Eucharist create a

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Lecture series explores ethics in sports industry

Alexandra Muck | Monday, February 13, 2017

The global sports industry is estimated to carry a $1.5 trillion value. With that big of a presence in the business, it makes sense that Mendoza College of Business chose its Ethics Week theme for this year to be “Sports and the Common Good.” “‘Sports and the Common Good’ just seemed like a natural [pick

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Artistic director discusses incarceration, Shakespeare

Megan Valley | Friday, January 29, 2016

Tom Magill, artistic director and founder of the Educational Shakespeare Company (ESC) gave a lecture sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies on Thursday afternoon; Magill was on campus to present at this week’s Shakespeare in Prisons conference. ESC is located in Belfast, Northern Ireland and focuses on storytelling through drama and film as

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Lecture explores Islamic binaries

Megan Valley | Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Kroc Institute Luce Visiting Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding SherAli Tareen delivered a lecture titled “Beyond Good Muslim/Bad Muslim: Debating the Boundaries of Innovation in Islam” on Tuesday afternoon at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. Tareen focused on polemics over the ethical question of “bid’a,” or heretical innovation, among two major modern Muslim reform

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Writer examines elite education’s effects on students

J.P. Gschwind | Friday, March 20, 2015

Speaking to a maximum-capacity crowd in DeBartolo Hall on Thursday evening, former Ivy League professor William Deresiewicz challenged the status quo of American higher education and the effect it has on students. His lecture, “The Failures of the Elite Education System,” was based on his essay, “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” and his book,

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Visiting professor explains Nazi persecution of academics

Jeremy Cappello Lee | Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Dr. Zofia Golab-Meyer, professor emerita of physics at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, gave a historical account of Nazi and Soviet persecution of academics in Poland during World War II in a lecture entitled “Freedom, Tyranny and the Pursuit of Science: The Case of Poland 1918-1950.” Following the German occupation of Poland, Nazi forces

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Lecture links water privatization and protest

J.P. Gschwind | Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Tuesday afternoon at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of political science Erica Simmons analyzed the social dynamics of protests over water privatization in a lecture entitled “Water, Community and Privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia.” “Starting in January of 2000, thousands of protesters from every class, occupation, age and ethnicity spoke out against the

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Cornell sociologist reviews microcredit industry

J.P. Gschwind | Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University Paromita Sanyal spoke to an audience packed in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies on Tuesday afternoon in a lecture entitled “Credit to Capabilities: Microcredit through a Sociological Lens.” The lecture centered on Sanyal’s sociological research on the microcredit industry, which provides minimal loans to impoverished people, and its

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Visiting professor discusses nuclear arms

Clare Kossler | Tuesday, September 16, 2014

In a lecture Monday titled “The Atomic Monstrosity from ‘Gojira’ (1954) to ‘Godzilla’ (2014)”, Professor Yuki Miyamoto of DePaul University said the issue of nuclear weapons is largely misrepresented and trivialized in the media. “The popular media also contributes … to our deviation, or our not looking … into this issue,” she said. Miyamoto said the media misrepresents

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Writer explores politics of literature

Matthew McKenna | Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Indian-born French writer Shumona Sinh discussed her novels and their relationship to the political and social environments of the countries in which she has lived and worked during a lecture Tuesday titled “Literature and Activism: The Challenges of Representing the Impoverished Immigrant Other” hosted by French and Francophone Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. “Any writing, poems

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