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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Integral Human Development Colloquium: The Intersection of Faith & Sustainability - Insights from Seed Global Development

Time: Wed Jan 28, 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Location: Virtual via Zoom

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Join the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion for a colloquium in conversation with Seed Global Development exploring the intersection of faith, sustainability, and global development. This session will examine how faith-based values and religious actors shape responses to climate change, food systems, and inequality. Featuring insights from Seed’s Strategy & Partnerships Lead Olfa Jelassi (an ex-MGA student), the discussion will highlight real-world examples from global policy and development practice. Fellow MGA students (Chad Stout and Suraj Parajuli) will also participate by sharing reflections and lived experiences. Open to MGAs and the broader Notre Dame community.

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Interfaith Dinner: A Celebration of Many Faiths at Notre Dame

Time: Tue Mar 31, 2026, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location: Forum, Jenkins Nanovic Halls

A diverse group of attendees is pictured lining up at a long buffet table in the Eck Hall of Law, filling their plates from various catering trays. The scene captures a communal atmosphere during an interfaith dinner, with people of different backgrounds and attire engaging in the shared meal.

Join us for a dinner celebrating Eid, Easter, Passover, Nowruz, and Holi hosted by the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion with support from the Notre Dame Law School. The campus community is welcome to join for afternoon prayers, dinner, and brief remarks from members of our Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Baha’i, and Hindu communities.

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Ensoulment in Islam

Time: Tue Apr 7, 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

This talk will cover how the legal, theological, philosophical and medical discussions intersected over the course of the post-classical period through the philosophical, medical and religious works of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210), Ibn al-Nafis (d. 1288), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (d. 1311) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 1350), amongst others. The talk will highlight the vitality of the medical tradition during this alleged time of decline and how different scholars negotiated the varied texts and interpretations of fetal ensoulment found in scriptural, philosophical and medical sources.

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Perin Gürel book launch & panel discussion, Laleh and the Language of the Birds

Time: Tue Apr 14, 2026, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: 300 O'Shaughnessy Hall - Sojourner Truth Commons

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Perin Gürel, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' A. Orr Fantasy Award recipient, invites you to a book launch and panel discussion of Laleh and the Language of the Birds -- a middle-grade eco-feminist retelling of the twelfth-century Sufi classic, The Conference of…

Friday, August 28, 2026

A Conversation with James Martin: Joy, Work, and Purpose | 2026 Annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture

Time: Fri Aug 28, 2026, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

Fr. James Martin, SJ

Each year the annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture in Catholic Social Tradition invites an exemplary leader in their field to reflect upon contemporary challenges to justice and the common good. This year we are delighted to host Rev. James Martin, SJ, a Jesuit priest and author of several…

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

From Many, One? Catholic Perspectives at America’s 250th

Time: Tue Sep 1, 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: 215/216 McKenna Hall

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Thursday, September 24, 2026

Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Palestine

Time: Thu Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Jenkins Nanovic Halls, Room 1030

This split-screen graphic features a color portrait on the left of a man with short grey-and-black hair in a dark blazer and white shirt with his arms folded, paired on the right with a book cover titled "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" by Mostafa Hussein, overlaid upon a black-and-white historic street scene.

Please join us as Professor Mostafa Hussein, Professor and Associate Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, discusses how Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance Zionism's goals in the decades leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

HHS Speaker: Dr. Tyler Zoanni

Time: Tue Sep 29, 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location: 116 McNeill Room LaFortune

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This talk challenges conventional critiques of institutions within disability studies and activism by drawing on fieldwork with a Catholic home and a Pentecostal school for people with intellectual disabilities in Uganda.

Alex de Waal: Three Years Into the Sudan Civil War

Time: Tue Sep 29, 2026, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Hesburgh Center for International Studies, Auditorium

Famine and Horn of Africa expert Professor Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, will join Professor Ebrahim Moosa to discuss the Sudan War. The conflict raises questions about genocide by attrition and state intent and the role of the international community in perpetuating the resource-driven violence into a third year.

Monday, October 5, 2026

Catholic Leadership, Integral Ecology, and the Call of Laudato Si’

Time: Mon Oct 5, 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Smith Ballroom, Morris Inn

In an era of accelerating climate change, widening inequality and geopolitical uncertainty, how are Catholic institutions called to respond to the world’s most pressing challenges? Join Cardinal Peter Turkson and Mary Gallagher, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs, for a conversation on Catholic Leadership, integral human development and the role of faith, scholarship and research in advancing justice and peace.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Book Launch and Discussion of Integral Ecology in the Anthropocene: Africa and Beyond

Time: Tue Oct 6, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Location: Hesburgh Auditorium

Cardinal Peter Turkson, chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Social Sciences and Sciences and a leading voice on justice and climate change, will join contributors to Integral Ecology in the Anthropocene for a book launch and discussion on the application of integral ecology in Africa and beyond. The volume explores the many pathways, mechanisms, and ways of putting integral ecology into practice, while examining its contours, potential limitations or uncertainties, and opportunities for all people of goodwill. Ellis Adams, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Policy at the Keough School of Global Affairs, will moderate.

Friday, October 9, 2026

MVP Fridays: “Days of Love and Rage” featuring Anand Gopal

Time: Fri Oct 9, 2026, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

MVP Fridays: “Days of Love and Rage” featuring Anand Gopal

The Institute for Social Concerns presents MVP Fridays: “Days of Love and Rage” featuring Anand Gopal, author of the novel Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution. Friday, October 9 at 4pm in the Geddes Hall Andrews Auditorium. Reception and book signing to follow. This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Fr. Drew Christiansen Lecture: "The Lord is the Maker of Them All" The Church's Vision for Building a Holy Land of Equals

Time: Wed Nov 4, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Jenkins-Nanovic Hall, Room 1030

Please join us for the Fr. Drew Christiansen, SJ annual lecture as Farid Jubran, Public & Governmental Affairs Advisor to the Roman Catholic diocese for Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, and Palestine, discusses challenges and opportunities for building a Holy Land of equals for the Abrahamic faiths in Palestine and Israel.

Friday, November 6, 2026

MVP Fridays: “Why I Am Not an Atheist” featuring Christopher Beha

Time: Fri Nov 6, 2026, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

MVP Fridays: “Why I Am Not an Atheist” featuring Christopher Beha

The Institute for Social Concerns presents MVP Fridays: “Why I Am Not an Atheist” featuring Christopher Beha, author of Why I Am Not an Atheist: The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer. Friday, November 6 at 4pm in the Geddes Hall Andrews Auditorium. Reception and book signing to follow. This event is free and open to the public.