Fall 2009 Series
Come back to campus! You are invited to experience an intimate discussion with Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty speakers on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times.
Each lecture and Q&A is presented in the Snite Museum’s Annenberg Auditorium at 12 noon on “home game” Saturdays, with one exception: the lecture before the October 31 game versus Washington State University will be in San Antonio (time and venue TBD). No tickets required for any of the lectures.
9.5.09 (vs. University of Nevada)
“Memorial Mania”
Erika Doss, Professor and Chairperson, Department of American Studies
9.19.09 (vs. Michigan State University)
“International Security Studies: What the Eggheads Can Teach the Generals”
Michael Desch, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Political Science
10.3.09 (vs. University of Washington)
“Images That Matter: The U.S. as Seen through Latin American Eyes”
Thomas F. Anderson, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
10.17.09 (vs. University of Southern California)
“Shakespeare in the 21st Century”
Peter D. Holland, McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
Scott Jackson, Executive Director, Shakespeare at Notre Dame
10.24.09 (vs. Boston College)
“The French Revolution: Do’s and Don’ts of Keeping Your Head During Turbulent Times”
Julia V. Douthwaite, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
10.31.09 (vs. Washington State University)
game and lecture are in San Antonio (lecture time and venue TBD)
“Latinos and the Remapping of American Catholicism”
Virgilio P. Elizondo, Notre Dame Professor of Pastoral and Hispanic Theology, Department of Theology
Daniel G. Groody, CSC, Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
Timothy M. Matovina, Professor, Department of Theology
11.7.09 (vs. United States Naval Academy)
“Going Global: Medical Ethics in the Age of AIDS”
Maura Ryan, John Cardinal O’Hara Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Department of Theology
11.21.09 (vs. University of Connecticut)
“Understanding the Cultural, Religious, and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults (18-23 Year Olds)”
Christian Smith, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology