Advanced Study
NDIAS Weekly Seminars
Weekly seminars are collegial and scholarly meetings held three times a week at midday during the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of University break or holiday periods.
Weekly seminars at the Institute afford NDIAS Fellows, Notre Dame faculty, and visiting scholars the opportunity to present their current research projects with a range of colleagues from multiple disciplines and to participate in an engaging and probative discussion of the ideas presented. Benefits accruing from these seminars have included the inclusion of new ideas into manuscripts and other publication projects, collaboration on shared research challenges, the introduction and adoption of new methodologies and disciplinary tools, and an interest in working beyond the boundaries of one’s discipline.
UPCOMING WEEKLY SEMINARS AT THE NDIAS
Wednesday, May 16 – Brad Lewis – Remick Fellow, The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture (Research Topic Title: “The Common Good Reconsidered: Neo-Thomist Political Philosophy from Taparelli to Maritain”)
Thursday, May 17 – Catherine Zuckert – Faculty Presenter, The Nancy Reeves Dreux Chair in Political Science, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame, and Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies (Research Topic Title: “Machiavelli’s New Republicanism”)
Wednesday, May 23 – Laura Rominger Porter – Fellow, NDIAS – 4th presentation (Research Topic Title: “From Sin to Crime: Evangelicals, Politics, and Public Moral Order in the Nineteenth-Century Upper South”)
Thursday, May 24 – Vittorio Hösle – The Paul G. Kimball Chair in Arts and Letters, Professor, German and Russian Languages and Literatures, with concurrent appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, and Director, NDIAS – Final wrap-up discussion of semester
RECENT WEEKLY SEMINARS AT THE NDIAS
Thursday, May 10 – Chris Kolda – Faculty Presenter, Department of Physics, College of Science, University of Notre Dame (Research Topic Title: “Do the Laws of Nature Respect the Principles of Naturalness?”)
Wednesday, May 9 – Gil Gorski – Faculty Presenter, The James A. and Louise F. Nolen Visiting Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame ((Research Topic Title: “Reconstructing the Ancient Roman Forum”)
Thursday, May 3 – Evi Gorogianni – Fellow, NDIAS – 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Women’s Dress and Socio-Cultural Identity in Late Bronze Age Aegean”)
Wednesday, May 2 – Jessica Hellmann – Fellow, NDIAS – 4th presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Ecosystems in an Era of Human Culpability”)
Thursday, April 26 - Adriana Mendez Rodenas – Fellow, NDIAS – 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “From Paradise to Diaspora: Natural History in the Americas”)
Wednesday, April 25 - Vasileios Syros – Fellow, NDIAS – 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Giovanni Botero and the Beginnings of Comparative Politics in the West”)
Thursday, April 19 - Sabine MacCormack – Fellow, NDIAS – 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Natural Philosophy, History and Theology in the Writings of José de Acosta, S.J. [1540-1600]”)
Wednesday, April 18 - Faculty Presenter – Ann Astell – Department of Theology, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (Research Topic Title: “The Psalms as ‘Full of Grace’: Mariological Interpretations of the Psalter”)
Wednesday, April 4 – Gabriel Paquette – Fellow, NDIAS – 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Cycles of Renewal and Collapse: Portugal and Brazil, c. 1780-1845”
Thursday, March 29 – Guest Presenter - Veronica Rose Alfano - Teaches in the English department at Indiana University South Bend – Presentation Title: "Stillness That Is Almost Paradise”
Wednesday, March 28 – Guest Presenter – Dr. Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute – Dr. Jackson’s visit to Notre Dame will spotlight the importance of global environmental stewardship in today's world.
Thursday, March 22 - Mark Alfano – Fellow, NDIAS – 3rd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Factitious Virtue”)
Wednesday, March 21 – David Lantigua – Fellow, NDIAS – 4th presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Idolatry and the Rights of Infidels: The Christian Legal Theory of Religious Toleration in the New World”)
Thursday, March 8 – Adriana Mendez Rodenas – Fellow, NDIAS – 1st presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “From Paradise to Diaspora: Natural History in the Americas”)
Wednesday, March 7 - Faculty Presenter – Maria Tomasula, the Michael P. Grace Professor of Art at the University of Notre Dame; she teaches painting and drawing; she will discuss her paintings.
Thursday, March 1 – Faculty Presenter – Peter Holland - Associate Dean for the Arts, McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (Research Focus: Shakespeare in performance and on editing Shakespeare’s plays.)
Wednesday, February 29 – Guest Presenter – Colin Klein - Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago (Research Topic: “Neuroimaging without Neural Localization”)
Wednesday, February 22 – Vasileios Syros – Fellow, NDIAS – 1st presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Giovanni Botero and the Beginnings of Comparative Politics in the West”)
Thursday, February 16 – Gabriel Paquette – Fellow, NDIAS – 1st presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Cycles of Renewal and Collapse: Portugal and Brazil, c. 1780-1845”)
Wednesday, February 15 – Susannah Monta – the John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., and Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame (Research Topic: “Sacred Echoes: Repetitive Prayer and Reformation-Era Poetics in Early Modern England”)
Thursday, February 9 – Faculty Presentation – Harindra (Joseph) Fernando - Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences – (Research Focus: Extensive experience in conducting fundamental and applied research on environmental and industrial flows.)
Wednesday, February 8 – Eugenia Gorogianni – Fellow, NDIAS – 1st presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Women’s Dress and Socio-Cultural Identity in Late Bronze Age Aegean”)
Thursday, February 2 – Laura Rominger Porter – Fellow, NDIAS – 3rd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “From Sin to Crime: Evangelicals, Politics, and Public Moral Order in the Nineteenth-Century Upper South”)
Wednesday, February 1 – Sabine MacCormack – Fellow, NDIAS – 1st presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Natural Philosophy, History and Theology in the Writings of José de Acosta, S.J. [1540-1600]”)
Thursday, January 26 – Mark Alfano – Fellow, NDIAS – 3rd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Factitious Virtue”)
Wednesday, January 25 – Jessica Hellmann – Fellow, NDIAS – 3rd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Ecosystems in an Era of Human Culpability”)
Thursday, January 19 - David Lantigua – Fellow, NDIAS – 3rd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Idolatry and the Rights of Infidels: The Christian Legal Theory of Religious Toleration in the New World”)
Wednesday, January 18 – Vittorio Hösle– Director, NDIAS – (Research Topic: “Reductionisms in Hermeneutics”)
Wednesday, December 14 – Martin Dimitrov, – Fellow, NDIAS - 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Dictatorship and Information: Autocratic Resilience in Communist Europe and China”)
Tuesday, December 13 – Joseph Wawrykow – Fellow, NDIAS - 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Jesus the ‘true human’: Grace and Virtue in the Christology of Thomas Aquinas”)
Thursday, December 8 – Darcia Narvaez – Director of Collaborative for Ethical Education at the University of Notre Dame (Research Topic: Questions of moral cognition and moral development over the lifespan in multiple contexts)
Wednesday, December 7 – Laura Rominger Porter – Fellow, NDIAS - 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Church, State, and Moral Regulation in the Upper South, 1830-1880”)
Thursday, December 1 – Atalia Omer – Fellow, NDIAS - 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “The Rhetoric of ‘No-Place’: Symbolic Diasporas and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict As a Trope”)
Wednesday, November 30 – Robert Norton – Department Chair, German and Russian Languages and Literature, University of Notre Dame (Topic: “Isaiah Berlin’s Intellectual History”)
Thursday, November 17 – Gudrun Grabher – a Fellow in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and ACI Director and ZIAS Co-Director at the University of Innsbruck (Topic: Topic: "American Narratives on Facial Disfigurement and Lévinas' Ethics of the Face")
Wednesday, November 16 – Jim Turner – Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities, Department of History, University of Notre Dame (Topic: "Philology and the Origin of the Modern Humanities")
Thursday, November 10 – Jessica Hellmann – Fellow, NDIAS – 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Ecosystems in an Era of Human Culpability”)
Wednesday, November 9 – Elizabeth Mégier – Fellow, NDIAS – 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “What Is Salvation History? An inquiry into Historiographical and Exegetical Texts of the Latin Church, from the Fathers to the Middle of the 12th Century”)
Thursday, November 3 – David Lantigua – Fellow, NDIAS – 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: “Idolatry and the Rights of Infidels: The Christian Legal Theory of Religious Toleration in the New World”)
Wednesday, November 2 – Slavica Jakelic – Fellow, NDIAS – 2nd presentation (Research Proposal Topic: ”The Practice of Religious and Secular Humanisms”)
GUEST SPEAKERS
In addition to regular NDIAS fellows' presentations, the following guests have also presented to weekly seminars:
Friday, October 28 - Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles (Topic: “Immigration Justice”)
Thursday, October 27 – Kasturi Haldar – Julius Nieuwland Professor of Biological Sciences and Founding Director, Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases (Research Topic: Understanding disease pathology and developing treatments in rare and neglected diseases)
Wednesday, October 26 – Georges Enderle – John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of International Business Ethics (Research Topic: "Three Major Challenges for Business and Economic Ethics in the Next Ten Years: Wealth Creation, Human Rights and Active Involvement of the World's Religions")
Thursday, October 13 –Ted Cachey – Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies Professor and Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (Research Topic: Dante and Petrarch, the history of the Italian language, and the literature and history of travel)
Wednesday, October 5 – Mary Ellen O’Connell – The Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School (The analysis of the White House's "International Strategy for Cyberspace" – topic title: "Cyber Self-Defense under International Law")
Thursday, September 29 – Robert Bernhard - Vice President for Research, Office of Research (Discussion of Catholic Research University)
Thursday, September 15 – Marya Lieberman – Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame (Research Proposal Topic: "Technology for the Developing World: Detection of Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals")
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 – Ted Fox, Office of the Provost, presenting “Football 101,” a brief overview and explanation of the game of American football
PREVIOUS WEEKLY SEMINAR GUESTS AT THE NDIAS
Thursday, May 12, 2011 – Robert Schmuhl, Annenberg-Joyce Chair in Journalism at the University of Notre Dame (Presentation Topic: “The 'Exiled Children' and The Easter Rising”)
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 – Giacomo Rinaldi, Professor of Moral and of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Urbino (Presentation Topic: “Why Gentile's actualism remains a legitimate philosophical position.”)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 – Donald P. Kommers, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science Emeritus and Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame (Presentation Topic: “Germany’s Constitutional Odyssey”)
