Podcasts by Ethics and Culture Cast
Lively conversations with professors, fellows, scholars, and friends of the University of Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. The Center is committed to sharing the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition through teaching, research, and public engagement, at the highest level and across a range of disciplines. For more information visit http://ethicscenter.nd.edu
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Episode 78: Michael New from 2023-02-10T12:45
Michael J. New, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Social Research at the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Dartmouth College, Dr. New ...
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Episode 77: Micheal Flaherty from 2022-11-22T14:45
Micheal Flaherty is a film and podcast producer who has been involved in bringing beloved books to the big screen including the Chronicles of Narnia, The Giver, Charlotte's Web, and Holes, as well ...
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Episode 76: Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP from 2022-11-04T16:00
In this episode, we chat with Archbishop Anthony Fisher, the ordinary of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia. We chat about how he discerned his vocation as a Dominican friar, how his training as ...
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Episode 75: Aimee Murphy from 2022-09-22T18:00
In this episode, we chat with Aimee Murphy, founder of Rehumanize International, a human rights organization dedicated to creating a culture of peace and life. We discuss her new book, Rehumanize: ...
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Episode 74: Sofia Carozza from 2022-09-08T21:45
Sofia Carozza is a graduate student in neuroscience currently residing in the United Kingdom. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2019. She co-hosts The Pilgrim Soul podcast. Special...
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Episode 73: Lenny DeLorenzo from 2022-08-25T15:00
Leonard J. DeLorenzo, Ph.D. (https://www.leonardjdelorenzo.com/about), is the director of undergraduate studies at the McGrath Institute for Church Life where he also serves as academic director fo...
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Episode 72: Bo Bonner from 2022-07-19T16:00
Bo Bonner, senior advisor of mission initiatives and director of the Center for Human Flourishing at Mercy College of Health Sciences in Des Moines, joins us to chat about his journey to the Cathol...
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Episode 71: Fr. Harrison Ayre from 2022-06-23T17:00
Fr. Harrison returns to the podcast to discuss his book, Mysterion: The Revelatory Power of the Sacramental Worldview (https://paulinestore.com/mysterion-the-revelatory-power-of-sacramental-worldvi...
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Episode 70: Paul Blaschko from 2022-06-09T14:30
Paul Blaschko is an assistant teaching professor in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He heads up curriculum design and digital pedagogy for the God and the Good Life Program, and has rec...
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Episode 69: Dr. Kristin Collier from 2022-05-12T11:00
Dr. Collier is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School and she completed her internal medicine residency and chief medical resident year at the University of Michigan Health System....
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Episode 68: Dr. John Bruchalski from 2022-04-29T16:00
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame presented the 11th annual Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Dr. John T. Bruchalski, MD, founder of Tepeyac OB/GYN, one...
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Episode 67: Greg Wolfe from 2022-04-07T07:00
Writer, editor, publisher, and teacher, Gregory Wolfe has been called “one of the most incisive and persuasive voices of our generation” (Ron Hansen). Both as a thinker and institution-builder, Wol...
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Episode 66: Hon. Dan Lipinski from 2022-03-17T07:00
Dan Lipinski is the former US Representative for the 3rd Congressional District in Illinois from 2005 to 2021, a member of the Democratic Party. He was co-chair of the Bi-partisan Congressional Pro...
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Episode 65: Abigail Favale from 2022-02-24T16:00
Abigail Favale, Ph.D., is a writer, professor, and speaker. She is Dean of the College of Humanities at George Fox University. Raised an evangelical Christian, she converted to the Catholic faith i...
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Episode 64: Fr. Matthew Schneider, LC from 2022-01-14T14:00
Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC is a priest with the Legionaries of Christ ordained in 2013. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis in moral theology through Regina Apostolorum in Rome while living...
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Episode 63: Christopher Beha from 2021-11-18T20:00
Christopher Beha is the author of a memoir, The Whole Five Feet, and the novels Arts&Entertainments and What Happened to Sophie Wilder. His latest novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, was nom...
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Episode 62: Alex Jones of Hallow from 2021-11-04T21:00
A chat with Alex Jones, co-founder and CEO of Hallow (https://hallow.com), the #1 Catholic app for prayer, meditation, music, and sleep. From the introduction to Hallow: "This is the idea behind Ha...
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Episode 61: Petra Farrell from 2021-10-29T15:00
Petra Farrell joined the de Nicola Center in October 2017 as the Culture of Life Programs Manager, overseeing the Vita Institute, the Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal, and serving as the advisor t...
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Episode 60: Kirk Doran from 2021-10-07T17:00
Kirk Doran is the Henkels Family Collegiate Chair and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Doran received his B.A. in Physics from Harvard University in 2002, his S.M. ...
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Episode 59: Christina Bambrick from 2021-09-23T07:00
Christina Bambrick is Assistant Professor of Political Science specializing in constitutional theory and development. Her research and teaching interests range from American and comparative constit...
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Episode 58: Brian Mulholland from 2021-09-09T16:15
Dr. Brian Mulholland is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Mathematics Department at Notre Dame and the Director of the ASCEND program, which is the summer online program for the incomin...
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Episode 57: Vicki Thorn from 2021-08-26T16:00
Vicki Thorn, a certified trauma counselor and spiritual director, started Project Rachel while working in the Respect Life Office of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Since the first training workshop ...
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Episode 56: Joshua Hren from 2021-06-17T16:00
Joshua Hren is the founder and publisher of Wiseblood Books, author of "How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic," and cofounder of a new MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of St. Tho...
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Episode 55: Carter Snead and "What It Means to Be Human" from 2021-05-27T16:00
O. Carter Snead, the Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, has penned an acclaimed new book, "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics." In this episo...
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Episode 54: Todd Hartch from 2021-05-14T12:00
Todd Hartch is the author of four books on Christian history, including the award-winning The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity. In his new book, A Time to Build Anew: How to Find the True, Go...
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Episode 53: Solzhenitsyn and American Culture from 2021-03-15T11:30
In this episode, we chat with David Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson, editors of the book "Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West," a recent volume in our Solzenitsyn book ...
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Episode 52: Michael McGlinn from 2021-02-25T06:00
In this episode, we chat with Michael McGlinn, a filmmaker, musician, and the driving force behind AdoreHimDaily.com, a ministry that promotes Eucharistic Adoration. We chat about the lessons that ...
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Episode 51: Bill Schmitt from 2021-02-18T15:00
In this episode, we chat with Bill Schmitt, the editor of Telling Stories That Matter (https://www.staugustine.net/our-books/books/telling-stories-that-matter/), a volume of collected memoirs and e...
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Episode 50: Fr. David Guffey, C.S.C. from 2020-10-08T15:00
In the early 1940s, founder, Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., realized he could reach more families across the United States by using mass media, namely radio. With that realization, Father Peyton be...
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Episode 49: Dan Philpott and Jess Keating from 2020-09-30T14:00
The subject of the course is Catholic apologetics in the generation of millennials. Studies show that teens and young adults are leaving the Church in large numbers and that the ones who stay do no...
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Episode 48: Fr. John Paul Kimes from 2020-09-03T16:00
Fr. John Paul Kimes is an Associate Professor of the Practice at Notre Dame Law School and the Raymond of Peñafort Fellow in Canon Law at the de Nicola Center. After his undergraduate studies at No...
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Episode 47: Zena Hitz from 2020-08-20T19:00
Zena Hitz was a scholar in residence at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture in 2018, where she wrote the bulk of the manuscript that is now published as "Lost In Thought: The Hidden Pleasur...
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Episode 46: George Weigel and "The Next Pope" from 2020-08-06T07:00
In this episode, we chat once again with George Weigel, the distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. He has written a new book, "The Next Pope: The Off...
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Episode 45: Anja Renkes, ND '20 from 2020-05-14T20:00
Anja Renkes of the Notre Dame Class of 2020 was a member of the dCEC's Sorin Fellows Program. She studied Theology and Irish Studies, as well as Art, and was a member of the Notre Dame Rowing Team....
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Episode 44: Fr. Terry Ehrman, C.S.C. from 2020-01-16T13:00
Reverend Terrence P. Ehrman, C.S.C. is chaplain to the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. A native of Baltimore, Father Terry joined the Congregation of Holy Cross after earning a B.S. in bio...
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Episode 43: Steve Barr from 2019-12-12T16:00
Steve Barr is professor of physics and director of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware. He is the president of the Society of Catholic Scientists and author of bestselling b...
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Episode 42: Therese Cory from 2019-12-05T13:00
We chat with Therese Cory, an associate professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and the newest member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas. We talk about reading Aquinas with undergraduates, the c...
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Episode 41: Dr. Mark Komrad, MD from 2019-11-20T09:00
Dr. Komrad is a psychiatrist on the teaching faculty of Johns Hopkins and Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland and Tulane. He ear...
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Episode 40: James Matthew Wilson from 2019-11-15T14:00
In this episode, we chat with Villanova University professor and poet James Matthew Wilson. He was with us on campus as part of our 20th Annual Fall Conference on friendship. In our conversation, w...
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Episode 39: Digital Friends from 2019-11-13T16:00
Our guests were part of a panel discussion at the dCEC's 20th Annual Fall Conference, "I Have Called You Friends." Their panel discussed "digital friendship." Video of the panel session will be pos...
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Episode 38: J. J. Wright from 2019-10-31T09:00
J. J. Wright is a composer with roots in jazz and sacred music. He is the director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir, and his gig list includes recording and performing with Caribbean Jazz Project: Afro...
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Episode 37: Dale Ahlquist from 2019-10-17T08:00
Dale Ahlquist is the president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the author of five books about Chesterton, including The Complete Thinker and Common Sense 101. We chat about Chesterto...
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Episode 36: Arthur Brooks from 2019-10-03T12:00
In this episode, we sit down with Arthur Brooks, the former president of the American Enterprise Institute and the author of "Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture ...
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Episode 35: Ernest Morrell from 2019-09-12T16:00
Ernest Morrell is the Coyle Professor in Literacy Education and Director of the Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame. Ernest has recently been named director of the Nationa...
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Episode 34: Jennifer Newsome Martin from 2019-08-30T15:00
Martin, a systematic theologian who received her Ph.D. from Notre Dame, joined the faculty in the College of Arts and Letters in 2012. Her first book, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Approp...
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Episode 33: Margaret Cabaniss from 2019-06-27T14:00
We chat with Margaret Cabaniss, the scholarly research and publications program manager for the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. She oversees the Center's book series with the University of...
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Episode 32: Timothy Cardinal Dolan from 2019-05-03T12:00
On April 26, 2019, we were joined by His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, for a special Mass in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart as we formally dedicated the de Nicola ...
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Episode 30: Holy Land Pilgrims from 2019-04-18T16:00
Undergraduate students Emily Hirshorn and John Hale, along with Ph.D. candidate Fr. Justin Brophy, O.P., were part of a student pilgrimage and tour to the Holy Land sponsored by the de Nicola Cente...
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Episode 29: Obianuju Ekeocha from 2019-04-11T15:00
Obianuju Ekeocha has advised many African Members of Parliament, African UN delegates, ambassadors and other decision makers on pro-life and pro-family issues. She has also worked closely with many...
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Episode 28: Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon from 2019-04-04T10:00
Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon are the co-producers and co-directors who brought the pro-life film "Unplanned" to the screen. They have collaborated on more than 15 films and TV projects as scree...
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Episode 27: Abby Johnson from 2019-03-28T09:00
Abby Johnson has always been fiercely determined to help women in need. This desire is what led Abby to a career with Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, and caused her to f...
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Episode 26: Fr. Bill Miscamble, C.S.C. from 2019-03-14T12:00
Father Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C. is a professor of history at Notre Dame and the author of the newly-published American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame's Father Ted He...
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Episode 25: Duncan G. Stroik from 2019-02-28T17:00
We chat with professor Duncan G. Stroik of the Notre Dame School of Architecture. Duncan's area of focus is Sacred Architecture, and he both teaches and practices in the field. We recorded this con...
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Episode 24: Elizabeth Lev from 2019-02-07T13:00
Elizabeth Lev is an American-born art historian who has, as she calls it, "the good fortune to live and work in Rome." She teaches Renaissance and Baroque Art at Duquesne University’s Italian campu...
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Episode 23: Francis J. Beckwith from 2019-01-24T16:00
Francis J. Beckwith is a philosopher who publishes and teaches in the areas of religion, jurisprudence, politics, and ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies and Associate Di...
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Episode 22: Matthew Mehan from 2018-09-20T15:00
Matthew Mehan is a teacher at The Heights School in Washington, D.C. and The Worsham Teaching Fellow of Hillsdale College’s Washington DC Allan P. Kirby, Jr., Center for Constitutional Studies and ...
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Episode 21: Pete Hlabse from 2018-09-13T15:00
Pete Hlabse oversees the CEC's student programs, including the Sorin Fellows Program which offers intellectual, spiritual, and human formation opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students a...
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Episode 20: James Hankins from 2018-05-17T13:00
James Hankins is a professor of Renaissance intellectual history at Harvard University. He is the Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library from Harvard University Press, a memb...
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Episode 19: Rémi Brague from 2018-05-10T09:00
In this blockbuster episode, we welcome CEC Acting Director Patrick Deneen into the interviewer's chair for a conversation with philosopher Remi Brague, professor emeritus of Arabic and religious p...
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Episode 18: Fr. William R. Dailey, C.S.C. from 2018-05-03T08:00
In this episode, we sit down with Holy Cross Fr. William R. Dailey. Fr. Bill is the Thomas More Fellow at the CEC, and the Director of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason in Dublin, I...
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Episode 17: Katherine Smith from 2018-04-16T12:00
n this episode, we sit down with Katherine Smith, an undergraduate Sorin Fellow spending her Spring 2018 semester in Rome, Italy. We chat about her experiences in the Eternal City, her internship a...
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Episode 16: Richard Doerflinger from 2018-04-12T11:00
Richard M. Doerflinger retired in 2016 after 36 years of service to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, finishing as the associate director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities. ...
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Episode 15: D. C. Schindler from 2018-04-05T11:00
In this episode, we sit down with D. C. Schindler, an associate professor of metaphysics and anthropology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, and author of "Freedom Fr...
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Episode 14: Mary Eberstadt from 2018-03-22T17:00
Mary Eberstadt is a senior fellow of the Faith&Reason Institute and the author of several best-selling books, including "Adam and Eve After the Pill" (2013) and "How the West Really Lost God" (2014...
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Episode 13: Mary O'Callaghan from 2018-03-15T13:00
Mary O'Callaghan earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Creighton University, and received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Notre Dame. Her doctoral work was ...
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Episode 12: Gilbert Meilaender from 2018-03-08T14:00
In this episode, we sit down with Gilbert Meilaender, the author of Not By Nature But By Grace: Forming Families Through Adoption, the inaugural volume in the Center's "Catholic Ideas for a Secular...
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Episode 11: Patrick J. Deneen from 2018-02-22T16:00
Patrick J. Deneen holds a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University. He worked at the US Information Agency as a speechwriter and special advisor, was an A...
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Episode 10: George Weigel from 2018-02-08T14:00
In this episode, we sit down with George Weigel, the distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. We talk about several of his books including his most recent, "Lessons In Ho...
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Episode 9: Randall B. Smith from 2018-01-25T11:00
Randall B. Smith is a professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, and was the CEC's Myser Visiting Research Fellow when he began writing Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas:...
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Episode 8: Nicole Stelle Garnett from 2018-01-18T07:00
In this episode, we sit down with Nicole Stelle Garnett, a member of the Center's Faculty Advisory Committee and professor at Notre Dame Law School. We discuss the role of Catholic schools in formi...
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Episode 7: Ross Douthat from 2017-12-14T12:00
In this episode, we sit down with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, who joined us on campus this past October for a roundtable discussion about Disarming Beauty (http://undpress.nd.edu/books/P...
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Episode 6: John O'Callaghan from 2017-11-30T12:00
In this episode, we chat with John O'Callaghan, associate professor of philosophy, Director of the Jacques Maritain Center, and the 2017-18 Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for ...
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Episode 5: CEC Fellow Aly Cox from 2017-11-16T12:00
Our guest is Alyson Cox, the CEC's Law&Public Policy Fellow for 2017-18. We chat about her experience in the CEC's Sorin Fellows program, the internships that she undertook while at the Center, and...
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Episode 4: David Solomon from 2017-11-09T00:15
David Solomon, the founding director of the Center for Ethics and Culture, began his legendary career at Notre Dame in 1968 and retired in May 2016. During his tenure, he served as the director of ...
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Episode 3: Brad Gregory from 2017-10-26T17:00
Brad S. Gregory is Professor of History and Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2003. From 1996-2003 he taught at Stanford University, whe...
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Episode 2: Sean Kelsey from 2017-10-12T16:00
Professor Sean Kelsey (http://ethicscenter.nd.edu/people/advisory/fac/#sean_kelsey) is an associate professor of philosophy and the chair of the Center's Faculty Advisory Committee (http://ethicsce...
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Episode 1: O. Carter Snead from 2017-09-28T00:00
In this first episode of Ethics and Culture Cast, we chat with O. Carter Snead, the William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. In addition to directing ...
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