At the podium: Free public lectures this week
The following lectures are scheduled this week in the community. Registration or connection information is listed. All events are free and open to the public:
• 1 p.m. Monday, virtual panel discussion: ”Mandating Peace: Enhancing the UN Security Council’s Approach to Mediation.” Panelists include government officials, senior mediators, civil society experts, and Laurie Nathan, professor and director of the Mediation Program at Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Register at: https://notredame.zoom.us/webinar/register/6516152376001/WN_SY6mBJA9RIaEWoVwbtwtfQ University of Notre Dame.
• Noon, Tuesday, virtual discussion panel, ”Social Justice and Advocacy.” Panelists: Beryl Cohen, executive director, NASW Indiana; Kristin Clements-Effner, adjunct faculty; Kaitlyn Powell, resident assistant, Indiana University School of Social Work; Crystal Puckett, Faith in Indiana; David Sklar, assistant director, Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council. Register at https://events.iu.edu/southbend/event/177436-social-justice-and-advocacy. Indiana University South Bend.
• 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, virtual conversation, ”Arabic for All: Why My Language Is Taboo in France,” Nabil Wakim, journalist. Moderators: Daniel Maroun, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Sonja Stojanovic, University of Notre Dame. Register at: nanovic.nd.edu. University of Notre Dame.
• 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, virtual Edison lecture, ”Industry 4.0 Design for Additive Manufacturing in Energy and Bioengineering Systems,” C. Fred Higgs III, professor, Rice University. Register at: https://notredame.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JG-gk4xAS7iLJZ7jaAKzPw. University of Notre Dame.
• 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, virtual discussion: ”The Attack on the U.S. Capitol: Pursuing Justice and Defending Our Democracy,” Michael Sherwin, former acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Moderated by Jimmy Gurule, professor. Register at law.nd.edu/news-events. University of Notre Dame.
• 1 p.m. Wednesday, Mexico virtual lecture series, ”Democracy and Labor Law Reform in Mexico: Assessing international and domestic influences on the transformation of Mexico’s labor justice system,” Kimberly Nolan Garcia, associate professor, FLACSO-Mexico and Tamara Kay, associate professor of global affairs and sociology, University of Notre Dame. Register at mexicocity.nd.edu/events. University of Notre Dame.
• 4 p.m. Wednesday, virtual Edison lecture, ”Towards Intersectional Equity in Complex Sociotechnical Systems,” Katlyn Turner, research scientist, MIT Media Lab. Register at https://notredame.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Dfjop4fXSzyfVlbbMxlnlQ University of Notre Dame.
• 4 p.m. Thursday, distinguished scholar lecture: ”Thinking about Migration through Latinx Art,” Charlene Villaseñor Black, professor of art history, University of California, Los Angeles. Register at latinostudies.nd.edu. University of Notre Dame.
• 5 p.m. Thursday, graduate student invitation series lecture, ”The Impostor Sea: The Making of the Medieval Mediterranean,” Hussein Fancy, associate professor of history at University of Michigan. Register at medieval.nd.edu/news-events. University of Notre Dame.
• 6:30 p.m. Thursday, virtual lecture, ”Redoubled/Something We Carry,” Jen Everett, artist. Contact art@nd.edu for the Zoom link. University of Notre Dame.
• 7 p.m. Thursday, virtual lecture, “Saunter, Meander, Stalk, March, Roll: The Poetics and Politics of Walking,” Rebecca Brittenham, professor of English. Register by Tuesday at https://forms.gle/hMiAsLGZhGw1xwC68. Indiana University South Bend.
• 10:40 a.m. Friday, virtual Ten Years Hence Lecture: ”Automated Approaches to Detecting, Attributing, and Characterizing Falsified Media,” Matt Turek, program manager at DARPA’s Information Innovation Office. Register at https://think.nd.edu/registration-ten-years-hence. University of Notre Dame.
• 12:30 p.m. Friday, virtual lecture, Dante in America III: ”Why America’s Poets Turned to Dante During the Civil War,” Joshua Matthews, associate professor, Dordt University and ”Dante and Social Justice,” Dennis Looney, director, Modern Language Association of America. Register at italianstudies.nd.edu. University of Notre Dame.
