Please join us for a virtual seminar presented by Ilenia Battiatio, Assistant Professor, Department of Energy Resources at Stanford University

 

 

Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ Encyclical raises urgent and complex questions about how our thinking about sustainability and the environment is inextricably linked with questions of justice, happiness, policy, and the meaning of our lives. This event will give participants a “crash course” in the key arguments and big ideas of the encyclical, provide insights from colleagues across the university whose teaching and research connect to the problems that Pope Francis outlines, and surface the work and opportunities that allow us to respond to this call at Notre Dame.…

A panel of scholars will discuss the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released in August 2021. This landmark report has captured international attention by painting a bleak picture of the planet's future, warning that hotter global temperatures are now unavoidable. The panel will discuss the implications of the IPCC report for Europe, considering what steps might still be taken to prevent its most catastrophic possible future scenarios. …

Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ Encyclical raises urgent and complex questions about how our thinking about sustainability and the environment is inextricably linked with questions of justice, happiness, policy, and the meaning of our lives. This event will give participants a “crash course” in the key arguments and big ideas of the encyclical, provide insights from colleagues across the university whose teaching and research connect to the problems that Pope Francis outlines, and surface the work and opportunities that allow us to respond to this call at Notre Dame.…

Climate change, sustainability, and international security are inextricably linked. Environmental and climate-related disasters threaten food and water security, drive conflict, and destabilize international security. Global conflict, in turn, threatens international action on climate change while also endangering the environment. A just transition to a more sustainable future must confront the threats that arise from cascading, long-term climate disruptions. In…

Join us for the first of this Fall's 'Saturdays with the Saints' series which will focus on Saints Francis and Augustine, Saints of Laudato Si'.

Can saints who lived so long ago truly contribute to the solution of a modern problem? Pope Francis must think so, for he deliberately echoes St. Francis's Canticle of Brother Sun in the title and opening paragraph of "Laudato Si'," and the theology of St. Augustine is decisive for his call to care for our common home, "Sister Mother Earth." In a way, these two saints live again and anew for our time in this, Pope Francis's most important encyclical letter to date.…

Please join us for a seminar presented by Daniele De Almeida Miranda, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Univertsity of Notre Dame

 

 

 

Bill Purcell has been the director of the Catholic Social Tradition at the Center for Social Concerns, as well as a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, since the summer of 2005. He oversees the integration of Catholic social thought into center courses and programming.

Bill also is a co-director of the interdisciplinary Catholic Social Tradition Minor at the University. He teaches community-based learning courses on poverty and various social issues. Bill acts as a liaison for the center with national Catholic institutions, which focus on justice education.…

Please join us for a virtual seminar presented by Aaron Hroznecik, Research Economist, USDA Economic Research Service.