The conference, titledFrom Res Publica to the Republic of Letters: The Common Good in Transition and Translation,will be held Thursday to Saturday (Oct. 9 to 11) at Notre Dames Hesburgh Center for International 91ÊÓƵ.

The event is sponsored jointly by Notre Dames Nanovic Institute for European 91ÊÓƵ, Graduate 91ÊÓƵ and Kellogg Institute for International 91ÊÓƵ.

The purpose of the conference is for graduate students to gain experience by presenting research to their peers while participating in ongoing debateshistorical, philosophical, religious and politicalabout the common good.

Notre Dame students, faculty and the general public are invited to attend all sessions and presentations, including the opening address by David Nirenberg, professor of history and social thought at the University of Chicago, as well as two special guest lectures featuring Constance Furey, professor of religious studies and history at Indiana University, and Jonathan Daly, professor of history at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

The conference schedule is:

*Thursday (Oct. 9)

• 6 -6:45 p.m.Opening Address: David Nirenberg
  “The Place of Judaism and Islam in Benedict
  XVI’s Dialectic of Faith and Reason

*Friday (Oct. 10)

• 9-10:30 a.m.Panel:Contemplating the Common Good
  11-2:30 p.m.Panel:God, Us and Others
  1:45-2:30 p.m. Guest Speaker:Constance Furey
  Excluding All Others: Religious Affinities and the
  Common Good
  2:45-4:15 p.m.Panel:Gendering the Common Good in Early
  Modern EnglishLiterature
  2:45-4:15 p.m.Concurrent panel:Envisioning an American
  Common Good

*Saturday (Oct. 11)

• 9-10:30 a.m.Panel:National Goods and Common Goods
  11-12:30 p.m.Panel:For Your Own (Common) Good
  1:45-2:30 p.m.Guest Speaker:Jonathan DalyHijacking the
  Idea of the Common Good
  2:45-4:15 p.m.Panel:Reading the Common Good

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