Stamps are not for me,mused Louis Jordan some 15 years ago.But I kind of like coins.And so began one mans journey from librarian to currency expert.

Though he protests being labeled a numismatist, even a brief conversation withJordan, head of the University Librariesspecial collections and the Medieval Institute Library at Notre Dame, reveals his wealth of currency knowledge.

A medievalist by study,Jordanbecame responsible for the librarys special collections after a departmental restructuring in 1992 and was taken aback by the Universitys extensive collection of coins and paper currency from around the world. Many of the pieces dated to an anonymous donation in 1887, while material and financial gifts from Robert H. Gore Jr. rounded out the collection.

Jordan, who collected coins as a boy but ceased in college due toobvious financial concerns,quickly became fascinated with the history contained in the numismatic holdings. Notes personally engraved and printed by Benjamin Franklin sat side by side with Spanish gold recovered from sunken pirate ships, all hidden away in the basement vault of the Hesburgh Library.

But with his collecting days far behind him, it was not the coins and bills that captivatedJordans historical mind – it was their stories.

A bill printed by Paul Revere in June 1776 showed a soldier holding a scroll of the Magna Carta. When that same tender was re-printed just six months later, the minuteman was pictured clutching the Declaration of Independence. Even the numismatically challenged can appreciate this visual history lesson.

George Washington mentioned a half dime from 1772, one of the first 2,500 coins produced by the U.S. Mint, in his fourth Annual Address. Numismatic folklore dictates that these coins were cast from the first presidents personal silverware collection.

How couldJordanmake these treasures available to the public? The answer came in the form of what was then an emerging new technology – the Internet.

Historical information and digital images of some of the most exclusive coins, bills and tokens in Notre Dames collection were posted online. The original Web site received so much traffic that it was soon replaced with the current incarnation ( ).

As one can imagine, photographing the collection and preparing the Web pages is a painstaking task, andJordandoes the majority of the work personally. In fact, the success of the site actually has slowed his progress in updating it to a database format.

International exposure via the Web keeps the collections caretaker busy as a walking reference book.I receive requests [regarding our currency] from all over the world on a daily basis,Jordansaid.

The Federal Reserve Bank has phoned for images, as has the U.S. Mint inPhiladelphia. Questions from elementary and secondary teachers are common, but the query from the Smithsonian Institution admittedly surprisedJordan. The collection garnered some discreet fame in 2006 when a note printed by Benjamin Franklin was featured on a U.S. Postal Service stamp commemorating the 300 ^th anniversary of his birth.

The Library of Congress recently selected the Web site for inclusion in its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. In response to the burgeoning amount of significant content that is created only in a digital form, such as coverage of presidential elections and the September 11 terrorist attacks, the exclusive program cannot be applied for.

Though he still pictures himself as a historian and librarian, Jordan is one of 200 fellows of the American Numismatic Society and is author of a book on the history ofMassachusetts17 ^th century mint.

As it turns out, these numismatic pursuits are just as enlightening as his scholarly studies of texts from the ancient Greeks and manuscripts from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.Jordanroutinely helps colonial specialists, economic historians and legal scholars discover information in the Notre Dame collection that is not available anywhere else.

HarvardLaw91��Ƶnever calls to use our books, because they already have a copy,he explains.But they do call to look at our currency.

Even if every book in the world is available through electronic media, special collections such as the numismatic holdings remain a unique contribution to scholarship that set a library apart from all other institutions.

In fact,Jordanbelieves that Notre Dames special collections not only increase its academic presence but are also a gift to all of society.

Part of a universitys role is preserving the past for the people of the future,he explains.

These echoes of the past are the true riches thatJordanenthusiastically shares. And while collectors will always attempt to appraise obsolete currency, Notre Dames numismatic collection provides stories that are priceless.

TopicID: 23286

The role of religion in the 2004 presidential election is the subject of a new book edited by David E. Campbell, John Cardinal OHara, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

Published by Brookings Institution Press,A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Electionevaluates the claim that moral values were decisive in the contest.

With contributions from 17 experts on religion and politics, including Notre Dame professor emeritus of political science David C. Leege, the book points to exit polls and a strong turnout among evangelical voters as evidence that faith-based values decided the election. Also included are analyses of the strategies used to mobilize religious conservatives, what the 2004 results might mean for future election cycles, and the voting behavior of groups such as evangelicals, African-Americans and the understudied religious left.

Campbell, who earned his doctorate fromHarvardUniversity, joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2002. A fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, he is the author ofWhy We Vote:How91��Ƶsand Communities Shape Our Civic Lifeand co-author ofThe Education Gap: Vouchers andUrban91��ƵsandDemocracy at Risk: How Political Choices Have Undermined Citizenship and What We Can Do About It.

* Contact * : David Campbell, 574-631-7809, dave_campbell@nd.educampbell@nd.edu
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His mother was an Irish Catholic from Boston, his father a Mexican-American migrant worker. Fresh off his first job as a paperboy, Marc Rodriguez joined a Milwaukee grocers union at age 16. If asked to predict the future profession of this blue-collar young man, few observers would have forecast the academy. Yet Rodriguez always knew he wanted to be an agent of social change, and he found that opportunity as an assistant professor of history at Notre Dame.

A physician and aman of the classics,Rodriguezs maternal grandfather recognized the value of an education and guided his grandchildren to the professions or academia. Able to graduate from high school despite having worked in the fields from age 5, Rodriguezs father was the fortunate exception among his nomadic peers. Two worlds collided when his mother volunteered for a service project with migrant farm workers after collegeand met her future husband.

Witness to both the upper-middle and poor working classes, young Marc had a lot of questions about the world. What had led two people from such different backgrounds to the social protest movement of the 1960s? Why did his mothers family have so much and his fathers so little? Most important, what cultural dynamics led to the evident contrast between their two worlds?

These nagging questions combined with his familys focus on learning led Rodriguez into higher education. After brief stints as a lawyer and a professor at Princeton, he took a position teaching Mexican-American history at Notre Dame. Rodriguezs primary research and upcoming book focus on how diverse groups, from Mexican-American farm workers to student activists, shape the message of ethnic participation as Americans.

Dont forget where you came from,says Rodriguez, who finds that most undergraduates come into his class with little recognition of Mexican-Americans as a long-term community. Using his own family tree as a teaching tool, he shows how Mexican-Americans are not a new population, but in fact a multi-layered group with deep roots in the United States.

Students are not the only ones who can be unfamiliar with the society they live in; teachers can be naive as well. Rodriguezs constant criticism of the academy is that it fails to reflect the world around it. While many professors, especially at elite institutions like Princeton and Notre Dame, are often sons and daughters of former professors, Rodriguez brings a fresh perspective to academia. He takes pride in being a living example that social mobility can be realized through motivation.

For Rodriguez, motivation has never been in short supply. He completed his doctoral coursework before attending law school and then proceeded to write his dissertation on the weekends while working towards his juris doctor. While many would find this path unorthodox, he apparently found it helpful.My law classes shaped my dissertationthe legal training really helps me get to the point in both my writing and teaching,he says.

While he is a member of the Notre Dame Law 91��Ƶ faculty, Rodriguez currently focuses on teaching history.I love classes with critical students who always have something to say and challenge me,he says. He particularly appreciates the religious discussion possible in a Notre Dame classroom, leading as it does to fruitful discourse that is lacking at many other institutions. Teachingsome of the best students he has ever taught,Rodriguez feels fortunate to have the opportunity to share his unique heritage with passionate young Notre Dame minds.

TopicID: 22829

Stacey Williams, a University of Notre Dame junior, has been selected to attend the Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute atCarnegieMellonUniversityinPittsburgh.

The seven-week program will prepare 30 students for graduate programs in public and international affairs and careers as policy professionals and public service leaders. The curriculum, designed to sharpen the students’ quantitative, analytic and communication skills, includes disciplines such as economics, statistics, policy issues and leadership topics.

A native ofHickory Hills,Ill., Williams is pursuing a double major in psychology and gender studies. She is vice president of the recently formed Gender 91��Ƶ Undergraduate Honor Society and is active in Feminist Voice and the Progressive Student Alliance.

Founded in 1980, PPIA promotes the inclusion of underrepresented groups in public service through fellowships, outreach programs and a consortium of top public and international affairs graduate programs.

TopicID: 22688

The fundamental aspects of Renaissance literary production are the subject of a new book edited by JoAnn DellaNeva, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at the University of Notre Dame. Published by Harvard University Press,Ciceronian Controversiesis a volume of The I Tatti Renaissance Library.

DellaNeva examines the two major factions of Renaissance writers, those who imitated onlyCiceros Latin prose and those who were inspired by an eclectic array of literary models, with a compilation of previously rare period texts. The book includes letters by Angelo Poliziano, Paolo Cortesi, Pietro Bembo and Celio Calcagnini, among others.

DellaNeva, who earned her doctorate fromPrincetonUniversity, studies Renaissance literature, with a particular interest in love poetry, Franco-Italian literary relations, women writers, the theory and practice of literary imitation and the phenomenon of European Petrarchism.

A two-time recipient of the National Endowment for the HumanitiesFellowship for College Teachers, DellaNeva was named a faculty fellow by the University’sKanebCenterfor Teaching and Learning in 2002. She is the author of numerous journal articles on Renaissance poets and a book on the French poet Maurice Scève, titledSong and Counter-Song: Scèves Délie and Petrarchs Rime.

* Contact * _: JoAnn DellaNeva, 574-631-6131, jdella@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22567

Naomi Hansen, a University of Notre Dame senior fromBarrington,Ill., has been named a 2007 Humanity in Action (HIA) summer fellow. One of 57 undergraduate students chosen from the United States, she will complete a summer training session in New York before pursuing an internship in Berlin this fall.

Hansen will spend July participating in intensive seminars, site visits and focus group activities depicting the challenges of resistance to legal and institutional abuse of minority populations. The summer program will culminate with a period of research and writing in which Hansen and an international partner will complete a scholarly paper. The internship inGermany, which will be supplemented by a weekly lecture series on local social justice issues, will allow her to put knowledge from the training program into practice.

A political science and Arabic major, Hansens senior research project compares land allocation in historic apartheidSouth Africaand current Israel-Palestine. She has completed intern and volunteer work with the Human Rights Commission of South Bend, Refugee and Immigration Services of South Bend and theSouth BendCenterfor the Homeless. Off campus, Hansen has participated in Experiential Learning Seminars sponsored by theNotre DameCenterfor Social Concerns inChinaand four domestic sites.

HIA fellows are selected on the basis of academic achievement, leadership ability and commitment to human rights issues. Founded in 1997, HIA works to guide student leaders in the study and work of human rights causes with educational programs in theUnited StatesandEurope.

TopicID: 22487

Keir A. Lieber, assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a 2007 International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations.

The fellowship encourages qualified individuals from the academic, business, professional, government, religious and congregational communities to seek to bridge the gap between analysis and action in foreign policy by supporting a variety of policy studies and active experiences in policy making.

The grant will enable Lieber to spend one year focusing on his research project,The Challenge of Nuclear Proliferation in an Era of U.S. Primacy,which explores the history and trajectory ofUnited Statesnuclear weapons policy. He plans to spend the time in a high level policy making setting with the National Security Council or Department of State.

Lieber, who holds a Ph.D. from theUniversityofChicago, came to Notre Dame in 2001 fromGeorgetownUniversity. An international relations scholar, he serves as a faculty fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91��Ƶ and the Nanovic Institute for European 91��Ƶ.

Liebers research and teaching focuses on international relations theory, international conflict and security andU.S.foreign policy. He is author of the bookWar and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology,which explores the relationship between technological change and the causes of war.

_ Contact: Keir Lieber, 574-631-0379, keir.lieber.1@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22307

A malaria bed net campaign, currently underway on campus, is raising funds to help eradicate the preventable disease inAfrica. For each $10 gift, Malaria No More will provide one protective bed net to an at-risk African.

Donations toward the bed net will be accepted at the Center for Social Concerns throughout the week.For each $10 contribution, an orange MDG shirt will be offered to promote awareness of all eight Millennium Development Goals.

Members of the Notre Dame community are encouraged to wear the orange shirts Wednesday (April 25), which was designated Malaria Awareness Day at the White House Summit on Malaria in December.

The first malaria bed net campaign at Notre Dame, held last November and December, raised more than $10,000. Contributions from students, faculty and staff provided 1,000 bed nets to protect children and mothers against the transmission of malaria.

A complete schedule of events for MDG Awareness Week is available on the Web at .

_ Contact: Rosie McDowell, 574-631-0468, McDowell.9@nd.edu _

TopicID: 22286

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, the Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a 2007-08 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to experienced scholars, scientists and artists on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. Kerby-Fulton, one of 189 fellows selected out of nearly 2,800 applicants, will spend the year working on her current research project, titledMedieval Reading Circles and the Rise of English Literature inEnglandand Anglo-Ireland.

Kerby-Fulton, who earned her doctorate at theUniversityofYorkin theUnited Kingdom, specializes in Middle English literature and related areas of medieval studies. Previously a faculty member at the University of Victoria, she has served as a visiting scholar at Yale University and completed a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

She is the author of two books on medieval literary writers,Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers PlowmanandBooks Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late MedievalEngland.

Since 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has granted more than $256 million in fellowships to some 16,250 people. Awarded to scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, past fellowship recipients include Ansel Adams, Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson and Eudora Welty.

_ Contact: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, 574-631-7372, kkerby@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22246

Lead-ND , a network of volunteers at the University of Notre Dame, will mark National and Global Youth Service Day 2007 with a celebration assembly from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday (April 21) in the media center atJeffersonIntermediateCenter. A light breakfast will be provided at the event, which is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Youth Service America (YSA), National and Global Youth Service Day recognizes the impact of youth volunteers in communities around the world. This marks the third year theSouth Bendarea has participated in the weekend of celebration.

Throughout April, Lead-ND, in conjunction with YSA, is encouraging people ages 25 and younger to participate in service projects in their community. Area youths are asked to document all projects planned for this weekend with Lead-ND on the Web at .

Founded in 2004, Lead-ND facilitates a weekly after-school program at area intermediate schools. By providing service-based leadership curriculum to children, they work to empower future community leaders and agents of change.

* Contact: * _Kim Del Guercio, 973-727-1131, kdelguer@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22247

The University of Notre Dame will hold its annual Eucharistic Procession on April 22 (Sunday). The procession will start at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart immediately after the 11:45 a.m. Mass and is open to the Notre Dame-South Bend community.

The Notre Dame Knights ofColumbuswill provide a picnic lunch at the conclusion of the event. More information as well as an event registration form can be found on the Web at .

The procession will make its way throughout the Notre Dame campus, stopping to celebrate Benediction at four altars, and will conclude at theMainBuilding. In the event of inclement weather, the procession will be held inside the Basilica.

Once held yearly at the University, Eucharistic Processions through campus fell out of practice after the Second Vatican Council. Inspired by Pope John Paul IIs declaration of October 2004 to October 2005 as theYear of the Eucharist,Notre Dame students, clubs and Campus Ministry staff restored the tradition in 2005.

By honoring the consecrated host, students, faculty, staff and religious of Notre Dame, Saint Marys College andHolyCrossCollegealong with the general public will give public witness to the Catholic teaching that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist.

_ Contact: Rev. Kevin Russeau, C.S.C., 574-631-7295, russeau.3@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22186

Shashi Tharoor, former under-secretary-general of the United Nations, will deliver the 13 ^th annual Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Lectures on Ethics and Public Policy at4:15 p.m.April 17 (Tuesday) and12:30 p.m.April 18 (Wednesday), both in the auditorium of theHesburghCenterfor International 91��Ƶ at the University of Notre Dame.

Tharoors lecture on April 17, titledGlobalization, Terrorism and the Human Imagination,will be followed by a reception. On April 18 he will speak onThe Future of the United Nations.The lectures are presented by Notre Dames Kroc Institute for International Peace 91��Ƶ and are free and open to the public.

A national ofIndia, Tharoor concluded his nearly 29 years of service to the United Nations in February. Upon his appointment as under-secretary-general for communications and public information in 2002, Tharoor became responsible for the management of 750 staff members and field offices in 63 countries. Under his leadership, what had been a widely criticized bureaucracy was transformed into a focused, results-oriented department.

Tharoor, who earned his doctorate from the Fletcher 91��Ƶ of Law and Diplomacy at age 22, is the award-winning author of nine books, includingThe Great Indian Novel,India: From Midnight to the MillenniumandNehru: The Invention of India.He is also a widely published critic and commentator, with columns appearing in The Hindu, The Times of India and Newsweek.

Indias candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. secretary-general in 2006, Tharoor emerged second out of seven contenders for the position. In 1998, he was named by the World Economic Forum inDavos,Switzerland, as a “Global Leader of Tomorrow.”

_ Contact: Colette Sgambati, Kroc Institute, 574-631-9370, sgambati.2@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22128

Bethany McLean, a senior editor and writer for Fortune magazine who broke open the story of corruption in the Enron Corp., will speak at7 p.m.April 17 (Tuesday) in the Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by the OBrien-Smith Leadership Program, her lecture is free and open to the public.

In her 2001 storyIs Enron Overpriced?,McLeanwas the first national business reporter to raise questions about the corporate energy giant. After reviewing company financial statements that were lacking crucial information, she questioned how the seventh largest corporation inAmericawas actually making its money.

McLeanwent on to co-authorThe Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron,which was the basis for the 2005 Academy Award- nominated documentaryEnron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.She has shared her expertise on the Enron collapse in appearances on national network and cable news shows.

After graduating from Williams College, McLean worked as a Wall Street investment analyst for Goldman Sachs. She joined Fortune in 1995 and now covers a wide variety of topics.

The OBrien-Smith Leadership Program is designed to bring national business, non-profit and government leaders into the Mendoza College of Business learning community on a biannual basis.

* Contact: * _Jean Molloy,MendozaCollegeof Business, 574-631-3277, jmeixel@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22129

Daniel K. Lapsley and Darcia Narváez, members of the psychology department faculty at the University of Notre Dame, have been selected as the 2007 Book Award recipients by the Moral Development and Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

The honor recognizes Lapsley and Narváez, for their 2004 bookMoral Development, Self, and Identity.The award was presented Tuesday (April 10) at the AERAs annual meeting inChicago.

A compilation of essays from a distinguished interdisciplinary and international panel of scholars, the volume uses as a point of departure the seminal writings of renowned moral psychologist Augusto Blasi. His studies on moral cognition, the development of self-identity, and moral personality transformed research agendas and are recognized as a starting point for all discussion in moral psychology.

Lapsley, who earned his doctorate in educational psychology from theUniversityofWisconsin, returned to Notre Dame as a professor in 2006. He previously served on the Universitys psychology faculty from 1983 to 1991. His research focuses on topics in adolescent social cognitive and personality development, including work on adolescent invulnerability and risk behavior, narcissism, separation-individuation, self, ego and identity development and college adjustment.

A fellow of Notre Dames Institute for Educational Initiatives and research director of its Center for Ethical Education, Lapsley also teaches in the ACE program. He is the author of the bookMoral Psychologyand serves on the executive board of the International Association for Moral Education.

Narvaez, the executive director of the Center for Ethical Education, came to Notre Dame as an assistant professor in 2000. Before completing her doctoral degree at theUniversityofMinnesota, she taught K-12 classroom music and middle-school Spanish. Narvaez, who also holds a master’s degree from Luther Northwestern Seminary, researches issues of moral cognition, moral development and character education.

Narvaez is a co-author ofPostconventional Moral Thinking: A Neo-Kohlbergian Approachas well as numerous scholarly articles. She has served as a proposal reviewer for the National Science Foundation and currently is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Moral Education, The Journal of Educational Psychology and The Encyclopedia of Moral Education.

_ Contact: Daniel Lapsley, 574-631-8789,_ " dlapsle1@nd.edu ":mailto:dlapsle1@nd.edu or Darcia Narváez, 574-631-7385, " dnarvaez@nd.edu ":mailto:dnarvaez@nd.edu

TopicID: 22110

Francesco Buranelli, director of the Vatican Museums, will present the 2007 Terrence R. Keeley Visiting Vatican Lecture at 7:30 p.m. April 17 (Tuesday) in the Annenberg Auditorium of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.

TitledThe Vatican Museums: The Holy Sees Portal to the World,the lecture is free and open to the public.

Buranellis visit to campus, from April 15 to 19, is cosponsored by Notre Dames Nanovic Institute for European 91��Ƶ and the Snite Museum of Art.

Buranelli was appointed general director of the Vatican Museums by Pope John Paul II in 2002. The museums collections, including Michelangelos frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, are visited by more than 3 million people annually. A new Web site, engineered under Buranelli, makes virtual access to the majority of the institution available to people around the world.

The museum director and his staff are responsible for the restoration and promotion of all art of the Holy See, including architecture as well as moveable works in the galleries. Buranelli also represents theVaticanin international preservation and restoration conferences and organizes traveling exhibitions.

A native ofRome, Buranelli has worked at the Vatican Museums for 25 years. He earned a degree in etruscology and Italic antiquities and a dottore di ricerca (doctoral degree) in archeology from Rome University La Sapienza.

* Contact: * _Kathleen Kiesselbach, Nanovic Institute, 574-631-3545, kkiessel@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22086

Frances Hagopian, the Michael P. Grace II Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a 2007-08 fellowship from theWoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterfor Scholars.

Hagopian will spend the academic year working on her current research project, titledReorganizing Political Representation in Latin America: Parties, Program and Patronage inArgentina,Brazil,ChileandMexico,in residence at theWilsonCenterinWashington,DC.

Hagopian, who earned her doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), serves as a faculty fellow of Notre Dames Kellogg Institute for International 91��Ƶ and Kroc Institute for International Peace 91��Ƶ. She previously taught atHarvardUniversity,TuftsUniversityand MIT.

Her research and teaching focus on the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization and the political economy of economic reform inBraziland the Southern Cone. She is author of the bookTraditional Politics and Regime Change inBraziland co-editor ofThe Third Wave of Democratization inLatin America.

Established by an act of Congress in 1968, theWilsonCenteris the nations official living memorial to the only American president with a doctoral degree, Woodrow Wilson. A non-partisan institute for advanced study and dialogue, the center brings pre-eminent thinkers toWashingtonto interact with policymakers and public officials.

_ Contact: Fran Hagopian, 574-631-8529, fhagopia@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22090

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Haskell Wexler will screen two films April 11 and 12 (Wednesday and Thursday) in the Browning Cinema of the University of Notre DamesDeBartoloCenterfor the Performing Arts.

Part of the FTT Talks Lecture Series, his appearance is co-sponsored by the Department of Film, Television and Theatre and theDeBartoloCenter.

Wexlers 2006 investigative workWho Needs Sleep?will show April 11 at 7 p.m. The film documents exploitative working conditions inHollywoodand highlights the lack of sufficient protection for film workers. A presentation titledSocial Justice through Documentary Filmmakingwill be facilitated by Notre Dame FTT professor Jill Godmilow after the film. There is no charge for admission, but tickets are required.

Medium Cool,filmed in 1969 and one of Wexlers most enduring works, will be featured April 12 at 7 p.m. After the film, the director will discuss his lengthy career in both theHollywoodand independent film arenas in a presentation titledFive Decades In and Out of Hollywood.Admission to this event is $6 for the general public, $5 for faculty and staff, $4 for seniors and $3 for students.

The screenings and subsequent discussions are open to the public. Tickets are available by calling 574-631-2800 or on the Web at .

Noted for their socially conscious themes, Wexlers ventures into directing have received critical acclaim.Medium Cool,for which he also wrote the screenplay, chronicles the affairs of aChicagonews cameraman during the 1968 Democratic convention.Who Needs Sleep,inspired by a colleague who died after falling asleepwhile driving home from work, showed to packed audiences at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

One of only six cinematographers to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Wexler began working on feature films in the late 1950s. His cinematography credits includeIn the Heat of the Night,American Graffiti,One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestandMulhollandFalls.Wexler twice won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, in 1966 forWhos Afraid of Virginia Woolfand in 1976 forBound for Glory.

Other sponsors of the lectures are theCollegeofArtsand LettersInstitute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and Learning Beyond the Classroom Program, Department of Sociology,HigginsLaborResearchCenter, International Student Services and Activities, Mid America Filmmakers and Saint Marys College Film 91��Ƶ Program.

* Contact: * _Christine Sopczynski, 574-631-0457, csopczyn@nd.edu
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TopicID: 22048

Daniel Levine, a visiting fellow in Notre Dames Kellogg Institute for International 91��Ƶ, will deliver a lecture titledFutures of Christianity in Latin Americaat 12:30 p.m. April 10 (Tuesday) in Room C-103 of theHesburghCenteron campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Highly regarded for his studies ofLatin America, Levine will speak on the trajectory of Christianity in the region in the context of new trends. He will examine likely and possible changes within Catholicism, the new landscape of religious competition, and the impact these transformations have on politics and civil society. The impact of violence, particularly relevant in Latin American political history, also will be discussed.

The James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science at theUniversityofMichigan, Devine earned his doctorate fromYaleUniversity. He is spending the spring 2007 semester in residence at the Kellogg Institute.

Levine is the author ofPopular Voices in Latin American CatholicismandConstructing Culture and Power inLatin Americaas well as numerous scholarly articles. His project at the Kellogg Institute explores the long-term implications social and political developments may hold for the relation of religion to the culture and practice of democracy inLatin America.

* Contact: * _Kelly Roberts, Kellogg Institute, 574-631-9184, krobert2@nd.edu
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TopicID: 21968

Raymond J. DeMallie, professor of anthropology atIndianaUniversity, will discuss American Indian timekeeping in a lecture at 7:30 p.m. April 3 (Tuesday) in the auditorium of theHesburghCenterat the University of Notre Dame.

TitledLakota Winter Counts and the Cultural Interpretation of Time,DeMallies lecture is sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program and co-hosted by the Notre Dame chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (Epsilon of Indiana) and the Department of Anthropology. The lecture and an ensuing reception are free and open to the public.

The Lakota people kept pictorial records that designated each passing winter and served as calendars to name the years. DeMallies talk will introduce winter counts as a genre, discuss the nature of the events they commemorate, and offer some interpretation of what they reveal about native Lakota concepts of time and history.

DeMallie is director of the American Indian 91��Ƶ Research Institute atIndianaUniversity, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1973. He earned a doctoral degree in anthropology from theUniversityofChicagoand is past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory.

With research focusing on the social organization, belief systems, oral traditions and material culture of the Plains Indians of North America, DeMallie has edited several publications, includingNorth American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and CultureandSioux Indian Religion: Tradition and Innovation.He has done fieldwork on reservations in the Dakotas,MontanaandSaskatchewan.

* Contact: * _Mark Schurr, department of anthropology, 574-631-7638, mschurr@nd.edu
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TopicID: 21867

Howard Schultz, chairman and former chief executive officer of Starbucks, will receive the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Award for Ethics in Business and deliver the Frank Cahill Lecture in Business Ethics on Thursday (March 29) at the University of Notre Dame.

The ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. in the Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza College of Business. Father Hesburgh, president emeritus of Notre Dame and namesake of the honor, will present Schultz with the award.

Schultz purchased a small Seattle coffee bean store called Starbucks in 1987 with a vision of putting a neighborhood coffee shop on every street corner. He brought recognition to the now corporate icon with its innovative marketing and pop-culture products as well as its commitment to social responsibility.

The Starbucks Corp. is committed to maintaining the guiding principles set forth by Schultz including: providing a respectful work environment, embracing diversity, applying the highest standards of product excellence, satisfying customers and making positive contributions to society and the environment.

Starbucks employees working as few as 20 hours per week qualify for health benefits and many of the 145,000 workers are eligible for stock options. Schultz has been at the forefront of numerous social and environmental initiatives sponsored by the company.

Starbucks, which went public in 1992, has more than 13,000 retail stores worldwide and is opening an average of five new locations per day. The corporation has been named to Business Ethics magazines 100 Best Corporate Citizens List and Fortune magazines 100 Best Companies to Work For.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Schultz was graduated from Northern Michigan University. He is the co-author ofPour Your Heart into It,a book detailing his journey with Starbucks. Co-founder of the venture capital firm Maveron, Schultz also serves on the board of directors of DreamWorks Animation SKG.

The Hesburgh Award is presented by Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business and Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide.

The Cahill Lecture at Notre Dame was established by the family of 1959 University alumnus and benefactor Frank Cahill to honor his memory and commitment to ethical behavior and integrity.

Contact: Deborah Coch, 574-631-6072, dcoch@nd.edu

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