R. Scott Appleby, professor of history and the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace 91��Ƶ, John Paul Lederach, professor of international peacebuilding, and A. Rashied Omar, assistant professor of Islamic studies and peacebuilding, delivered the most recent lecture in the University of Notre Dames Saturday Scholar Series,The Role of Religion in Peacebuildingon November 4.

The presentation explored the constructive achievements of religiously inspired peace builders, and what those religious actors have done in the past to stimulate the peacebuilding capacity of people suffering in conflicts.The panel also discussed the role of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute in supporting and promoting peace around the world.

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Sponsored by theCollegeofArtsand Letters, the Saturday Scholar Series presentations begin three and one-half hours before kickoff of each home football game and are held in the Annenberg Auditorium of theSniteMuseum.

The final presentation of 2006 will be November 18 and will feature a musical performance by music department faculty members Georgine Resick (soprano) and John Blacklow (piano).TitledSeeds of Change,the program will feature French musicfrom the first half of the 19th century, including works by Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt, Gounod, and Saint-Säens, as well as spoken commentary drawing parallels between themusic of the period and concurrent trends in literature, the visual arts, social history and politics.

For more information on the Saturday Scholar Series, including a schedule of speakers, visit .

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The Center for Ethical Education (CEE) at the University of Notre Dame will host its first symposium examining personality and moral development Thursday to Saturday (Oct. 12 to14) in McKenna Hall.

TitledPersonality&Moral Character,the symposium will bring together leading scholars presenting several different theoretical and research-based approaches to the concept of moral personality and the role of moral commitments in the construction of identity.

In addition to creating a forum for dialogue among established thought leaders, the symposium aims to inform, engage and inspire the work of rising scholars in the field, and will address questions such asWhat is the moral self?,andHow should we understand moral character as a dimension of human personality?

Darcia Narvaez, associate professor of psychology at Notre Dame and executive director of the CEE, is a distinguished scholar in the fields of moral development and moral personality and has published more than 40 books, chapters and articles in the field. She will share her expertise during the symposium as leader of a session titledThe Neurobiological Roots of Our Multiple Moral Personalities.

Narvaez is the co-author of the first chapter of theHandbook of Child Psychology,titledCharacter Educationand currently directsGood Media, Good Kids,a project designed to create a database of ethical ratings of childrens mediaavailable to the public on the Web.The project also is designed to educate kids, parents, and community members about media messages, use media with ethical messages to cultivate character, and study developmental differences in comprehending media messages.

Notre Dame’s Clark Power, professor in the Program of Liberal 91��Ƶ, and Daniel Lapsley, professor of psychology, also will be speaking.

More information on the symposium is available at

The Center for Ethical Education focuses on building ethical community and character. The center envisions a world in which media, sports and schooling foster opportunities for ethical leadership and intentionally promote ethical growth.

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Three faculty members from the University of Notre Dames Department of History have been awarded post-doctoral research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for 2005-06.

Olivia Constable, Margaret Meserve and Linda Przybyszewski were among the 60 winners selected from a pool of 878 applicants.

Constable, professor of history and director of graduate studies, specializes in medieval Spanish history, Mediterranean social and economic history, and Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations.She is pursuing research on Muslims living in 13th-centuryEuropeunder four different rulers. Through a comparison of the monarchs and their relationships with Muslims and Islam, Constable reveals thatpragmatism and regional context, more than theology, determined the course of relations between Christians and Muslims in medievalEurope.

Meserve, assistant professor of history specializing in early modernEuropeand Renaissance, will continue her study titledA Renaissance of News: The Italian Market in Printed Political Information, 1470-1527. ** Examining a large sampling of Renaissance news, Meserve explores the literary strategies Renaissance authors used to interpret the news of their time, and traces the connections among authors, printers, readers and states seeking to control the flow of information.

Przybyszewski, an associate professor,U.S.legal history specialist and 19th-centuryU.S.historian, will pursue a study titledThe Cincinnati Bible War of 1869-1872: Law, Confessionalism, and the State in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica.

In examining this period, beginning with the 1869 removal of the Bible from public schools and ending with an 1872 pro-Bible lawsuit defeat in the Ohio SupremeCourt, Przybyszewski analyzes the history of the separation of church and state. Her research reveals theinadequacies of this narrative by demonstrating the strength of competing theories of church and stateliberal, evangelical, Catholicin the late 19th century, (and) the continuation of religious training in the public schools.

The ACLS is a private non-profit federation of 68 national scholarly organizations committed to the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and social sciences.Carrying stipends of up to $60,000, the ACLS Fellowship Program helps distinguished scholars who have earned a doctoral or an equivalent degree to devote a full year to the research and writing of monographs or equally substantial forms of scholarship.

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An examination of the various aspects of literary art in the 1960s will be the focus of a two-day lecture series, Monday and Tuesday (Nov. 14 and 15), in McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame.

“Artworlds of the Sixties,” sponsored by the Department of English, will explore the art, music, literature, poetry and novels of the60s and why they remain significant today.

The topics and lecturers are as follows:

Monday, 4:30 p.m.:At Loose Ends: Art, Music, and Literature in the60s, Herman Rapaport, professor of English at the University of Southampton and a critical theorist who specializes in comparative literature and cultural studies

Monday, 5:30 p.m.:The Break with Cage: A Generational Perspective, Jessica Chalmers, assistant professor of film, television and theatre at Notre Dame and an award-winning playwright and scholar of performance studies

Tuesday, 4:30 p.m.:Did the Novel Die? (and Would We Know?), R.M. Berry, professor of English at Florida State University and an expert in 20th century literature, critical theory and creative fiction writing

Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.:Collage Culture: Harry Smith and California Poetry, Stephen Fredman, professor and chair of the Department of English at Notre Dame and a 20th century American poetry and poetics scholar.

The lectures are free and open to the public.For more information, contact Gerald Bruns at 574-631- 6991, or gbruns@nd.edu .

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