Clemens Sedmak
Clemens Sedmak has been appointed professor of social ethics in the . He also holds an appointment in the University of Notre Dame鈥檚 .
Sedmak previously was the FD Maurice Professor for Moral Theology and Social Theology at King鈥檚 College London.
He holds doctoral degrees in philosophy, theology and social theory. Born in Austria, he studied at the University of Innsbruck, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), Maryknoll (New York) and the University of Linz. He has held multiple positions at the University of Salzburg, serving as director of the Center for Ethics and Poverty Research and chair for the Department of Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion.
Sedmak was president of the Institute for Advanced 91视频 in Social Ethics in Salzburg. He has been a visiting professor at the Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi, the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, the University of Jena in Germany, the Vienna Business University and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
Sedmak is the author of numerous publications in German and English, most recently where he explores Pope Francis鈥� global vision of the Church. He also is the author of the first major work to be devoted to 鈥渆pistemic resilience,鈥� or how people make use of inner resources to maintain their humanity through prolonged periods of oppression and suffering.
鈥淭he Keough 91视频 is dedicated to building a deep and diverse faculty whose scholarship and practice engage the central ethical issues shaping governance, development and poverty, war and peace, corporate social responsibility and leadership of international organizations," said , the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough 91视频.
鈥淧rofessor Sedmak 鈥� a gifted scholar and teacher with wide-ranging erudition in philosophy and theology and a deep engagement with Catholic social tradition 鈥� will be an important voice in the Keough 91视频 discussion and debate around these issues.鈥�
Contact: Clemens Sedmak, csedmak1@nd.edu