The ThinkND Podcast

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Join us for a timely discussion on how peacemaking and peacebuilding viewed through the Catholic lens can guide us through the tumultuous challenges ahead. Featured experts work as practitioners in national security, diplomacy, and conflict prevention.
The Notre Dame Perspectives Pathways to Peace is the final event in the 2022-2023 Notre Dame Forum with the central theme of war and peace.

Moderator:

• Laura McAleer ‘98, Associate Vice President, Federal & Washington Relations

Panelists:

• Michael Desch, Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations and Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center
• Emilia Justyna Powell,Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law
• Author of The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes (2023)
• Mark Rincón ‘98, Deputy Executive Director at Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training
• Ken Heckel ‘96, Director, Office of Military and Veteran Affairs, University of Notre Dame

This podcast is recorded from a live event that took place at the University of Notre Dame's Reunion June 20223.

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Episode Topic: Ardent Spirits - The Essential Science

Have you ever wondered about all the science, engineering, technology, business and craftsmanship that goes into each sip of your favorite spirit? Ken Kuno, professor in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, and Ron Runnebaum ‘96, associate professor in the department of viticulture and enology in the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at UC Davis, invite you to a conversation about what defines a spirit or a distilled beverage and what distinguishes the different products we are familiar with like whiskey, vodka, gin, or tequila. They will also discuss the science and engineering behind how spirits are produced and how the chemistry of different spirits affects how we taste and experience them.

Featured Speakers:

• Ken Kuno, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Concurrent Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame
• Ron C. Runnebaum '96, Assistant Professor, Department of Viticulture & Enology, Robert Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science, UC Davis

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/db3f9a.

This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled “The Secret Life of Spirits”.

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Episode Topic: Storytelling Through SongLed by Grammy® Award winner and Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir Dr. J.J. Wright, this series will introduce The Passion, a new artistic production combining Scripture with original poetry and set to original music. Through Christ’s Passion, we learn to encounter suffering and incarnate love, to behold one another in our “not-enoughness.” As we enter the upcoming Lenten and Easter seasons, we invite you to journey with the Folk Choir and some of our closest collaborators through the development, rehearsal, and performance process of The Passion. Along the way, we will explore the Passion and Resurrection in light of the most pressing issues on the minds of our students, including the clergy sexual abuse crisis, the role of women in the Church, and climate change. The Passion offers a framework for encountering ugliness, teaching us how to respond with compassion, empathy, kindness, forgiveness, and humility. However, encountering ugliness takes work. Music allows us to unite our pursuit of the Passion, not as a distraction from the ugliness, but as an unexpectedly deeper way in. As artists and musicians, we practice over and over and form our bodies and voices to be able to perform freely. In The Passion, the joy and sorrow of performance is completely commingled with God’s story of salvation. The Passion enables us to contemplate the difficult questions that we’re longing to ask and talk about. It enables us to “sing through them or into them” and share the load in community. Through our continued conversations in this course and through The Passion, we hope that you’ll continue sharing the load with us as we explore storytelling through song. In May, the choir will make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where they’ll walk in Jesus’s steps through the Passion and record this new work at the Jerusalem Music Center.

Featured Speakers:

• J.J. Wright, Director, Notre Dame Folk Choir, University of Notre Dame

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/479e19.

This podcast is a part of the Choirs of Notre Dame ThinkND Series titled “The Way of the Cross: A Passion Pilgrimage Through Song”.

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Admiral Christopher W. Grady '84, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Ambassador Joe Donnelly '77, '81 J.D., Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican and Former U.S. Senator, speak on Advancing Peace in a Fractured World in conversation with John McGreevy '86, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost at the University of Notre Dame.

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