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Human rights lawyer Monalisa targets child sex trafficking as practitioner in residence
Monalisa is spending the 2024-25 academic year as a practitioner in residence with the Institute for Social Concerns and the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience.
ReSEARCHING for the Common Good: Brian Ó Conchubhair
The Institute for Social Concerns leverages research to respond to the complex demands of justice and to serve the common good. This series, ReSEARCHING for the Common Good, highlights some of the scholars in our community.
Catholic universities, corrections officials come together for conference on college-in-prison programs
Notre Dame Programs for Education in Prison, which is based at the Institute for Social Concerns, and the Jesuit Prison Education Network co-hosted a conference from Oct. 20-22 to launch the Consortium for Catholic Higher Education in Prison.
ReSEARCHING for the Common Good: Ozioma Oguine
The Institute for Social Concerns leverages research to respond to the complex demands of justice and to serve the common good. This series, ReSEARCHING for the Common Good, highlights some of the scholars in our community.
Bryan Stevenson delivers powerful message about ‘proximity’ at 2024 Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture
The Institute for Social Concerns’ first event as an institute featured Stevenson, an acclaimed public interest lawyer and author of “Just Mercy,” at the Morris Performing Arts Center in downtown South Bend.
Renamed Institute for Social Concerns reflects expanded research, teaching, and partnerships
The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns will now be called the Institute for Social Concerns.
‘Just Mercy’ author and exoneration attorney Bryan Stevenson to speak at Institute for Social Concerns event in downtown South Bend
Stevenson will deliver the 2024 Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Distinguished Catholic Social Tradition Lecture on Oct. 15 at the Morris Performing Arts Center in downtown South Bend.
Research for the Common Good Symposium celebrates students’ summer research
Six students from the center’s two signature summer programs — NDBridge and Social Concerns Summer Fellowships — presented their research on September 19 at the Research for the Common Good Student Symposium and Andrews Family Reception.
Professor Ryan Juskus brings a spiritual dimension to studies of environmental justice
Over the past 20 years, Ryan Juskus has studied the social, religious, and moral dimensions of environmental justice from the Amazon to Appalachia.
Hacking Catholic social tradition to build a more virtuous internet
“Virtue in Virtual Spaces: Catholic Social Teaching and Technology” is the latest title in the Institute for Social Concerns’ Enacting Catholic Social Tradition series published by Liturgical Press. The book draws on virtue ethics and the Church’s teaching to demonstrate the potential goodness of technology.