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Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series
Welcome to the Notre Dame Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government! The Center aims to explore the fundamental principles and practices of a free society so that citizens and civic leaders are equipped to secure our God-given natural rights, exercise the responsibilities of self-government, and pursue the common good. One of the ways we pursue our mission is by welcoming scholars and practitioners in the civic government space to the University of Notre Dame to discuss their…
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Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesSocialism, Populism, Centrism? The Future of Left Politics in America | Notre Dame CCCG
What should the future of the American left look like?In this debate hosted by the Notre Dame Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, journalist…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesResponsibility vs. Red Tape | Phillip Howard | Notre Dame CCCG
Can America's governing institutions still solve big problems, or has red tape replaced responsibility? In this lecture at the Notre Dame Center for…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series2025-26 SCOTUS Recap | Constitution Day | Notre Dame CCCG
What were the most important decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court this term, and what major cases should Americans be watching next? In this Constitution Day…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series25 Years After 9/11 | Jeanie Poole O'Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture | Notre Dame CCCG
How should Americans remember September 11, 2001, twenty-five years later? In this special lecture hosted by the Notre Dame Center for Citizenship and…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesAmerican Odyssey | Patrick Deneen | Notre Dame CCCG
What can an ancient Greek epic reveal about modern America? In this lecture, Patrick Deneen explores the enduring relevance of Homer's Odyssey and argues that…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesDivided Over the Declaration | David Bobb & Tony Williams | Notre Dame CCCG
How should Americans understand the Declaration of Independence 250 years after the founding of the United States?In this lecture at the Notre Dame Center for…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesMammon or Marriage | Brad Wilcox | Notre Dame CCCG
Dating, marriage and childbearing are dropping precipitously among today’s young adults. Yet social science shows that having a good marriage is the strongest…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series"The Emptiness of the Modern Sexual Ethic" with Christine Emba | Notre Dame CCCG
Despite new freedoms (and new technologies), sexual culture seems to have gotten worse, not better. Where is the modern sexual ethic failing, and what might…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe Legacy of Natural Rights | Jud Campbell | 2026 True Lectures, Part 3 (Finale)
Jud Campbell is a professor of law and the Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. He previously served as a professor of law at the…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesFederalism and the Decline of Natural Rights | Jud Campbell | 2026 True Lectures, Part 2
Jud Campbell is a professor of law and the Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. He previously served as a professor of law at the…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesNatural Rights at the Founding | Jud Campbell | 2026 True Lectures, Part 1
Jud Campbell is a professor of law and the Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. He previously served as a professor of law at the…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesDownsides of Markets | 1776 Class #8 (Finale) |
The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesJustice, Beneficence, and the "Well-Governed Society" | 1776 Class #7 |
The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe Nature and Causes of Wealth | 1776 Class #6 |
The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series"All That Is Sacred Must be Profaned" with Carl Trueman | Notre Dame CCCG
While the concept of disenchantment has gained popularity over recent years as the way of addressing the malaise of modernity, is it really an adequate way of…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe Declaration and the Civil War | 1776 Class #5 |
The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series"William F. Buckley Jr.: The Conscience of a Catholic Conservative" with Sam Tanenhaus | Notre Dame CCCG
In this public lecture, Sam Tanenhaus will explore the ways that Catholicism and Catholic interlocutors shaped and reshaped the thought of William F. Buckley…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesEquality, Slavery, and the Founding | 1776 Class #4 |
The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series"Faithful Christians in the Culture War" with Justin Giboney | Notre Dame CCCG
In today's toxic battle between conservatives and progressives, sometimes truth and compassion take a backseat to winning at all costs. Justin Giboney, the…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesHow Anglo-Saxons and Celts Remade the World, feat. Brad Birzer | 1776 Class #3 |
Birzer's lecture will examine the confluence of ideas in 1776 between America and Scotland. The two most important Americans influenced by Scottish thought…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe Declaration of Independence, Social Compact Theory & Principles of the American Revolution | 1776 Class, #2 |
The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series1776: The Ideas That Made the Modern World | #1 |
The University of Notre Dame is launching its celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by offering a new course open to all…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series"In COVID's Wake" by Steve Macedo | Notre Dame CCCG
Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics: science, universities, and serious…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series"Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit" by William C. Mattison III | Book Panel | Notre Dame CCCG
Join our distinguished panel for a discussion of "Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit" by William C. Mattison III. Growing in Virtue is the only comprehensive…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesJudaism and Free Speech on Campus Post-October 7, 2023 | Yorum Hazony | Notre Dame CCCG
Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, biblical scholar, and political theorist. He currently serves as the President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, and…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series"Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere" by Christina Bambrick | Book Panel | Notre Dame CCCG
Christina Bambrick is the Filip Family Assistant Professor of Political Science specializing in constitutional theory. Her research and teaching interests…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesGoodbye, Dr Banda: Lessons for the West from a Small African Country | Alexander Chula | Notre Dame CCCG
Alexander Chula is a Thai-British medical doctor and writer, living and working in London. He studied Classics at Oxford then medicine at the University of…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesNew York Times v. Sullivan and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment | Carson Holloway | Notre Dame CCCG
Carson Holloway is Ralph Wardle Diamond Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a Washington…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesTrump's Legal Troubles | John Yoo | Notre Dame CCCG
John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe Great Awakenings of American Religious Freedom | John Witte, Jr. | Notre Dame CCCG
The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government is joined by Notre Dame Law School's Program on Church, State & Society and the Lindsay and Matt…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesEvaluating the Latest Supreme Court Teachings | John Witte, Jr. | Notre Dame CCCG
The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government is joined by Notre Dame Law School's Program on Church, State & Society and the Lindsay and Matt…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesNatural Right & Political Right in the American Founding | Charles Kesler | Notre Dame CCCG
Join Charles R. Kesler, Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, as he discusses the editing process of the Declaration of Independence. With his…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe Presidency, the 2024 Campaign, and the Future of American Democracy | John Yoo and Harry Litman | Notre Dame CCCG
This debate features two articulate law professors and former government officials with very different political perspectives:Professor John Yoo is the Emanuel…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesConservative Leadership on the Eve of America’s Semiquincentennial | Governor Ron DeSantis | Notre Dame CCCG
Ronald D. DeSantis serves at the forty-sixth Governor of Florida. A graduate of Yale University, Governor DeSantis subsequently earned his J.D. degree from…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe End of Free Speech is the End of Science | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya | Notre Dame CCCG
Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research. He directs…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesWho Is Afraid of Moderation? | Aurelian Craiutu | Notre Dame CCCG
Aurelian Craiutu is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His most recent book is Why Not Moderation?…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe Politics of AI and the Fate of Liberal Democracy | Antón Barba-Kay | Notre Dame CCCG
Antón Barba-Kay is Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, as well as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Practical…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe Nature of Law | Daniel Mark | Notre Dame CCCG
Is there an obligation to obey the law? If so, why? What about when the reasons behind the law don't apply? What about unjust laws? In his new book by Notre…
Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture SeriesThe Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives | Josiah Ober | Notre Dame CCCG
Is democracy dying, in America and abroad? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country’s system of governance is being…