The ThinkND Podcast

Episode Topic: Perspectives on Caregiver Mental Heath & Wellbeing

Listen in to a conversation with Kendra Washington-Bass '94, chair of the Black Alumni of Notre Dame, and Danielle Duchatellier Boucre…

Episode Topic: Eschatology

How has Thomas Aquinas shaped our thoughts on death, judgment, and the final destiny of our souls and of humankind? Contemplate Aquinas’ writings on the integration of diffe…

Episode Topic: Cultivating Purpose 

Anna Moreland, Chair and Director of the Villanova University Honors Program, and Thomas W. Smith, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at The Catholic Universit…

Episode Topic: Generosity & Medicine with physicians Sneha Mantri, MD, MS and Abraham Nussbaum, MD 

As part of the Virtues & Vocations series Education for Flourishing: Conversations on Character & th…

Episode Topic: Character & Transformative Leadership 

Nathan Hatch served as the president of Wake Forest University for 16 years and previously served as Provost at the University of Notre Dame. He r…

Episode Topic: Preservation Today

Join the School of Architecture for the annual Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability Lecture "Preservation Today" by Ashley…

Episode Topic: From Poet to Novelist 

Listen in to an oral history conversation with poet Maria Melendez Kelson, interviewed by Notre Dame graduate literary researcher Paulina Hernández-Trejo, recorde…

Episode Topic: Can LLMs Reason and Plan? 

Large Language Models (LLMs) are on track to reverse what seemed like an inexorable shift of AI from explicit to tacit knowledge tasks. Trained as they are on…

Episode Topic: Investing in Policies that Improve Lives

“Our mission is to help make investing in what works the new normal so that government decision makers at all levels are using data and evidence…

Episode Topic: A Powerful Conversation with Keona Lewis, Ph.D.

Given that demographers estimate that the United States will be a majority-minority country by 2048, what does that mean for the changing…

 In this episode of The New AI, John Behrens '83, Director of Technology and Digital Studies, introduces Graham Wolfe, Editor in Chief of The New AI Project's Explained series in a discussion that al…

Episode Topic: Big Data, Little Women

Some literary scholars are using computer programs to “read” huge collections of texts and draw out patterns. What can these methods tell us about working women’s…

Episode Topic: Domer Caregiver Stories 

Listen in to a conversation with LisaMarie Collins ‘07 J.D., Ray Fraser ‘19 MBA, Black Alumni Board Student Relations Director, Francesca Milles-Dave '01, and m…

Episode Topic: Improving Community Outcomes 

Listen in to a conversation among researchers, practitioners, and community partners on how they engaged in deep learning from the unexpected results of a …

Episode Topic: New Light on the Victor Emmanuel II Monument (https://go.nd.edu/c924ee)

The Vittoriano Monument, honoring Victor Emmanuel II, stands as a pivotal piece in the evolution of Roman archite…

Episode Topic: Is Women's Literature...Bad? 

Trashy romances. Sizzling beach reads. Chick lit. Fluff. As a culture, why do we describe women’s literature in the words that we do? In this episode, Chri…

Episode Topic: Four Poetas on Catholic Imagination

Experience a Letras Latinas reading and conversation featuring Adela Najarro, Natalia Treviño, Gina Franco, and Sarah Cortez at Notre Dame’s de Nicol…

Episode Topic: Christology 

Contemplate Thomas Aquinas’ writings on the predestination of Christ, Christ’s knowledge and our virtue, and Christ’s co-assumption of power through the lens of Christology…

Episode Topic: Indigenizing Galleries 

This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled Indigenous Voices. 

How do we go about changing inaccurate representations of Native people and Native artists…

Episode Topic: That's Women's Work (A History)

How did some kinds of labor in the U.S. – care work, teaching, and domestic chores, for example – come to be seen as properly the concern of women, whil…