The ThinkND Podcast
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530 episodes
Indigenous Voices, Part 8: Yarning with Indigenous Traditions
Episode Topic: Yarning with Indigenous Traditions In an era of compounding global crises, our speakers offer a strategic intervention: a move beyond the transactional toward the relational. Thi...
Virtues & Vocations, Part 30: Finding Your Vocation
Episode Topic: Finding Your Vocation Listen in to a conversation with Karen Swallow Prior, author of You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the Good, True, and Beautiful, ...
120 Years Later: Asian and Pacific Islander Alumni Perspectives, Part 3: Justice For All
Episode Topic: Justice For AllHow can we create a more inclusive world where every individual feels seen, heard, and at home? See how Justice Mary Yu '93 J.D. champions equality as the first Asian, ...
1776, Part 2: The Declaration of Independence, Social Compact Theory & Principles of the American Revolution
Episode Topic: The Declaration of Independence, Social Compact Theory & Principles of the American Revolution Transform your perspective on citizenship by examining the Declaration of Indep...
Restoring Reason, Beauty, and Trust in Architecture, Part 23: The Pantheon
Episode Topic: The Pantheon Step into a metaphysical instrument of imperial apotheosis where light acts as a divine participant. Richard Etlin decodes this cosmological “Sphinx,” revealing how ...
Aquinas at 800, Part 13: Religious Epistemology
Episode Topic: Religious Epistemology How can the humblest among us invert traditional hierarchies by sensing truth through deep faith? Lessons on the Eucharist deepen our sense of God living w...
Dialogues Across the Decades, Part 1: Past, Present & Future
Episode Topic: Past, Present & FutureChart the Balfour-Hesburgh Scholars Program’s beginnings, how it has evolved over forty years, and what the future might look like for students, academically...
The New AI, Part 14: AI and the Classrooms of the Future
Episode Topic: AI and the Classrooms of the FutureNavigate the evolving generational divide in our classrooms. Join Fr. Nate Wills, C.S.C., Ph.D. ’99, ’03 M.Ed., ’05 M.Div., as he explores the inter...
Revolutions of Hope, Part 8: Sustainable Hope
Episode Topic: Sustainable Hope Marking the 80th anniversary of the UN Charter, this panel explores the shift from an “ideology of destruction” to decentralized green infrastructure. Discover h...
Letras Latinas, Part 21: Poets & Art: Adela Najarro
Episode Topic: Poets & Art: Adela NajarroListen in to a conversation with author Ruben Reyes, Jr.. interviewed by Notre Dame Ph.D. student Paulina Hernandez-Trejo, that resonates with the pulse ...
Cultivating Hope, Part 5: What Would You Fight For?
Episode Topic: What Would You Fight For? Join University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C. and legendary broadcaster Mike Tirico for a panel discussion commemorating two decades of stadium ...
Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance, Part 4: Millennial Aesthetics and Global Politics
Episode Topic: Millennial Aesthetics and Global PoliticsJoin acclaimed writers Aria Aber and Jamil Jan Kochai for an intimate exploration of the millennial Afghan experience. This evocative discussi...
Our Universe Revealed, Part 8: When Numbers Lie
Episode Topic: When Numbers LieData is the new gold, mined and used (for better or worse) every single day. Algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) are then used to suggest what movies we stream...
Virtues & Vocations, Part 29: The Cost of Ambition
Episode Topic: The Cost of Ambition Tired of the relentless professional treadmill? Join Miroslav Volf and Suzanne Shanahan to explore The Cost of Ambition. Their conversation reveals ...
RISE AI, Part 5: Where are We in the Journey to a Knowledgeable Assistant?
Episode Topic: Where are We in the Journey to a Knowledgeable Assistant?Discover the future of AI with Meta Chief Scientist Xin “Luna” Dong. As AI assistants transition from chatbots to wearables, t...
Indigenous Voices, Part 7: Tribute to Sand Talk
Episode Topic: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Stop examining the world from the outside and start reading its patterns. Join author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Sav...
Evidence Matters, Part 10: After the Evaluation
Episode Topic: After the Evaluation (https://go.nd.edu/e5f25d)Can a bus pass prevent a jail sentence? Listen in to discover the “myth-busting” power of co-discovery. Join King County, Notre Dame’s L...
Faith and Philosophy, Part 4: I am My Soul
Episode Topic: I am My Soul (https://go.nd.edu/902b73)Is personal identity a matter of degree or a literal soul? Join Oxford’s Dr. Richard Swinburne for “I am My Soul,” a deep dive into Tho...
On Catholic Imagination, Part 5: Reimagining Mental Health
Episode Topic: Reimagining Mental Health (https://go.nd.edu/47c51f)This interdisciplinary inquiry explores the Catholic imagination’s role in mental health. Navigating the paradox of dependence wher...
120 Years Later: Asian and Pacific Islander Alumni Perspectives, Part 2: Pensionados at Notre Dame
Episode Topic: Pensionados at Notre Dame (https://go.nd.edu/abbd6a)Discover Notre Dame’s first Asian pioneers through a 120-year retrospective of the 1903 Pensionado Program. Uncover how early Filip...
Aquinas at 800, Part 12: Metaphysics, Being, and the Transcendentals
Episode Topic: Metaphysics, Being, and the TranscendentalsEight centuries later, this session reveals that Thomas’s metaphysical architecture remains the essential map for reality. By interrogating ...
Restoring Reason, Beauty, and Trust in Architecture, Part 23: A New Humanism
Episode Topic: A New Humanism (https://go.nd.edu/aaf1e4)“What is the city but the people,” wrote Shakespeare. In this spirit, architect Christian Sottile will share his visions about why the city is...
Minding Scripture, Part 8: Sickness and Healing
Episode Topic: Sickness and HealingThis episode of Minding Scripture reflects on sickness, healing, and isolation in the Bible and in the Qur’an, with conversation around the global Coronavirus pand...