Life Beyond the Classroom
Louis Gularte '08
Major: Philosophy and Psychology
"I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have gone to the Moral Philosophy lecture if it weren’t for the Honors Program alerting me to it. As it turns out, I believe I spent a full week thinking and dreaming continuously and only about that lecture. That’s the kind of experience the Honors Program encourages." Read More >
Conferences and Colloquia
Bringing the Humanities, Arts, and Sciences to Life
It is one thing to read about questions of time, space, knowledge, and morality. It is quite another to banter with the expert who writes about such questions or to engage in a conference that embodies them. The Glynn Family Honors Program creates a variety of on-campus opportunities for students to immerse themselves in the life of the mind.
The Program sponsors themed multidisciplinary conferences and schedules evening colloquia with visiting scholars and top-notch Notre Dame professors. In coming years, Glynn Scholars will take a more active role in such events, even organizing a multidisciplinary conference every other year.
Arcadia at Notre Dame is named after the Stoppard play of the same name. The play’s major theme is the interplay between scientific matters and human concerns.
"Nature, Science, and Art"
In 2005, the conference, "Nature, Science, and Art" complemented the debut of Tom Stoppard's play, Arcadia, in the new Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts. In preparation for the event, more than two dozen courses incorporated readings of the play.
At the conference, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Tim Leggett of the University of Illinois explored the issue of time; scholars from Oxford, Princeton, and the Universities of Chicago and Michigan presented their views on the multi-faceted themes of the play; and the Snite Museum of Art provided tours of eighteenth and nineteenth-century art with themes relating to those the play explores.
"The Galileo Affair"
Galileo scholars from around the world gathered at Notre Dame in April, 2002 for a high-level conference called "The Galileo Affair." The conference featured lectures addressing various aspects of Galileo's life. Five evening performances of Bertolt Brecht's play "The Life of Galileo" were followed by a discussion of issues raised by the drama.
