The ThinkND Podcast
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Episodes
377 episodes
Powerful Conversations, Part 3: From Champions to Leaders
Episode Topic: From Champions to Leaders (https://go.nd.edu/aa1298)What does it look like when the champions of years past become the leaders of today? Angela Logan, Ph.D., St. Andre Bessette Academic Director of the Master of No...
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Women's Work, Part 4: What Makes Work Meaningful (A Feminist Intervention)
Episode Topic: What Makes Work Meaningful (A Feminist Intervention) Why does care work feel fulfilling on some days, and infuriating on others? What could success look like if we divorce it from in...
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Shakespeare & Possibility, Part 9: Utopia and Sustainability
Episode Topic: Utopia and SustainabilityUncover the connection between Shakespeare and the messy realities of building sustainable communities, utopias, and environmental futures. Listen in to a pr...
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Ten Years Hence: Innovation, Part 2: Resilience
Episode Topic: Resilience (https://go.nd.edu/c558d4)What will the process of creation and renewal look like by 2035? How will we leverage innovation to meet the challenges of the future in areas from our power grid and collaborative int...
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Caregiving with Dignity, Part 2: Perspectives on Caregiver Mental Heath & Wellbeing
Episode Topic: Perspectives on Caregiver Mental Heath & WellbeingListen in to a conversation with Kendra Washington-Bass '94, chair of the Black Alumni of Notre Dame, and Danielle Duc...
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Aquinas at 800, Part 2: Eschatology
Episode Topic: EschatologyHow 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 dif...
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Virtues & Vocations, Part 12: Generosity & Medicine with physicians Sneha Mantri, MD, MS and Abraham Nussbaum, MD
Episode Topic: Generosity & Medicine with physicians Sneha Mantri, MD, MS and Abraham Nussbaum, MD As part of the Virtues & Vocations series Education for Flourishing: Conv...
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Virtues & Vocations, Part 14: Cultivating Purpose
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 Uni...
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Virtues & Vocations, Part 15: Character & Transformative Leadership
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 ...
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Restoring Reason, Beauty, and Trust in Architecture, Part 10: Preservation Today
Episode Topic: Preservation TodayJoin the School of Architecture for the annual Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability Lecture "Preservation Today" by Ashle...
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Letras Latinas, Part 11: From Poet to Novelist
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, r...
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Soc(AI)ety Seminars, Part 6: Can LLMs Reason and Plan?
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 ...
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A Pathway to Hope, Part 5: Investing in Policies that Improve Lives
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 evi...
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Powerful Conversations, Part 2: A Powerful Conversation with Keona Lewis, Ph.D.
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 changin...
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The New AI, Part 7: Virtue in the Generative Revolution
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 also featu...
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Women's Work, Part 3: Big Data, Little Women
Episode Topic: Big Data, Little WomenSome 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’...
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Caregiving with Dignity, Part 1: Domer Caregiver Stories
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,...
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Evidence Matters, Part 2: Improving Community Outcomes
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...
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Restoring Reason, Beauty, and Trust in Architecture, Part 9: New Light on the Victor Emmanuel II Monument
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 architecture during the late 19th and early 2...
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Women's Work, Part 1: Is Women's Literature...Bad?
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...
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Letras Latinas, Part 10: Four Poetas on Catholic Imagination
Episode Topic: Four Poetas on Catholic ImaginationExperience a Letras Latinas reading and conversation featuring Adela Najarro, Natalia Treviño, Gina Franco, and Sa...
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Aquinas at 800, Part 1: Christology
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 Chris...
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Indigenous Voices, Part 3: Indigenizing Galleries
Episode Topic: Indigenizing Galleries This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled Indigenous Voices. How do we go about changing inacc...
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Women's Work, Part 2: That's Women's Work (A History)
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, wh...
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The New AI, Part 6: Surveillance, Power Plays, and Digital Minds
In this edition of Expl(ai)ned, a monthly newsletter by The New AI Project, explore DeepSeek’s market-upending release, President Trump’s second-term approach to regulation, and AI in the Super Bowl. In Taming AI, a column a...
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