Jennifer Newsome Martin is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies with a joint appointment in the Department of Theology, and, as of July 2024, the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. We chat about her first semester in the director's chair, our recently-concluded Fall Conference on the Catholic Imagination, and preview some exciting new initiatives at the de Nicola Center.

Special Guest: Jenny Martin.

Links:

• Director Jennifer Newsome Martin — About the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
• "What is Catholic Culture" - Inaugural dCEC Director's Lecture — Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin's inaugural lecture as director of the dCEC considers—alongside such theological interlocutors as St. John Henry Newman, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Pope Benedict XVI, Remi Brague, and others—the paradoxical origins of a Catholic culture rooted in such non-Catholic cultures as Athens and Jerusalem. The lecture not only characterizes the phenomenon of Catholic culture writ large as having to do with the human desire for God and the welcoming of all that is proper to the life of the human being, but also articulates the relationship between ethics and culture—and, put more strongly, an ethics of culture—specifically within the context of liberal arts education.
• Fall Conference 2024: "Ever Ancient, Ever New: On Catholic Imagination" — A playlist of 40 sessions from the 2024 Fall Conference on Catholic Imagination (Oct. 31–Nov. 2, 2024) at the University of Notre Dame
• Upcoming Events at the de Nicola Center
• Theme Song: "I Dunno" by Grapes — I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque