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Master of global affairs graduate advocates for LGBTQ+ perspectives

Published: November 05, 2023

Matthew Bocanumenth works as a gender, peace, and security fellow at Outright International in New York as part of his field experience. The nongovernmental organization addresses human rights abuses against LGBTQ+ people. For him, the role is an opportunity to help the international community work more inclusively with his community.

Screening Muslims: Working for Peace Through the Media

Published: May 25, 2021

Josh Stowe

Film and television can help combat Islamophobia through rich storytelling, members of the Unity Productions Foundation (UPF) team shared during a recent conversation with Mahan Mirza, executive director of the Ansari Institute.

“Everyday Religion” online class begins, exploring big questions

Published: September 09, 2020

Josh Stowe

The Ansari Institute’s new online class is free and open to the public. In each class, people from a variety of backgrounds draw on their personal experience and build on each other’s insights to explore issues from multiple perspectives.

For Rabbi, ND Means Faith, Friendship, and Learning

Published: December 10, 2014

Josh Stowe

Ask Rick Libowitz ’70 about Notre Dame, and he’ll tell you how it led him to explore his faith and become a rabbi.

AI, robots, and the future of work: insights from economist Yong Suk Lee

Published: August 14, 2023

Josh Stowe

As powerful technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics become widespread, so have worries about the future of work. Will these innovations make employees irrelevant and ultimately take their jobs? The good news is that they don’t have to. Policymakers can use education to leverage technology and build a better future for workers, says Yong Suk Lee…

A Q&A on International Women’s Day with Lailatul Fitriyah

Published: March 16, 2021

Josh Stowe

In this conversation, PhD candidate Lailatul Fitriyah shares her perspective on the issues she highlighted as part of a social media campaign for International Women’s Day 2021.

Ansari Institute will help change the conversation about religion with new grant

Published: July 16, 2020

Josh Stowe

Thanks to a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion will host a series of workshops that will help change the conversation about religion by bringing journalists, scholars and faith practitioners together to learn from each other and better communicate their perspectives.

Afghan voices call for inclusive aid, development, and governance

Published: December 02, 2022

Josh Stowe

The international community should leverage the insights of everyday Afghans to design bottom-up approaches to aid and development and negotiate a political settlement that promotes government accountability. That was the consensus among speakers at a recent panel discussion at the Keough School Washington Office…

“Everyday Religion” class delves into religious diversity

Published: September 16, 2020

Josh Stowe

When one encounters the rich diversity of the world’s religions, working to understand different faith traditions can promote tolerance, interreligious dialogue, and peace. This was the idea students explored during the second session of “Everyday Religion in a World of Many Faiths.” The class, offered by the Ansari Institute, meets online Thursday evenings and is free and open to the public.

Catholic and Muslim leaders champion interfaith dialogue, learning at Notre Dame event

Published: November 22, 2019

Josh Stowe

The conversation, which featured Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, and Daoud Casewit, president of American Islamic College, continued a meaningful dialogue begun by a pair of pioneering religious figures some 800 years ago, Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil of Egypt and St. Francis of Assisi.