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Notre Dame to welcome Bishop Rhoades with Mass and public reception
Date: February 09, 2010
The University of Notre Dame will celebrate the arrival of Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne/South Bend with a Mass of thanksgiving Feb. 9 (Tuesday) at 5:15 p.m. in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Bishop Rhoades will preside and preach at the Mass, which will be concelebrated by
Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Notre Dame’s president, and other priests from the Notre Dame community. Sacred music for the Mass will be provided by the Notre Dame Liturgical Choir.
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Study on ‘untouchables’ can help end human rights abuses, says Notre Dame scholar
Date: February 09, 2010
The largest-ever study on the Dalits — the so-called “untouchables” of India — reveals widespread caste-based discrimination in every aspect of daily life, according to Christian Davenport, professor of peace studies, political science and sociology at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and one of the co-authors of the research report.
“Dalits are widely abused, and they live lives of constant humiliation, indignity and violence,” Davenport said. “They also are often deprived of water, food and health. It really is a kind of institutionalized, slow genocide.”
“Understanding Untouchability: A Comprehensive Study of Practices and Conditions,” just released by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and the Navsarjan Trust, uses data from 1,589 villages and 5,462 respondents in Gujarat, the westernmost state in India. The three-year study combined the efforts of academics, human rights activists and lawyers.
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Robert E. Burns, ND historian and administrator, dies
Date: February 09, 2010
Robert E. Burns, professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame, died Friday (Feb. 5) in Sebastian, Fla., after a long illness.
A native of Newark, N.J., Burns was born Nov. 3, 1927 and grew up in Lowell, Mass. After service in the U.S. Coast Guard, he was graduated from Northeastern University in 1951 and earned master’s and doctoral degrees in history from Harvard University in 1953 and 1961, respectively.
Burns joined the Notre Dame history faculty in 1957, teaching courses in Irish and British history and soon enjoying a reputation not only as a popular teacher and faculty colleague, but also as a prominent scholar in his field. In addition to writing numerous articles in scholarly publications, he was the author of a two-volume study of “Irish Parliamentary Politics in the Eighteenth Century” and “Being Catholic, Being American: The Notre Dame Story,” a massive two-volume history of Notre Dame from its foundation to 1952.
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Professor Gurulé selected as Fulbright scholar
Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame Professor of Law Jimmy Gurulé will spend the spring 2011 semester in Chile as a Fulbright scholar. Gurulé will conduct field research on Chile’s legal efforts to hold persons accountable for international crimes and human rights abuses committed during the military rule of former President Augusto Pinochet. He will work from Diego Portales Law School in Santiago.
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