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“Children of Invention”: Attempting to Create Happiness
The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center recently hosted a showing of the semi-autobiographical independent film "Children of Invention." Directed by Tze Chun, the film tells the story of a single mother, a Chinese immigrant who is struggling to provide for her family. Based in Quincy, Massachusetts, the film highlights the hardship immigrant families endure in their pursuit of the American [...]
The Balance Between the Angel and the Beast
In the Center for Ethics and Culture’s ninth annual Catholic Culture Literature Series, “Strangers in a Strange Land,” Notre Dame professor of philosophy John O’Callaghan delivered the second lecture on the "philosophical novelist," Walker Percy. On the evening of September 14, O’Callaghan explored the central themes that are found in the novels of Walker Percy, a convert to [...]