So proud of the Notre Dame graduate students who organized their first annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory and Constitutional Studies—May 3rd, free and open to the public, schedule below:

Really enjoyed this conversation about the biographical, literary & philosophical origins of #MaryShelley ’s The Last Man for the Great Books podcast!

We were so thrilled to see such an enthusiastic turnout for the 2024 Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy on 'You Can't Fool Rules: Opera and International Thought' by David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social! We even made University of Notre Dame Admissions Instagram! politicalscience.nd.edu/news-and-event…

I just finished listening to John J. Miller interview Eileen Margaret Hunt on The Great Books Podcast where they discuss Mary Shelly’s The Last Man. This is a great episode, I really enjoyed Eileen’s clear passion for Shelly and the tie in to Orwell.

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Apocalypse! Pandemic! 'The Last Man,' by Mary Shelley, with special guest star Eileen Margaret Hunt nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-g…

On April 19, 1899, the first long-distance wireless transmission in North America was sent from Notre Dame to Saint Mary's College.

This Friday, we'll celebrate 125 years of wireless innovation with on campus events and a reenactment: go.nd.edu/087627

Grateful for THE FIRST LAST MAN to be featured on The Page 99 Test. page99test.blogspot.com/?spref=tw

Tomorrow on the Great Books Podcast, with special guest star Eileen Margaret Hunt:

Please join us for the final & fabulous 2024 Niemeyer lecture by David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social at 12:30 today at University of Notre Dame’s Morris Inn Smith Ballroom. Martha C. Nussbaum and Mira Siegelberg are the rock star commentators on his lecture on « Refugee Songs » in opera and international thought!

CALLING ALL ROMANTICS & REVOLUTIONARIES...

Next Weds the British Library (home of a lock of Byron's hair) marks 200 years since the mad lord died:

❤️‍🔥the Byronic All-Dayer❤️‍🔥

Come & join some incredible speakers... #Byron
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Boy oh boy. Can’t wait to crack open Eileen Margaret Hunt’s “The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Post #Apocalyptic Imagination”. Hot off the presses & now luxuriating tantalisingly on my sofa cushion.

Please join us today for David Armitage’s second Niemeyer lecture « Death at Sea: Wagner to Klinghoffer » at 3:30-5:30 at University of Notre Dame’s Morris Inn Smith Ballroom. Come for the lecture, plus comments by Eric Nelson & Christopher Chowrimootoo & music by Deborah Mayer & Dror Baitel!

It was such an honor to do this podcast for the Great Books series at National Review in time for the official release of THE FIRST LAST MAN on April 16!

One of my best Notre Dame students—senior Evan Wells—just published this powerful essay using Lockean social contract theory to critique the oppressed status of LGBTQ people in the Roman Catholic Church: Second-class Catholics – THE HARPER REVIEW harperreview.com/second-class-c…

It’s ALIVE! Artificial Life After #Frankenstein now in a gorgeous paperback by⁦Penn Press; award-winning art by⁩ ⁦David Plunkert⁩ !!!

It's all too real! Greatly looking forward to launching a new opus with a stellar cast of performers and commentators at University of Notre Dame next week. Come for the Mozart, stay for the Wagner, Smyth, Britten, John Adams, Verdi, Menotti, Weinberg and Jonathan Dove!