BESP Research Workshop

The Business Ethics and Society Program (BESP) Research Workshop at the University of Notre Dame convenes fascinating speakers throughout the academic year (six times each semester).

Fall 2026 Series

All sessions in this series will be on Fridays (except where otherwise noted) and have the same time and location.

Time: 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: Mendoza 339

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Friday, August 28, 2026

Common Action Theory: Three Ways to Do Things for the Common Good

Speaker: Mark Hoipkemier
Assistant Research Professor
Business Ethics and Society
Mendoza College of Business

Friday, September 11, 2026

Market Failure Ethics and MacIntyre's Critique

Speaker: Rosemarie Monge,
Associate Teaching Professor
Business Ethics and Society
Mendoza College of Business

Friday, September 25, 2026

What Is Economic Growth?

Speaker: Mary Hirschfeld
John T. Ryan Jr. Associate Professor of Theology and Business Ethics
Department of Theology
College of Arts and Letters

Friday, October 2, 2026

Prudence or Rational Control? Two Paradigms in CST

Speaker: Patrick Auer Jones
Assistant Professor of Theology
Franciscan University

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Theology and Adam Smith

Speaker: Paul Oslington
Professor of Economics and Theology
Alphacrucis University (Australia)

Note the day change.

Friday, November 6, 2026

ESG Disclosure and the Problem of Regulatory Variance

Speaker: Maria Maciá
Associate Professor of Law
Notre Dame Law School

Friday, November 20, 2026

Cultivating Honesty

Note time change: 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Speaker: Christian Miller
A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy
Wake Forest University