Hosted by the institute on Friday afternoons of select home football weekends, MVP Fridays tackle big questions by inviting national leaders, journalists, and writers to speak on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Each lecture takes place at 4:00 p.m. in the Geddes Hall Andrews Auditorium or Coffee House.
Anand Gopal is an American writer who contributes to The New Yorker and the author of Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution(link is external), a work of narrative nonfiction about a group of revolutionaries who overthrew a dictator.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of English, Creative Writing Program, Liu Institute for Asia & Asian Studies, Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience, Keough School of Global Affairs, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy, and Franco Family Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Public Good.