Ukraine 2018: Thoughts for Young Researchers
Reflections from a recent trip to western Ukraine to inspire new student proposals for research, internship, and service through the Nanovic Institute.
Reflections from a recent trip to western Ukraine to inspire new student proposals for research, internship, and service through the Nanovic Institute.
An interdisciplinary group focused on cultural revolutions in Europe has a proven track record of award-winning publications and national awards.
Do we have adequate histories of European secularism? New translations in philosophy and theology by Nanovic fellows challenge the narrative.
Europe's tent cities are disasters. Are there better ways of housing asylum seekers? A panel exploration and a remarkable new proposal.
Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768-1835) lived a cosmopolitan, protean life. What does this tell us about the social geography of Russia?
Is there a connection between the Civil Rights movement in the US and the political situation in Germany?
How will future generations perceive a common world heritage? Scholars digitize the Forum for the first time and reflect on the implications.
Why does interethnic violence in Europe persist across generations? A major empirical study by scholars at Notre Dame and Milan has answers.
How and why are Catholic European universities involved in the civic formation of their students? A conference in Rome, with papers online here.
What is the place of Islam in contemporary European literature? Muslim and Muslim-born writers gather to reflect together for the first time.
Europe’s cities are changing fast.
Physical conditions are often staggeringly bad in Europe’s “tent cities,” which are intended to house migrants and asylum seekers. Can they be improved in the short term? In the longer term, how might European countries re-imagine their border towns in order to deal more humanely with the ongoing realities of mass...
Libraries and their acquisitions give established and aspiring scholars in European studies the opportunity to assess and reflect on new materials for research.
Nanovic fellow Emilia Justyna Powell (Political Science) has been awarded a Muhammad Bin-Laden Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies for April 24 - June 18, 2016. During her fellowship, Prof. Powell will be conducting research with the support of the Nanovic Institute.
Nanovic fellow Lucien Steil (Architecture) and Anré Venter (Psychology) received a grant from the Institute to take their team-taught seminar of students to Paris during fall break to work on research projects for the course entitled “Peripheries: Case Studies in Urban Phenomenology.”
Representatives from the Nanovic Institute, the Keough School of Global Affairs, and the Department of Theology met Catholic leaders of higher education from central and eastern Europe this past week at the John Paul II Catholic University (KUL) in Lublin, Poland. …
Reading Hegel in Heidelberg
How does exposure to violence affect the young? Do these effects vary by culture? What makes political violence persist from one generation to the next?
The event brought together scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain to re-imagine the relationship between religion and literature.
The Institute made 65 individual awards to graduate students this year, an increase over last year’s fifty-four, including six dissertation fellowship awards.
Peter Sutherland, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Migration and President of the International Catholic Migration Commission, engaged in a far-ranging discussion with Notre Dame undergraduates and delivered the inaugural Barrett Family Lecture at Notre Dame's O'Connell House.
The case of Martin Heidegger, often called the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, seems likely to become the greatest philosophical scandal of our time.
Thanks to Nanovic Fellow Georgine Resick (Professor of Voice), Arnold Schoenberg’s innovative and arresting melodrama, Pierrot lunaire (1912), is now available on high-definition Blu-ray and DVD for the first time as a visual performance.
Alexander M. Martin, Nanovic Fellow and Professor of History, was awarded the 2013 Marc Raeff Book Prize for Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855. The prize, given by the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, honors the best book in any discipline or language on the history and culture of Russia during...
On Tuesday, November 11, 2014, Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein (Visiting Faculty) joined A. James McAdams (Director, Nanovic Institute), David Cortright (Kroc Institute), and Sebastian Rosato (Political Science) for a panel discussion commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her reflections are reprinted here below.…
On Tuesday, November 11, 2014, Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein (Visiting Faculty) joined A. James McAdams (Director, Nanovic Institute), David Cortright (Kroc Institute), and Sebastian Rosato (Political Science) for a panel discussion commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her reflections are reprinted here below.…
Olivia Remie Constable, Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, died of cancer at home Wednesday (April 16).
Olivier Morel, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Film, Television & Theatre, will soon release a new documentary, entitled GERMANY: as told by writers Christoph Hein, Wladimir Kaminer Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Bernhard Schlink.…
Euromaidan in Lviv | Wikimedia CommonsThe Ukrainian government led by President Viktor Yanukovych is facing its twelfth day of popular protest and demonstrations following the President’s recent decision not to sign a landmark trade deal with the European Union.…
Professor and Nanovic fellow Maurizio Albahari (Anthropology) drew attention again to the plight of migrants to Italy from North Africa with a piece published at CNN earlier in October. The Nanovic Institute had a conversation with him, as follows.…