Upcoming Events

Walk the Walk Week is a week-long series of University and department sponsored events designed to help each of us consider the steps we might take individually and collectively to make Notre Dame, our communities, and our nation more welcoming and inclusive.  

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Rachel Porter, UNC

Originally published at rooneycenter.nd.edu.…

Read More about Changing the Dialogue: Descriptive Candidacies & Position Taking in Campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives

MEETING GORBACHEV - Trailer from Spring Films on Vimeo.

MEETING GORBACHEV (2019)

Directed by Werner Herzog & André Singer
Producer: Lucki Stipetic & Svetlana Palmer
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Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Global Middle East and North Africa 

is a bi-annual symposium and lecture series that focuses on the study of literatures that have been shaped by histories of territorial and linguistic politics, colonialism, military domination and gross human rights violations.
 

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We welcome you to the University of Notre Dame for the annual celebration of Junior Parents Weekend. Unfortunately, with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic still lingering, we are currently planning to transition to a virtual JPW celebration in order to ensure that all of our classmates and their families remain safe and healthy.

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We welcome you to the University of Notre Dame for the annual celebration of Junior Parents Weekend. Unfortunately, with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic still lingering, we are currently planning to transition to a virtual JPW celebration in order to ensure that all of our classmates and their families remain safe and healthy.

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Please join us for a virtual discussion with James Fleming, Boston University School of Law.

Virtual event is free and open to the public. Eastern time.

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Vittorio G. Hösle, Paul Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters, Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, Concurrent Professor of Philosophy and of Political Science.  His scholarly interests are in the areas of systematic philosophy (metaphysics, ethics, esthetics, political theory) and history of philosophy (mainly ancient and modern).  He has written or edited 34 books and published around 135 articles.  His books have appeared in 20 languages. …

Read More about Lecture with Vittorio Hösle: "What are the Deeper Causes of the Worldwide Rise of Populists?”

Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress, dissertation chapters and proposals, practice conference talks, etc.

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If you are planning on applying for a Nanovic grant this summer, you don't want to miss this workshop! Learn how to write a successful research or internship grant proposal and how to avoid the most common mistakes. This event is open to all interested undergraduate students. 

Register for the Zoom session…

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Please join us for a virtual discussion with Jeremy D. Bailey, Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.

Virtual event is free and open to the public. Eastern time.

Zoom link: notredame.zoom.us/j/95877407086

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Michelangelo Landgrave, UCR

Originally published at rooneycenter.nd.edu.…

Read More about Do Staffers Influence Legislative Behavior? Evidence from Arizona, Indiana and New Mexico

Sarah C. M. Paine is William S. Sims University Professor of History and Grand Strategy in the Strategy & Policy Department of the U.S. Naval War College. Nine years of research in Australia, China, Japan, Russia, and Taiwan form the...

Read More about VIRTUAL | Geopolitics: The Competing Maritime and Continental World Orders of China, Russia, and the United States

Nanovic Faculty Fellow Paolo Carozza, Kellogg Institute for International Studies and professor of law and concurrent professor of political science, will give the lecture entitled, "The Venice Commission and Current Challenges of Constitutionalism in Europe," on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, at 12:45 p.m.  …

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Mariya Grinberg is a postdoctoral fellow with the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. Her primary research examines why states trade with their enemies,... 

Read More about VIRTUAL | Flexibility in Order: Three Assumptions that Distort International Order

Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress, dissertation chapters and proposals, practice conference talks, etc.

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Please join us for a virtual debate with Jesse Wegman, New York Times, and Trent England, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.

Virtual event is free and open to the public. Eastern time.

Zoom link: notredame.zoom.us/j/95877407086

Read More about Resolved: The Electoral College Should be Abolished

I am a historian of Britain and its Empire, of comparative revolutions, comparative empires, and of northern Europe more broadly. I am both a deeply committed archival historian and a scholar who believes profoundly that...

Read More about VIRTUAL | Do Wars Make States and States Make War: Rethinking the Origins of the Seven Years War

Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Global Middle East and North Africa is a bi-annual symposium and lecture series that focuses on the study of literatures that have been shaped by histories of territorial and linguistic politics, colonialism, military domination and gross human rights violations. The initiative grapples with the constructed nature of history; reimagines American and global history from the position of suppressed voices; and examines how minoritized writers and scholars have historically innovated literary production and theory in the process of responding to systemic violence. 

Read More about Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance: The Aesthetics of Annihilation, a Brief Screening & Conversation

Erakat offers a new approach to understanding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, told through the power and control of international law.

Read More about Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress, dissertation chapters and proposals, practice conference talks, etc.

Read More about Kroc-Kellogg Peace, Conflict, Crime and Violence Workshop

Power Vacuum Politics and the Origins of the Cold War in Europe

Abstract: The collapse of Nazi Germany, brought about by the Axis powers’ crushing defeat in World War II, created an international power vacuum. Across large parts of Europe, Germany’s absolute authority at the international level collapsed and it was yet to be seen who would lay renewed claim to it. In this talk, Moritz Graefrath uses the case to illustrate his theory of power vacuums in international politics. He argues that variation in great powers’ responses to such vacuums are best explained by the interaction of two factors: first, whether a vital, supplemental, or no strategic interest is at stake; and second, whether a great power can identify a “dependable instrument” through which it can issue its bid for control. He shows that, from 1943 onwards, power vacuum politics permeated both U.S. military strategy as well as U.S. officials’ planning for and shaping of the continent’s political future. Overall, his study of the case thus suggests that the early Cold War was in large parts a continuation of a struggle for authority over key parts of the continent that had begun well before V-E Day.…

Read More about Nanovic Graduate Fellow Lecture: Moritz S. Graefrath

Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress, dissertation chapters and proposals, practice conference talks, etc.

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Please join us for a virtual discussion with Linda McClain, Boston University School of Law.

Virtual event is free and open to the public. Eastern time.

Zoom link: notredame.zoom.us/j/95877407086

Linda C. McClain is Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. She is known for her work in family law, gender and law, and feminist legal theory. Her most recent book is, Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Read More about "Obergefell, Masterpiece Cakeshop, and Fulton: Harnessing v. Unleashing 'Armies of Compassion'"

Jeffrey (Jeff) W. Taliaferro is professor of political science at Tufts University. His research and teaching focus on security studies, IR theories, the grand strategies of the great powers, US foreign policy, intelligence, cybersecurity and policy.

Read More about VIRTUAL | The Problem of Alliance Abandonment in Postwar US Foreign Policy