Upcoming Events

David O’Sullivan, the European Union’s ambassador to the United States, will deliver the 2019 Nanovic Forum Lecture on September 18th (Wednesday) at 5:00 p.m. in the Donald R. Keough Seminar Room, located in 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls.

Sponsored by Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies, O’Sullivan will deliver a lecture entitled “Europe and the United States: Friends and Allies, or Rivals?” The lecture will be free and open to the public. O’Sullivan will be introduced by William Collins Donahue, director of the Nanovic Institute, and the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame.…

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Arthur Brooks (Harvard) will speak on his most recent book, "Love Your Enemies."

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Tara McCarthy will deliver the 2019 Hibernian Lecture, “A Century of Suffrage: Catholic Activism, Class Consciousness, and the Contributions of Irish American Women,” on Friday, September 20, 2019, at 4:30 p.m.  in the Morris Inn Ballroom at the University of Notre Dame. McCarthy is associate professor of history at Central Michigan University and author of Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880–1920…

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Mark T. Kettler, Ph.D.

Mark T. Kettler, a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, will offer a public lecture as part of the Nanovic Institute’s Lunch Lecture series. 

What has motivated ethnic cleansing historically? More particularly, what is the relationship between settler colonialism and genocide? These are questions of perennial concern for scholars and policy-makers hoping to understand, predict, and arrest ethnic violence.…

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Kathleen Cummings (Notre Dame), George Weigel (Ethics & Public Policy Center) and Ken Woodward (former Newsweek, Notre Dame '57) discuss Prof. Cummungs' new book. 

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Friday, September 27 - “The Irony of Modern Catholic History”
George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
12:30 pm (lunch at noon)  | Oak Room, South Dining Hall

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Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, former Senator Joe Donnelly ’77, ’81 J.D. of Indiana, and former Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona will participate in the panel discussion. Professor Jimmy Gurulé will serve as moderator.

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TBD

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James Ceaser (University of Virgina) will speak on James Madison's political thought.

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Ian Johnson is historian of war, diplomacy, and technology. He received his PhD from the Ohio State University in 2016, with a dissertation that explored secret military cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany in the interwar period. During graduate school, he was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, as well as the OSU Presidential Fellowship.…

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Friday, October 11 - "Things Worth Dying For: The Nature of a Life Worth Living"
Rev. Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia
1:00 pm  | Jenkins and Nanovic Halls, Room 1030

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Forrest Nabors (University of Alaska) will lecture in Prof. Munoz's Constitutional Studies course on our republican constitution.

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Friday, November 1 -  Public Lecture
Rev. Dominic Legge, O.P., Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and Thomistic Institute
12:30 pm (lunch at noon)  | Jenkins and Nanovic Halls, Room 1030 

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Pavol Hurbanek, lecturer in the Department of Geography at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia, will give a lunchtime talk regarding his current research.

Lunch will be available while supplies last.  Free and open to all.

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Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern) will speak on the conflict between gay rights and religious liberty.

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The collapse of socialist regimes across Eastern Europe in 1989 has often been described as an “autumn of nations”, a process of national liberation from unaccountable governments through the exercise of popular will. But during and after 1989, national mobilization also coincided with tectonic international and supranational developments: the collapse of the Soviet empire, the retrenchment of socialist internationalism, the expansion of NATO…

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The collapse of socialist regimes across Eastern Europe in 1989 has often been described as an “autumn of nations”, a process of national liberation from unaccountable governments through the exercise of popular will. But during and after 1989, national mobilization also coincided with tectonic international and supranational developments: the collapse of the Soviet empire, the retrenchment of socialist internationalism, the expansion of NATO…

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The collapse of socialist regimes across Eastern Europe in 1989 has often been described as an “autumn of nations”, a process of national liberation from unaccountable governments through the exercise of popular will. But during and after 1989, national mobilization also coincided with tectonic international and supranational developments: the collapse of the Soviet empire, the retrenchment of socialist internationalism, the expansion of NATO…

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Michaela Mattes specializes in International Relations. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international conflict and cooperation. She focuses on two related sets of questions. First, she studies how adversaries manage and resolve disagreements between...

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Nanovic Fellow Andrew C. Gould, associate professor of political science, will provide a lunchtime talk on his current research.

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Following regular combat and communication training at USMCB in Camp Pendleton, CA, MacDonald along with other Navajo Marines, was selected from other Marines for top secret Navajo Code School. During the final phase of World War II (1944-46) MacDonald served in South Pacific as Navajo Code Talker and North China with the Sixth Marine Division.

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Wolfgang Mössinger, Consul General of Germany in Chicago, will offer a lecture in the Elizabeth E. Nanovic Seminar Room, entitled “The New Cold War: Liberal Democracy vs Authoritarianism. Why the EU is today more important than ever before,” as part of the Conversations with Diplomats lecture series sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. …

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Reyko Huang is an associate professor at the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University. Her research situates armed conflict within international politics, with a focus on rebel organizations and their strategies of governance, diplomacy, and transnational social networking. She is the...

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The Nanovic Institute for European Studies will present the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize to Max Bergholz, author of Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community, published by Cornell University Press…

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Michael Anton (Hillsdale) will speak on his most recent book, After the Flight 93 Election

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