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Anne Meng, Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago (Fall 2019), will present an overview of her book project, which examines the creation and consequences of executive constraints in authoritarian regimes. How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints play an effective role in promoting autocratic stability? To understand patterns of regime institutionalization, Meng addresses the emergence of constitutional term limits and succession procedures, as well as elite power-sharing within presidential cabinets.…

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The beloved Dirty Book Sale is back and ready for its best year yet! In addition to the sale, which features incredible prices on overstock, dusty, or slightly damaged books, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to host the first annual Notre Dame Press Book Festival. The Festival will feature book events, a publishing workshop, autographed books, and prizes. The Notre Dame Press Book Festival and Dirty Book Sale will take place in the Hesburgh Library on November 6th and 7th between 12 pm and 8:30 pm daily.…

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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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Dr. Robert Schmuhl will give a book talk about his 2019 book The Glory and the Burden, an exploration of the presidency from FDR to Trump, on November 6th at 7:30 pm. This event is part of the first annual Notre Dame Press Book Festival.

Originally published at conductorshare.nd.edu…

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

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The beloved Dirty Book Sale is back and ready for its best year yet! In addition to the sale, which features incredible prices on overstock, dusty, or slightly damaged books, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to host the first annual Notre Dame Press Book Festival. The Festival will feature book events, a publishing workshop, autographed books, and prizes. The Notre Dame Press Book Festival and Dirty Book Sale will take place in the Hesburgh Library on November 6th and 7th between 12 pm and 8:30 pm daily.…

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The Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights welcomes Jennifer Thompson, Founder and President of Healing Justice Project. Thompson tells how her experience as a rape survivor of a brutal assault, and as a survivor of a wrongful conviction case, was not a single narrative. The only national non-profit that addresses the harm caused to all involved, Healing Justice Project uses restorative justice principles to help all victims of these criminal justice train wrecks find their voices, advocate for change, and take the long journey back to themselves.…

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Please join us for a panel introducing the Kellogg Policy and Practice Labs, a new initiative of the Institute supporting faculty research that aims to influence policy and practice on current issues of pressing importance. The PIs of each of the three new Labs will give an overview of their research, connecting it to the impact they seek: …

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Leviathan (2014) / Левиафан, Leviafan

Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Russia | Not Rated
140 minutes

Introduced by Nanovic Faculty Fellow Susanne Wengle, assistant professor of political science; concurrent assistant professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs, at the University of Notre Dame.

Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma from a previous marriage. The town’s corrupt mayor Vadim Shelevyat is determined to take away his business, his house, as well as his land. First, the Mayor tries buying off Kolya, but Kolya unflinchingly fights as hard as he can so as not to lose everything he owns including the beauty that has surrounded him from the day he was born. Facing resistance, the mayor starts being more aggressive…..…

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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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The Kellogg Institute welcomes Clark Gibson, professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego and guest professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs.

Millions of South Africans have protested their government’s failure to provide basic services like sanitation, water, and trash removal.  Democratically elected municipal governments deliver vastly different levels of these services across the country.  What accounts for the difference?  Don’t elections matter?  In this talk, Gibson will argue that South African mayors supply services based on an electoral strategy that employs their political assets and the demographic composition of their voters. This strategy allows some mayors to win elections. …

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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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After Peronism’s surprising defeat four years ago, the most historicized party in Latin America is poised to return to the Argentine government. This panel will examine the motivations behind the choices of Argentine voters and the consequences of the election for Argentine democracy and Argentina’s economic future. Do Argentines demand a return to the policies of kirchnerismo or are they simply looking for the growth and low inflation that Macri could not deliver?  Will the new government produce economic stability? How will the electoral result affect the quality of Argentine democracy, including judicial investigations of corruption?…

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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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The Kellogg Institute welcomes Susan Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, and Faculty Chair, Chicago Center on Democracy at the University of Chicago.

With the debacle of the Brexit process in the UK, the sheen has come off referendums. Democratic theory still offers some justifications for referendums, but it is hard to evaluate these justifications without strong evidence regarding how they actually work. Under what strategic circumstances do political leaders decide to turn the choice over to the people? And what is the nature of voting behavior in referendums? In addition to exploring referendums and democratic theory, this presentation will focus on the question of voting behavior and on the fact that turnout tends to be lower in referendums than in candidate elections. Stokes will draw on evidence from Colombia’s 2016 referendum on peace accords to argue that party structures and incentives are an important part of the answer. …

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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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Volodymyr Turchynovskyy, Director of the IIECI International Institute for Ethics and Contemporary Issues and Dean of the Social Science Faculty at the Ukrainian Catholic University, will provide a lunchtime lecture entitled, “The Revolution of Dignity and Public Culture: How the Ukrainian Experience Impacts the Global Agenda.”…

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Work-in-Progress Seminars are designed to generate in-depth discussion of new scholarly work. For the pre-circulated paper and to attend, register with kievents@nd.edu…

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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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For questions regarding the Mexico Working Group and for the pre-circulated paper, contact jpensado@nd.edu.

The Mexico Working Group Graduate Student Lecture Series. Aleida García Alguirre is a Fulbright Research Scholar from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico.…

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The Kellogg Institute welcomes Juan Pablo Luna, Associate Professor of Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

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

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Her teaching and research interests include the politics of war law, transnational advocacy networks, protection of civilians, humanitarian disarmament, and the role of popular culture in global human security policy. She has a particular interest...

Read More about The Stopping Power of Norms: Saturation Bombing, Civilian Community, and US Public Opinion Toward the Laws of War

Join us for a debate between two world-renowned experts on the ethics of immigration and citizenship, Dr. Jason Brennan (Georgetown) and Dr. Christopher Heath Wellman (Wash. U), on Thursday, December 5th from 5PM until 7PM in DeBartolo 101. The debate will be moderated by Dr. Graham Clay (Notre Dame). It will concern what United States immigration policy should be, whether nation-states have the right to exclude migrants, and what it is to be a citizen of a nation-state.

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This keynote address of the Women Studying Violence Workshop is open to all in the Notre Dame community and promises valuable information for any scholar seeking funding from the National Science Foundation.

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Monday through Friday, Dec. 16-20.

See the Office of the Registrar’s Fall 2019 calendar for other dates.

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