The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) and the University of Notre Dame will hold the 2020 Catholic Immigrant Integration Initiative Conference on Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2, 2020. Out of an abundance of caution for all who would like to participate, this year's conference will take place virtually.…
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) and the University of Notre Dame will hold the 2020 Catholic Immigrant Integration Initiative Conference on Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2, 2020. Out of an abundance of caution for all who would like to participate, this year's conference will take place virtually.…
Featuring Ibtisam Azem, Palestinian Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Journalist.
Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Global Middle East and North Africa is a bi-annual symposium and lecture series thatfocuses on the study of literatures that have been shaped by histories of territorial and linguistic politics, colonialism, military domination, and gross human rights violations.
Panel discussion with: Prof. Christina Bambrick (ND Political Science), Prof. Richard Garnett (ND Law School), Former Indiana Senator Joseph Donnelly, and Prof. Vincent Phillip Muñoz (ND Political Science)
This session will explore key milestones and influences that have led to the current polarization of American politics, the ways in which political debates have influenced the political process, and the role of the news media and social media.
Bridging the Divide is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, in partnership with the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, and the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy.…
The events of 2020 are laying bare inequalities that have long plagued the United States and the global community. The intersections of the pandemic, ongoing racialized violence, and hate-filled political rhetoric, combined with the volatility of the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, are exposing the costs of the status quo and pushing each of us to examine our role in advocating for justice. …
Francisco Rodriguez
Director and Founder of Oil for Venezuela
Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
Between 2013 and 2020, Venezuela suffered the worst economic contraction in recorded Latin American history. We explore the role that poor policies, political conflict ,and external pressure had on the country’s economic implosion. We contend that poor policy choices, while important as an explanation, are insufficient to account for the magnitude of the contraction. We argue that the worsening of the country’s political crisis led to the loss of access to financial and oil markets and ultimately to the imposition of US economic sanctions, which contributed significantly to deepening the country’s economic implosion. …
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, explores the economic and historical foundations of segregated communities in the United States. He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America…
Join ILS Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science David Cortez as he discusses his work of Latinx immigration agents.
Today more than any period in history, the line-level divisions of federal immigration law enforcement agencies reflect the demographics of the populations they police. Across agencies like Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Latinxs are over-represented relative to their proportion of both the overall federal workforce and the general population. In this talk, he will address how Latinx immigration agents internalize and deal with the tensions engendered by their overlapping, yet fundamentally contradictory identities; rather, how they negotiate the space between "who they are" and "what they do." Drawing on extensive fieldwork –– including interviews with, and observations of, more than sixty Latinx Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across Arizona, California, and Texas –– he explores the careful identity work of Latinx immigration agents caught between two worlds: the police and the policed.…
How Germans understood Austria-Hungary reveals much about their own imperial ambitions during the First World War. Historians tend to imagine that Germans perceived their ally in much the same way as many casual observers still do today: as sclerotic, anachronistic, riven by nationalist conflict, and fated to disintegrate along ethnic lines. This interpretation is misleading. Drawing upon the writings of wartime journalists and politicians, this talk argues that many influential German imperialists understood the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a model to be followed. Pointing to Austria-Hungary’s cohesion in the first months of the war, they insisted that multiethnic states were not fragile, but rather capable of enduring severe external shocks. They urged Berlin to emulate Austria-Hungary’s historically tolerant approach to governing nationally diverse space. Indeed, these German imperialists interpreted the First World War as a titanic contest between two opposing models of political organization. They framed Germany and Austria-Hungary as defenders of multinational empire, preserving the ideal of pluralism against the nationalist movements and nationalizing states which threatened to tear Europe apart. They imagined a postwar European future, in which reinvigorated multinational empires would harmonize the interests of multiple national identities, incubating cultural diversity and contributing to human progress.…
Lise Morjé Howard is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. Her research and teaching interests span the fields of international relations, comparative politics, and conflict resolution. She has published articles about civil war termination, peacekeeping, and...
This session will feature leading scholars discussing the history, root causes, and modern-day implications of social and racial injustice in America, with the goal of promoting change through greater understanding of these issues.
Bridging the Divide is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, in partnership with the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, and the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy.…
As the 2020 US elections approach, the electorate is overwhelmingly polarized, even within members of the same faith communities. Our democracy is being tested not by our disagreements, but by how we manage them. Can we listen to each other with empathy despite our deep disagreements?…
Domestic Violence: Empowerment and Community Intervention
Perspectives from India, Mexico and the United States during this time of COVID
Notre Dame International invites all members of the Notre Dame community and friends of the University to the third event in a series of virtual events dedicated to internationalizing conversations on issues of vital importance.…
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as media producer, author, and speaker Austin Channing Brown explores allyship. She is the author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness…
You are invited to join in discussion with Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times. Saturday Scholar lectures are typically presented in the Snite Museum’s Annenberg Auditorium on home football game Saturdays.
Due to COVID-19, there will be no live Saturday Scholar lectures in fall 2020. Instead, we invite you to join us in watching some highlights from past seasons. The full archive of previous lectures (including video for many) can be found here…
The Graduate Working Group convenes young scholars from multiple disciplines to share their research, address issues affecting Latino communities, and develop a national professional network in a growing field of experts.
All graduate students on the ND campus are invited to respond to and/or share papers they are developing on topics relating to U.S. based Latino communities.…
In August 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made it illegal to prevent people from voting based on their sex, enfranchising millions of women around the country. But its protections were not applied equally. Two leading Notre Dame political scientists will discuss what the 19th Amendment did and did not do, the role women have played in the elections of the past 100 years, and the myth of the homogenous “woman voter.”…
Elections influence foreign policy, either by reinforcing the current trajectory or prompting course corrections by a new administration. Beijing's intimidation in Hong Kong, along the Indian border, in the South China Sea, and towards Taiwan have helped accelerate a rapid deterioration in relations with its neighbors. As Washington has pushed back against Beijing, Asian capitals from New Delhi to Hanoi to Taipei are becoming increasingly receptive to a stronger US presence in the region. Meanwhile, calls for economic “decoupling” between the US and China have catalyzed the shift of production supply lines from China into other Asian countries. To discuss these and other pressing questions related to US Asia policy in the wake of the US presidential election this November, the Kellogg Institute and the New York University Center for Global Affairs will host a panel of distinguished scholars including:…
Racially targeted hate crimes have increased for Asian populations across the globe since the coronavirus's arrival. This has been spurred by President Trump’s anti-Chinese rhetoric calling COVID-19 the “Kung flu” and “Chinese Virus,” assigning an identity to the virus. The FBI has reported a marked increase in hate crimes and physical violence against Asians and Asian Americans in the US including assault and harassment on public transportation.…
Join us for an event celebrating Open Access Week and the impact that free, immediate, online access to our heritage and cultural objects; the scholarly research surrounding them; and the right to use and re-use images of cultural objects and art can have.
For this program, we have gathered experts from the United States, Denmark, and Italy for a panel discussion that will explore the legal issues that color institutions' decisions to make their collections open access and the institutional attitudes towards these policies and decisions. The interdisciplinary discussion aims to support a transnational discussion on this important topic. Our esteemed panelists include Victoria Perdomo, Registrar at Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art; Michael Weinberg, Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at the NYU School of Law…
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as Dr. Rhea Boyd, BA '06, Director of Strategy and Equity for the California Children's Trust, explores racialhealth inequities. Dr. Boyd travels to teach students and trainees about the relationship between structural inequity and health,…
With the 2020 election fast approaching, the US faces unprecedented pressures on its democracy. Join us 12:30 PM ET Oct. 26 to hear from the authors of a new Keough School policy paper about safeguarding American democracy in both the short and long term
