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Romance Languages and Literatures

BOOK PUBLICATION

Fines Infrapolíticos: De la Razón, la Representación y la Narrativa Española Moderna, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2022.

In his new book, Pedro A. Aguilera-Mellado, assistant professor of Spanish, Iberian studies, provides the first sustained analysis of modern and contemporary Spain through the infrapolitical register of writing, thought, and existence. Fines Infrapolíticos bears witness to the present “twilight of the political” and the ongoing ruination of fundamental categories inherited from modernity. This work is driven by two overlapping questions: firstly, is there something else in existence besides the generalized social astonishment that accompanies the ongoing ruination of modern life or the paralysis in the face of an impending ecological emergency? Secondly, is there an experience other than the integral and bourgeois market-state duopoly and its neoliberal dismantling of the working class on a planetary scale? By studying the Enlightenment and liberal origins of three notions — reason, representation, and narrative — this book provides a novel understanding of a certain exhaustion or “end” of the modern project after the arrival of post-neoliberalism.

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Theology Sophie White American Studies

John Betz

National Endowment for the Humanities Grants, 2022

Two Nanovic Institute faculty fellows were awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities in its last round of funding for 2022. Sophie White, professor of American studies, was awarded an NEH Public Scholars grant to continue work on her book project “Strangers Within: A Cultural and Genomic History of Red Hair.” The project juxtaposes cultural history with new genomic discoveries to analyze how redheads have been alternately abused, glorified and discriminated against through a wide range of times and locations, from ancient Egypt to the present-day United States.

John Betz, associate professor of theology, received an NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations grant to create a critical edition of F.W.J. von Schelling’s original 1831-32 Munich lectures on the philosophy of revelation. A specialist in German philosophy and theology from the 18th to 20th centuries, Betz co-directs the project “Shelling’s Philosophy of Revelation” with Marcela García-Romero, associate professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University.

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BOOK PUBLICATION

Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated “Scivias,” University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.

Margot E. Fassler takes readers into the rich, complex world of Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias (meaning “know the ways”) to explore how medieval thinkers understood and imagined the universe. Scivias was Hildegard’s first major theological work and the only one of her writings that was both illuminated and copied by scribes from her monastery during her lifetime. It contains not just religious visions and theological commentary, but also a shortened version of Hildegard’s play Ordo virtutum (“Play of the virtues”), plus the texts of fourteen musical compositions. These elements of Scivias, Fassler contends, form a coherent whole demonstrating how Hildegard used theology and the liturgical arts to lead and to teach the nuns of her community. Hildegard’s visual and sonic images unfold slowly and deliberately, opening up varied paths of knowing. Hildegard’s vision of the universe is a “Cosmic Egg,” as described in Scivias, filled with strife and striving, and at its center unfolds the epic drama of every human soul, embodied through sound and singing. Fassler’s analysis reveals how this dynamic cosmological framework from the Middle Ages resonates with contemporary thinking in surprising ways, and underscores the vitality of the arts as embodied modes of theological expression and knowledge.

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BOOK PUBLICATION

Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America, Princeton University Press, 2023.

This first book from Korey Garibaldi, assistant professor of American Studies, revisits an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s. Impermanent Blackness explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing — between authors, agents, and publishers — which forged partnerships across racial lines and underpinned the genre now commonly celebrated as African American literature. Garibaldi shows how aspiring and established Black authors and editors worked closely with white interlocutors to achieve publishing success, often challenging stereotypes and advancing racial pluralism in the process. Revisiting the work of literary figures such as anthologist W.S. Braithwaite, novelist Frank Yerby, and memoirist Juanita Harrison, Impermanent Blackness breaks new ground in the cutural history of race in the United States.

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History and Keough Naughton-Institute for Irish Studies

APPOINTMENT

Named honorary member of Royal Irish Academy, Ireland’s highest academic honor, 2023.

Patrick Griffin, the Madden-Hennebry Professor of History and director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, has been named an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy, considered the highest academic honor in Ireland. Established in 1785, the RIA is an independent learned society of about 650 members selected for their contributions to research in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and public service. A small number of honorary non-Irish members are elected each year, a distinction typically reserved for academics who have made a major international contribution in their discipline. Griffin said: “Being an American and an American historian with close ties to Ireland makes my election that much more meaningful. It suggests that, maybe, my work has made some sort of mark.”

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Theology and Global Affairs

BOOK PUBLICATION

A Theology of Migration, Orbis Books, 2022.

Forward written by Pope Francis.

In his new book, Rev. Daniel Groody, C.S.C., vice president and associate provost for undergraduate education, examines the historical, philosophical and theological perspectives on migration and asks readers to reconsider their views on how to understand and respond to a global migration crisis. This interdisciplinary study is grounded on a deeply religious and spiritual view of migration. It features a foreword by Pope Francis and documents the current divisive perspectives about migrants, seeking to foster a more human and Christian point of view on this pressing challenge. Groody draws on his years of working with migrants and farmworkers in the American west and on various continents around the work to put a human face on issues that are all too often reduced to data and statistics. The book asks readers to view the plight of migrants who are victims of war, economics, and international crime under the light of a more comprehensive vision of spiritual communion and global solidarity.

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BOOK PUBLICATION

After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre and the Peace That Followed, Oxford University Press, 2023.

A novel analysis of the aftermath of the most appalling terrorist act in Russian history, the seizure of a school and the violent deaths of hundreds of hostages, and insights into why it triggered unprecedented peaceful political activism instead of the widely predicted retaliatory ethnic violence.

Starting on September 1, 2004, and ending 53 hours later, Russia experienced its most appalling act of terrorism in history, the seizure of School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia. Approximately 1,200 children, parents, and teachers were taken hostage. Over 330 were killed, hundreds more seriously wounded, and all severely traumatized. When does such violence fuel greater acceptance of retaliatory violence, and when does violence fuel nonviolent participation in politics?

In After Violence, Debra Javeline addresses this crucial question by exploring the motivations behind individual responses to violence. As the first book to analyze the aftermath of large-scale violence with evidence from almost all direct victims, After Violence offers novel findings about the influence of anger, prejudice, alienation, efficacy, and other variables on post-violence behavior.

A related April 2023 article in Notre Dame Magazine, “What the Beslan School Siege Taught Us” explores the subject at the heart of the book and the world’s earlier glimpse of how Vladimir Putin values human life.

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Peter Jeffery

Medieval Studies, Music, Anthropology, and Theology

APPOINTMENT

Elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America

Peter Jeffery, director of sacred music and professor of musicology and ethnomusicology and the Michael P. Grace Chair in Medieval Studies, has been elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of Europe, an honor that recognizes “major long-term scholarly achievement within the field of Medieval Studies.” Jeffrey’s citation lauded him for “unmatched linguistic skills” which have aided in his “illumination of the relationship between Eastern and Western liturgical practice from the earliest times.” His scholarship has “contributed to our understanding of Christian-Jewish liturgical encounters, and made major contributions to the histories of medieval Greek, Latin, Egyptian, and Ethiopian liturgy.”

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Theology

BOOK PUBLICATION

From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity, University of California Press, 2022.

Even the briefest glance at an art museum’s holdings or an introductory history textbook demonstrates the profound influence of Christian images and art. From Idols to Icons tells the fascinating history of the dramatic shift in Christian attitudes toward sacred images from the third through the early seventh century. From attacks on the cult images of polytheism to the emergence of Christian narrative iconography to the appearance of portrait-type representations of holy figures, this book examines the primary theological critiques and defenses of holy images in light of the surviving material evidence for early Christian visual art. Against the previous assumption that fourth- and fifth-century Christians simply forgot or ignored their predecessors’ censure and reverted to more alluring pagan practices, Robin M. Jensen contends that each stage of this profound change was uniquely Christian. Through a careful consideration of the cults of saints’ remains, devotional portraits, and pilgrimages to sacred sites, Jensen shows how the Christian devotion to holy images came to be rooted in their evolving conviction that the divine was accessible in and through visible objects.

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Anton Juan

Film, Television, and Theatre

FILM

Amon Banwa sa Lawud (Our Island of the Mangrove Moons), Directed by Anton Juan

With Apple Aplanque, Kent John Desamparado, Helen Cutillar Not Rated, 87 minutes, DCP

In Hiligaynon with English subtitles.

Created in collaboration with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, Anton Juan’s feature film Amon Banwa sa Lawud (Our Island of the Mangrove Moons) by aligns with the Nanovic Institute’s strategic focus on the “peripheries.” A remote mangrove island’s fisherfolk resist oblivion when their daily lives and stories face annihilation by a foreign power. The mangroves engrave their histories of the moon: No island nor no people should ever be forgotten.

In March, the film was screened at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and was followed by a post-film panel discussion with Nanovic Faculty Fellow Diane Desierto, Law School and Keough School of Global Affairs; Nanovic Faculty Fellow

Olivier Morel, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre; and Michel Hockx, Director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Aníbal Pérez Liñan, Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, served as host.

EXPERT TESTIMONY

Testified before Congressional-Executive Commission on China

In September 2022, Associate Professor of Political Science Karrie Koesel testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s hearing “Control of Religion in China through Digital Authoritarianism.” Koesel’s research focuses on religion and politics, dictatorship and democracy, political education and propaganda, and contemporary Chinese and Russian politics. She testified on the People’s Republic of China’s current and long-term strategies for asserting party control over religion, especially through sinicization, which calls on religious believers to integrate party loyalty into all aspects of religious life. She also offered recommendations for how Congress and the Biden administration can effectively advocate for freedom of religion in China.

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Ian Kuijt Anthropology

FILM

Profiles of Resistance and Resilience: Documenting looting, damage, and destruction of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage

Co-editor: William Donaruma (Film, Television, and Theatre & Office of Digital Learning)

This eight-minute film provides a behind-the-scenes understanding of the ongoing destruction of Ukrainian culture, history, and heritage. As part of the broader Maybe Cannons Will Rumble social documentary film project Kuijt and Donaruma traveled within Ukraine for nine days in March 2023 to visit multiple locations, photograph existing damage to heritage buildings and archaeology sites, and assess how much damage has taken place. Profiles of Resistance and Resilience provides background footage and brief interviews of some of this work. This filming documents and explores damage caused by the Russian invasion, the construction of military fortifications such as trenches in medieval villages and graveyards, and the targeting of cultural heritage sites to erase Ukrainian history and heritage.

This is a collaborative research project between the University of Notre Dame, the Ukrainian Catholic University, School of Journalism and Communication, Ukraine, Kyiv National University, Ukraine, and the Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine.

English

ESSAY PUBLICATION

“Prone Minds and Extended Selves: The Cenci,” Romanticism and Consciousness Revisited. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

From the vantage of recent developments in cognitive theory, this essay revisits Percy Shelley’s 1819 verse-drama The Cenci (about a sixteenth-century Roman family by that name) to argue for Shelley’s anticipation and refutation of “extended-mind theory,” the theory that the mind extends beyond the boundaries of skin and skull, into the environment, and even into other people. Solomonescu takes seriously Shelley’s metaphor of the “prone mind” to consider the degree to which the self’s dissolution into its surroundings functions as a moral resource or existential threat. The essay appears in Romanticism and Consciousness Revisited, edited by Richard C. Sha and Joel Faflak (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), which, from the vantage of current understandings of consciousness and cognition, remaps the terrain explored in the influential 1970 volume Romanticism and Consciousness, edited by Harold Bloom.

ARTICLE OF NOTE

History

“From the Three Bodies of Christ to the King’s Two Bodies: The Theological Origins of Secularization Theory,” Modern Intellectual History, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

ARTICLE

FromtheThreeBodiesofChristtotheKing’sTwo Bodies:TheTheologicalOriginsofSecularization Theory

SarahShortall*

DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofNotreDame

*Correspondingauthor.E-mail: sshortal@nd.edu

Thisarticletracestheinfluenceoftheologyononeparticularstrandofsecularizationtheorythat emergedfromtheworkofErnstKantorowiczandMarcelGauchet.ItshowshowKantorowicz s classictext, TheKing sTwoBodies,wasdeeplyindebtedtotheinsightsofoneoftheleading Catholictheologiansofthetwentiethcentury:theFrenchJesuitHenrideLubac.Bytracing theinfluenceofdeLubac sworkonKantorowiczand,throughhim,onthesecularizationtheory developedbyMarcelGauchet,thearticleuncoversasurprisingconvergencebetweentheology andtheseculardisciplines.Intheprocess,itdrawsattentiontothelimitationsofsecularizationnarrativesthatfocusonthepremoderntheologicaloriginsofmodernpoliticalconcepts, byshowinghowtheystruggletoaccountfortheongoingroleandrelevanceoftheologyina moderncontext.

Sinceitspublicationin1957, TheKing’sTwoBodies ErnstKantorowicz sclassic studyofmedievalpoliticaltheology hasbecomerequiredreadingforhistorians ofmedievalandearlymodernEurope.Init,Kantorowicztracedinpainstakinghistoricaldetailthemedievaloriginsofthelegalfictionthatthekingpossessedtwo bodies anindividual,mortalbodyandanimmortalbodypolitic.Showinghow thisideawaselaboratedonthebasisofmedievaltheologicalmodels, Kantorowiczsuggestedthatitcreatedtheconditionsfortheemergenceofthemodernstate.Thelinesofcontinuitythathesketchedbetweenmedievaltheologyand modernEuropeanpoliticalformationseventuallyattractedtheattentionofphilosopherssuchasMarcelGauchet,whomoldedthehistorian sinsightsintoamore explicittheoryofsecularization.1 Ina1981essaylargelyresponsibleforintroducing KantorowicztoFrenchreaders,Gauchetexplainedwhathetooktobethebook s pivotalcontributiontosecularizationtheory.2 “WhatKantorowiczallowsusto

1See,forinstance,MichelFoucault, DisciplineandPunish:TheBirthoftheModernPrison (NewYork, 1975),28–9;ClaudeLefort, ThePermanenceoftheTheologico-political? ,inHentdeVriesandLawrence Sullivan,eds., PoliticalTheologies:PublicReligionsinaPost-secularWorld (NewYork,2006),148–87; GiorgioAgamben, HomoSacer:SovereignPowerandBareLife,trans.DanielHeller-Roazen(Stanford, 1998),Ch.5;CharlesTaylor, ASecularAge (Cambridge,MA,2007),161,192,392,446,460,712. 2MarcelGauchet, Desdeuxcorpsduroiaupouvoirsanscorps:Christianismeetpolitique, LeDébat 14 (1981),133–57. TheKing sTwoBodies wastranslatedintoFrenchin1989.

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This article traces the influence of theology on one particular strand of secularization theory that emerged from the work of Ernst Kantorowicz and Marcel Gauchet. It shows how Kantorowicz’s classic text, The King’s Two Bodies, was deeply indebted to the insights of one of the leading Catholic theologians of the twentieth century: the French Jesuit Henri de Lubac. By tracing the influence of de Lubac’s work on Kantorowicz and, through him, on the secularization theory developed by Marcel Gauchet, the article uncovers a surprising convergence between theology and the secular disciplines. In the process, it draws attention to the limitations of secularization narratives that focus on the premodern theological origins of modern political concepts by showing how they struggle to account for the ongoing role and relevance of theology in a modern context.

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History

BOOK PUBLICATION

Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics, Harvard University Press, 2021.

Soldiers of God in a Secular World provides a revelatory account of the nouvelle théologie, a clerical movement that revitalized the Catholic Church’s role in twentieth-century French political life. Sarah Shortall explores how this new theology reimagined the Church’s relationship to public life, encouraging political activism, engaging with secular philosophy, and inspiring doctrinal changes adopted by the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.

AWARDS

2020-2021 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies, New York University

2021 Giuseppe Alberigo Award (Junior category), European Academy of Religion

2021 Best Book Award, College Theology Society, First place, History category, 2022 Catholic Media Association Book Awards

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German Language and Literature and Philosophy

BOOK PUBLICATION

Alfred Hitchcock: Filmmaker and Philosopher, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Hitchcock, who learned his craft in Weimar, Germany, was a masterful director, both popular with audiences and critically acclaimed. In this book, Roche addresses how Hitchcock’s films subtly engage philosophical themes:

• What is evil, and how does it shield and reveal itself?

• Can we know what is inside the mind of another person?

• What is at stake when one knows the truth but cannot speak of it or cannot persuade others?

• Why are Hitchcock’s works so often ambiguous?

• What is the hidden purpose and theory behind his use of humor?

Roche unlocks not only Hitchcock’s formal innovations but also his engagement with ideas–both in his early British films and in his American works, many of which address Europe, including the Nazi threat.

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Arts and Letters, Philosophy, and Political Science

BOOK PUBLICATION

Goethe and Dickens als christliche Dichter, Verlag Karl Alber, 2022.

Goethe ist der umfassendste deutsche Dichter, Dickens der wohl grösste englische Schriftsteller seit Shakespeare. Bisher ist kaum gesehen worden, wie viel drei von Dickens’ Romanen Goethes berühmtestem Roman, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, verdanken, dessen Themen sie subtil abwandeln. In diesem Buch geht es aber keineswegs nur um Goethes Einfluss auf Dickens, sondern besonders um die Art und Weise, wie beide Schriftsteller nach der Aufklärung an einer neuen Form christlicher Literatur arbeiten, deren beachtliche Unterschiede viel zu tun haben mit den intellektuellen Unterschieden zwischen Deutschland und England. Eine Analyse von Goethes autobiographischen Schriften Dichtung und Wahrheit und Italienische Reise sowie ein methodologisch grundlegender Aufsatz zum Literaturvergleich runden dieses Buch ab, das fuer Germanisten, Anglisten und Philosophen gleichermaßen gedacht ist.

Goethe is the most comprehensive German poet, Dickens probably the greatest English writer since Shakespeare, and yet there is little discussion of the influence of Goethe’s most famous novel, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, on three of Dickens’ novels. In Goethe and Dickens als christliche Dichter (Goethe and Dickens as Christian poets), Vittorio Hösle examines Goethe’s influence on Dickens, with a particular focus on the way in which both writers worked on a new form of Christian literature after the Enlightenment, and their considerable differences, which have much to do with the intellectual differences between Germany and England. This book is completed by an analysis of Goethe’s autobiographical writings Poetry and Truth and Italian Journey as well as a methodological essay on literary comparison intended for Germanist scholars.

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Arts and Letters, Philosophy, and Political Science

BOOK PUBLICATION

Mit dem Rücken zu Russland: Der Ukrainekrieg und die Fehler des Westens, Verlag Karl Alber, 2022.

Vittorio Hösle had been warning of a major war of aggression by Russia for many years. In Mit dem Rücken zu Russland: Der Ukrainekrieg und die Fehler des Westens (

With Our Backs to Russia: The Ukraine War and the Mistakes of the West), Hösle considers the turning point of the attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. What were the causes of this war, in the immediate past but also in the distant past? Why have so many people, especially in Western Europe, suppressed their sense or awareness of the impending dangers? Why was Ukraine relatively successful in its national defense? How will the war play out? What will happen if Donald Trump moves back to the White House in 2025? What moral principles should guide NATO’s defense policy? And how might this geopolitical turning point affect Germany’s domestic politics? This volume also contains recent texts by Hösle on Russia, the Ukraine War and its artistic interpretation by the Russian painter and graphic artist Maxim Kantor.

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Vittorio Hösle Der Ukrainekrieg und die Fehler des Westens Mit einem Geleitwort von Theo Waigel Mit dem Rücken zu Russland

CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT

Watercolor of the Pieve di Romena commissioned for the cover of A People’s Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050–1300, edited by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani and Neslihan Şenocak, Cornell University Press, 2023.

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Archtiecture

BOOK PUBLICATION

Architectural Type and Character. A practical guide to a history of architecture, Routledge Press, 2022.

Samir Younés, professor of architecture and associate dean, co-authored with Carroll William Westfall, professor of architecture emeritus, a new book entitled: Architectural Type and Character. A practical guide to a history of architecture.

The book provides the theoretical foundations for an alternative history of architecture, reuniting architectural design and history. It discusses over one hundred sites from all over the world.

AWARD

Elected to the Board of Directors of the International Jacques Ellul Society

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BOOK PUBLICATION

The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes, Oxford University Press, 2021.

Co-authored with Kristina E. Wiegand

When states involved in territorial or maritime disputes choose to pursue peaceful resolution, there is great uncertainty about winning. After all, all states engaged in such contentions want to secure maximum territorial or maritime concessions. When faced with many alternatives, governments need to decide which path to take—negotiations, mediation, arbitration, or adjudication.

This book describes the various methods of peaceful resolution available to states and explains states’ preferences toward each method. Uncertainty about the outcome and desire to win disputes drives states to behave strategically throughout the entire resolution process: the initial pursuit of a particular resolution method and decision-making once a method has been identified. As the settlement process progresses, states reconsider and refine their strategies to increase the likelihood of securing maximum territorial/maritime concessions. Powell covers interesting patterns of territorial and maritime disputes in the world since WWII until present times and highlights insights from interviews with states’ legal counsel, judges, arbitrators, government officials, and other experts from multiple countries.

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BOOK PUBLICATION

Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely through Contemporary Fiction in French, Liverpool University Press, 2023.

Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, and literality and metaphor. A contribution to current conversations in memory studies and spectrality studies, Mind the Ghost is an experiment in reading ghosts otherwise. It explores, through contemporary French fiction, sites of textual haunting that take the form of names, lists, objects, photographs, and stains. The book turns to Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous to rethink what constitutes and functions as a ghost, proposing that this figure solicits readers’ investment in mnemonic practices. Considering the memories and legacies of violence that have marked the greater part of the twentieth-century –in Algeria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, and Rwanda – this book traces absences, disappearances and reappearances, textual omissions, and untimely irruptions to posit literature’s power to both remember and communicate beyond the bounds of chronological time. Through close readings of recent fiction by Kaouther Adimi, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Gaël Faye, Jérôme Ferrari, Patrick Modiano, Lydie Salvayre, Leïla Sebbar, and Cécile Wajsbrot, Mind the Ghost articulates the mechanisms through which readers themselves become haunted.

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BOOK PUBLICATION

‘Taking Up Space’: Women at Work in Contemporary France, University of Wales Press with distribution by University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Focusing on representations of women’s experiences in contemporary France, this volume examines how women inhabit a variety of work spaces. It also speaks to the importance of cultural productions in calling out labour issues affecting women, as well as in offering a platform that allows us to imagine a future where inclusive and equitable work spaces are the norm. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s phenomenological use of objects, the book explores women’s experiences through different metaphors of the door related to labour. The contributors demonstrate how doors are not only closed or open, but also serve as a threshold – or are meant to be blown off. Taken together, the chapters convey how women’s work experiences can range from states of oppression to survival to celebration. At the same time, they show how through deliberate stances and actions, various work spaces can become sites of liberation and revolution.

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American Studies

English and Gender Studies

NANOVIC INSTITUTE SIGNATURE CONFERENCE

“Reimagining Europe from Its Peripheries”

April 27-29, 2023

The goal of “Reimagining Europe from Its Peripheries,” is to examine the political and cultural “structuring” of European belonging from the perspective of its ever-shifting, often-precarious peripheries—and its peripheral subjects. As historian Richard Ivan Jobs has recently noted, “there are currently efforts across the Schengen zone to reinstitute border controls to slow the movement of immigrants, who have grown in number and visibility in the last decade as conditions of daily life have deteriorated on the southern and eastern peripheries of Europe.” Participants in our conference will consider how various forms of sectarian conflict, nationalism, and imperialism have shaped and reshaped who is isolated, integrated and excluded from Europe, as conceptions of “the European continent,” and its “peripheries,” have changed over time and space.

Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.

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Exchange Students from Ukrainian Catholic University at Notre Dame discuss the War in Ukraine, Grass Roots Media, February 2023.

One year into the war in Ukraine, a group of exchange students from Ukrainian Catholic University share stories of the early days of the war in February 2022 and their hopes for the future of their nation.

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STUDENT RESEARCH EXHIBITION

Ukrainian Art as Protest and Resilience, Nanovic Institute Website Feature, 2023.

In February, 2022, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies opened a new in-person and digital exhibition “Ukrainian Art as Protest and Resilience.” To coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this exhibition was the outcome of an undergraduate research project conducted over winter break. Ten undergraduate students led by Yaryna Pysko MGA ’24, researched various mediums of public art and their role in Ukraine’s struggle to defend its sovereignty. Their research has culminated in this exhibition, which samples the students’ chosen works that range from Ukrainian fashion to children’s art. In a discussion of the project’s background, Abigail Lewis, postdoctoral research associate at the Nanovic Institute, writes: “This exhibition seeks to highlight Ukrainian protest and resilience during the invasion by Russia and how public art has become a medium of resistance, traumatic mediation, and expressions of identity. Faced with the threat of cultural annihilation, Ukrainian artists have brought Ukrainian identity, history, and culture to the fore.” VIEW

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AWARD

Presidential Team Irish Award

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies was honored with a Presidential Team Irish Award on Saturday, Sept. 10 during the first home football game of the 2022 season.

Over the course of the spring semester, the Nanovic Institute, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, responded quickly to create meaningful events and programming in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Nanovic Institute created regular content inspired and informed by its partners in Ukraine and set up a dedicated and regularly updated web page with information and resources for the campus community. The institute also hosted and cosponsored a total of 16 events that included panels, featured lectures, a film screening and other offerings focused on Ukraine and Russia’s invasion.

Notre Dame’s long-standing partnership with the Ukrainian Catholic University aided this group in shedding light on the people affected, and their efforts continue with a summer school for Ukrainian students (offered in Croatia) as well as expansion of the visiting scholar program to include more Ukrainian scholars.

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THE LAURA SHANNON PRIZE in Contemporary European Studies

For more information about the winners, books, and guidelines, visit nanovic.nd.edu/prize.

The Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies

WINNER OF THE 2023 AWARD IN HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union, Harvard University Press, 2021.

JURY STATEMENT

“Beyond its virtuosic achievement as a work of history, Conquering Peace is conspicuous for its present-day relevance and practical applicability. The better we understand the past, the better equipped we are to address the present as we look toward the future. Without ever letting distorting presentisms compromise her scholarly integrity or sophistication, Ghervas is alert to current tensions, challenges and antagonisms among European states and beyond them. One can only hope that all professional diplomats, as well as politicians engaged in international affairs, will read and learn from this wise book.

Impressively learned and consistently incisive, as brilliantly conceived as it is superbly executed, Conquering Peace is a stunning accomplishment that is destined to become a classic in modern European diplomatic history, political history, international relations and peace studies. It is eminently worthy of the Nanovic Institute’s Laura Shannon Prize for 2023.”

The Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies

2023 SILVER MEDALIST IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Statelessness: A Modern History, Harvard University Press, 2020.

JURY STATEMENT

“This book’s forté is at once conceptual and substantive: it persuasively identifies the category of statelessness as an international and legal problem inseparable from political and theoretical considerations in twentieth-century Europe, and shows its rootedness in the breakup of the Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Empires after World War I, decades earlier than has been argued by some scholars. Through an impressive integration of intellectual and legal history, Statelessness offers a global account of the evolution of the concept of statelessness, treating literary sources with as much gravitas as international legal documents such as the Nansen passport. Created by the League of Nations, the Nansen passport gave stateless people, such as Hannah Arendt, an international legal identity at a time when they desperately needed it. Siegelberg’s book vividly recovers that remarkable fact of modern international thought through its timely political, legal and literary history of statelessness.”

The Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies

Professor of History and of German, Russian and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University

2023 SILVER MEDALIST IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe, Oxford University Press, 2021.

JURY STATEMENT

“Emily Greble’s impressive and deeply researched book delineates the varied ways in which Muslims were ‘othered’ in the series of post-Ottoman regimes in the lands that became Yugoslavia. Greble dexterously handles a staggering range of complexity and diversity — ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious (including within Islam) — and her multilinguistic archival research is remarkable; the storytelling and choice of synecdochal anecdotes effective; and the overarching narrative works well in a political history of social coexistence and conflict. With originality, Greble succeeds in writing more from ‘below’ than from ‘above,’ prioritizing Muslim views, actions, institutions and experiences. Epitomizing the value of thorough and careful academic research, this outstanding study promises to be a reference in the field of southeastern European studies. But its implications resonate far more widely in a world where minority rights continue to pose challenges to states that privilege religiously and ethnically homogenous populations.”

The Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies

MEMBERS OF THE JURY, 2023 AWARD IN HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Laura Lee Downs

Professor of History, European University Institute

Brad S. Gregory

Henkels Family College Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Katy Hayward

Professor of Political Sociology, Queen’s University, Belfast

Eileen M. Hunt

Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Helmut Walser Smith

Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

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