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.

Perin Gürel

American Studies and Gender Studies

Video Production

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.

Publication

30 Years: Turning Hearts and Minds to Europe, Nanovic Intitute for European Studies, 2022.

CO-DESIGNER

Skelton and Sprouls

AWARD

2023 Silver Award for Annual Report, 38th Annual Educational Advertising Awards

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