From the dir ector
At the Nanovic Institute,
we take pride in being the kind of institute that goes beyond presenting isolated lectures, conferences, and fellowships. We seek to infuse the entire university experience with well-integrated European content and interdisciplinary scholarship. As the following pages demonstrate, we have a substantial impact both on the Notre Dame campus and abroad. Thanks to the generosity of our friends, we made two major advances this year. The first was our inaugural award of the Shannon Prize, a prize we seek to establish as the premier book award in English in contemporary European studies. The second step was our inaugural Nanovic Forum, a multi-day event that our guests craft themselves. The aim of the Forum is to excite our campus community, keep major European issues at the forefront of discussion, and create closer ties between Notre Dame and the top tiers of Europe’s own professional and academic communities. Both events were great successes. We also continue to facilitate crossdisciplinary conversations and ideas among our European studies community. Over the past year, we engaged faculty and graduate students in panel conversations about what we can learn from European universities and the direction of European studies, especially in the Humanities. A panel on the
