Look ing forward Foundations of an International Campus
The Institute worked this year with Notre Dame’s campuses in international cities to connect them more deeply to their local cultures and to find new foundations for scholarly collaboration and exchange.
London In addition to sponsoring academic conferences at the London Centre, the Institute worked with Centre staff to support social events that brought together Members of British Parliament, their student interns from Notre Dame, and the London academic community. The Institute supported a similar social event between student interns and their internship providers in London’s Theatre community. Plans are underway to establish regular social interactions with students at nearby King’s College.
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future conferences. Finally, Institute staff have established good relations with the musical establishment at the Cathedral of Notre Dame and with the Notre Dame Alumni Group based in Paris, both of which have specific and immediate prospects for development.
Chicago
Paris
The Institute coordinated a meeting between the Director, a group of European consuls general in Chicago, and J. Nicholas Entrikin, Notre Dame’s Vice President and Associate Provost for Internationalization. Held at the British Consul’s residence, the meeting included consuls general from Poland, Ireland, Ukraine, and Italy, all of whom discussed their priorities and potential avenues of cooperation. The Institute will continue to foster these conversations and develop projects from them.
Relations with French universities have developed in an exciting direction with the recent appointment of past visiting scholar Florian Michel to a position in the University of Paris I (Sorbonne). The Institute also has a friend in Zahia Rahmani (past visiting scholar seminar leader) in the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art. Relations with the Collège des Bernardins in Paris also have developed in promising ways for the location of
Institute staff are also assisting in the creation of collaborative academic projects between Notre Dame faculty and their Chicago area peers. Faculty fellow Pierpaolo Polzonetti (Program of Liberal Studies) has established a project with Robert Kendrick at the University of Chicago to reassess the relationship in baroque music between Catholicism, the Enlightenment, and the emergence of a sense of European identity.
