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FROM THE DIRECTOR A. JAMES MCADAMS
William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs
Brexit!
Only a year ago, few observers would have imagined that Great Britain’s citizens would vote to leave the European Union. Yet this event serves to underscore what we intuitively know about the world of politics. What seems a political certainty on one day may be gone the next. The Nanovic Institute seeks to address this challenge by viewing Europe as an evolving identity, not a fixed and inalterable fact. As we explore “the evolving ideas, cultures, beliefs, and institutions that shape Europe today” (Mission Statement), we are mindful of the fact that we are dealing with processes that involve elements of convergence and divergence, coming together and drifting apart. The European idea is constantly developing.
Over the past year, our students and faculty have considered a number of issues that show that the differences among European states and peoples are sometimes greater than what they share in common. As you can see in the following pages, we have organized multiple panels on the different European responses to the challenges of immigration, nationalism, and terrorism. Our visitors, such as the preeminent Polish filmmaker, Krzysztof Zanussi, have presented lectures about the growing tensions between Russia and Europe. We even pondered the possible outbreak of new European conflicts while considering the observations of this year’s winner of the Laura Shannon Prize, Sir Christopher Clark, about the origins of World War I. Yet, in responding to the perception that Brexit marks the end of the European dream, we have also considered ways in which Europeans are not as divided as they may seem. The following pages attest to our efforts to identify common values and cultural attitudes which will unite Europeans for years to come. Our students traveled to the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt to learn about ways in which Germany’s citizens are working together to integrate refugees into their societies. The esteemed German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta lectured about the role of prominent women in promoting ideals of justice and equality that continue to inspire Europeans today. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the chair of the Nanovic Institute’s Advisory Board, Jane Heiden, and her husband, Tom, we were privileged to reflect upon the contemporary implications of the stories of world-class hockey players who escaped from the Soviet bloc during the Cold War to enjoy free lives in the West. One of those athletes, Peter Šťastný, a long-time member of the European parliament and committed Europeanist, has now joined the Institute’s Advisory Board. For all of these reasons, as we reflect on the meaning of Great Britain’s vote to depart from the EU, we can see that this event is one of a multitude of issues that define European identity. I invite you to look at the pages of this Year in Review to consider the many different ways in which the Nanovic Institute explores and engages the rapidly changing developments in Europe today. A. James McAdams with advisory board member Peter Šťastný and founding benefactor Robert Nanovic.
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HISTORY GETS PERSONAL
Eminent Filmmakers Join the Nanovic Forum This year, the Institute welcomed two European filmmakers, Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland) and Margarethe von Trotta (Germany). Over nearly a half-century, Mr. Zanussi has made more than two dozen feature-length films. In September, he delivered a wideranging lecture for students entitled “Strategies of Life.” In a special seminar, he shared insights about his personal meetings with Vladimir Putin and Boris Yeltsin. He introduced his latest film, Foreign Body (2014), on campus. In Chicago, he delivered remarks at a lunch reception for European consuls general and University alumni, after which he introduced a private screening of his best-known film, A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984). Throughout his visit, Mr. Zanussi met students in European studies, members of the Polish Club, fellows of the Institute for Advanced Study, and shared meals and conversation with dozens of faculty members. Margarethe von Trotta has been one of Germany’s leading film directors since the 1970s. During her visit to Notre Dame in April, she delivered a public lecture on the relationship between history and film, conducted a masterclass for students interested in her approach to biography, and introduced her latest film, Die abhandene Welt (The Misplaced World), starring Barbara Sukowa, a past guest of the Institute. While on campus, Ms. von Trotta spoke with faculty, particularly those in Film, Television, and Theatre, and engaged a broad range of students, including German-speaking undergraduates at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College.
Because of the whole nineteenth century, Polish Catholicism was always linked to the nation, not to power. That’s why it was so deeply rooted: the Church was on the side of the people — and that’s why it survived so well. KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI
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Gabe Polsky, Michal Pivoňka, Peter Šťastný, Alexei Kovalev, and Petr Klíma.
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SPORTS AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS AT NOTRE DAME Elite Athletes Remember the Cold War Tensions between the United States, Russia, and Russia’s neighbors continue to raise the question of whether a new cold war is underway. How do people caught in that conflict navigate it, and at what personal risk? Does this experience vary by region or sphere of influence? What insights can be gained by hearing from people’s first-hand experiences? In December, the Institute presented a series of events to explore how professional athletes from the former Soviet bloc experienced the political contest of the Cold War. The events began with a screening of Red Army (2014), an excellent documentary that follows the coaches and players of the most famous Soviet hockey team. The film’s director, Gabe Polsky, introduced the film and answered questions afterwards. The next day, Polsky joined a panel of four world-class players who moved from East to West and went on to have stellar careers in the NHL: Petr Klíma, Alexei Kovalev, Michal Pivoňka, and Peter Šťastný. Open to the public, the panel was moderated by Thomas J. Heiden (’67), a graduate of Notre Dame, founder of club hockey at Notre Dame, and member of the Advisory Council for the College of Arts and Letters. Jane Heiden, who serves as the chair of the Institute’s Advisory Board, was instrumental in the organization of the event. The panel was followed by an exhibition game in the Compton Family Ice Arena between the alumni of the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks. Šťastný, who served as a member of the European Parliament between 2004 to 2014, joined the Nanovic Institute’s Advisory Board in the spring.
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This was a tremendous opportunity for our students and faculty to gain a new perspective on the Cold War. The fact that the participants had directly experienced this period makes the event truly special. A. JAMES MCADAMS
A MAJOR LANDMARK
The Laura Shannon Prize The 2015 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies was awarded to The Sleepwalkers (2012), by Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at St. Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge. A landmark study of how Europe went to war in 1914, Sleepwalkers argues that the war was not inevitable or driven solely by bellicose powers but came about gradually by a series of decisions that did not adequately analyze or reflect on risk. The international jury of eminent historians and political scientists called the book “uncommonly insightful” and praised the thoroughness of Clark’s research and his ability to work in many languages. “It is not merely the best account we have of the event it explores,” they concluded, “but a model for historical explanation altogether.” Professor Clark delivered his acceptance lecture in November. As part of his interaction with the campus community, he met professor John Deak (History) and Sebastian Rosato (Political Science), who were teaching an undergraduate course entitled “Europe at War, 1900-45.” Graduate students in a seminar taught by Thomas Kselman and Catherine Cangany (History), “The Historian’s Craft,” spent time with him discussing historiography. Professor Clark joined additional faculty for meals and had breakfast with undergraduate students majoring in history. The Laura Shannon Prize again received an increasing number of nominations from authors and publishers across Europe and North America.
All book prizes are important, but the Laura Shannon Prize stands out in several ways. The Institute recruits its Laura Shannon Prize jurors from among the leading authorities in this field and the Prize brings with it the lustre of the Nanovic’s relationship with the research-intense University of Notre Dame. With high visibility across the USA and in the UK, this prize has established itself as a major landmark in the world of humanities research and publishing. SIR CHRISTOPHER CLARK
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THE JURY DORIS BERGEN Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies University of Toronto ARCHIE BROWN, CMG, FBA Emeritus Professor of Politics, St Antony’s College University of Oxford
JOHN VAN ENGEN Andrew V. Tackes Professor of Medieval History University of Notre Dame
ANNA GRZYMALA-BUSSE Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of European and Eurasian Studies University of Michigan
MICHAEL ZUCKERT Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science University of Notre Dame
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GLOBAL EDUCATION AND THE HOLY SEE The Terrence R. Keeley Vatican Lecture The Institute was honored in April to welcome Rev. Friedrich Bechina, F.S.O., Undersecretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education at the Holy See. Born in Vienna in 1966, Rev. Bechina served as an officer in the Austrian army and studied economics, philosophy, and theology at university. His doctoral studies, completed in 1997 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, culminated in an award-winning dissertation. After years as a pastor, he was appointed by Benedict XVI to the Congregation for Catholic Education, where he now serves. The Congregation represents 1,500 Catholic universities worldwide. His role there is to represent the Holy See in various international educational organizations and initiatives, such as the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research at the Council of Europe.
We should always have courage in our universities to go forward, anchored in our traditions, anchored in our values, in the safety of knowledge...but at the same time always moving forward in the zone of risk.
Welcomed by University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Rev. Bechina traced the idea of the university through the thought of three recent popes. Calling Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., a “kind of prophet of Catholic higher education,” Rev. Bechina also stressed the importance of student-centered learning and presented himself as a learner. He was eager to share lessons gleaned over the course of his fifteen years in service to Catholic higher education at the global level.
REV. FRIEDRICH BECHINA, F.S.O. Mission Engagement and Church Affairs). He also spoke with University Deans Mary Galvin (Science), Peter Kilpatrick (Engineering), and John T. McGreevy (Arts and Letters), John Cavadini (Director, Institute for Church Life), and a range of faculty members representing the Alliance for Catholic Education, as well as undergraduates in a wide range of majors.
During his visit, Rev. Bechina met with Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C., (University President) and Rev. William Lies, C.S.C., (Vice President for
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Above: Notre Dame students receive a blessing in Poland Below: Fences divide migrants from the city of Calais, France
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THE ZONE OF RISK
Contemporary Problems and Colliding Cultures in Europe to study the conditions of emerging Christian art in the Roman Empire and to see how later artists such as Fra Angelico dealt with the ‘last things’ in Christian imagination. After their return, students wrote research papers on the works or sites they visited.
FALL Lucien Steil (Architecture) and Anre Venter (Psychology) led a multidisciplinary group of students to Paris as part of their team-taught course, “Case Studies in Urban Phenomenology.” The group explored several arrondissements of Paris, including the suburb of Saint-Denis, in order to understand the culture and interplay of urban peripheries and centers.
Krupali Krusche (Director, School of Architecture Rome Program) took students to organizations in and around Rome to learn about the cultivation and management of high-quality, sustainable food systems. The organizations included the Vatican, the US Embassy to the Holy See, the US Diplomatic Mission to Italy, and the American Academy in Rome.
David Fagerberg (Theology), in partnership with the Open University at the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, led undergraduates studying the personalist philosophy of John Paul II to different sites in Poland in order to explore relationships between personhood, religious icons, and ecumenical relations in Poland today.
Daniel Philpott (Political Science) took Notre Dame students to Rome to present their original work at an international conference focused on religious freedom and persecution entitled “Speak Up! Everyone Has the Right to Freedom of Religion and Belief.” Students staged exhibitions of their research and creative work and were immersed in conference proceedings.
SPRING Leonard DeLorenzo (Director, Notre Dame Vision, Institute for Church Life) took undergraduates in his course, “Art and Eschatology,” to Rome, Orvieto, and Florence
Circumstances that I had studied remotely were now immediately tangible, and I was speaking, drinking coffee, and praying with people for whom religious persecution was neither an abstract foreign issue or an exaggerated political bugaboo. The context of my relationship with this persecution was completely transformed. LIAM CAWLEY (‘15) IN ROME 11
FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
Impact at Notre Dame and Beyond
Twenty-eight students and alumni from the University of Notre Dame were recognized as finalists by the Fulbright US Scholarship Program, a Notre Dame record. Eight of the recipients received funding in the past from the Nanovic Institute.
The Institute awarded the R. Stephen and Ruth Barrett Family Grant for Best Undergraduate Summer Research Proposal to Leslie Omeeboh (’18), a triple major in Neuroscience and Behavior, Pre-Health Studies, and French. Omeeboh is studying the history of colonial Nigeria from 1900 to 1970 to explore the long-term impact of British rule on the state of its healthcare system.
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The J. Roberts Wegs Prize, named after the founding director of the Nanovic Institute, is awarded annually to the writer of the best capstone essay in the minor in European studies. History and Economics major Thomas Lis (’16) received the award for his essay, “Martyrs, Again: Establishing a Polish-European Identity in Lwów, 1918-21.” Advised by Nanovic fellow Alexander Martin (History), Lis traveled to Ukraine and worked closely with Ukrainian historians in Lviv (Lwów) to study politically satirical publications important to the formation of nationalist sensibilities.
Ph.D. candidate, History
Undergraduate research continued to be a springboard for publication and professional advancement: John Hennessey (’09), the Barrett Family Grant winner in 2008, wrote his senior thesis on the basis of his Nanovicfunded research. His work is now a chapter in an anthology published by Manchester University Press entitled Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias, and Dystopias (2015). Timothy Siegler (’14) received the Katie Murphy McMahon Grant for Russian and East-Central European Studies in 2013 to work at the Ludwig Maximilian Institute in Munich. His research has resulted in a publication in the ACS Journal of Applied Materials and Interfaces. Kathleen Brennan (’15) received Nanovic summer funding to study the effects of the Troubles in Ireland in 2013. She is now pursuing a graduate degree in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. She was featured recently in one of Notre Dame’s What Would You Fight For? videos. View more about Brennan’s journey at nanovic.nd.edu/belfast. 12
Ph.D. candidate, History
Study and research grant to India
GENEVIEVE CRUM
M.S. candidate, ESTEEM program Study and research grant to Italy
RAYMOND DRAUSE Study and research grant to Russia
GARRETT FONTENOT
Ph.D. candidate, History
Study and research grant to Canada
BRANDON SEPULVADO
Ph.D. candidate, Sociology
Study and research grant to France
CHARLIE DUCEY
English and German
Study and research grant to Germany
MCKENZIE HIGHTOWER
English and Film, Television and Theatre English Teaching Assistantship to Poland
MONIKA SPALINSKI
Spanish and German
English Teaching Assistantship to Germany
Justin Pizzimenti (‘17)
Peilu Chen (‘16)
Leslie Omeeboh (‘18)
Three of the eight students who graduated in 2016 with a minor in European studies: Caitlin O’ Connor, Thomas Lis, and Ellen Dahlby.
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FROM 164 applications 19 INTERNSHIP & SERVICE GRANTS 19 LANGUAGE IMMERSION GRANTS 50 ACADEMIC BREAK RESEARCH GRANTS 17 SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS 6 TRAVEL AWARDS TO CERN 1 CONFERENCE PRESENTATION GRANT
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Francesco Tassi (‘18)
Angelica Inclan (‘16)
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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
Students Explore Europe’s Internal and External Borders As European governments at every level sought to manage issues related to migration, undergraduates in European studies were eager to study the many drivers and dimensions of the crisis.
the International Organization for Migration Headquarters in Geneva. She is supported by the R. Stephen and Ruth Barrett Family Grant from the Nanovic Institute. The political dimension of migration was at the heart of Sara Abdel-Rahim’s (’17) research in Città Sant’Angelo, a town near Milan, Italy. Abdel-Rahim, a double major in political science and Arabic, interviewed thirty recent migrants from Egypt, finding that their motivations were primarily political and related to repression in their home country.
History and political science major Angelica Inclan (’16) traveled to archives in the UK and Spain to study a remarkable historical precedent: during the Spanish Civil War, volunteers in the UK took in 4,000 child refugees from the Basque region.
One flash point in the crisis has been Germany. With the support of Craig Iffland (Ph.D. candidate, Theology), Clemens Sedmak (Visiting Professor), and Anthony Monta (Nanovic Institute), Notre Dame undergraduates — Christopher Lembo (’19), Bridget Rickard (’18), and Francesco Tassi (’18) — traveled to Bavaria to explore how several key civil society organizations, including the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, are working toward the integration of asylum seekers and German society. A student-run organization at the Catholic university, tun.starthilfe, was recently awarded a sizable grant from the Bavarian parliament to teach German to immigrants in Eichstätt. Students also studied vocational training arrangements in Ingolstadt and Nürnberg.
I have never felt more like a historian in my entire life. This has been a fantastic culmination of my undergraduate experience at Notre Dame. ANGELICA INCLAN (‘16) Brittany Ebeling (’17) studied contemporary labor markets in southern Spain and how corporations, educational institutions, and NGOs strove to integrate economic migrants from West Africa. Noticing that migrants were choosing between co-operative farming in Senegal and unemployment in Spain, she began to refocus her senior thesis topic on development economics and communication. Ebeling will spend the summer as an intern with
Consistent with its research themes, the Institute is developing and expanding research opportunities for Notre Dame students and faculty related to these and other pressing issues.
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THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN STUDIES
Graduate Fellows Enter the Scholarly Community
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THE PAUL G. TOBIN DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS Michael Hahn (Theology, History of Christianity) drafted several chapters of his dissertation on the reception history of Augustine’s Contra Faustum up to Thomas Aquinas, which he is on track to defend in 2016-2017. He presented an overview of his research at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies as part of a session he helped to organize. Erin Kraus (History) completed her dissertation on European revolutionary exiles in the Early American Republic and will defend it in the fall. She presented a chapter at the Notre Dame Global Dome Dissertation Accelerator program in London and Edinburgh and also presented part of her work at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Linlin Liu (Economics) completed her dissertation on asset returns and portfolio allocation as European financial systems continued to struggle. She has presented her work in the Midwest Finance Association Annual Conference, Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, and the 8th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics.
THE DOMINICA AND FRANK ANNESE FELLOWSHIPS Monica Bykowski (History) spent the academic year conducting archival research at the Russian State Archive of Early Acts in Moscow. She presented part of her findings at the International University in Moscow’s annual conference and she is posed to present two dissertation chapters this summer at the International Graduate Student Workshop Exchange at Bielefeld University, Germany. Andrew Klein (English) defended his dissertation on transnational English identity in the premodern world as it was perceived through the medieval lens of Scottish, Scandinavian, and Arabic literature. His chapter “Cartographic Imaginings: Mapping Anglo-Scottish Existence in the Late Middle Ages” was accepted for publication in a forthcoming edition of Studies in Iconography. Kathrin Kranz (Political Science and Peace Studies) completed a full draft of her dissertation, focusing this year on case studies from Germany, the UK, and the European Union. She presented her research at the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. Defending in August, she will begin a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College in the fall.
GRADUATE FELLOWS for 2016-17 QINGYUAN JIANG
MEGAN WELTON
ERICA MACHULAK
JAMES WRIGHT
Ph.D. in Literature
Medieval Institute
English
Sacred Music
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FACULTY RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION
Supporting Scholarship Across and Between the Disciplines the revolutionary interdisciplinary French thinkers of the twentieth century, Cixous has never been the subject of a film. Produced by Zadig Productions, with the participation of Bruno Clément (Université Paris 8), the film by Morel and Cixous will focus on her life and work.
Nanovic fellow Francesca Murphy (Theology), leading the Institute’s international research group on religion and secularism, is at work on a new monograph and has coordinated a number of projects with participating faculty. This year will see the publication of a history of atheism in Europe and the first English translation of Étienne Gilson’s important study of Duns Scotus. The Institute group held a day-long conference focused on Gilson’s philosophical study, translated into English for the first time by James G. Colbert (Fitchburg State University), a new member of the group. Additional book-length publications are forthcoming by Kenneth Oakes (Theology) and David Bentley Hart (Institute for Advanced Studies). Hart will lead the group’s seminar at the Institute this fall.
FACULTY CONFERENCE SUPPORT The Promise of the Vatican Library The Institute joined multiple units on campus in supporting a special gathering of Vatican officials and an international group of scholars “to quicken the utilization of the Vatican Library and to promote its value as a resource for scholarship and teaching.” Rev. Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P., Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church, a previous Keeley Vatican Lecturer at the Institute, returned to Notre Dame to deliver the keynote address. The University of Notre Dame and the Vatican Library formalized their agreement at the conference. This is the only collaboration between the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and an American academic institution and will provide new and unique access to materials for Notre Dame researchers in many disciplines.
Between religious studies and the arts, Nanovic fellow Anne García-Romero (Film, Television, and Theatre) and Alan Freeman (Occidental College) produced a staged reading of Romero’s new play, Paloma, which dramatizes Christian-Muslim relations. Publication and staged performances are forthcoming. Wolfgang Palaver (University of Innsbruck), Benoît Chantre (Collège de Saussure) and Rev. Richard Schenk (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), are working with Sr. Ann Astell (Theology) on an edition of essays to place the work of René Girard on violence and religion in a global context. Nanovic fellow Olivier Morel (Film, Television, and Theatre) received Institute support to begin producing a feature-length documentary about Hélène Cixous. One of
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Semion Lyandres (History) and participants at the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway
world’s leading scholars of German Idealism to focus on topics including autonomy, agency, law, and freedom. Consistent with one of the Institute’s categorical imperatives, graduate students were involved at every stage and turn.
Russia’s Failed Democratic Revolution, February-October, 1917: A Centennial Reappraisal Semion Lyandres (History) The opening of Russian archives after the USSR made the centennial reappraisal of the two Russian revolutions possible. This conference at the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway was the final meeting of an international group of scholars whose new research and historiographical reflections will be issued as an edited volume.
Beyond Tradition: Rethinking Early Modern Europe Julie Tanaka (Hesburgh Library) Thomas Brady (University of California-Berkeley)
A multi-disciplinary group of scholars discussed cultural and legal dimensions of early modern Europe in ways that looked beyond typical geographical and temporal categories. The closing roundtable included Nanovic fellows Felipe Fernández-Armesto (History), Peter Holland (Film, Television, and Theatre), and Brad Gregory (History and the Institute for Advanced Studies).
Agency, Persons, Kant Eric Watkins (Philosophy) In honor of Nanovic fellow Karl Ameriks (Philosophy), this conference gathered the
NANOVIC FELLOW RESEARCH GRANTS The following Nanovic fellows received summer funding to conduct research in Europe: MEREDITH CHESSON
JOHN DEAK
EMILIA JUSTYNA POWELL
DANIEL SCHLOSBERG
Anthropology
History
Political Science
Music
JAMES COLLINS
THOMAS KSELMAN
DUNCAN STROIK
YASMIN SOLOMONESCU
Film, Television, and Theatre
History
Architecture
English
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A CULTURE OF EUROPEAN STUDIES Lectures, Seminars, and the Arts
As a special event, Mario Damolin, a journalist and documentarian from southern Germany, presented his Tightrope Walk (2015), a new film about the Soviet dissident Eugenia Ginzburg. During his visit, Damolin made a new short film about the generous donation of a large personal archive belonging to Ginzburg to Notre Dame. He was accompanied by the previous owner of the archive, Antonina Axenova, Ginzburg’s adopted daughter. Ms. Anexova engaged students in classrooms and assisted the Department of Rare Books & Special Collections of the Hesburgh Libraries in cataloging this important new acquisition.
This year, the Institute brought a wide range of scholars, writers, and artists to Notre Dame in order to integrate their insights into larger cultural conversations on campus about Europe and its place in the world. In the fall, the Film Series presented “Forms of Realism,” a series focused on European approaches to non-fictional cinema. Leslee Udwin presented India’s Daughter (2015), her controversial film which won multiple international awards and stimulated intense discussion on campus. Juliano Ribeiro Salgado introduced The Salt of the Earth (2014), a biography he made with Wim Wenders about Salgado’s father, the extraordinary photographer Sebastião Salgado. Alan O’Leary (University of Leeds) introduced Gillo Pontecorvo’s ground-breaking The Battle of Algiers (1966), about which O’Leary is writing the first book-length study. Nanovic fellow Susan Ohmer (Film, Television, and Theatre) introduced Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015), a film focused on cinematic form as discussed by the masters.
The Tallis Scholars, one of the world’s leading interpreters of polyphonic sacred music, made their Notre Dame debut on the first Sunday after Easter with a program of music by Byrd, Taverner, Davy, and Ferrabosco. The Institute co-sponsored the concert with Sacred Music at Notre Dame. Afterwards, Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars held a conducting and choral singing masterclass with students.
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Opposite page: Students meet with Antonina Axenova and Mario Damolin. Clockwise: Film producer Leslee Udwin, onstage with the Tallis Scholars (Photo by Kirk Richard Smith), Nanovic fellow Peter H. Smith (Music) at the dress rehearsal of As You Like It, and faculty members with Herbert Quelle, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany.
SELECTED SPONSORED EVENTS Imperfect Visions of Imperial Pasts: Reflections on European Empires Manuel L. Giraldo (Spanish National Research Council)
Reunification and Refugees: Germany Looks Back and Ahead Herbert Quelle (Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Modern European Historiography Stephan Merl (Bielefeld University) Littérature: la Puissance Fragile de l’Esprit Andreï Makine (Novelist and member of Académie Française) Poetry and Religion — Friends or Foes? Rev. Paul Brendan Murray, O.P. (Pontifical University of St. Thomas) Secularity as ‘ locus theologicus’? Rival German Theologies of Space and Time in Gaudium et Spes Rev. Richard Schenk, O.P. (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) Père Goriot and the Trinity Paul Young (Georgetown University) The Death Camp Eldorado: Political and Economic Effects of Wartime Property Transfers Evgeny Finkel (George Washington University) 21
Soviet and American Knowledge Networks in Cold War Competition Barbara Walker (University of Nevada-Reno) The Billion Dollar Spy: A Case from the Soviet Era Mike Mears (Leadership and Intelligence Consultant) Performance: As You Like It A new production by Opera Notre Dame Roger Steptoe (Composer, United Kingdom) with libretto by Lesley Fernandez-Armesto Film: Hmong Memory at the Crossroads Panivong Norindr (University of Southern California) and Safoi Babana-Hampton (Michigan State University) Transatlantic Connections Between Spain and Latin America Esperanza López Parada (Complutense University of Madrid)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER EX CORDE The Catholic Universities Partnership
Topics included Pope John Paul’s vision and expectations of Catholic universities, an American perspective on this vision the challenges of creating a new Catholic university, the content and place of theology, and the university in service of an integral anthropology and as a religious response to secularism. Ms. Suchocka offered concluding remarks on the importance of liberating spiritual and intellectual aspirations in students. A. James McAdams (Nanovic Institute) reflected on the history and importance of the Catholic Universities Partnership and thanked Rev. Sławomir Nowosad and his colleagues for organizing and hosting the conference.
In late September, the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, hosted the eleventh annual conference of the Catholic Universities Partnership. Coming twenty-five years after the publication of Pope John Paul II’s apostolic constitution, Ex corde ecclesiae (1990), the conference focused on practical issues facing Catholic higher education in eastern Europe. Participants included Archbishop Cyril Vasiľ, S.J., Vatican Secretary for the Congregation of Eastern Churches, rectors and professors from Catholic universities in Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, and Ukraine, and special guests including Hanna Suchocka, former Prime Minister of Poland, R. Scott Appleby, Dean of the new Keough School of Global Affairs at Notre Dame, and John Cavadini, Director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Church Life.
The next meeting of the partnership is scheduled for spring 2017 and will be hosted by the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb. Participants will focus on the educational experience of young people in eastern Europe, during and after communism.
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The atmosphere of Notre Dame gave a feeling of living in one big family of Catholic universities, where everybody is welcomed. That is why it is no surprise that Nanovic Institute fellows are trying to reproduce this objective upon their arrival back home. DMYTRO SHERENGOVSKY
2015-16 VISITING SCHOLARS SVITLANA HURKINA (UKRAINE) Ukrainian Catholic University REV. BOGUSŁAW MIGUT (POLAND) John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin DMYTRO SHERENGOVSKY (UKRAINE) Ukrainian Catholic University REV. IHOR BOYKO (UKRAINE) Ukrainian Catholic University JANA JUHÁSOVÁ (SLOVAKIA) Catholic University of Ružomberok REV. PROF. MAREK LIS (POLAND) Theological Faculty of Opole University REV. SŁAWOMIR NOWOSAD (POLAND) John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin GABRIELLA REUSS (HUNGARY) Pázmány Péter Catholic University VALENTINA ZAFFINO (ITALY) Pontifical Lateran University
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NANOVIC INSTITUTE 2015-2016 DIRECTOR
NEW NANOVIC FELLOWS
A. JAMES MCADAMS
SELENA K. ANDERS
William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs
RÜDIGER BACHMANN
Architecture Economics
STEVEN BRADY
FACULTY COMMITTEE
History
JOSEPH BUTTIGIEG
CATHERINE CANGANY
English
History and American Studies
JULIA DOUTHWAITE
CHRISTOPHER CHOWRIMOOTOO
French
Liberal Studies
MARGARET MESERVE
ADVISORY BOARD
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