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Spencer Kelly | Monday, March 6, 2023
The issues of peace that dominate the headlines tend to focus on graphic displays of violence: war, shootings, assault. These issues are important. Still, the pursuit of world peace goes beyond addressing immediate, obvious violence. The Notre Dame Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, a leading peace research center, notes that peace studies is an
José Sánchez Córdova | Wednesday, December 7, 2022
We are well past the halfway mark of the World Cup, and the field of 32 has been narrowed down to the final eight. This is the absolute cream of the crop. Some giants have fallen already — I’m looking at you Belgium, Germany and Spain — and some teams have over-performed (shoutout Morocco). With
Kelli Smith, Natalie Weber and Mary Bernard | Thursday, April 16, 2020
Across the planet, students from the tri-campus community are grappling with the current and lasting impacts of the novel coronavirus. With more than a million cases and over 108,000 deaths worldwide, all lives have been touched by the pandemic in some way. From Brazil to India, from Honolulu to New York City, peruse this map
Hanna Kennedy | Friday, April 27, 2018
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, student actors from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s will take to the stage and bring contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl’s “The Clean House” to life. Director Brynn Alexander, a senior Film, Television and Theatre major with a concentration in Theatre, chose to stage “The Clean House” after reading the script over
Tom Naatz | Monday, February 13, 2017
Argentinian journalist Sergio Kiernan explored the similarities and differences in the colonial experience and subsequent national identity of each of the three countries in his “Post-colonial Identity and the Idea of Nationhood: Argentina, Brazil and Ireland” lecture Friday. Kiernan, a writer for the Argentinian magazine “Pagina 12,” contrasted his experience at the celebration of the last year’s centennial
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 30, 2016
This Wednesday at 5 p.m. in room C130 in the Hesburgh Center, the Kellogg School of Global Affairs will host a current events panel to discuss “What is the matter with Brazil?” I am Brazilian. I love being Brazilian and above anything else, I am incredibly proud of it. And as some may know, my
J.P. Gschwind | Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Tuesday afternoon at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of political science Erica Simmons analyzed the social dynamics of protests over water privatization in a lecture entitled “Water, Community and Privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia.” “Starting in January of 2000, thousands of protesters from every class, occupation, age and ethnicity spoke out against the
Elena Gacek | Tuesday, September 2, 2014
As Brazil prepares for its Oct. 5 presidential election, the Kellogg Institute welcomed Marcus Melo yesterday, professor of political science at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, to discuss his preliminary analysis of the country’s increasingly visible popular political discontent. “My point is that Brazil seems to be at the verge of something important — there’s something
Vicky Jacobsen | Monday, January 27, 2014
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh in a 10-part series discussing the best rivalry in sports. In this installment, Vicky Jacobsen argues for Argentina-Brazil soccer. Join the discussion on Twitter by using #BestRivalry. Don’t get me wrong. I love a good, old-fashioned American rivalry. As a dedicated Red Sox fan, I was raised to believe