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Tom Naatz | Wednesday, September 26, 2018
In the late summer of 2015, Germany opened its borders to a large number of Syrian refugees who were fleeing their country for Europe. That policy choice has had many ramifications in the nearly three years since. In recent weeks, the city of Chemnitz in eastern Germany has seen an acute backlash against foreigners after
Aidan Lewis | Thursday, January 21, 2016
A panel of international studies scholars discussed the rise of Islamophobia in Europe on Wednesday afternoon at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. The panel, which is sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, examined reasons for the recent spike in anti-Muslim activity in several European
Eddie Damstra | Tuesday, September 29, 2015
For the next three weeks, students and faculty walking through the Great Hall in O’Shaughnessy Hall will be able to view an exhibition entitled “Germany’s Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context.” Notre Dame will be hosting lectures, gallery talks and a film series in coordination with the exhibit, and this collaborative effort is entitled “Remembrance:
Jenna Wilson | Tuesday, September 29, 2015
The Speak Up! campaign is challenging Notre Dame students to help end religious persecution. The project, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Center for Civil and Human Rights, calls for students to “create effective and creative communication tools that will raise awareness and call for solidarity with one or more religious community that
Erin McAuliffe | Wednesday, March 25, 2015
A collision of media, history and discussion will take place in the Debartolo Performing Arts Center tonight. “WWI In the Graphic Novels: A Drawing Cabaret,” hosted by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Film, Television and Theater (FTT) Department, will combine acting, drawing and an audience-centered discussion in memorial of the First World
Kyle Witzigman | Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies provided undergraduates – seven seniors and eight sophomores and juniors – with grants for winter break research. “Over winter break, we funded 15 students through our senior travel and research grant and our break travel and research grant for sophomores and juniors. We gave a total of $30,880,” student
Matthew McKenna | Thursday, November 13, 2014
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies presented Jerrold Seigel with the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies on Wednesday for his book entitled “Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France and Germany Since 1750.” Seigel is professor of history emeritus at New York University. Peter Holland, the McMeel Family Chair in
Kayla Mullen | Tuesday, November 11, 2014
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies sponsored a faculty panel Tuesday in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies to discuss the significance of the events in 1989 in Eastern Europe and their importance to international
Jennifer Flanagan | Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Former Prime Minister of Poland Hanna Suchocka visited campus Tuesday evening to address a public audience in the Jordan Auditorium about the transition of Poland from a communist to democratic nation at the 2014 Nanovic Forum lecture. A. James McAdams, the director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies since 2002, introduced Suchoka, who was
Owen Lane | Thursday, October 9, 2014
Dr. Tait Keller, assistant professor and director of environmental studies and sciences program at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, presented a lecture at the Snite Museum of Art on Wednesday. Keller presented information on the wide-spread and long-lasting environmental effects caused by World War I as part of the Nanovic Institute’s Lecture Series on World War