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Catalonia at an impasse

Devon Chenelle | Tuesday, November 28, 2017

For all their ideological intricacies, Marxists are remarkably pragmatic. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than in Lenin’s Oct. 17, 1921, address to the All-Russian Congress, when he stated, “The whole question is — who will overtake whom?” He thus reduced the entirety of class conflict, at its core, to a question of which side will

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Time slips away

Selena Ponio | Wednesday, February 10, 2016

London Spring, Toledo Fall, Dublin Fall. Combinations of foreign cities and seasons that may confuse the typical college student but hold a lot of meaning for Notre Dame sophomores. At a school where a good portion of students study abroad, sophomores are thrown into the process early to compete for a spot in one of

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Musicologist traces representation of Africans in the villancico form

J.P. Gschwind | Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Northwestern University professor of musicology Drew Edward Davies analyzed villancicos, which are traditional liturgical poems and hymns popular from the 15th to 18th centuries in Spain and Latin America, and their portrayal of African figures and culture at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies on Tuesday afternoon. The Kellogg Institute sponsored Davies’ lecture, entitled “Africa and Africans