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Notre Dame alumnus ordained to the episcopate by Pope Benedict XVI

2012-01-18T06:00:00-05:00

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies offers its congratulations to Charles Brown, a Notre Dame alumnus, who was ordained to the episcopate by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome on Epiphany earlier this month. He was elevated to the rank of archbishop and given the titular see of Aquileia in northeastern Italy. He will be serving as the papal nuncio in Ireland. Bishop Brown presented the inaugural Keeley Vatican Lecturer in 2005, “From Notre Dame to the Vatican and Home Again: An Insider’s View of the Papacy of John Paul II”.

Read Pope Benedict XVI’s homily at the liturgy, which includes a beautiful reflection on the liturgy of episcopal ordination intertwined with the feast of Epiphany.

Original story provided by the Center of Ethics and Culture

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Engineering professor to help review U.S. national nanotechnology efforts

2012-01-16T08:00:00-05:00

University of Notre Dame professor Wolfgang Porod has been invited to serve on the committee conducting a comprehensive strategic review of the U.S. government’s National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI).

The NNI encompasses the nanotechnology-related activities of 25 Federal agencies and coordinates a portfolio of basic and applied research activities focused on advancing the economic and national security interests of the United States. The 2012 federal budget provides $2.1 billion for the NNI, and cumulative investment in the NNI since 2001 totals over $16.5 billion.

This second triennial review of the NNI, mandated by the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, will be conducted through the National Academies and submitted to the White House’s National Science and Technology Council.

The reviewers’ tasks include examining the role of the NNI in transferring technologies to the private sector, assessing how the NNI measures progress toward its goals, and analyzing NNI’s management and coordination of nanotechnology research across both civilian and military federal agencies.

Porod, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering at Notre Dame and director of the University’s Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano), brings valuable expertise and experience—particulary in nanoelectronics, materials science and engineering, and research management—to the review team.

He is the co-inventor of the “quantum-dot cellular automata” concept, which is a new way of representing information by electronic charge configurations at the molecular level, and is a pioneer in “nanomagnet logic,” one of the emerging device technologies being pursued by the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Nanoelectronics Research Initiative.

As the director of NDnano, Porod oversees research programs in such areas as nanomaterials, new energy harvesting technologies, and the interface between biological systems and nano-scale structures.

The Triennial Review Phase II committee is comprised of a range of academic and corporate leaders and is expected to deliver its report by February 2013.

NDnano is one of the leading nanotechnology centers in the world. Its mission is to study and manipulate the properties of materials and devices, as well as their interfaces with living systems, at the nano-scale.

Originally published by Arnie Phifer at newsinfo.nd.edu on January 13, 2012.

Grant recipient delves into German National Defense Politics and Catholics in the Second Reich

2012-01-13T12:35:00-05:00

Mark Kettler, ’12, is writing an honors thesis in History to explore how German organizations tried to enlist Catholic support for the military on the eve of the First World War. Central to his project is a close exploration of original source materials in Germany. Kettler is interested for example in militaristic organizations like the Wehrverein, a group dedicated to pre-war military reforms. The major archives on this group are located in Koblenz, and Kettler is unusually well-prepared to explore them. Beyond his coursework at Notre Dame, he studied German in Munich for a month and in Berlin during the past two summers. During the 2010-11 academic year, he has been in Notre Dame’s study abroad program at the Freie Universität in Berlin and working on his thesis under the direction of John Deak (History). To prepare even more carefully for his thesis research, Kettler has also studied Sütterlin, a form of cursive used throughout Germany prior to 1941.

Diving into German archives, Kettler proposes to build a more comprehensive understanding of how religious communities in Germany were shaped to fit a nationalist and militant project.

Because what he wanted to do in Germany was so precisely and productively tied to his research question, his preparation for archival work so thoroughly appropriate, and his proposal so strong a model of clear writing, the Nanovic Institute’s faculty grant committee gave Kettler’s proposal their unqualified praise and, thanks to the generosity of R. Stephen and Ruth Barrett, the Barrett Prize for best undergraduate proposal.

Alumna Update: What can you do with a Minor in European Studies?

2011-11-30T15:15:00-05:00

I took a minor in European studies and also received a Nanovic grant to study in Lyon, France during my senior year. I am now just completing my Master’s dissertation in Modern French Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. I split my year between the campus in Canterbury and Kent’s new campus in Paris, and took courses mostly in nineteenth-century French literature but also in french film, expat literature and comparative literature.

Studying for a Master’s abroad was a fabulous experience, and I would certainly encourage students to look into it (and particularly into English universities; taught MA’s typically last one year and are offered in many really interesting subjects). My classmates came from all over the world, I made some really great friendships, and though I’m back in the States at the moment, I do plan on eventually returning to England for work.

I would definitely encourage any student who has even the slightest interest in living/working/studying in Europe to do a minor in European studies. It really set the groundwork for everything I’m doing now: I appreciated being able to tailor the minor to reflect my interests, and see it as such a well-rounded and interdisciplinary program of study in general – my Master’s program is really interdisciplinary as well, and I love being able to combine so many varying interests. The grant gave me a great opportunity to work on my research skills (as well as travel!). Truly, I can’t say enough good things about the Nanovic in general.

Regards,
Lindsay Poulin ’08

Pope Benedict XVI appoints Monsignor Charles Brown as new Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland

2011-11-28T10:00:00-05:00

The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed Monsignor Charles Brown as new Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. Monsignor Charles Brown was the first Terrence R. Keeley Vatican Lecturer at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies in 2004. Read More

Faculty fellow wins ACE / Mercer's International Book Award

2011-11-23T08:00:00-05:00

Nanovic faculty fellow Margot E Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy and Co-Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program at the University of Notre Dame has won the ACE / Mercers’ International Book Award for The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts (Yale University Press, 2010). The ACE Awards are designed to celebrate the successes and diversity of architectural and artistic projects in religious buildings throughout Britain. The ACE / Mercers’ International Book Award is awarded to a book which makes an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts.

The winners of ACE Awards were announced at the Bishopsgate Institute, London on 16 November 2011, 7pm.

Download the ACE Awards press release.

German Professor Robert Norton Wins Translation Prize

2011-11-21T15:00:00-05:00

Professor Robert Norton, chair of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, recently received the Ungar German Translation Award for his English edition of Ernst Bertram’s Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology, which originally appeared in German in 1918.

Sponsored by the American Translators Association (ATA), which represents 11,000 members from more than 90 countries, the Ungar award recognizes distinguished translations of German literature into English.

Norton, who is also a concurrent professor in the Department of Philosophy, says he was both pleased and surprised by the honor: “The previous recipients tended to be works of literature, while the book that I did was a book of philosophy.”

Bertram is considered one of the foremost interpreters of Nietzsche, Norton adds, and his book “was extraordinarily important in the perception and understanding of Nietzsche at a critical time in German and European history.”

Translating a text of such lasting importance was exhilarating, Norton says, but it also presented formidable challenges—in part because Mythology is exceptionally well written.

“[Bertram] was a poet, so one of the things that he did was coin a lot of words … and he did so with great abandon. On any given page, you can locate a word that is absolutely unique.”

In his translation, Norton took special care to respect Bertram’s linguistic craftsmanship by preserving the subtlety involved in the invention of such words.

“You don’t want to give just a literal translation because it wouldn’t make any sense,” he says. “One of the goals that I have in translation is that it should read like English and not like a translation.”

As a scholar, Norton says he enjoys both translation and research. He is currently writing two books. The first chronicles debates in Germany during World War I, focusing on the late 19th- and early 20th-century philosopher and theologian Ernst Troeltsch. The second examines Life Philosophy, an early 20th-century movement in German philosophy.

Eventually, he also plans to translate one of Troeltsch’s works called The Spectator Letters, which chronicles the early years of the Weimar Republic.

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Originally published by Chris Milazzo at al.nd.edu on November 17, 2011.

MES prize announced in memory of J. Robert Wegs

2011-11-08T09:00:00-05:00

The J. Robert Wegs Prize for Best Minor in European Studies Capstone Essay

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies is pleased to announce The J. Robert Wegs Prize for Best Minor in European Studies Capstone Essay. One prize will be awarded to the Minor in European Studies who authors the best essay written in fulfillment of the Minor capstone essay requirements. This prize comes with a $250 award. The prize is named in memory of J. Robert Wegs (1937-2010), founding Director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies until 2002. One of his contributions to the Nanovic Institute was the development of the Minor in European Studies.

Requirements

All essays must have been submitted by a registered Minor in European Studies in fulfillment of the European Area Studies Essay Requirement. All essays submitted in fulfillment of this requirement each academic year will be considered for the award, whether written in the Fall or Spring semester. Essays written in a European language other than English will also be considered.

Criteria

Essays will be judged on the quality of both the student’s research and writing.

Academic Biography of J. Robert Wegs

James Robert “Bob” Wegs was the Founding Director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

A popular and sought after lecturer, Wegs accompanied a Notre Dame-sponsored cruise on the Danube River in the early 1990s, giving daily talks on the history and culture of the region. Among the passengers were a recently retired investment counselor and 1954 Notre Dame alumnus, Robert S. Nanovic, and his wife Elizabeth. Impressed, the Nanovics later endowed a program devoted to the study of issues which seemed indispensable to an understanding of contemporary Europe: nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, immigration, and the place of Europe in world history. Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies was established in 1993 with Robert Wegs as its director. He served in that position until 2002.

“The Nanovic Institute would never have come into being without Bob’s vision and inspired leadership,” says A. James McAdams, Scholl Professor of International Affairs and present director of the Nanovic Institute. “He recognized Notre Dame’s great potential in European studies and made it possible for us to become what we are today.”

UK ratifies change in monarchy

2011-10-28T11:00:00-04:00

Sons and daughters of any future UK monarch will have equal right to the throne, after Commonwealth leaders agreed to change succession laws. The ban on the monarch being married to a Roman Catholic was also lifted. Read the full BBC report

Russian Scholar Alyssa Gillespie Wins Poetry Translation Prize

2011-10-25T16:00:00-04:00

For her deft translation of Nikolay Gumilyov’s “Giraffe,” Notre Dame Associate Professor Alyssa Gillespie was recently awarded second prize in the 2011 Compass Awards, an international Russian poetry translation contest.

Gillespie, who serves as co-director of the University’s Program in Russian and East European Studies, says the award was both unexpected and thrilling. “Poetic translation is something I’ve done ever since I started learning Russian as an undergraduate … so to be recognized for it in this way is pretty special.”

This year’s contest, sponsored by Cardinal Points Literary Journal, commemorated the 125th anniversary of the birth of Gumilyov, an early 20th-century Russian poet who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1921.

“It would be wonderful if these sorts of events would attract more English speakers to Russian poetry,” Gillespie says, “because it’s such a rich tradition.”

She describes “Giraffe” as an address to a melancholy lover couched in African imagery that Gumilyov gathered from his travels throughout the continent. Gillespie says she attempted to convey the beauty, mystery, and melody of “Giraffe” in her translation.

“For me, there’s no such thing as a translation that does not recreate the form, because the form is part of the substance of a poem,” she says. “You can’t just translate the meaning and not recreate the flow, the sound, the phrasing—all of that is part of what a poem is. It’s a performance art.”

Gillespie, who teaches in the University’s Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, is also currently working on two separate books about Alexander Pushkin. The first, an edited book called Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations, will be published in the University of Wisconsin Press Pushkin Series in spring 2012. The second book, a monograph, addresses Pushkin’s “role as a poet within an authoritarian society, the transgressions that being a poet necessitate, and the moral implications of those transgressions.”

The manuscript of Gillespie’s first book, A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva, was recently accepted for publication by a publishing house in St. Petersburg. “It will now reach a Russian audience, which is exciting,” she says.

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Originally published by Chris Milazzo at al.nd.edu on October 18, 2011.

Ph.D. Student Studies Formerly "Invisible" Soviet Research Towns

2011-10-12T12:00:00-04:00

Maria Rogacheva, a doctoral candidate in Notre Dame’s Department of History, is working to reveal the secrets of “invisible” communities that once housed the former Soviet Union’s scientific research facilities.

“Dozens of small- and medium-size towns were built from scratch across the country, kept secret from foreigners, and often not even placed on Soviet maps,” Rogacheva says. “Populated by scientists and their families, these white archipelagos were responsible for developing Soviet nuclear weapons and the heralded space program, among other things. They formed the core of the Soviet technological know-how, propelled the Soviet Union to superpower status, and threatened to make the Cold War hot.”

The opening of these small towns has opened up a wealth of opportunities for historical scholars such as Rogacheva, whose research centers on Chernogolovka, a formerly closed community just 40 miles from Moscow.

“My dissertation focuses on the history of a small Soviet town populated by scientists from 1956 to 1985,” she says. “I use this academic town as a lens through which I investigate the lives and work—as well as the shifting worldviews—of the late Soviet scientific intelligentsia.”

Lifting the Veil

Despite the importance of these communities, Rogacheva says, academics know almost nothing about the towns and their inhabitants. Until recently, scholars have had limited or no access to the relevant archives. Many of these locations didn’t officially “exist” until the mid 1990s—after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Though many scholars have begun studying the history of Soviet technology itself, the lives of the actual scientists and the development of their Weltanschauungen (worldview) has been largely ignored.

“Scholars have been encapsulated with the immediate causes of the fall of the Soviet regime (like perestroika), which has overshadowed developments within Soviet society in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s,” Rogacheva says. “Only in the last several years have historians begun to publish monographs on this exciting time. My dissertation seeks to contribute to this new wave of literature by examining Soviet scientists, the so-called ‘loyal’ majority of the Soviet intelligentsia.”

Rogacheva’s research examines four specific issues:

what life was like for the residents of the isolated islands,
how the scientists responded to the political and ideological crackdown of the 1960s and 1970s,
why a majority of the intelligentsia remained loyal to the Soviet regime, and
whether and to what extent there was a gradual disillusionment with the Soviet regime among post-1956 scientists—and how that might help explain the abrupt end of the Soviet experiment.

Entering New Territory

Rogacheva received a grant from the College of Arts and Letters’ Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts to help fund her research in Russia. There, she gained unprecedented access to a number of unique collections in Chernogolovka’s archives and conducted more than 25 interviews with former Soviet scientists about their lives in the town. The information she gained from these face-to-face encounters has proved invaluable to her research.

Rogacheva also was able to access several archival facilities in Moscow that contain party documents from Chernogolovka’s research institutes, including the Central Archive of Social and Political History, and the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History. In the latter, she examined recently declassified documents from the Departments of Science, Ideology, and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. She was also one of the first scholars to study the personal collections of Soviet scientists housed at the Russian Academy of Sciences, the head scientific organization of both the former Soviet Union and present-day Russia.

After the initial phase of her investigation, some of the directors of the archival centers even invited Rogacheva back to conduct more research.

“My research will be, in many respects, a pioneering study,” she says. “It will be one of the first works that combines oral interviews with original research in hitherto unexplored Russian archives. … I hope it will allow me to discern the particulars of people behind the allegedly monolithic facade of the Soviet technical intelligentsia.”

Paving the Way for Future Scholars

Rogacheva’s adviser Semion Lyandres, an associate professor in the Department of History and co-director of the Program in Russian and East European Studies, says Rogacheva is a very promising young scholar whose original contribution to the historiography of the Soviet Union is of “cardinal importance” for the field of Russian studies.

“There is no reliable work on the complex, multifaceted relations between the scientific intelligentsia and the Soviet state, even though the former was nothing other than the single most important—and one of the most privileged—professional groups in the USSR,” Lyandres says. “Writing the first serious intellectual history of this group is an ambitious and historiographically much-needed undertaking.”

Recently, Rogacheva traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, with Lyandres to present some of her findings at the VIII World Congress of International Council for Central and East European Studies and participated in a panel discussion about the transformation of identities in the late-era Soviet Union.

Once her dissertation is complete, she plans to expand the work into a book and donate her research to an archive such as the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, thus safeguarding this information and ensuring its availability to other scholars.

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Originally published by Joanna Basile at al.nd.edu on April 27, 2011.

Theology Doctoral Students Win International Honors

2011-10-03T11:00:00-04:00

Three Ph.D. candidates in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Theology have recently been awarded prestigious fellowships from organizations such as the American Academy in Rome, Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, the Dolores Zorhab Liebmann Foundation, and the Louisville Institute.

“Theology’s doctoral students have long been very competitive in winning prestigious doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships, as well as in gaining positions in elite universities such as Harvard or Oxford,” says Department of Theology Chair J. Matthew Ashley.

“We are very proud of these most recent exemplars of that trend, who provide eloquent testimony not only to the strength of those students we accept but also to the quality of the teachers and mentors who take them to the next level of scholarly excellence.”

Rediscovering a Voice

Albertus Horsting recently left for Italy on a Rome Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. Out of more than 1,000 applicants each year, the academy selects just 30 “emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities.”

Horsting, who declined a Fulbright grant to Austria in order to accept the Rome Prize, says the honors were a welcome validation of his research, which sits on the threshold between classics and theology. “It’s not a typical project for a theologian,” he says. “It’s highly philological, highly textual work, so I was pleased to see that they wanted to support that kind of project.”

While in Rome, he will examine dozens of manuscripts in the Vatican Library and travel to other libraries across Italy, France, and Switzerland in an attempt to reconstruct the original version of a 5th century book of poems by Prosper of Aquitane, who was known as St. Augustine’s greatest promoter and defender.

The Liber Epigrammatum, a poetical synthesis of Augustine’s theology, was “one of the most widely read books during the Middle Ages” but is now largely forgotten, Horsting says. “I am preparing the first modern edition of the work, along with an English translation and commentary to elucidate its meaning. The end result is that this text—which has been obscured by time—is once again accessible and Prosper’s voice can be heard.”

Related story: Six Notre Dame Graduate Students Win Fulbright Awards in 2011 Competition

Originally published by Kate Cohorst at al.nd.edu on September 16, 2011.

BBC News: German parliament approves expanded EU bailout fund

2011-09-29T16:00:00-04:00

The BBC reports on the German Parliament’s decision to pass an extended EU bailout fund.

Former president and first lady of the Federal Republic of Germany to speak at Notre Dame

2011-09-20T14:00:00-04:00

The University of Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) will welcome Dr. Horst Koehler, former president of the Federal Republic of Germany, and his wife, Mrs. Eva Luise Koehler, to the University for a three-day visit that will include a major public lecture by Dr. Koehler.

Titled “The Whole is at Stake,” the lecture will be held Sept. 28 (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. in the Carey Auditorium of the Hesburgh Library. Dr. Koehler will focus on essential lessons to be learned from the international financial crisis with a particular emphasis on ethical questions and the German and European experiences. A public reception in the concourse of the Hesburgh Library will follow the lecture.

In addition to his public lecture and several meetings with Notre Dame students and faculty, Dr. Koehler also will offer an informal talk titled “Understanding Africa: A View from Europe,” Sept. 29 (Thursday) at 2:15 p.m. in the auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. This talk, organized by the Department of Africana Studies, the Africa Working Group of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the NDIAS, is based on Dr. Koehler’s experiences in key international positions and in public service working for improvements in Africa.

President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2004 to 2010, Dr. Koehler also served as managing director of the International Monetary Fund from 2000 to 2004.

Mrs. Koehler, a tireless advocate for the study and understanding of rare diseases, will offer an informal talk, “Rare Diseases: A Challenge for our Societies,” to students and faculty of the University’s Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases on Sept. 30 (Friday). Her talk is organized by the Center and the NDIAS.

Additional information is available on the websites of the Nanovic Institute and the NDIAS.

Contact: Donald L. Stelluto, Ph.D., associate director, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, 574-631-7873

Originally published by Notre Dame News at newsinfo.nd.edu on September 20, 2011.

Monika Nalepa Wins Political Science Book Prize

2011-09-14T14:00:00-04:00

Assistant Professor Monika Nalepa has been named a winner of the 2011 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Democratization section for Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press).

The book examines the strategies behind decisions on whether and how to penalize members of the former authoritarian regimes in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic as they transitioned to democracy.

It is a subject of particular interest for Nalepa, who was born in communist Poland and grew up there during the shift to democracy. “I remember very well the immediate aftermath of the transition,” she says, “and there were many conversations about what to do with members of the Communist Party and their collaborators.”

Solving a Puzzle

As a scholar, Nalepa says she had long been puzzled about why Communist officials were willing to negotiate peaceful transitions in most East European countries.

“If I’m going to be punished after I step down from office, why wouldn’t I just hang on to office as long as possible? That’s pretty much what leaders like Gadhafi are doing.”

“After a number of research trips to post-communist Europe, I finally found a plausible solution,” she says, “which is that members of the former opposition had actually collaborated with the Communists a lot more than was previously thought. The new leaders shied away from transitional justice because in the process of doing so, they could expose skeletons in their own closets. Because Communists knew that, they were willing to step down peacefully.”

In the book, Nalepa draws on archival evidence, statistical analysis, and extensive interviews to support her argument.

“I feel very fortunate that I was able to talk to some of the key players in the transition from communism while they were still alive,” she says.

Receiving Recognition

Nalepa says she was “surprised and thrilled” that her first book has received this recognition.

“I’ve always wanted to be a scholar of the comparative democratization field. That’s why I came to Notre Dame from Rice—because of the strength of the comparative democratization program here. To be recognized in this way by this section of the APSA is a tremendous honor.”

Sharing the award with Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Schulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University, is also a point of pride, she says. Frye was named co-winner for his book Building States and Markets After Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy (Cambridge University Press).

“He’s so much more accomplished and senior,” Nalepa says. “I’ve actually assigned his book in my classes, so I feel particularly honored to be co-winner with him.”

Continuing Research

This academic year Nalepa has a fellowship at Princeton as a visiting associate research scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

There, she is working on a new book about trends in legislative politics in post-communist Europe, specifically the dwindling rights of individual members of parliament (MPs).

“In the beginning, there was a lot of resistance to parties as the main vehicles of government because of the experience with authoritarian parties under communism,” Nalepa says. “Individual MPs spoke when they felt the urge to, sponsored bills they liked, and voted as they pleased. It is remarkable how quickly parties consolidated, started voting in a much more unified way, and began to discipline their members into submission.”

She is planning a trip to Poland during the country’s October parliamentary elections to finalize her research, which already includes interviews with parliamentarians, party bosses, and more than half of the house speakers since the transition to democracy. Nalepa is also conducting research in the parliamentary archives and analyzing roll call votes from 1993 to the present to show how parties have consolidated power over the years.

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Originally published by Kate Cohorst at al.nd.edu on September 09, 2011.

Eurozone Troubles Impact U.S. Economy

2011-09-07T09:00:00-04:00

Investors are increasingly fearful that the Eurozone politicians are incapable of managing the continent’s debt problems. The troubles in Europe coincide with a slowdown in the U.S. economy. The world’s two largest economic regions are inextricably linked — and neither is moving in the right direction. Read the full transcript on NPR.

THE WAY with Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez

2011-09-01T11:50:00-04:00

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as “The Way.” The film will be screened at noon and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, and actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez will be present at both screenings.

Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies in partnership with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

ALL SCREENINGS SOLD OUT

Pope Benedict XVI speaks to young university professors in Spain

2011-08-26T14:00:00-04:00

Read the Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI during the 26th World Youth Day, August 18-21.

London Riots continue: 16,000 officers on patrol

2011-08-09T11:29:00-04:00

UK’s Daily Mail covers the ongoing riots in London which have spread to Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham, Liverpool, and Leeds.

Attack in Oslo

2011-07-25T11:48:00-04:00

CNN reports on the Norway terror attacks. Read more.