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Forum 22-23: New and Old Wars, New and Old Challenges to Peace!
On March 1, 2023, Cardinal Robert McElroy, the bishop of San Diego, led a discussion on the moral challenges of war and nuclear arms at the University of Notre Dame.
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Forum 22-23: A One-Year Commemoration of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, in collaboration with the Ukrainian Society of Notre Dame and exchange students from the Ukrainian Catholic University, marked “A...
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Student Research Exhibition: “Ukrainian Art as Protest and Resilience”
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies announces the opening of a new in-person and digital exhibition “Ukrainian Art as Protest and Resilience.” To coincide with the...
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Forum 22-23: Nanovic Forum- Russian Aggression in Ukraine and Eastern Europe: Post-Soviet Bloc Politics and Consequences
Giorgi Margvelashvili, Fourth President of the Republic of Georgia (2013-18), delivered the Nanovic Forum lecture entitled, “Russian Aggression in Ukraine and Eastern Europe:...
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The War in Ukraine: Reassessing the Russian Invasion
Join the Nanovic Institute for an important virtual flash panel reflecting on the ongoing war in Ukraine. On January 26, 2022, one month before Russia launched its full-scale...
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Flash Panel: “Glasnost and Gorbachev in 2022: The Old Cold War and Its End?”
The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev has revived memories of glasnost, perestroika, and the hopes for one free world that were raised by his turn toward openness and reform. Moving...
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“War in Ukraine, Peace in Europe? Geopolitics, Economics, and Security after Russia’s Invasion”: The Nanovic Forum with Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs will host Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the youngest president of Croatia as well as the first woman...
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Will Russian Nationalism Ultimately Strangle Russian Imperialism?
Russia is undoubtedly a former empire. The most important question today is whether it remains a post-imperium or becomes a neo-imperium. The post-imperial states, like Turkey,...
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Flash Panel: “Focus on Ukraine: Eyewitnesses to the War”
“Focus on Ukraine: Eyewitnesses to the War,” a virtual flash panel sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, gathers scholars and experts on...
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The Future of East European Studies
On 24 February, Ukraine became a target of Russia’s military aggression. This war, the largest in Europe since the Second World War, broke out with unimaginable atrocities,...
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Nanovic Forum: ‟A Conversation with Anne Applebaum: The War in Ukraine, Russia, and the Twilight of Democracy”
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies welcomed Anne Applebaum, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Polish-American journalist, to the University of Notre Dame for a...
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Russia in Ukraine: What’s Religion Got to Do with It?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly invoked religion in an effort to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine. How, specifically, has Putin used religion—and in...
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