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Your European connection at the University of Notre Dame: research, travel, and culture.

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Four European artists + One night + Live studio audience = An Incredible experience not to be missed.

Wednesday, March 25 at 7 pm.  DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Free event, tickets required.

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A Very Long Engagement plays tonight at 7 p.m. in the Browning Cinema! 

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Up next in our WWI Film Series: A Very Long Engagement (2004) starring Audrey Tatou, tells the story of two young lovers from France torn apart by WWI and their quest to find each other. 11/20 at 7 pm. 

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Dr. Jonathan E. Gumz, professor of history at Oxford University, will be presenting on the military history of WWI on 11/19 at 4:30 pm as a part of our Lecture series on the First World War. Check out his research here!

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Lawrence Sheets last lecture on campus on Russia and Ukraine: A View from the Ground starts in 1 hour (5 pm) in the Hesburgh Library.  

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Today: Lawrence Scott Sheets will be giving a lunch seminar on "Catholicism and Orthodoxy During the Pontificate of John Paul II" at 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. Free lunch will be provided!

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Six Halloween destinations in Europe

From the ghastly and the ghoulish to the truly hair-raising, here are six spookiest Halloween destinations in Europe.

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Visiting Scholar Hrvoje Kekez will present a lunchtime lecture regarding the Battle of Krbava (1493) and Croatian identity next Thursday (Nov. 6).

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Check out Curran Cross' Nanovic experience over the summer in Paris!

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I decided to go to the Bibliothèque nationale because it's a huge database of French history and documents. Their research library is absolutely unparalleled.

Curran Cross '16, a 2014 recipient of the R. Stephen and Ruth Barrett Summer Research Grant for Best Undergraduate Research Proposal, awarded for his efforts to explore the concept of race in France

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Next @theNanovic: 27 Oct. - 31 Oct.

This week:

Hanna Suchocka, first female Prime Minister of Poland, will be delivering a lecture on "Democratic Poland: 25 Years After the Fall of Communism" tomorrow (28 Oct.) at Mendoza's Jordan Auditorium at 5:30 pm.

On Thursday (30 Oct.), DPAC's Browning Cinema will showcase Mario Monicelli's 1959 film, The Great War (La Grande Guerra), from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. John Welle, Professor of Italian and concurrent Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre, will be presenting the film. 

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"Travel is especially important for students of architecture, because to understand a well designed building, it is best to experience it in person. I think being able to expand my 'design palette' through travel is one of the greatest parts of being an architecture student at Notre Dame with access to the Nanovic Institute." - Thomas Boyle, a sophomore architecture major who conducted research in Spain over the summer

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Today in WWI History: 13 October 1915

Scottish poet Charles Hamilton Sorely perished at the Battle of Loos, leaving behind a final poem later found in his kitbag:

“When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead"

When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you'll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head? Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead. Say only this, “They are dead.” Then add thereto, “Yet many a better one has died before.” Then, scanning all the o'ercrowded mass, should you Perceive one face that you loved heretofore, It is a spook. None wears the face you knew. Great death has made all his for evermore.

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Bellmaker of Notre Dame

Benjamin Sunderlin, a 2012-2013 Nanovic Graduate Research Grant recipient who studied bellmaking in France, was featured by Notre Dame Magazine last week. In the basement of Riley Hall, Sunderlin is resurrecting the lost art of traditional American bellfounding and is currently finishing the Bell of Good Faith for Notre Dame.

A poem composed by Sunderlin will adorn the Bell:

“I sing for those that listen/And ring for those that care/ “I bring this simple message/Being carried through the air/ “Though we may see difference/And come from worlds apart/ “We all understand good faith/And carry it in our art.”

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ND and European Democracy

Check out the events of our recent Catholic Universities Partnership Symposium in Rome and how ND is contributing to the future of European democracy! The Irish Rover produced an article about the event, highlighting the Nanovic's commitment to developing civic education.

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Next@theNanovic: 13 Oct - 17 Oct

This week:

Travel and Research grants during Christmas Break are due today (13 Oct.) for graduate students. Visit Graduate Break Travel and Research Grants for the guidelines and application process.

Today (13 Oct.) at 4:30 pm in Rare Books & Special Collections at Hesburgh Library, Michael Subialka '06 will present on the convergence of German idealist thought and Italian literature in his lecture, "Modernism at War: Pirandello and the Crisis of Cultural Identity." 

Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi will be joining us on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at DPAC to present his film, The Constant Factor (1980). Discover why Zanussi's work on contemporary dramas has earned him numerous awards and accolades! Film begins at 8:00 pm (90 minutes).