The lecture, delivered by Giorgi Margvelashvili, the fourth president of the Republic of Georgia (2013-18), is free and open to the public. Giorgi Margvelashvili is a Georgian academic and politician and was the fourth president of the Republic of Georgia from 2013 to 2018. A philosopher by education, Margvelashvili was the rector of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) from 2000 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2021. His first role in politics began in 2012 when he was appointed Minister of Education and Science as part of the Georgian Dream coalition formed by the newly-elected Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. In February 2013, Ivanishvili appointed Margvelashvili to the position of First Deputy Prime Minister.  Margvelashvili was named by the Georgian Dream coalition as its candidate in the 2013 presidential election, which he won in October with 62% of the votes. As president, Margvelashvili focused on grassroots campaigns engaging youth and students in discussions on constitutional and electoral reform, foreign policy issues, and Georgia's integration into NATO and the EU, he was also vocal in his support for minority and LGBTQ+ rights. After leaving office in 2018, Margvelashvili returned to GIPA to teach a lecture series on politics.     Photo source Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Spring is coming! And what better way to celebrate than to celebrate with friends and colleagues at the Chinese New Year Celebration. To celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year (the Year of Rabbit) and provide a way to expose students to different cultures, there will be food, student performances, singing, and dancing.  You probably won't get a hongbao as a gift, but you will receive the gift of good luck and wishes for a prosperous new year. For more information, contact Yongping Zhu (yzhu8@nd.edu)   Sponsored by East Asian Languages and Cultures Co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Letters (Teaching Beyond Classroom Grant), the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures (CSLC). Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.

Please join us for a panel discussion about the movie on Tuesday, February 14, at 12:30 p.m. This movie depicts the transitional justice process that took place in Argentina after the military dictatorship. More than 30,000 Argentines were estimated to have disappeared between 1976 and 1983, and some 3,000 officials and non-officials have been charged with crimes as of 2018. The film provides a dramatic depiction of the groundbreaking transitional justice trial, a process that has set precedents for human rights litigation, created awareness around the limits of state power, and influenced peace-building mechanisms after human atrocities. “Nunca mas” (“Never again”) has shaped the historical memory of older and younger Argentines, and material reparations are available still today, as the country continues to recuperate from the legacy of state violence.Cosponsored with the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.Originally published at https://kellogg.nd.edu/film-argentina-1985 Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.

Join the Keough School of Global Affairs and its cosponsors for the launch of Professor Julia Kowalski's new book, Counseling Women: Kinship against Violence in India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). Kowalski will discuss her book with Sarah Lamb of Brandeis University and Michele Friedner of the University of Chicago. Lakshmi Iyer, associate professor of economics and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, will moderate. Counseling Women follows family counselors in India as they support women who have experienced violence at home in the context of complex shifting legal and familial systems. Drawing on ethnographic research at counseling centers in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Kowalski shows how an individualistic notion of women’s rights places already vulnerable women into even more precarious positions by ignoring the reality of the social relations that shape lives within and beyond the family. Rather than focusing on attaining independence from kin, family counselors in India instead strive to help women cultivate relationships of interdependence in order to reimagine family life in the wake of violence. Counselors mobilize the beliefs, concepts, and frameworks of kinship to offer women interactive strategies to gain agency within the family, including multigenerational kin networks encompassing parents, in-laws, and other extended family. Through this work, kinship becomes a resource through which people imagine and act on new familial futures. In viewing this reliance on kinship as part of, rather than a deviation from, global women’s rights projects, Counseling Women reassesses Western liberal feminism’s notions of what it means to have agency and what constitutes violence, and retheorizes the role of interdependence in gendered violence and inequality as not only a site of vulnerability but a potential source of strength. The launch will be followed by a reception in 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls. Both the events are free and open to the public. Julia KowalskiAssistant Professor Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs Concurrent Faculty, Gender Studies Program Concurrent Faculty, Department of Anthropology Faculty Fellow, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Kellogg Institute for International StudiesSarah LambBarbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences Professor of Anthropology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Brandeis UniversityMichele FriednerAssociate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development  University of ChicagoLakshmi Iyer, ModeratorAssociate Professor of Economics and Global Affairs Liu Institute Faculty Fellow University of Notre DameCosponsored by the Keough School of Global Affairs, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Kellogg Institute for Global Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Gender Studies Program, and Department of Anthropology Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

International scholars partake in a 9-part seminar series devoted to psalms.  The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN) 18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM) and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Series Schedule January 26, 2023 - "Rescuing Rolle: H.R. Bramley edits the English Psalter" Michael P. Kuczynski (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) February 23, 2023 - "Practice and Symbolism in An Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Psalmic Prayer to the Five Wounds" Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford) March 23, 2023 - "On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos" Hildegund Müller (University of Notre Dame) April 27, 2023 - "The Oldest Middle Dutch Translation of the Psalms (c. 1250-1300): Context(s) of Origin, Functions and Nachleben’" Youri Desplenter (University of Ghent) May 25, 2023 - "Writing between the Lines: Towards a Typology of Glossing Techniques in the Old English Glossed Psalters" Thijs Porck (Leiden University) June 22, 2023 - "Literary, Exegetical and Theological Aspects of Aramaic Translations of Psalms of Pilgrims (Psa 120-134)" Mirosław Wróbel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach" Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) November 23, 2023 - "Putting the Pieces Back Together: on the Reconstruction of the Fragmentary N-Psalter" Monika Opalińska (Warsaw University) December 14, 2023 - "Psalter in Exile: On an Early Modern English translation of the Psalms from the Vulgate" Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (The Nanovic Institute at University of Notre Dame and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Visuality in the 21st century — especially as promoted by digital content providers and planners of the smart city — relies on unhindered, smooth, and seamless communication. Yet both urban life and new media depend also onYomi Braesterhaphazard, intrusive, blemishing signals. The talk examines recent multimedia art from the People’s Republic of China, which mounts a cultural criticism of mediated space, challenging notions of the digital city based on virtual reality and augmented reality. Urban spaces are imagined instead as photomontage, and traversing the city is seen as reliant on the digital noise produced by the city.About the Speaker Yomi Braester is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. His research focuses on literary and visual practices, with emphasis on modern China and Taiwan — in architecture, advertisement, screen media, and stage arts. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Maria Ressa, a Filipino American journalist who won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for reporting on abuses of power and fake news, will be the distinguished speaker for the Asia Leadership Forum at the University of Notre Dame on March 21. Sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the free event starts at 4:30 p.m. in the Patricia George Decio Theatre at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Notre Dame Law Professor Diane Desierto, a Liu Institute faculty fellow and international human rights attorney, will moderate a discussion after the lecture.   Tickets will be released closer to the event date online at performingarts.nd.edu. The ticket release date will be announced on the Liu Institute website: asia.nd.edu/ressa. Additionally, a public discussion of Ressa’s recently released memoir, How to Stand Up to A Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, will be held on March 7. Details will follow. “Maria Ressa’s bravery in speaking truth to power is profound,” said Michel Hockx, director of the Liu Institute. “Her commitment to democracy, especially revealed by her tireless work to expose and fight against fake news, is equally inspiring.” A former CNN correspondent and bureau chief in Jakarta and Manila, Ressa cofounded the Philippines-based news site Rappler in 2012 with three other women. Rappler earned acclaim for combating fake news in addition to exposing human rights abuses by the regime of former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. In awarding Ressa the 2021 Peace Prize, the Nobel committee wrote, “As an investigative journalist, she has distinguished herself as a fearless defender of freedom of expression and has exposed the abuse of power, use of violence and increasing authoritarianism of the regime of President Rodrigo Duterte. In particular, Ms. Ressa has focused critical attention on President Duterte’s controversial, murderous anti-drug campaign. She and Rappler have also documented how social media are being used to spread fake news, harass opponents and manipulate public discourse.” In her Nobel acceptance speech, Ressa spoke of the last journalist to win the peace prize, Carl von Ossientzky in 1935, who couldn’t accept the prize because he was being held in a Nazi concentration camp. “By giving the honor to me and Dmitry Muratov of Russia, the Norwegian Nobel committee signaled that the world was at a similar historical moment, another existential point for democracy,” she said.  Born in Manila in 1963, Ressa moved to the United States at age 9 with her family. After studying at Princeton University, she returned to live in the Philippines and launched her journalism career. Among her many awards, her work combating fake news earned Ressa the cover of Time as its 2018 Person of the Year representing journalists fighting disinformation.  The Asia Leadership Forum invites leaders from Asia to discuss topics within a global context. Past speakers are former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2015), former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou (2016), and former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (2018). The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, promotes awareness, understanding and knowledge of Asia through administering a supplementary major and minor in Asian studies, supporting student and faculty scholarship, organizing public events, and facilitating interaction and exchanges with partners in Asia. The Institute was established by a gift from the RM Liu Foundation that supports the philanthropic activities of Robert and Mimi Liu and their children, Emily and Justin, both Notre Dame graduates.  For more information about Ressa’s lecture and the book discussion, please sign up for the Liu Institute newsletter or check the institute website at asia.nd.edu/ressa.   Photo source:  Maria (2010) by Paul Papadimitriou on Wikimedia Commons and Flickr. Modified under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.   Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

March 23–25, 2023 | University of Notre Dame "We are called to establish with truth, justice, charity, and liberty new methods of relationships in human society.” #163, Pacem in Terris The Justice Sown in Peace conference at the University of Notre Dame will recognize the 60th anniversary of the seminal Catholic social tradition encyclical, Pacem in Terris, as well as celebrate the dual 40th anniversaries of the U.S. Bishops peace pastoral, The Challenge of Peace, and the founding of the Center for Social Concerns. This international gathering will examine justice issues by thought leaders like Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka of Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg; Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ of Dead Man Walking fame; and Marie Dennis of Pax Christi International, as well as a panel of higher education experts. The conference will focus on particular issues central to our time: migration, violence, racism, internationalization, and the role of political structures. Join us at this conference of global scholars working to expand the Catholic social tradition through intellectual, artistic, and social engagement. Register now! The registration deadline is March 10, 2023. A registration fee of $125 is required. There is no registration fee for Notre Dame, Saint Mary's or Holy Cross College faculty, staff and students, however we do ask that you register. If you plan to attend the Friday night dinner there is a meal fee.  REGISTER Speakers We are excited to welcome the following keynote speakers:  Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka, Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg  Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, Anti-Death Penalty Advocate Marie Dennis, Pax Christi International Bernard Prusak, Ph.D., King’s College Travel Information All registered participants are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and transportation arrangements. You are welcome to choose from any area hotels, but space and rates cannot be guaranteed. TRAVEL AND LODGING INFORMATION Conference Organizer William Purcell, M.Div., Center for Social Concerns; Director, Catholic Social Tradition; Co-Director, Catholic Social Tradition Minor Co-sponsors Center for Social Concerns; Catholic Charities USA(link is external); Catholic Relief Services(link is external); Catholic Social Tradition Minor; Center for the Study of Religion and Society; College of Arts and Letters; Cushwa Center for American Catholicism; Department of Theology; Department of Political Science; Keough School of Global Affairs; Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights; Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Nanovic Institute for European Studies; Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State, & Society; Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor

International scholars partake in a 9-part seminar series devoted to psalms.  The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN) 18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM) and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Series Schedule January 26, 2023 - "Rescuing Rolle: H.R. Bramley edits the English Psalter" Michael P. Kuczynski (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) February 23, 2023 - "Practice and Symbolism in An Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Psalmic Prayer to the Five Wounds" Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford) March 23, 2023 - "On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos" Hildegund Müller (University of Notre Dame) April 27, 2023 - "The Oldest Middle Dutch Translation of the Psalms (c. 1250-1300): Context(s) of Origin, Functions and Nachleben’" Youri Desplenter (University of Ghent) May 25, 2023 - "Writing between the Lines: Towards a Typology of Glossing Techniques in the Old English Glossed Psalters" Thijs Porck (Leiden University) June 22, 2023 - "Literary, Exegetical and Theological Aspects of Aramaic Translations of Psalms of Pilgrims (Psa 120-134)" Mirosław Wróbel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach" Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) November 23, 2023 - "Putting the Pieces Back Together: on the Reconstruction of the Fragmentary N-Psalter" Monika Opalińska (Warsaw University) December 14, 2023 - "Psalter in Exile: On an Early Modern English translation of the Psalms from the Vulgate" Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (The Nanovic Institute at University of Notre Dame and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

March 23–25, 2023 | University of Notre Dame "We are called to establish with truth, justice, charity, and liberty new methods of relationships in human society.” #163, Pacem in Terris The Justice Sown in Peace conference at the University of Notre Dame will recognize the 60th anniversary of the seminal Catholic social tradition encyclical, Pacem in Terris, as well as celebrate the dual 40th anniversaries of the U.S. Bishops peace pastoral, The Challenge of Peace, and the founding of the Center for Social Concerns. This international gathering will examine justice issues by thought leaders like Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka of Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg; Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ of Dead Man Walking fame; and Marie Dennis of Pax Christi International, as well as a panel of higher education experts. The conference will focus on particular issues central to our time: migration, violence, racism, internationalization, and the role of political structures. Join us at this conference of global scholars working to expand the Catholic social tradition through intellectual, artistic, and social engagement. Register now! The registration deadline is March 10, 2023. A registration fee of $125 is required. There is no registration fee for Notre Dame, Saint Mary's or Holy Cross College faculty, staff and students, however we do ask that you register. If you plan to attend the Friday night dinner there is a meal fee.  REGISTER Speakers We are excited to welcome the following keynote speakers:  Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka, Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg  Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, Anti-Death Penalty Advocate Marie Dennis, Pax Christi International Bernard Prusak, Ph.D., King’s College Travel Information All registered participants are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and transportation arrangements. You are welcome to choose from any area hotels, but space and rates cannot be guaranteed. TRAVEL AND LODGING INFORMATION Conference Organizer William Purcell, M.Div., Center for Social Concerns; Director, Catholic Social Tradition; Co-Director, Catholic Social Tradition Minor Co-sponsors Center for Social Concerns; Catholic Charities USA(link is external); Catholic Relief Services(link is external); Catholic Social Tradition Minor; Center for the Study of Religion and Society; College of Arts and Letters; Cushwa Center for American Catholicism; Department of Theology; Department of Political Science; Keough School of Global Affairs; Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights; Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Nanovic Institute for European Studies; Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State, & Society; Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor

March 23–25, 2023 | University of Notre Dame "We are called to establish with truth, justice, charity, and liberty new methods of relationships in human society.” #163, Pacem in Terris The Justice Sown in Peace conference at the University of Notre Dame will recognize the 60th anniversary of the seminal Catholic social tradition encyclical, Pacem in Terris, as well as celebrate the dual 40th anniversaries of the U.S. Bishops peace pastoral, The Challenge of Peace, and the founding of the Center for Social Concerns. This international gathering will examine justice issues by thought leaders like Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka of Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg; Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ of Dead Man Walking fame; and Marie Dennis of Pax Christi International, as well as a panel of higher education experts. The conference will focus on particular issues central to our time: migration, violence, racism, internationalization, and the role of political structures. Join us at this conference of global scholars working to expand the Catholic social tradition through intellectual, artistic, and social engagement. Register now! The registration deadline is March 10, 2023. A registration fee of $125 is required. There is no registration fee for Notre Dame, Saint Mary's or Holy Cross College faculty, staff and students, however we do ask that you register. If you plan to attend the Friday night dinner there is a meal fee.  REGISTER Speakers We are excited to welcome the following keynote speakers:  Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka, Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg  Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, Anti-Death Penalty Advocate Marie Dennis, Pax Christi International Bernard Prusak, Ph.D., King’s College Travel Information All registered participants are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and transportation arrangements. You are welcome to choose from any area hotels, but space and rates cannot be guaranteed. TRAVEL AND LODGING INFORMATION Conference Organizer William Purcell, M.Div., Center for Social Concerns; Director, Catholic Social Tradition; Co-Director, Catholic Social Tradition Minor Co-sponsors Center for Social Concerns; Catholic Charities USA(link is external); Catholic Relief Services(link is external); Catholic Social Tradition Minor; Center for the Study of Religion and Society; College of Arts and Letters; Cushwa Center for American Catholicism; Department of Theology; Department of Political Science; Keough School of Global Affairs; Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights; Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Nanovic Institute for European Studies; Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State, & Society; Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor

International scholars partake in a 9-part seminar series devoted to psalms.  The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN) 18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM) and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Series Schedule January 26, 2023 - "Rescuing Rolle: H.R. Bramley edits the English Psalter" Michael P. Kuczynski (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) February 23, 2023 - "Practice and Symbolism in An Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Psalmic Prayer to the Five Wounds" Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford) March 23, 2023 - "On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos" Hildegund Müller (University of Notre Dame) April 27, 2023 - "The Oldest Middle Dutch Translation of the Psalms (c. 1250-1300): Context(s) of Origin, Functions and Nachleben’" Youri Desplenter (University of Ghent) May 25, 2023 - "Writing between the Lines: Towards a Typology of Glossing Techniques in the Old English Glossed Psalters" Thijs Porck (Leiden University) June 22, 2023 - "Literary, Exegetical and Theological Aspects of Aramaic Translations of Psalms of Pilgrims (Psa 120-134)" Mirosław Wróbel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach" Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) November 23, 2023 - "Putting the Pieces Back Together: on the Reconstruction of the Fragmentary N-Psalter" Monika Opalińska (Warsaw University) December 14, 2023 - "Psalter in Exile: On an Early Modern English translation of the Psalms from the Vulgate" Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (The Nanovic Institute at University of Notre Dame and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.