Conflict narratives in fragile states are often framed by identity groups or other non-state actors along ideological or ethno-sectarian lines to achieve political ends. But in many instances, the main grievances of populations in affected communities are centered around basic dignity and livelihoods.  Using conflict-affected Iraq as a case study, this event will explore the broader implications of a state’s inability to meet its population’s basic needs, offer recommendations for legitimizing government to strengthen fragile states, and discuss how these lessons can be applied in a variety of contexts.  REGISTER HERERead the Policy BriefThis event accompanies the release of a policy brief co-authored by speakers Todd Diamond and David Cortright. In the brief, Diamond and Cortright explore evidence of and recommendations for legitimizing government to strengthen and stabilize fragile states. SpeakersDalia Amin (discussant)  Country Director, Erbil | Iraq Search for Common GroundDavid Cortright (author) Professor Emeritus of the Practice Keough School of Global AffairsTodd Diamond (author) Senior Director, Middle East and North Africa Chemonics InternationalMaura Policelli (opening remarks) Executive Director, Washington Office Keough School of Global Affairs Mona Yacoubian (moderator) Senior Advisor Executive Office and Middle East and North Africa Center  United States Institute of PeaceThis event is presented by Chemonics International and by the Pulte Institute for Global Development, part of the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.Originally published at pulte.nd.edu.

On October 2, Brazilian citizens head to the polls in one of the most anticipated elections in Latin America this year: the presidential race between former president Luís Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. Whatever the outcome, our panel of experts will discuss the important takeaways from this first round and the implications not only for Brazil, but for the rest of the world – and democracy itself.  Panelists: Malu A. C. Gatto Assoc. Prof. of Latin American Politics, Institute of the Americas, University College London Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow Nelson Rojas De Carvalho Assoc. Prof. of Political Science, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro Kellogg Institute Guest Scholar Luiz Vilaça Kellogg institute PhD Fellow Moderator: Scott Mainwaring  Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science  Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow

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 to be elected to the office, at the Nanovic Forum on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. at the University of Notre Dame. This in-person lecture, titled “War in Ukraine, Peace in Europe? Geopolitics, Economics, and Security after Russia’s Invasion,” is free and open to the public. It will also be available to view via livestream on this page. Biography Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović was elected the 4th President of the Republic of Croatia on January 11, 2015, and served until February 19, 2020. ​ She was born on April 29, 1968 in Rijeka where she attended elementary school. She completed secondary school in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.In 1993, she graduated with a degree in English and Spanish at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb and continued her education in the Portuguese language. In the following years she completed the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna and in 2000 acquired the academic title of Master of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb. From 2002 to 2003, she studied at George Washington University in the United States as a Fulbright scholarship for pre-doctoral research on international relations and security policy. At that time, she was awarded the President's medal for scientific, social and political work. She was also a Lukšić Fellow in Senior Managers in Government Executive Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2009.Her Excellency, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, started her career in 1992 at the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia. In 1993, she went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia. She was in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in various positions. In 1995, she became the head of the Department for North America and in 1997 went to the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Canada to serve as an Advisor, and then to the Minister of Advisory and Deputy Head of Mission.From 2001 to 2003 she served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in November 2003 she was elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 7th constituency. That same year, she was awarded the post of Minister of European Integration of the Republic of Croatia and later the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Croatia, and she was in charge until 2008. The main objective of her mandate was to lead Croatia on the road to Euro-Atlantic integration, which was led by the State Delegation for Croatia's accession negotiations with the European Union.In 2008, President Grabar-Kitarović became the Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United States. She was appointed NATO Secretary General's Assistant to Public Diplomacy in 2011 and remained in office until 2014, as the first woman in NATO's history to serve as Assistant Secretary-General and the highest ranking woman in NATO. In 2019, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović became the Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders, a network of 75 current and former Presidents and Prime Ministers. It is the only organization in the world dedicated to women heads of state and government. The same year she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Fulbright Association. She is married and mother of two. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese and has some command of Italian, French and German. About the Nanovic Forum The Nanovic Institute deepens Notre Dame’s rich tradition of connections to Europe by bringing prominent figures to campus in a wide range of fields to explore, discuss, and debate the most pressing questions about Europe today. Generously sponsored by Robert and Elizabeth Nanovic, the Nanovic Forum invites its distinguished guests to interact with Notre Dame in ways they most wish, which can be surprising. To view past lectures, visit the archive.   Parking Parking is available in the stadium lots east of the Keough School of Global Affairs. Most faculty/staff lots are open to the public by 5:00 p.m. Additional free parking (2 hours or less) is located in the parking structure at Eddy Street Commons.   Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Rev. Ambrose Carroll, founder of Green the Church, explores how to create health and prosperity at the community level by transforming how government acts on climate change and invests in resilient communities. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Register 14:00 Santiago time / 1:00pm Eastern US time Magda Sepúlveda Professor of Latin American Literature and coordinator of the Gabriela Mistral Chair, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Author of "Gabriela Mistral: Somos los andinos que fuimos" This session will interpret the poem "El maíz" (“Corn”), one of the long poems of the “America” section of Mistral's Tala (1938), from the point of view of Latin American laughter described as mockery and disobedience. This is one of seven lectures in the series "Rereading Gabriela Mistral 100 years after Desolación (1922-2022): A Transhemispheric Encounter," which explores the poetry of Nobel Laureate Chilean Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) amid the political, social, and economic crises of the new millennium. All sessions are offered in Spanish and English with simultaneous interpretation. Click here for more information about the series. Presented by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies with cosponsorship by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), and the Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame.

Join us for a multi-media performance/presentation by Ian Lynch, musician, singer, songwriter, and founding member of the award-winning Irish band Lankum. Ian is also an acclaimed practitioner and scholar of Irish traditional music. In this, his first appearance at Notre Dame, he will sing live while exploring the ballad tradition in Ireland, Britain, and their diasporas. Of the 305 ballads included in Francis James Child's seminal 19th-century publication, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, versions of around 50 have been identified in the Irish tradition. This multi-media presentation will serve as an introduction to the fascinating subject of the so-called "Child Ballad" in Ireland. Ian will investigate the ways in which these ballads made their way into Ireland from the 18th century onwards to become embedded in Irish traditional culture, as well as the changes that they underwent in the process. A free but ticketed event. RESERVE TICKETS HERETo request tickets for classes or groups (more than 8), please email Mary Hendriksen at mhendrik@nd.edu.  LEARN MORE: In February 2021, Faculty Fellow Barry McCrea held a wide-ranging conversation with Ian Lynch about his music and growing up in "Generation X." Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

Join us for a conversation with Commissioner Nury Turkel, a human rights advocate for Uyghur people, the first U.S.-educated Uyghur-American lawyer, and author of No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs. This event will feature discussion on the plight of the Uyghurs, Turkel’s advocacy efforts, and what the international community can do to safeguard religious liberty in China.Turkel was born in a re-education camp at the height of China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution and spent the first several months of his life in detention with his mother. He came to the United States in 1995 as a student and was later granted asylum by the U.S. government. As an attorney, he specializes in regulatory compliance, federal investigation and enforcement, anti-bribery, legislative advocacy, and immigration. In May 2020, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appointed Turkel as a Commissioner to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). In September 2020, he was named one of the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World.The event is hosted by the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative and co-sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and Notre Dame's Department of Political Science. This event will be livestreamed and a recording will be made available on the Religious Liberty Initiative’s YouTube channel in the coming weeks. Free lunch will be provided. Originally published at law.nd.edu.

Katherine Corcoran Freelance Investigative Journalist Former Kellogg Visiting Fellow Former Visiting Fellow Katherine Corcoran returns to the Kellogg Institute to launch her new book, which she worked on during her fellowship. In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press investigates the murder of legendary journalist Regina Martínez as she was on the verge of exposing government corruption in Mexico. Corcoran and friends of the victim together battled cover-ups, narco-officials, red tape, and threats to sift through the mess of lies – and discover what got Regina killed. This thrilling story looks at how silencing the free press threatens basic protections, the rule of law, and democracy itself across the globe. Join us as Kellogg Visiting Fellow Guillermo Trejo, lead researcher for the Violence and Transitional Justice Lab, and special guest Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab Wilhelm, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist from Mexico, offer commentary on the book, with Emeritus Professor Robert Schmuhl moderating the discussion. The event will include an opportunity to purchase the book and have copies signed by the author. Watch Kellogg's Instagram page for details on how to win a free copy of In the Mouth of the Wolf!

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Wendy Greene, director of the Center for Law, Policy, and Social Action and professor of Law at Drexel University, explores the systematic discrimination African descendants suffer when donning natural hairstyles like afros, twists, braids, and locs. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Pandit Rupak Kulkarni (flute) Pandit Indrajit Banerjee (sitar) with Pandit Subhen Chatterjee (tabla)   Admission: FREEWe are grateful to the AICMS benefactors and members, the University of Notre Dame, and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, for making this and our other concerts possible Pandit Rupak Kulkarni is the prime disciple of the legendary flute maestro Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, and a torch bearer of the Maihar Gharana, made famous by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar. After training with his father, the late Pt. Malhar Rao Kulkarni, he began his tutelage under Pandit Hariprasad at the age of 9. Since his first solo flute performance at the age of 11, he has performed in numerous prestigious music conferences and concerts in India, the US, the UK, Russia, Japan and France, appeared regularly on radio and TV, including All India Radio, Doordarshan, STAR TV and Zee TV, and his recording have been released by major labels such as Times Music, HMV, and Navras. Pandit Indrajit Banerjee is one of the leading sitar exponents of the Maihar Gharana mentioned earlier. Inspired by his sitarist mother he trained under Pandit Manilal Nag and, later, Pandit Kartick Kumar. He has performed extensively in India, the US, Canada, Europe, and Central and South America, won several prestigious awards in India and abroad, released several CDs and DVDs, and established the Antara School of Indian Classical Music in Austin, Texas. Hindole Majumdar already occupies a commendable position among the younger generation of  tabla players. He received his training from Shibsankar Karmakar, a disciple of the late Ustad Karamatullah Khan, and from Pandit Sankha Chatterjee. A graded artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan, he has won numerous awards, including the first prize at several All Bengal tabla solo competitions. He has established a school of music at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he teaches tabla.    For further information, contact: Amitava Dutt (574-273-0928) 

Keough School Washington Office | Zoom Webinar Location: 1400 16th St NW, Washington, DC   Register to Attend Via Zoom Register to Attend in Person Social media platforms are having wide impacts on conflict dynamics around the world. Activists use the platforms to promote democracy and human rights, while autocrats use the platforms for surveillance and propaganda. Although media coverage of these impacts typically focuses on Western democracies, researchers in the Southern Hemisphere are also documenting local impacts in their countries.  Join us for a panel discussion on Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Techtonic Shift, a new book that analyzes this dynamic and presents overlooked research from the Global South. Hear insights from the book’s contributors, who will illustrate the dramatic impact social media technology is having on social and political dynamics around the world as they share examples and case studies from India, Venezuela, and beyond. SpeakersIria Puyosa, Senior Research Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Atlantic Council Spandana Singh, Non-Resident Fellow, Esya Centre Lisa Schirch, Richard G. Starmann, Sr. Professor of the Practice of Peace Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace StudiesA reception will follow the panel discussion. This event is presented by the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab.

Keough School Washington Office | Zoom Webinar Negotiating food security and development in Afghanistan requires innovative approaches to avoid legitimating the sanctioned Taliban regime while simultaneously fostering sustainable, community-led development rather than simply providing international handouts. How can the international community, working with local communities in Afghanistan, facilitate such an approach?  Join us for a panel discussion to hear insights from experts. Panelists will explore how to facilitate the direct and meaningful participation of affected people and communities in food security and development. They will analyze the future of humanitarian and inclusive development in Afghanistan with a focus on the participation of poor and marginalized communities.  Drawing on the widely touted successes of Afghanistan’s National Solidarity Program and the Citizen’s Charter Program, panelists will provide recommendations for an effective aid architecture in the short-term, as well as approaches for inclusive development initiatives in the medium-term.  This event is presented by the Keough School of Global Affairs.  Photo: “Afghan Women Queue at World Food Programme Distribution Point” by United Nations Photo is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Register to attend via Zoom Register to Attend in Person

ABOUT THE LECTURE From 1900 to 1914 U Dhammaloka, a working-class Irish sailor who ordained as a Buddhist monk in Burma, organized missions across Southeast Asia to promote Buddhism and rail against British colonialism. As remarkable as his exploits were, study of Dhammaloka’s career reveals an even more fascinating network of Asian Buddhists organizers and a broader movement of plebian cosmopolitanism which constructed its own conceptions of what Buddhism, belonging and reform might mean. This talk will provide a glimpse into these networks in Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore and Penang and discuss how paying attention to the religious connections of working class people in colonial areas across Asia can work to reorient the study of religion. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Alicia Turner is associate professor of humanities and religious studies at York University. She is interested in the intersections of religion, colonialism, secularism and nationalism in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar) over the past 150 years. Her book "Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma" explores the fluid nature of the concepts of sasana, identity and religion through a study of Buddhist lay associations in colonial Burma. Her current projects include a jointed written biography of U Dhammaloka: an Irish sailor and agitator turned Buddhist monk, work on the history and concept of Buddhist secularisms and a genealogy of religious difference and tolerance in Burma (Myanmar). This lecture is part of Border Crossings in Asian Humanities, a series examining transnational Asian experiences and is sponsored by the Liu Institute, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Notre Dame alumnus Yaqoob Bangash '04, a Fulbright fellow at the Mittal Institute at Harvard University, will discuss his research on the emergence of Pakistan as a post-colonial state.  His lecture is sponsored by the Liu Institute's South Asia Group. SPEAKER BIO: Yaqoob Khan Bangash is a historian of Modern South Asia and a current Fulbright Fellow at the Mittal Institute. His current research interests lie in the emergence of Pakistan as a post-colonial state, with broader interests in decolonisation, modern state formation, formation of identities, and the emergence of ethnic and identity based conflicts. Dr Bangash’s first book, A Princely Affair: Accession and Integration of Princely States in Pakistan, 1947-55, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. In 2018, he completed another book, Between the Sword and the Pen: The History of the Lahore High Court. He is currently working on a monograph on the imagination of Pakistan as a country after its creation, using the debates of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (1947—56) as primary material. In 2016, Dr. Bangash founded the first academic literary festival in Pakistan, the ‘Afkar-e-Taza ThinkFest,’ which attracted over 16,000 people in 2018. Bangash has received several grants and honours including a Senior Fellowship at the Religious Freedom Institute (USA), Fellowship of the Presbyterian Historical Society (USA), David M. Stowe Research Fellowship at Yale (USA) and the American Academy of Religion Collaborative Grant (USA). He also regularly writes for The News, Daily Times, The Express Tribune and other newsmedia. Dr. Bangash completed his BA from the University of Notre Dame, and his DPhil from the University of Oxford. Currently, he is director, Centre for Governance and Policy, at Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan.   Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Join us for the inaugural lecture in the Institute's new "Yeats at Notre Dame" initiative. James Flannery is professor emeritus at Emory University. He is also a producer, stage director, singer, scholar, and critic specializing in the dramatic work of W.B. Yeats. In 1988 he founded the W.B. Yeats Foundation in order to promote a greater understanding and appreciation of Yeats’s work as a poet, dramatist and cultural activist.William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is widely considered to be one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. In 1923, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Yeats visited Notre Dame twice — in 1904 and 1933. In the inaugural Yeats Lecture, Professor Flannery will discuss how Yeats sought to foster modes of expression that would inspire people to live “more intense and abundant lives.” For that to occur, he believed, the arts must function in concert with one another and not as rivals, as occurs too often in both academic and artistic institutions. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Rick Hasen, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California Irvine School of Law and author of Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, discusses the dynamic challenges posed by battles to reshape election law. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Joia Crear-Perry, MD, founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, identifies and challenges racism as a root cause of health inequities. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

ABOUT THE LECTURE In this talk, Ted Mack will present a history of the marketplace for Japanese-language literary texts in Brazil, prior to the Second World War, a brief discussion of one award-winning story written there during that period, Sonobe Takeo's "An Age of Speculative Farming" (1932), and concluding comments on what this may tell us about 'modern Japanese literature.' The talk will add to a growing discourse on the colonial and minority literary practices that challenges a naturalized conception of a homogeneous ethnic nation-state and an unproblematic national literary culture by drawing attention to another “marginal” element, that of the migrant, or diasporic, communities in the Americas. Rather than merely making the rubric of national literature more inclusive, or proposing an alternative rubric, however, he will speculate on the necessity and impact of such collective rubrics themselves. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Edward Mack is associate professor of Japanese at the University of Washington in Seattle. His first book, Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value (Duke, 2010), combined an empirical study of the literary publishing industry in Japan with a disciplinary critique focused on the notion of literary "purity." His latest book, Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism (California, 2022), is structured similarly, combining a history of Japanese-language literary activities in Brazil with a continuation of the disciplinary critique, this time focused on the concept of the nation as it is applied to literary texts. This lecture is part of Border Crossings in Asian Humanities, a series examining transnational Asian experiences. Professor Mack's lecture is cosponsored by the Liu Institute and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.  Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Eve L. Ewing, associate professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago and author of Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, explores how racism and other large-scale structures of social inequality impact the everyday lives and experiences of young people. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Mark Beissinger Henry W. Putnam Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University This Kellogg Institute talk will explore how the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities over the last century has altered the frequency, character, and consequences of political revolutions. Using new data on revolutions around the world since 1900, a series of unusual public opinion surveys, and extensive case material, it examines the implications of the return of revolution to the city in the late twentieth century and how this has been accompanied by an “urban civic” repertoire relying on the power of numbers rather than the power of arms. This lecture is part of a larger series organized by Faculty Fellows Scott Mainwaring and Karrie Koesel entitled “Perspectives on World Politics.” Since its inception in 2016, this series aims to spotlight the Kellogg Institute’s strength in comparative politics by featuring distinguished scholars who speak on a topic related to each year’s theme.  

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Stephanie Scott, executive director at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, explores the profound injustices inflicted on First Nations, Inuit and the Métis Nation by the forced removal of children to attend residential schools. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South (ARINS) is a joint project of the Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. The project engages recognized experts across the spectrum of disciplines, perspectives, and points of view—inviting contributions in the form of academic papers, blog posts, and proposals for partnerships.  Conceptualized at a meeting at the Kylemore Abbey Global Centre in January 2020, in three short years, the project has produced more than 30 articles and responses (published in Irish Studies in International Affairs and freely available on the publishing platform Project Muse), 14 podcasts, and dozens of blogposts. It also funds partner projects, for example, "The Future of Cross-Border Cooperation in the Arts" and "Giving Voice to Diversity” research project, which has conducted numerous interviews and focus groups to support future papers on the state of the constitutional debate in the north and south. The project recently began hosting panels for scholars. One was "Being Northern Irish." At this inaugural policy lecture, Thomas Moore and Judith Livingston Institute Director Patrick Griffin will give an overview of ARINS and contextualize its importance to Ireland, to the United States and Europe, as well as to the Keough School of Global Affairs. Two ARINS principals, Professor and Vice-Chancellor Cathy Gormley-Heenan (Ulster University) and Lauder Professor of Political Science Brendan O'Leary (University of Pennsylvania) will discuss the state of Ireland today, relations between the north and the south, and future prospects for peace on the island. Read more Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

ABOUT THE LECTURE While most existing research on housing in low- and middle-income countries focuses on the causes and consequences of living in informal settlements and slums, governments in India are actively involved in large-scale projects to provide the poor with government constructed housing to own. How does subsidized homeownership for the poor shape their lives? Kumar conceives of subsidized homeownership as providing beneficiaries with a large, durable asset that they can use, rent, or sell as they wish. The support housing provides to families is in-kind, but when it is owned and can easily be bought or sold, its benefits approach those of pure income transfers. The widespread implementation of subsidized homeownership, moreover, suggests that transfers made through housing may be more politically expedient than something like a basic income guarantee. Kumar argues that through this type of transfer,  subsidized homeownership helps even the poorest households build wealth, exercise their voice as citizens, and live with dignity. Kumar illustrates the argument through the study of three different housing policies across India. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Tanu Kumar is an assistant professor in the Division of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. She studies political, economic, and social behavior in low- and middle-income countries. How do citizens’ material circumstances affect the choices they make and how they interact with each other in society? What are the consequences of emerging global trends to change these fundamentals? She’s particularly interested in the effects of policies related to housing and digital technology. Her regional expertise is in urban India, but she is also beginning to study sub-Saharan Africa.   Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Catherine Porter, Canada Bureau Chief for the The New York Times, discusses Haiti as the first and only country where the descendants of enslaved people paid the families of their former masters for generations. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.