Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art for a public conversation with Caroline Campbell, director of the National Gallery of Ireland. Campbell will be joined in conversation by Judith Stapleton, postdoctoral research associate at the Keough-Naughton Institute.  Copies of Caroline Campbell's Power of Art (Pegasus Books, 2024) will be available for purchase after the event. About Caroline Campbell Born and educated in Belfast, Caroline Campbell became director of the National Gallery of Ireland in November 2022. Caroline studied modern history at University College Oxford, and has an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She is a former Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership, New York. Before joining the National Gallery of Ireland, Caroline was Director of Collections and Research at the National Gallery, London. Earlier in her career she held curatorial positions at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Courtauld Gallery, London, and the National Gallery. Caroline has published widely on European art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, particularly on the Italian Renaissance. She has curated and co-curated many exhibitions, including Bellini and the East (2005-06), Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence (2009); Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting (2014), Duccio/Caro: In Dialogue (2015) and Mantegna and Bellini (2018-19). Caroline is a strong advocate of widening participation and digital engagement in museums. Her interest in art history developed after a visit to the National Gallery of Ireland as a teenager, and she wants all young people to be able to see and enjoy great art.   Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

Learning Beyond the Classics: Voicing Intergenerational Trauma in Postwar Korea and Japan through Contemporary Cinema Directed by Hirokazu Kore-edaWith Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka Rated R, 121 minutesIn Japanese with English subtitles Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, Hirokazu Kore-eda's film full of contemplation and compassion furthers his career's comparisons to Yasujiro Ozu. On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. GET TICKETS *Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students. **Co-presented by the David A. Heskin and Marilou Brill Endowment for Excellence, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship/Hesburgh Libraries.

On May 12, 2025, a group of 59 white South Africans arrived in the United States as refugees on a flight chartered by the U.S. government. The new arrivals, many of whom are Afrikaner descendants of Dutch settlers, were granted refugee status based on claims they faced racial discrimination and violence in South Africa. At the center of this situation is South Africa’s land restitution program, which is designed to return land, under certain conditions, to Black communities that were dispossessed during the country’s Apartheid era. John Eligon, the Johannesburg bureau chief for The New York Times, has covered this story from all angles — including the passage of South Africa’s Expropriation Act, reactions to the policy in different communities, the Trump administration’s creation of a special refugee program for South Africa’s racial minorities, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pushback against narratives amplified by President Trump, Elon Musk, and others. Eligon will share insights from his reporting during “Post-Apartheid? Restitution and Racial Fear in South Africa,” a public conversation moderated by Dory Mitros Durham, assistant dean for academic affairs and associate teaching professor in Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. About the speakerJohn Eligon has served as The New York Times’ Johannesburg bureau chief since 2021. In that role, he is responsible for covering countries in southern Africa. He writes about how big trends and phenomena — from climate change to political upheaval — influence and shape the lives of ordinary people across southern Africa. “My work seeks to upend easy assumptions and stereotypes about the region,” he says. “I strive to show readers a side of Africa they rarely see or hear about, like how the Apartheid-era townships have become a hub of nightlife for South Africa’s rising Black middle class, or how the Rugby World Cup unified a very divided South Africa.” Eligon’s career at The New York Times started in 2005 as a sports reporter. He has covered courts for the Metro section and was a correspondent for the National section based in Kansas City, Missouri. He spent most of his time on the National desk covering issues of race across the United States. He was The Times’ first reporter on the ground in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd, and wrote extensively about the national movement for racial justice that it sparked. Several years earlier, he helped to shepherd The Times’ coverage of the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Eligon was born in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, and grew up mainly in Florida and Michigan. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he earned degrees in journalism and German. Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Learning Beyond the Classics: Voicing Intergenerational Trauma in Postwar Korea and Japan through Contemporary Cinema Directed by Hyun kyung Kim Not Rated, 84 minutesIn English and Korean with English subtitles Director Hyun kyung Kim scheduled to appear live! This documentary explores the lasting impact of the Korean War while revealing the weight it still exerts to this day on several generations of the filmmaker's family. South Korean filmmaker Hyun kyung Kim grew up with the inherited burden of the Korean War, a conflict that left an indelible mark on her family and country. Her mother compulsively fills the house with items she finds on the streets of Seoul while her veteran father devours books about the war. The filmmaker's encounter with a North Korean defector mirrors the story of her grandfather, who likely stayed in the North when the country became divided, never to be seen again by his family. Defectors confronts the impact of a brutal war on several generations of the filmmaker's family. GET TICKETS *Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students. **Co-presented by the David A. Heskin and Marilou Brill Endowment for Excellence, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship/Hesburgh Libraries.

Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute for a talk by Gareth Prendergast, colonel and head of Strategic Force Design in the Irish Defence Forces, on his new book Clear - Hold - Build: How the Free State Won the Irish Civil War (Eastwood Publications, 2025). Copies of the book will be available for purchase after the reading. About Clear - Hold - BuildResearching a civil war is always fraught with danger. While writing a historical textbook 50 years after the end of hostilities, F.S.L. Lyons referred to the Irish Civil War as “burned so deep into the heart and mind of Ireland that it is not yet possible for the historian to approach it with the detailed knowledge or the objectivity which it deserves." Pushing to one side the ideological differences still prevalent in Ireland, Clear - Hold - Build: How the Free State Won the Irish Civil War by Gareth Prendergast, now explains the construct behind the Free State Strategy during the Irish Civil War. As a serving officer in the Irish Defence Forces and a former graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College, Prendergast utilises his academic and military experience to offer a unique perspective of this contentious period in Irish history. In this newly published book, Prendergast analyses the Clearance and Hold operations conducted by the Leadership of the National Army in order to face down a violent insurgency primarily based in the ‘Munster Republic.’ He credits the Build or Rebuild operations conducted by the Free State as the main contributory reason why the National Army ultimately won the civil war. Even the words ‘won the civil war’ are contentious to this day. Using the lens of modern counterinsurgency doctrine to connect tactical actions to strategic success, Prendergast presents readers with a nuanced examination of the conflict and invites them to draw their own conclusions. You can listen to Gareth Prendergast discuss Clear - Hold - Build on the Irish History Show Podcast here. About Gareth Prendergast Gareth Prendergast is a serving colonel in the Irish Defence Forces with over 30 years of service. He has seven operational tours of duty overseas including the Middle East, Balkans and Mali. At home he has served in infantry battalions on the Irish border during the ‘Troubles’, in Kilkenny and Dublin. He has also served in the Military College and Defence Force Headquarter on numerous occasions, including appointments in the Command and Staff School, OIC Military Finance Branch, and Director of Logistics. He is currently serving as Head of Strategic Force Design. Prendergast has a Masters of Military Art and Science from his year spent on the US Army Command and General Staff Course in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and he recently achieved his doctorate (Ph.D.) after six years study and research in the history department of UCC. Colonel Prendergast recently published his first book, Clear – Hold – Build, How the Free State won the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) with Eastwood Publications in 2025. This book encompasses his previous experiences and military education as he spent over six years researching how the newly established Irish National Army utilised a counterinsurgency doctrine that allowed them to convert tactical victories into overall strategic success. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

Learning Beyond the Classics: Voicing Intergenerational Trauma in Postwar Korea and Japan through Contemporary Cinema Directed by Nagisa OshimaWith Kei Sato, Fumio Watanabe, Toshio Ishido Not Rated, 118 minutesIn Japanese with English subtitles Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima, an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire Death by Hanging. In this macabre farce, a Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Oshima's constantly surprising film is a subversive and surreal indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country. GET TICKETS *Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students. **Co-presented by the David A. Heskin and Marilou Brill Endowment for Excellence, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship/Hesburgh Libraries.