December 2006
Notre Dame professor takes a closer look at Saint Nicholas
By: Michael O. Garvey
“Saint Nicholas in America: Christmas Holy Day and Holiday,” by Rev. Nicholas Ayo, C.S.C., professor emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, was recently published by Corby Books. >
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Anti-Muslim tensions in Europe require context
By: Susan Guibert
What appear to be growing anti-Muslim feelings in some European countries must be considered within the larger context of immigration in general in order to be fully understood, according to Anthony Messina, a University of Notre Dame political scientist who studies the politics of ethnicity, race and immigration in Western Europe. >
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Dreaming of justice amidst “the Troubles”
By: Michael O. Garvey
Historians, social scientists, and saloon commentators will continue to quibble over the terms: Religious conflict, sectarian violence, civil war, delirious butchery, revolution, or a cluster of unprintable expletives. Whatever it is that went on and on and spilled so much blood in the north of Ireland between the late 1960s and the cease fires of 1994 is most often described with a peculiarly Irish combination of accuracy and understatement as “the Troubles.” >
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Historian MacCormack explores cultural impact of Spanish conquest of Peru in new book
By: Shannon Chapla & Kelly Roberts
Sabine G. MacCormack, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, has published a new book that challenges long-held assumptions about the cultural impact of the Spanish conquest of Peru. >
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New books by FTT faculty span Germany, Hollywood
By: Julie Hail Flory
Two faculty members in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Film, Television and Theatre (FTT) have recently published books highlighting the diverse topics of German women’s writing and Hollywood opinion polls. >
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Historian Father Miscamble reassesses the Cold War
By: Michael O. Garvey
On April 23, 1945, 11 days after the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his successor, Harry S. Truman, met with Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, the foreign minister of the Soviet Union. According to one contemporary journalist, the meeting was remarkable for being the first time Molotov had ever “heard Missouri mule driver’s language.” >
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New video game “Bully” as harmful as name suggests
By: Susan Guibert
The recent release of the new video game “Bully” has rallied troops from both sides of the fence, with critics labeling it a “Columbine simulator” and proponents calling it “just political gamesmanship” that is “imaginative and funny.” >
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