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Saturday, 4:30-6:30 pm, DeBartolo Hall, First Year of Studies Information Fair. The Nanovic Institute takes part in this yearly event to talk to freshmen about opportunities for European studies, including grants, the minor, and the many events the Nanovic sponsors.

Thursday, 7:00 and 10:00 pm, Browning Cinema, DPAC. Film: Seres Queridos/Only Human (Spain 2004). Part of the Nanovic Institute film series, Humor in European Film.

Friday, 4-6 pm, Brownson Hall Courtyard, Nanovic Institute Opening Reception, with music by Trio Belle. By invitation.

Thursday, 7:00 and 10:00 pm, Browning Cinema, DPAC. Film: Directøren for det hele/Boss of it All (Denmark 2006). Part of the Nanovic Institute film series.

Tuesday, 12:30 pm, C-103 Hesburgh Center. Robert Fishman, Nanovic Fellow from the Department of Sociology, will give a lecture, "Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Evolution of Priestly Vocations: Conclusions from a Collaborative Study." Co-sponsored with the Kellogg Institute.

Thursday, 7:00 and 10:00 pm, Browning Cinema, DPAC. Film: Karaula/The Border Post (UK/Serbia and Montenegro/Croacia 2006). Introduced by the director, Rajko Grlic. Part of the Nanovic Institute film series.

Monday, October 15, 2007, 4:30 pm, Hesburgh Center, Room C-103. Lecture: El siglo XX a través del cine de Buñuel ("The Twentieth Century as Seen through the Eyes of Luis Buñuel") by Professor Víctor Fuentes, University of California - Santa Barbara. Professor Fuentes is a distinguished professor emeritus of contemporary Spanish cinema and a world expert on the work of Buñuel.

Thurday-Saturday, Nanovic Institute Advisory Board Meeting.

Thursday, 5:00 pm, 131 Decio Hall, award-winning French author Évelyne Bloch-Dano will speak on "Madame Proust: A Portrait of Proust's Mother." In English. All are welcome. Reception and book signing to follow.

Thursday, 8:00 pm, Hesburgh Center Auditorium. Professor Gordon Clark will give The Nanovic Institute Distinguished European Lecture, The Corporate Environmental Footprint: A European Perspective on the Challenge of Corporate Responsibility. Mr. Clark will be hosted by the Department of Economics and Econometrics. A short biography of Mr. Clark is available here.

Click here to listen to Professor Clark's lecture.

Click here to listen to the post lecture question and answer session.

Thursday, 7:00 and 10:00 pm, Browning Cinema, DPAC. Film: A fost sau n-a fost?/12:08 Bucharest (Romania 2006). Part of the Nanovic Institute film series. The film will be introduced by Prof. Liviu Nicolaescu (ND Mathematics), who lived under the Ceausescu dictatorship.

Wednesday, 4:00 pm, 211 Brownson Hall. "Spain Today," an informative discussion between students, Visiting Nanovic Scholar Professor Julia Lopez and Notre Dame Professor Carlos Jerez-Farran.

November 15

Thursday, 5:15 pm, Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Archbishop Celestino Migliore will preside over the evening Mass during his visit.

Thursday, 8:00 pm, Hesburgh Center Auditorium. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, will present the Terrence R. Keeley Visiting Vatican Lecture for 2007-2008 . He will speak on Catholicism and Islam: Points of Convergence and Divergence, Encounter and Cooperation. A short biography of the Archbishop is available here.

Click here to listen to Archbishop Migliore's lecture.

Click here to listen to the post lecture question and answer session.

November 20

Tuesday, 4:00 pm, 211 Brownson Hall. The German Club will be holding their Kaffestunde (Coffee Hour) in the Nanovic Institute European Lounge.

November 27

Tuesday, 4:30 pm, Coleman Morse Lounge. The Nanovic Institute Facutly Fellows Meeting.

November 28

Wednesday, 7:00 pm, 211 Brownson Hall. The Polish Club will hold a meeting with the Nanovic Visiting Scholars from Poland, Krystyna Mazur and Rev. Hendryk Drawnel, SDB, in the Nanovic Institute European Lounge.

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