The Kellogg Institute for International 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame has received a $290,000 grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation to support the Notre Dame Prize for Distinguished Public Service inLatin Americaand to expand the Kellogg Institute Internship Program.

About $180,000 of the funding will provide three years of support for the annual Notre Dame Prize, which is the only award of its kind to recognize the efforts of public figures to enhance the regions welfare by strengthening democracy and improving the well being of its citizens.

Established in 2000, the Notre Dame Prize has been awarded to some of the leading political, civil and religious figures inLatin America.Among the previous recipients are Brazilian President Luiz In谩cio Lula da Silva and former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso; Latin American Cardinal Oscar Andr茅s Rodr铆guez Maradiaga; and former Chilean President Patricio Aylwin Az贸car.

Additionally, $110,000 of the grant will provide support for 20 students to participate in the Kellogg Institutes international internship program through the summer of 2008 and expand the program into Asia andAfrica.The program provides undergraduates opportunities to gain hands-on experience with international policy institutes, non-governmental organizations and businesses, including micro-finance groups inUganda,U.S.embassies inArgentinaandChile, small farming operations inMexico, and healthcare facilities in theDominican Republic.

The Coca-Cola Foundation strives to improve the quality of life in the community and enhance individual opportunity through education. In the past decade, the foundation has contributed more than $155 million in support of education.

* Contact: * _Kelly Roberts, Kellogg Institute, 574-631-9184, krobert2@nd.edu
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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 ofPeru.

Published by Princeton University Press, the book, titledOn the Wings of Time:Rome, the Incas,SpainandPeru,is intended to provide a more sophisticated understanding ofLatin America, both in a historical and contemporary context.

Among historians, it long has been taken for granted that the Spanish imposed their culture and religion on the indigenous populations during the 16 ^th and 17 ^th centuries. Using original sources, MacCormack asserts that civil society was born of the intellectual endeavors that commenced with the invasion itself, as the invaders sought to understand an array of cultures.

The book proposes that European and Spanish culture was much less monolithic than is usually supposed,MacCormack said.The intellectual and cultural experience of engaging with the Mediterranean ancient world conditioned those Spanish who were interested in Andean cultures to think of cultural multiplicities.

An internationally renowned scholar of ancientRomeand the Spanish empire, MacCormack specializes in late antiquity and colonialLatin America.Her scholarly publications includeThe Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine,Religion in theAndes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru,andArt and Ceremony in Late Antiquity.

MacCormack, a past recipient of a $1.5 million Distinguished Achievement Award for scholars in the humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, was named a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2000 and of the American Philosophical Society in 1997, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999.Previously a professor of classical studies and history at theUniversityofMichigan, MacCormack holds a joint appointment at Notre Dame in the departments of history and classics and is a faculty fellow in the Universitys Kellogg Institute for International 91视频.She earned her bachelor鈥檚 and doctoral degrees fromOxfordUniversity.

* Contact: * _Sabine MacCormack, 574-631-9303, maccormack.1@nd.edu
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The University of Notre Dame will celebrate Brazil Week with a series of events Oct. 2 to 5 (Monday to Thursday), all of which are free and open to the public.

Part of a cultural exchange between Notre Dames Kellogg Institute for International 91视频 and Brazils Ministry of Culture, Brazil Week will showcase the music, films and food of the Brazilian culture.

All events, except Wednesdays, will be held on campus.They are:

Monday Favela Rising,a documentary about a man who emerged from the slums of Rio de Janeiro to eventually lead the Afro-reggae cultural movement, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International 91视频. Irene Rizzini, visiting chair in the study of Brazilian culture, will introduce the film.

Tuesday Bate papo (Brazilian social hour), featuring choral ensemble ContraCantos and jazz band Arabiando, both from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, will be held at 6 p.m. in the great hall of the Hesburgh Center.

Wednesday ContraCantos and Arabiando will perform at 7 p.m. at John Adams High 91视频 in South Bend.

Thursday ContraCantos and Arabiando will perform at 7 p.m. in Washington Hall.

First celebrated at Notre Dame in 2000, Brazil Week is co-sponsored by the Universitys Kellogg Institute, Institute for Latino 91视频, Program in Portuguese and Brazilian 91视频, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Film, Television and Theatre, and International Student Services and Activities.

Contact: Kelly Roberts, Kellogg Institute, 574-631-9184, krobert2@nd.edu

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Robert M. Fishman, professor of sociology, and Anthony M. Messina, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, have edited a new book titledThe Year of the Euro: The Cultural, Social, and Political Import of Europes Common Currency.

Published as part of a Kellogg Institute for International 91视频 and monograph series titledContemporary European Politics and Society,the book examines the wide-ranging importance ofEuropes new currency (first circulated in January 2002) beyond its most obvious impact on financial markets and the economy.

Essays inThe Year of the Eurooffer the assessments of leading scholars of European history, political science, sociology and law on the currency change which involved the 12 participating member states of the European Union.Contributing authors debate whether the new common currency will reshape the continents cultures, societies and political systems.

A faculty fellow in the and at Notre Dame, Fishman is the author ofDemocracys Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in SpainandWorking Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain.

Messina, also a faculty fellow in the Kellogg and Nanovic Institutes, is the author of a new book on the logics and politics of post-World War II migration to Western Europe, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, andRace and Party Competition inBritain.He is the editor ofWest European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century.

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