Diane Nash will be the keynote speaker at this luncheon. Nash became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in 1959 while a student at Fisk University. By the time she was 22, Nash was a Freedom Rider and had co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She worked closely with Dr. King and played a pivotal role in the Selma Voting Rights Movement.
Network with employers from across the country, meet with returning Notre Dame alums, learn about potential opportunities, and explore several industries at the Winter Career Fair!
Location: Rare Books & Special Collections (102 Hesburgh Library)
The first meeting of the Italian Research Seminar in Spring 2020 will host a lecture by Prof. Justin Steinberg.
More details will be announced as the date approaches.
Justin Steinberg is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Chicago. His scholarship focuses on medieval Italian literature, especially on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and the early lyric. Related interests include manuscript culture/material philology, reception studies, the connections between legal and literary culture, and medieval political theory. Currently, he is working on theological/legal/literary conceptions of fictio, …
The College of Arts and Letters Showcase for Junior Parents Weekend will begin at 10 am on Saturday, February 15, with a presentation by Arts and Letters faculty in the Browning Cinema.
From 11:15 am to noon there will be an informal reception for parents and students to meet with faculty and other representatives from the College of Arts and Letters.…
Location: Rare Books & Special Collections (102 Hesburgh Library)
The second meeting of the Italian Research Seminar in Spring 2020 will host research presentations by 2nd-year studnets in the Italian MA progam.
More details will be announced as the date approaches.
The Italian Research Seminar, a core event of the Center for Italian Studies, aims to provide a regular forum for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and colleagues from other universities to present and discuss their current research. The Seminar is vigorously interdisciplinary, and embraces all areas of Italian literature, language, and culture, as well as perceptions of Italy, its achievements and its peoples in other national and international cultures. The Seminar constitutes an important element in the effort by Notre Dame’s Center for Italian Studies to promote the study of Italy and to serve as a strategic point of contact for scholarly exchange.…
This second lecture in the 2019-2020 Annual Lecture Series at the Rome Global Gateway will be live-streamed on Notre Dame’s main campus.
Prof. Matteo Sanfilippo, professor of modern history at DISUCOM – Università della Tuscia and Director of Istituto Storico Scalabriniano, will speak about “Rome: A City of Immigrants from Antiquity to the Present.”…
Please join us for an hour of coffee and conversation in Italian where you can meet faculty, students, and staff in Italian Studies and practice your Italian. We meet about once per month and offer activities centered around different aspects of Italian culture.…
James C. Kriesel: “La poetica della congruentia: Chichibio e la gru (Decameron 6.4)” (The Poetics of Congruence: Chichibio and the Crane (Decameron 6.4))
La critica ha di recente discusso se Boccaccio approvasse o meno i diversi tipi di volgare. Molte di queste tradizioni testuali presentavano elementi popolari, erotici o municipali, che nel periodo tardo medievale erano criticati. L’intervento si propone di mostrare come nel Decameron…
Professor Vitulli will be presenting part of his new book project on Baroque preaching at the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshops (U of Chicago)
Title: A Sonic Preacher. Sound, Identity and Performance in Baroque Spain.
GRADUATE FOREIGN LANGUAGE READING EXAM IN FRENCH, ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH
We will send out an email when we reschedule the Grad Reading Exam.
The exam will be given on Monday, March 23, 2020 7:00pm – 9:00pm Room 225 DeBartolo Hall To register, send email to Linda Rule at linda.rule@nd.edu or come to the Romance Languages Department (343 O’Shaughnessy Hall) and fill out a registration form. (You may use a dictionary when taking the exam)…
Location: Rare Books & Special Collections (102 Hesburgh Library)
The Center for Italian Studies presents the fourth annual Ravarino Lecture on April 2, 2020, which will be delivered by William Caferro, who is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History and Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University.
More details will be posted here as the date approaches.…
Dean Sarah Mustillo will host the College’s annual reception for undergraduate students who have completed a senior thesis project in Arts and Letters. The gathering is designed to recognize this group of dedicated students — along with their advisors and mentors — for all of their hard work.
