Lecture — “The Noise Makes the Town: Urban Chaos, Digital Interference, and the Current State of Visuality”

Join NDIGI for WIS '23 Notre Dame's Professional Investing Summit Registration for WIS '23 is NOW OPEN! All Notre Dame students, faculty, and staff are welcome.  The Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing is very excited about the lineup of accomplished industry practitioners joining us February 23 and 24. To help with the planning, please register in advance. See timing of the events below.  Please note that doors will open at 8:00am on Friday, February 24 in the Downes Club inside Corbett Family Hall, and SEATING MAY BE LIMITED. Breakfast and lunch will be provided!           Keynote Speakers Include Lindsey Vonn. Throughout her career, she competed in four Olympics (2002, 2006, 2010, 2018) and collected three Olympic medals. She is the only American woman to win an Olympic downhill gold, and she also won four world cup overall titles.           Keynote speakers and panelists also include:            Originally published at ndigi.nd.edu.

The Mathews Lectures bring a distinguished scholar of Byzantine studies to campus each year to deliver a talk, supported by the Rev. Constantine Mathews Endowment for Excellence in Byzantine Christianity in the Medieval Institute. Vasilios Mathews and Nikiforos Mathews established the endowment to honor their father, the Reverend Constantine Mathews, who earned a Masters Degree in Liturgical Studies at Notre Dame in 1977. During a half-century of dedicated ministry, Father Mathews served as presiding parish priest at St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church in South Bend, followed by the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Stamford, Connecticut.  "A historian at work on monastic documents: Gabriel Millet, Rossikon, Mount Athos, ca 1920" © Photothèque Gabriel Millet EPHE-PSLAbout the TalkByzantine documents preserved in the archives of the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece are by far the most extensive and valuable body of documentation from the Byzantine Empire. They represent about half of the entire collection of archival documents that have survived, span more than five centuries (10th–15th c.), and cover large areas of Macedonia and Thrace as well as some North-Aegean islands. Moreover, these documents are often our only source of information about rural and urban society, agrarian economy, demography, provincial administration, among other subjects. Their prevalence should be a matter of concern since monasteries–although common in Byzantium–are very specific by nature. This presentation will assess the current research on the documentation of Mount Athos and ask the following question: is monastic history– economic, social, administrative–representative of the Empire? How can we guess what is missing, based on these monastic archives?About the SpeakerOlivier Delouis is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a former member of the French School of Archaeology of Athens, Greece. In Oxford, he is currently a Research Fellow at the Maison française d’Oxford (CNRS) and a Visiting Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Campion Hall. From 2013 to 2021, he directed  the Revue des études byzantines (Peeters Publishers). His current research includes the edition of the Great Catecheseis of Theodore the Stoudite, the edition of two volumes of Mount Athos archives collection (monastery of Chilandar), and the publication of the scientific correspondence of Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1856–1912). Among his  recent publications are three collective volumes on Monastic Mobility (Rome, 2019), Monastic Daily Life, 4th–10th c. (Cairo-Athens, 2019), and Athos Monastic Archives and their Reception (Paris, 2019), as well as various articles on Theodore the Stoudite.Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, in collaboration with the Ukrainian Society of Notre Dame and exchange students from the Ukrainian Catholic University, will mark "A One-Year Commemoration of Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine" on Thursday, February 23, starting at 5:00 p.m. in the Forum of Nanovic Hall. A speaking program will start at 5:15 p.m. and end at 5:45 p.m. At the end of the program, attendees are invited to participate in a candlelit prayer walk from Jenkins Nanovic Halls to the Grotto where they will join University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., for a Prayer Service for Peace in Ukraine. This commemoration and the Prayer Service for Peace in Ukraine are part of the Notre Dame Forum and are made possible by the Office of the President and Campus Ministry.    Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

February 24, 2023, marks one year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The resulting war has claimed over 300,000 lives to date, displaced over 5.9 million Ukrainian citizens, and devastated cities and towns across the country.  Join University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., for a Prayer Service for Peace in Ukraine.  This event follows a one-year commemoration event planned by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies with the Ukrainian Society of Notre Dame and students from Ukrainian Catholic University.  This service is co-sponsored by the Office of the President and Campus Ministry.In case of rain or inclement weather, the prayer service will move to the Forum in Jenkins Nanovic Halls. Updates will be posted to the prayer service webpage by noon Feb. 23. Originally published at forum2022.nd.edu.

Notre Dame Film, Television, and Theatre presentsDAWN'S EARLY LIGHT a new musical  by Solomon Duane '24 Set in the 1940s, Dawn's Early Light follows the story of an Italian-American family living in Buffalo, NY, during World War II. When Tommy Zucchiatti, the son of an Italian immigrant, decides he wants to enlist in the military, his father resists, haunted by the pains of a dark past. As Valentine Zucchiatti struggles to raise his strong-willed children in a quickly changing world, the explosions of war work their way into the foundation of the American dream: the family.This new musical theater production seeks to address the issues of today in a historic world filled with big-band music, swing dance, and the flashing colors of the WWII home front. February 23 - March 5, 2023 Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30 pm Sundays at 2:30 pm Philbin Studio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center More informationTickets Director: Matt Hawkins Music Director: Dror Baitel Choreographer: Theresa Thomas '24 Orchestrators: Sean Ford '24 and Emily Kane '23 Lighting Designer: Kevin Dreyer Scenic Designer: Marcus Stephens Costume Designer: Lynn Holbrook Stage Manager: Sam Grocock '23 Originally published at ftt.nd.edu.

The Photography Gallery at Riley Hall is proud to announce "To Which We Return," an exhibition of photographs by Kristoffer Johnson. The exhibition is open now and will run until March 3, 2023. Kristoffer Johnson (b.1990) is an artist  from Northwest Arkansas whose artwork explores themes of mortality, aging and decay. He received B.A. in journalism and B.F.A. in studio art from the University of Arkansas. In 2021, he received his M.F.A. from the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design at Indiana University Bloomington. He converted to Buddhism at an early age and Buddhist concepts of mortality and impermanence play a major role in his work. He primarily uses historic and alternative photographic processes create, alter and decay images.  His artwork has been featured in notable exhibitions including, The Incheon Marine Asia Photography and Video Festival in Incheon, South Korea and The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022 at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Johnson currently lives in Mishawaka, Indiana, and is the visiting lecturer in photography and photo facilities coordinator at the University of Notre Dame. TO WHICH WE RETURN  This series focuses on the impermanence and fragility of the human body and the physiological problems that are inherent in existence. The human body is a fragile construct that ages and decays. The Buddhist concept of impermanence states, everything is temporary and subject to rise and fall. Mortality is an unavoidable and inevitable fact that humanity must face despite the sense of control which society and self-awareness give us. Reflection on death is a shared concept throughout human history. This work draws from two such traditions, the Buddhist meditation Maranasati “mindfulness of death” and the Western visual tradition of Memento Mori “remember that you will die.” Maranasati invites one to visualize and contemplate their body in a state of decay. In this series, I use an alternative photographic process known as Mordançage to externalize this visualization. Photography has long been associated with memory and the desire to immortalize past moments and serve as constant reminders of time and mortality. Whereas the goal of most photography is the preservation of self and memory, in this work, the fragmented image serves as a reminder of the ever-present specter of the end of the life we know.   The mordançage process degrades and disrupts photographic materials through a chemical process of decay and destruction. The cracked surfaces and emulsion veils, weighted down by gravity, visually reference collapse and entropy and reflect the material conditions of the human body. The figure’s skin pulls away, merging with the background, breaking down the barrier between body and space. The forms, textures, and colors of the images simultaneously reference geological formations and flesh, tying the body to the world in which it exists and to which it shall return.   Originally posted on the Department of Art, Art History and Design website.