Cultures & Languages | Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Italy
The University of Groningen, in collaboration with the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies, the Center forItalian Studies, and the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame (USA), invite applications for this year's "Schools in Transition Summer School." The purpose of this interdisciplinary and research-based is to interrogate multiple questions including the following: How did early monasticism transform, adopt, and adapt patterns of schooling in the ancient world? How was it innovative in its approach to education? This interdisciplinary and international summer school introduces students to the study of this key transition in Western intellectual and religious history through the study of a broad range of textual and material evidence, current approaches to situational learning, and results in the study of early Western monasticism. Comparison with the contemporary institution of the Late Antique school introduces students to the cultural and social worlds in which monasticism developed, and prompts reconsideration of continuities and discontinuities between these two institutions of formation. The school’s research-based approach introduces the structures, resources, ritual practices, disciplinary programs, textual practices, materials (including manuscripts), and spaces of situated learning. Through expert-led tours of the Vatican Library, late antique sites of Rome, and the Abbey of Montecassino, students gain on-site experience of sources and sites important their own research. Time is provided for participants to undertake their own research while in Rome. The program is aimed at research MA students and PhD candidates, and interested parties should submit applications via the University of Groningen's website by March 21st, 2025. Download the flyer here Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Cultures & Languages | Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Italy
The University of Groningen, in collaboration with the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies, the Center forItalian Studies, and the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame (USA), invite applications for this year's "Schools in Transition Summer School." The purpose of this interdisciplinary and research-based is to interrogate multiple questions including the following: How did early monasticism transform, adopt, and adapt patterns of schooling in the ancient world? How was it innovative in its approach to education? This interdisciplinary and international summer school introduces students to the study of this key transition in Western intellectual and religious history through the study of a broad range of textual and material evidence, current approaches to situational learning, and results in the study of early Western monasticism. Comparison with the contemporary institution of the Late Antique school introduces students to the cultural and social worlds in which monasticism developed, and prompts reconsideration of continuities and discontinuities between these two institutions of formation. The school’s research-based approach introduces the structures, resources, ritual practices, disciplinary programs, textual practices, materials (including manuscripts), and spaces of situated learning. Through expert-led tours of the Vatican Library, late antique sites of Rome, and the Abbey of Montecassino, students gain on-site experience of sources and sites important their own research. Time is provided for participants to undertake their own research while in Rome. The program is aimed at research MA students and PhD candidates, and interested parties should submit applications via the University of Groningen's website by March 21st, 2025. Download the flyer here Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Cultures & Languages | Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Italy
The University of Groningen, in collaboration with the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies, the Center forItalian Studies, and the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame (USA), invite applications for this year's "Schools in Transition Summer School." The purpose of this interdisciplinary and research-based is to interrogate multiple questions including the following: How did early monasticism transform, adopt, and adapt patterns of schooling in the ancient world? How was it innovative in its approach to education? This interdisciplinary and international summer school introduces students to the study of this key transition in Western intellectual and religious history through the study of a broad range of textual and material evidence, current approaches to situational learning, and results in the study of early Western monasticism. Comparison with the contemporary institution of the Late Antique school introduces students to the cultural and social worlds in which monasticism developed, and prompts reconsideration of continuities and discontinuities between these two institutions of formation. The school’s research-based approach introduces the structures, resources, ritual practices, disciplinary programs, textual practices, materials (including manuscripts), and spaces of situated learning. Through expert-led tours of the Vatican Library, late antique sites of Rome, and the Abbey of Montecassino, students gain on-site experience of sources and sites important their own research. Time is provided for participants to undertake their own research while in Rome. The program is aimed at research MA students and PhD candidates, and interested parties should submit applications via the University of Groningen's website by March 21st, 2025. Download the flyer here Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Cultures & Languages | Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Italy
The University of Groningen, in collaboration with the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies, the Center forItalian Studies, and the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame (USA), invite applications for this year's "Schools in Transition Summer School." The purpose of this interdisciplinary and research-based is to interrogate multiple questions including the following: How did early monasticism transform, adopt, and adapt patterns of schooling in the ancient world? How was it innovative in its approach to education? This interdisciplinary and international summer school introduces students to the study of this key transition in Western intellectual and religious history through the study of a broad range of textual and material evidence, current approaches to situational learning, and results in the study of early Western monasticism. Comparison with the contemporary institution of the Late Antique school introduces students to the cultural and social worlds in which monasticism developed, and prompts reconsideration of continuities and discontinuities between these two institutions of formation. The school’s research-based approach introduces the structures, resources, ritual practices, disciplinary programs, textual practices, materials (including manuscripts), and spaces of situated learning. Through expert-led tours of the Vatican Library, late antique sites of Rome, and the Abbey of Montecassino, students gain on-site experience of sources and sites important their own research. Time is provided for participants to undertake their own research while in Rome. The program is aimed at research MA students and PhD candidates, and interested parties should submit applications via the University of Groningen's website by March 21st, 2025. Download the flyer here Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Cultures & Languages | Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Italy
The University of Groningen, in collaboration with the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies, the Center forItalian Studies, and the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame (USA), invite applications for this year's "Schools in Transition Summer School." The purpose of this interdisciplinary and research-based is to interrogate multiple questions including the following: How did early monasticism transform, adopt, and adapt patterns of schooling in the ancient world? How was it innovative in its approach to education? This interdisciplinary and international summer school introduces students to the study of this key transition in Western intellectual and religious history through the study of a broad range of textual and material evidence, current approaches to situational learning, and results in the study of early Western monasticism. Comparison with the contemporary institution of the Late Antique school introduces students to the cultural and social worlds in which monasticism developed, and prompts reconsideration of continuities and discontinuities between these two institutions of formation. The school’s research-based approach introduces the structures, resources, ritual practices, disciplinary programs, textual practices, materials (including manuscripts), and spaces of situated learning. Through expert-led tours of the Vatican Library, late antique sites of Rome, and the Abbey of Montecassino, students gain on-site experience of sources and sites important their own research. Time is provided for participants to undertake their own research while in Rome. The program is aimed at research MA students and PhD candidates, and interested parties should submit applications via the University of Groningen's website by March 21st, 2025. Download the flyer here Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Cultures & Languages
This will be the second meeting of the critical reading of Dante's Paradiso, organized by Prof. Dr. Zygmunt G. Barański (University of Notre Dame) and Prof. Dr. Maria Antonietta Terzoli (Universität Basel), in collaboration with the Istituto di Italianistica dell’Università di Basilea and The William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame.   At this meeting participants will discuss Cantos VII-XII.   Find out more here. Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.