Cultures & Languages | 3130 Jenkins Nanovic Hall
Come and practice your Irish at Tae's Plé! All levels are welcome!

Cultures & Languages | Debartolo 108 & Zoom
This workshop focuses on a crucial skill for all academic writers: creating a smooth flow. Learn practical strategies to guide the reader seamlessly from one idea to the next, making an argument clear and cohesive. Join in Debartolo 108 or on Zoom. Register here

Cultures & Languages | Decio 131
Come and practice your Japanese in a fun and relaxing environment! All levels welcome! For questions, please contact Prof. Naoki Fuse (nfuse@nd.edu).

Cultures & Languages | Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Learning Beyond the Classics: Mexican Cinema: Épocas de OroDirected by Les BlankWith Ramiro Cavazos, Los Alegres De Teran, Los Pinguinos del NorteNot Rated, 58 minutes, DCPIn English and Spanish with English subtitlesChulas Fronteras is a joyous introduction to the music and culture of the Texas-Mexican border. From lively dance tunes to soulful, political work songs, musica Norteña fuses traditional Mexican harmonies with central European dancehall rhythms and a little something extra. Newly restored in 4K, Chulas Fronteras celebrates the famed Mexican-American musicians of the borderlands, the migrant farming communities from which they come, the strong family bonds of Tejanos, and the social protest ethos inscribed in their music. Blank & Strachwitz's film brims with tender affection for its subjects, the vitality of their marvelous music, and the generosity of spirit they show in the face of hardship. GET TICKETSCo-presented by the David A. Heskin and Marilou Brill Endowment for Excellence and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

Cultures & Languages | Duncan Student Center W210
Come and practice your English in a comfortable and relaxed environment!

Cultures & Languages | Great Hall
Come and celebrate East Asian culture with fun activites and delicious cuisine with the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean faculty and students!

Cultures & Languages | Log Chapel
Join us for Holy Mass in French in the Log Chapel on campus! Mass will be followed by reception with free French food, courtesy of the French Club.

Cultures & Languages | Decio 3rd Floor
Italian Cultural Hour, a fun and informal opportunity to meet and practice your Italian with members of the Italian Program, Italophones, Italophiles, and anyone with an appreciation for all things Italian.  Join us for a caccia al tesoro (treasure hunt), practice your Italian, follow the clues, and see who can find the treasure first! All are welcome! Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Cultures & Languages | Decio 131
Come and practice your Japanese in a fun and relaxing environment! All levels welcome! For questions, please contact Prof. Naoki Fuse (nfuse@nd.edu).

Cultures & Languages | Duncan Student Center W210
Come and practice your English in a comfortable and relaxed environment!

Cultures & Languages | 3130 Jenkins Nanovic Hall
Come and practice your Irish at Tae's Plé! All levels are welcome!

Cultures & Languages | 104 Bond Hall
Juan Díes, co-founder of the twice GRAMMY-nominated Sones de México Ensemble, has been writing, performing, and teaching corridos for at least 35 years. This year, as part of "Celebrating America 250," the National Endowment for the Arts is partially sponsoring Corridos of the Semiquincentennial: Voices of Courage and Hope, a musical storytelling project developed by Sones de México Ensemble to honor eight national heroes through the creation and performance of eight new traditional Mexican corridos. Join us for a family-friendly presentation of these and other corridos, narrated in Spanish and English by Juan Díes and members of the ensemble, that combines live music, storytelling, projected visuals, and audience interaction. This performance is free and open to the public. Juan Díes, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, co-founder of the Sones de México Ensemble, and this year's recipient of the NEA National Heritage Foundation Fellowship, the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts, is an avid performer and teacher of corrido songwriting. For more than 30 years, he has led corrido songwriting workshops with children and adults, capturing real stories told by communities across the U.S. Originally published at latinostudies.nd.edu.

Cultures & Languages | Decio 131
Come and practice your Japanese in a fun and relaxing environment! All levels welcome! For questions, please contact Prof. Naoki Fuse (nfuse@nd.edu).

Cultures & Languages | Decio Commons
An informal, dynamic and fun opportunity to practice & improve your spoken Spanish. Open to all students. Third -and final- Session of the semester. Our topic this month will be El día de Acción de Gracia. Food & refreshments will be provided.

Cultures & Languages | Christ the Teacher Chapel
Please join us as we celebrate Christ with a Mass and liturgy in Kiwahili. Guidance in both English and Kiswahili will be provided. Join us for a social gathering after Mass. Officiant: Fr. David Kashangaki, CSC from Kenya. For more information or if you would like to volunteer to help, please contact Hana Kang (hkang2@nd.edu). Co-sponsored by Campus Ministry

Cultures & Languages | TBD
Come practoice your Portuguese in a relaxed and judgement-free environment! All levels welcome!

Cultures & Languages | Christ the Teacher Chapel
Please join us as we celebrate Christ with a Mass and liturgy in Kiwahili. Guidance in both English and Kiswahili will be provided. Join us for a social gathering after Mass. Officiant: Fr. David Kashangaki, CSC from Kenya. For more information or if you would like to volunteer to help, please contact Hana Kang (hkang2@nd.edu). Co-sponsored by Campus Ministry.

Cultures & Languages | Collaboration Hub 120
Join other language learners in our multi-language reading club! Spend an hour relaxing, reading for fun in the company of others. Bring a foreign language book, magazine, or newspaper or read one from the library collection.

Cultures & Languages | DeBartolo 308 & Zoom
Learn how to design research posters that command attention in a crowded hall and deliver mini-presentations that resonate with your audience. You will leave with practical templates, layout best practices, and effective Q&A techniques. Join in DeBartolo 308 or on Zoom. Register here

Cultures & Languages | 2148 Jenkins Nanovic Halls
The Acta Pekinensia (1705–1712), compiled by the Jesuit Kilian Stumpf, is among the richest documentary sources for the Chinese Rites Controversy. While scholarship has focused primarily on European missionaries, the papal legate, and the Kangxi emperor, this paper shifts attention to the collective petitions submitted by Chinese Catholics concerning the Chinese rites and the names of God. I argue that these petitions are more than evidence of a theological dispute. They reveal the emergence of a Chinese Catholic community that understood itself not simply as the recipient of missionary instruction but as a moral and theological agent within the life of the Church. Often drafted by Christian literati while speaking in the name of a broader body of believers, the petitions combined sophisticated theological reasoning with the deferential language of Qing official culture. Women also appear among the petitioners, offering a rare glimpse of female participation in public religious advocacy despite the gendered constraints of late imperial China. Rather than reading these documents solely as ecclesiastical records, I situate them within the broader moral and political culture of the Qing. Their collective appeals echo the practice of mingyuan (鳴冤), public cries against injustice through which ordinary subjects sought redress from higher authorities. Yet these petitions did more than protest. They insisted on making visible the qing (情)—the lived circumstances, moral experience, and cultural realities—of Chinese Christians as indispensable to the Church’s discernment of the rites. Read through the lens of historical theology, these petitions reveal how Chinese Catholics appropriated familiar forms of political communication to articulate a distinctly Chinese mode of ecclesial participation. The Acta Pekinensia thus preserves not only the history of a controversy but also one of the earliest collective expressions of what it meant to reason—and to speak—as Chinese Catholics. Xueying Wang’s research focuses on Catholicism in China, especially the late imperial period. She pays special attention to the writings of Chinese Catholics, whose voices have traditionally been neglected. She has published articles on the work of Chinese Catholic intellectuals including Yan Mo, Zhang Xingyao and Xia Dachang, who offered divergent perspectives on how their Confucian heritage could be harmonized with their newfound Catholic faith. Through careful examination of their writings, Wang explores theological topics such as human nature, sacrifices, and Jesus Christ in the cultural context of late imperial China. She is also interested in the translation of Catholic concepts into Chinese. She is currently writing a monograph tentatively titled: Chinese Literati on the Rites Controversy: A Comparative Theological Perspective.The seminar is sponsored by the Liu Institute's East Asia Working Group. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.