We are thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibition, The Sound of Found Objects by the talented Neill Prewitt, at A|AH|D Gallery (room 214) in Riley Hall. You're invited to join us at the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, where you'll have the chance to experience a captivating performance at 5:30 p.m. Get ready to be inspired and moved by Prewitt's remarkable work, on display from August 31 until September 28, 2023. --- Artist Statement In The Sound of Found Objects, an installation by Neill Prewitt, a group of everyday objects come alive, moving and singing in video projections synchronized across the four walls of the gallery. Rhythm, both visual and musical, animates what were once an unremarkable lot of found objects, and frees them from the semantic dead-end of their ordinary use. Both immersive and non-narrative, the installation encourages playfulness to reanimate our relationship to ordinary things. During his visit to campus Prewitt will also lead the participatory performance Found Object Choir, in which he facilitates the audience improvising movement and sound with found objects.  Biography Neill Prewitt works in video, sound, performance, and installation. Neill has produced videos and installations that have been shown nationally at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL; Lump in Raleigh, NC; and Freedman Gallery at Albright College in Reading, PA. He has performed and produced participatory art at numerous sites nationally including Satellite Art Show Miami; Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; OBX Art Truck in Elizabeth City, NC; and Silent Barn in Brooklyn. With the collective Yuxtapongo, Neill has produced art for public spaces including public access TV, as well as installations that have been shown at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. Neill is currently senior lecturer and foundations coordinator at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. neillprewitt.comOriginally published at artdept.nd.edu.

Join Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University; Michael Moreland, Villanova University; and the Hon. Jeffrey Sutton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, for a conversation on “Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses” by Vincent Phillip Muñoz, the Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and concurrent professor of law. Breakfast available beginning at 9 a.m., with the panel to follow at 9:30. No RSVP necessary.Hosted by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.  Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.

Please join the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Program in Dante Studies for its annual "Dante Now!" event, dedicated to a community recitation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Click here for more information on the event's history. Dante Now! Community Recitation • 2:00–2:30pm – Throughout the Notre Dame Campus: Selections from Dante’s Divine Comedy • 2:30pm – Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes: Dante’s Prayer to the Virgin (Paradiso 33. 1-21) Lecture 3:00–4:15pm: 104 Bond Hall “Dante, Jazz, and the Black Radical Tradition”Joseph Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal StudiesSponsored by the Center for Italian Studies, the Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, the Notre Dame Dante Club, and the Program of Liberal StudiesOriginally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

A conversation with Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad is Untrue. Catered reception and book signing to follow.   Co-sponsors: Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, Creative Writing Program, Initiative on Race and Resilience  Join the Center for Social Concerns on home football weekends for MVP Fridays: lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose.  Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent some years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the author of several books for young readers, including Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story), winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, the Christopher Medal, and the Middle Eastern Book Award. He lives in the U.S. with his wife and son. 

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibition, The Sound of Found Objects by the talented Neill Prewitt, at A|AH|D Gallery (room 214) in Riley Hall. You're invited to join us at the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, where you'll have the chance to experience a captivating performance at 5:30 p.m. Get ready to be inspired and moved by Prewitt's remarkable work, on display from August 31 until September 28, 2023. --- Artist Statement In The Sound of Found Objects, an installation by Neill Prewitt, a group of everyday objects come alive, moving and singing in video projections synchronized across the four walls of the gallery. Rhythm, both visual and musical, animates what were once an unremarkable lot of found objects, and frees them from the semantic dead-end of their ordinary use. Both immersive and non-narrative, the installation encourages playfulness to reanimate our relationship to ordinary things. During his visit to campus Prewitt will also lead the participatory performance Found Object Choir, in which he facilitates the audience improvising movement and sound with found objects.  Biography Neill Prewitt works in video, sound, performance, and installation. Neill has produced videos and installations that have been shown nationally at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL; Lump in Raleigh, NC; and Freedman Gallery at Albright College in Reading, PA. He has performed and produced participatory art at numerous sites nationally including Satellite Art Show Miami; Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; OBX Art Truck in Elizabeth City, NC; and Silent Barn in Brooklyn. With the collective Yuxtapongo, Neill has produced art for public spaces including public access TV, as well as installations that have been shown at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. Neill is currently senior lecturer and foundations coordinator at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. neillprewitt.comOriginally published at artdept.nd.edu.

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibition, The Sound of Found Objects by the talented Neill Prewitt, at A|AH|D Gallery (room 214) in Riley Hall. You're invited to join us at the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, where you'll have the chance to experience a captivating performance at 5:30 p.m. Get ready to be inspired and moved by Prewitt's remarkable work, on display from August 31 until September 28, 2023. --- Artist Statement In The Sound of Found Objects, an installation by Neill Prewitt, a group of everyday objects come alive, moving and singing in video projections synchronized across the four walls of the gallery. Rhythm, both visual and musical, animates what were once an unremarkable lot of found objects, and frees them from the semantic dead-end of their ordinary use. Both immersive and non-narrative, the installation encourages playfulness to reanimate our relationship to ordinary things. During his visit to campus Prewitt will also lead the participatory performance Found Object Choir, in which he facilitates the audience improvising movement and sound with found objects.  Biography Neill Prewitt works in video, sound, performance, and installation. Neill has produced videos and installations that have been shown nationally at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL; Lump in Raleigh, NC; and Freedman Gallery at Albright College in Reading, PA. He has performed and produced participatory art at numerous sites nationally including Satellite Art Show Miami; Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; OBX Art Truck in Elizabeth City, NC; and Silent Barn in Brooklyn. With the collective Yuxtapongo, Neill has produced art for public spaces including public access TV, as well as installations that have been shown at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. Neill is currently senior lecturer and foundations coordinator at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. neillprewitt.comOriginally published at artdept.nd.edu.

Join the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study for a masterclass led by Kathy Cummings, professor of American studies and history. The Masterclass Series showcases NDIAS Fellows and the “can’t miss” ideas that fuel their research. All sessions are held in 246 Hesburgh Library from 2 to 4 p.m. If you’d like to attend, RSVP to Scott Graham at (wgraham2@nd.edu). The full Masterclass schedule can be viewed here. Originally published at ndias.nd.edu.

In the works of art that populate the Uffizi Galleries, the halls of the great Venetian palaces, or the most important basilicas of Rome, often ignored faces are represented: those of the African and Afro-descendant characters of the Italian Renaissance. Who were they? Where did they come from? And why have they gone unnoticed for so long? This documentary written by Francesca Priori and directed by Cristian Di Mattia discovers the stories of these characters and through works and documents creates a continuous dialogue in which art helps to give answers to the enigmas contained in the archives and vice versa. Filmmaker Justin Randolph Thompson, writer Francesca Priori, and Professor Angelica Pesarini are scheduled to appear.Part of the Learning Beyond the Classics series Early 70s Italian Cinema.Get tickets.

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibition, The Sound of Found Objects by the talented Neill Prewitt, at A|AH|D Gallery (room 214) in Riley Hall. You're invited to join us at the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, where you'll have the chance to experience a captivating performance at 5:30 p.m. Get ready to be inspired and moved by Prewitt's remarkable work, on display from August 31 until September 28, 2023. --- Artist Statement In The Sound of Found Objects, an installation by Neill Prewitt, a group of everyday objects come alive, moving and singing in video projections synchronized across the four walls of the gallery. Rhythm, both visual and musical, animates what were once an unremarkable lot of found objects, and frees them from the semantic dead-end of their ordinary use. Both immersive and non-narrative, the installation encourages playfulness to reanimate our relationship to ordinary things. During his visit to campus Prewitt will also lead the participatory performance Found Object Choir, in which he facilitates the audience improvising movement and sound with found objects.  Biography Neill Prewitt works in video, sound, performance, and installation. Neill has produced videos and installations that have been shown nationally at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL; Lump in Raleigh, NC; and Freedman Gallery at Albright College in Reading, PA. He has performed and produced participatory art at numerous sites nationally including Satellite Art Show Miami; Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; OBX Art Truck in Elizabeth City, NC; and Silent Barn in Brooklyn. With the collective Yuxtapongo, Neill has produced art for public spaces including public access TV, as well as installations that have been shown at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. Neill is currently senior lecturer and foundations coordinator at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. neillprewitt.comOriginally published at artdept.nd.edu.

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibition, The Sound of Found Objects by the talented Neill Prewitt, at A|AH|D Gallery (room 214) in Riley Hall. You're invited to join us at the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, where you'll have the chance to experience a captivating performance at 5:30 p.m. Get ready to be inspired and moved by Prewitt's remarkable work, on display from August 31 until September 28, 2023. --- Artist Statement In The Sound of Found Objects, an installation by Neill Prewitt, a group of everyday objects come alive, moving and singing in video projections synchronized across the four walls of the gallery. Rhythm, both visual and musical, animates what were once an unremarkable lot of found objects, and frees them from the semantic dead-end of their ordinary use. Both immersive and non-narrative, the installation encourages playfulness to reanimate our relationship to ordinary things. During his visit to campus Prewitt will also lead the participatory performance Found Object Choir, in which he facilitates the audience improvising movement and sound with found objects.  Biography Neill Prewitt works in video, sound, performance, and installation. Neill has produced videos and installations that have been shown nationally at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL; Lump in Raleigh, NC; and Freedman Gallery at Albright College in Reading, PA. He has performed and produced participatory art at numerous sites nationally including Satellite Art Show Miami; Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; OBX Art Truck in Elizabeth City, NC; and Silent Barn in Brooklyn. With the collective Yuxtapongo, Neill has produced art for public spaces including public access TV, as well as installations that have been shown at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. Neill is currently senior lecturer and foundations coordinator at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. neillprewitt.comOriginally published at artdept.nd.edu.

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Join the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures for an exploration of the themes behind the "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" exhibit. In this panel discussion to open the exhibit's stay at Notre Dame, three panelists will engage with Mann's public life, legacy, and relevance to contemporary issues. This discussion, which is particularly relevant to the 2023 Notre Dame Forum topic "The Future of Democracy," will seek to find the ways that Mann's resistance to populism and nationalism can inform our own engagement with democracy today. The panelists and their topics are as follows:"Thomas Mann and The Coming Victory of Democracy," presented by Tobias Boes, professor and chair of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, as well as a Nanovic faculty fellow "Thomas Mann and Czechoslovak Democracy," presented by Jan Vondráček, postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences "Thomas Mann in Pacific Palisades, 1942/1943," presented by Meike Werner, associate professor of German and European studies, acting chair of the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, chair of the Department of French and Italian, and director of graduate studies in the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies.A Q&A session and a walkthrough of the exhibit will follow. About the Exhibit "It is a terrible spectacle when the irrational becomes popular," said Thomas Mann in his famous speech at the Library of Congress in 1943. His resistance is inspiring and relevant today as we witness the fundamental values of democracy once again being called into question, and that populism and nationalism are putting our democratic society under massive pressure. The exhibition "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" sees itself as a concrete contribution to the current debate on both sides of the Atlantic. The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, California forms the spatial and metaphorical center of the exhibition. From this sanctuary in exile, Thomas Mann campaigned for a new understanding of democracy. Today, the house is once again at the service of intellectual exchange and transatlantic understanding. The first part of the exhibition presents Thomas Mann's political biography in its development from monarchist to powerful opponent of National Socialism and committed fighter for democracy. Photographs, texts, excerpts from the famous radio addresses "To the German Listeners!" and original exhibits trace his intellectual, political, and spatial paths. The second multimedia part connects this history to the present. What makes a political person? How does one become a supporter of democracy? How does one defend one's stance? Examples from the recent past, films and interviews, tweets and quotes from personalities from politics, pop, literature, and society — such as Greta Thunberg or Saša Stanišić, Donald Trump or Barack Obama, Igor Levit or Edward Snowden — illustrate the importance of the question: How can we defend and sustainably strengthen democracy as the only possible form of society? This is a task that is more important than ever today, in times of global migration, climate change, and new pandemics. The terms Beginnings, Zeitgeist, Affirmation, Take Action, and Responsibility structure the exhibition — and show the ambivalences that even a democratic system cannot eliminate. Thomas Mann's life offers numerous points of departure for examining the state and future of democracy — while adhering to Mann's dictum: "DEMOCRACY WILL WIN!" About the SpeakersTobias Boes teaches German Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, where he also chairs the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures. He is the author of the monograph Thomas Mann’s War (2019), which was published in German translation in 2021, and currently working onA Reader’s Guide to Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus,” contracted with Camden House. He was one of the scientific advisors for the traveling show “Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!”    Jan Vondráček is a postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and teaches modern history at Charles University in Prague. His dissertation on local administration and everyday life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was recently published in German and Czech. In this context, he is working on a digital history-related project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which builds on his dissertation and focuses on institutional data.    Meike Werner teaches German and European Literature and Culture at Vanderbilt University, where she also serves as Director of the Max Kade Center for German and European Studies. She has published widely on German literature and culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, most recently Gruppenbild mit Max Weber (2023). She is the recipient of a number of awards, including Vanderbilt’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, and serves as the president of the American Friends of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

The Center for Social Concerns welcomes two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys, Harlem Shuffle, and Crook Manifesto. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper's and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, A Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Dos Passos Prize, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Introduction by John McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost. Reception to follow. This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will be available starting one hour before the event at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center ticket office. Co-sponsors: Catholic Social Tradition Minor; Department of Africana Studies; Department of American Studies; Department of Anthropology; Department of English; Department of Film, Television, & Theatre; Department of History; Initiative on Race and Resilience; Office of the Provost The annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture was created by the Center for Social Concerns in 2009 in order to highlight justice issues and themes related to the common good. The fall event honors Father Bernie, who died young, but influenced students with the life lesson of a “Theory of Enough.” Past speakers have included scholars and practitioners working to create a more just future for all. Learn more: socialconcerns.nd.edu/bernieclark

The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Daniela La Penna (University of Reading, UK) titled: The Archival Turn and Network Approach: Examining Evolving Translation Practices and Discourses in the British Publishing Firm Complex, 1950s-1980s   In this lecture, Professor La Penna adopts a micro-historical approach to bring to light the cultural, economic, and social dynamics surrounding the English translation of Italian titles in the Anglo-American book market after the Second World War. La Penna examines a series of case studies, emerging from the Archives of British Publishers and Printing held at the University of Reading and pertaining to Jonathan Cape, Hogarth Press, Chatto & Windus, and Allen & Unwin. By evaluating the archival evidence surrounding these ‘translation events’, La Penna not only reconstructs the transatlantic alliances that the British firms tried to forge with American publishing houses between 1950s and 1980s to spread around the translation costs and ensure greater geographical diffusion for the translated titles, but also illuminates the intercontinental professional and semi-professional networks supporting these endeavours. La Penna's study contextualises the translators’ articulations of how best to interpret in English the style of the chosen Italian authors. The analysis of the business and aesthetic discourses surrounding these translation events also takes into account the publishing firms' evolving discourse on translation and the professionalisation of the translator's trade in the period under scrutiny. La Penna will also provide a comparative angle discussing for each firm taken into account - Jonathan Cape, Hogarth Press, Allen & Unwin, and Chatto & Windus - how Italian authors and their works were approached vis-a-vis other foreign authors in the firms' lists. Daniela La Penna is Professor of Modern Italian Cultures at the University of Reading and senior co-editor of the journal The Italianist (2016-2022). Her work has focussed on multilingual literary production, with her publications exploring the work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Amelia Rosselli, Luigi Meneghello, Anna Maria Ortese, and Vincenzo Consolo. She is the author of ‘La promessa d’un semplice linguaggio’: Lingua e stile nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli (Carocci, 2013), the editor of Meneghello: Fiction, Scholarship, Passione civile (The Italianist, 2012) and of Meneghello’s La materia di Reading e altri reperti (BUR, 2022). With Daniela Caselli, she has co-edited Twentieth-century Poetic Translations: Literary Cultures in English and in Italian (Continuum, 2008). Prof. La Penna was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and a British Academy Visiting Fellowship, and was Principal Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project ‘Mapping Literary Space: Literary Journals, Publishing Firms and Intellectuals in Italy, 1940-1960’ (2012-2015). As part of this project, and together with Francesca Billiani (Manchester) and Mila Milani (Warwick), she has co-edited three special issues of the journals Journal of Modern Italian Studies (2016), Modern Italy (2016), and Italian Studies (2018). Since 2019, she is leading a project mapping translation in the archive of British Publishers and Printing at the University of Reading. As part of this project, she has co-edited two special issues of, respectively, Letteratura e Letterature (2020) and The Italianist (2022) with Sara Sullam (Milano, Statale).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. Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Join violist Rose Wollman and pianist Dror Baitel for an evening celebrating the diversity of women's voices in the 20th and 21st century. Works by Rebecca Clarke, Florence Price, and Libby Larsen highlight the drama, imagination, skill and storytelling of these groundbreaking composers. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

ND Children's Choir is delighted to once again join Christ the King Lutheran Church in supporting mental health ministries in their annual Hymn Festival of Healing and Hope. The Chamber, Seraphim and Liturgical Choirs will perform hymns with CTKLC music ensembles and a local choir. All are invited to this free family-friendly event. https://ctkluth.com/event/hymn-festival-of-healing-and-hope/ Originally published at sma.nd.edu.

NDSO presents its early fall concert preceded by a chamber music reception. The program will include Beethoven’s ebullient Symphony No. 4. For tickets call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Notre Dame Children's Choir presents its first all-choir concert of 2023-24 (formerly the Farmer's Market Concert).  All are invited to this free celebration of the season on the Notre Dame campus at the Campus Crossroads on the west side of the Notre Dame football Stadium.   Originally published at sma.nd.edu.

Guest artist and celebrated French fortepianist Laure Colladant joins faculty baritone Stephen Lancaster in selected piano works and Lieder by Franz Schubert, including the transcendent "Schwanengesang," D. 957. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Thanks to the efforts of the Italian Club, Notre Dame has been chosen by the National Italian American Foundation to host a lecture by Professor Amedeo Arena. Professor Arena is a distinguished legal scholar and a renowned professor of European Union law at the University of Naples Federico II. Professor Arena will be embarking on a tour of selected American universities during the week of October 9, 2023, coinciding with Indigenous Peoples Day. Notre Dame will be his inaugural destination, where he will deliver a lecture on the historical significance of the correspondence between Benjamin Franklin and Gaetano Filangieri. The title of his talk is: The Filangieri-Franklin Correspondence: a 240-year long discourse between Italy and the U.S.The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Political ScienceOriginally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.