MacArthur “Genius” Nicole R. Fleetwood is a celebrated writer, cultural theorist, curator, and art critic. Growing up in Hamilton, Ohio, she witnessed the vulnerability of her community to excessive policing, punitive surveillance, and mass incarceration, and the direct impact these had on her family, especially her male cousins. The concept for her groundbreaking book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration started in 2010, when she hung photographs of her cousins in Ohio prisons on the walls of her Harlem apartment. Marking Time explores the impact of U.S. incarceration on contemporary visual art, highlighting artists who have been incarcerated alongside artists whose art examines U.S. institutions and systems of confinement. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art.  Reception to follow. This event is a part of the Unlocked: Understanding Mass Incarceration in the U.S. series at the Center for Social Concerns.

International scholars partake in a 9-part seminar series devoted to psalms.  The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN) 18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM) and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Series Schedule January 26, 2023 - "Rescuing Rolle: H.R. Bramley edits the English Psalter" Michael P. Kuczynski (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) February 23, 2023 - "Practice and Symbolism in An Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Psalmic Prayer to the Five Wounds" Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford) March 23, 2023 - "On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos" Hildegund Müller (University of Notre Dame) April 27, 2023 - "The Oldest Middle Dutch Translation of the Psalms (c. 1250-1300): Context(s) of Origin, Functions and Nachleben’" Youri Desplenter (University of Ghent) May 25, 2023 - "Writing between the Lines: Towards a Typology of Glossing Techniques in the Old English Glossed Psalters" Thijs Porck (Leiden University) June 22, 2023 - "Literary, Exegetical and Theological Aspects of Aramaic Translations of Psalms of Pilgrims (Psa 120-134)" Mirosław Wróbel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach" Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) November 23, 2023 - "Putting the Pieces Back Together: on the Reconstruction of the Fragmentary N-Psalter" Monika Opalińska (Warsaw University) December 14, 2023 - "Psalter in Exile: On an Early Modern English translation of the Psalms from the Vulgate" Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (The Nanovic Institute at University of Notre Dame and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

“The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens” is presented via Zoom by Richard Haass, president, Council on Foreign Relations. Haass is in his twentieth year as president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served in the State Department under Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, at the White House under George H. W. Bush, and the Pentagon during the Carter administration. He was U.S. envoy to the Cyprus negotiations and the Northern Ireland peace process, and after 9/11 was U.S. coordinator for the future of Afghanistan. This is the fourth of eight lectures in the Ten Years Hence speaker series that will discuss Is Globalism Dead? Visit the Ten Years Hence website for additional lecture dates. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and the Notre Dame community.  Zoom link available after February 20th and available on the Ten Years Hence website. 

POSTPONED. Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has a BA in French Literature from the University of Algiers and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Sorbonne. Sarajevo Firewood is his third novel in Arabic (and first in English translation), and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. His other novels are Kitab al-Khataya (Book of Errors), Editions ANEP, 2013, and Forty Years Waiting for Isabelle, 2016, about the real-life Swiss traveler Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), for which he won the 2017 Katara Award for the Novel. He has a travel book about the Balkans, The Inflamed Gardens of the East, 2015, and has written extensively on raï music, including a book (Wedding Fire, 2010) that tells its story. He lives in Slovenia. Amara Lakhous was born in Algeria in 1970. He moved to Italy in 1995. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in Humanities from the University of Rome, La Sapienza where he completed a Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Living Islam as a Minority.” He is the author of five novels, three of which were written in both Arabic and Italian. His best known works are the much acclaimed Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (2008), Divorce Islamic Style (2012), A Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet (2014), and The Prank of the Good Little Virgin in Via Ormea (2016). His latest novel in Arabic, Tir al-lil (The Night Bird), was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, 2021. His novels have been translated from Italian into many languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Danish and Persian. Lakhous has been awarded, among others, the Flaiano Prize in Italy in 2006 and the Algerians Booksellers Prize in 2008. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio has been adapted into a movie by the Italian director Isotta Toso in 2010 and many theater productions. It was chosen for the 2014 New Student Reading Project at Cornell University. Lakhous moved to New York City in August of 2014 and is currently teaching in the Italian Department of New York University. Alexander Elinson is associate professor of Arabic and head of the Arabic Program Hunter College of the City University of New York. He received his M.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle (1998) and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (2004). In addition to his book Looking back at al-Andalus: the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew Literature, he has written extensively on classical Arabic and Hebrew poetry and prose, as well as on contemporary language politics and ideology, prison narratives, and oral and written culture in Morocco. He has translated two novels by Youssef Fadel: A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me and A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me, the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. He has also translated Hot Maroc by Yassin Adnan. His translation of Khadija Marouazi`s prison novel History of Ash will be published in 2023. He is currently translating Amara Lakhous`s latest novel, The Night Bird.Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance, launched by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, is a research collective and lecture series co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and housed at the newly launched Initiative on Race and Resilience, directed by Mark Sanders, Professor of English and Africana Studies. The series focuses on contemporary literature, film, and visual art that has been shaped by revolutionary and resistance movements, decolonization, migration, class and economic warfare, communal and state-sanctioned violence, and human rights violations. We aim to theorize new modes of contemporary literary and artistic resistance across national borders and to amplify the voices of scholars, artists, and writers of color whose lived experience is instrumental in forging new alliances across formal, linguistic and national boundaries.    Originally published at litofexile.nd.edu.

Virtues & Vocations is a national forum at the Center for Social Concerns to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. In May, we are thrilled to welcome Nii Addy, associate professor of psychiatry and of cellular and molecular physiology and director of scientist diversity and inclusion at Yale School of Medicine.  REGISTER

International scholars partake in a 9-part seminar series devoted to psalms.  The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN) 18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM) and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Series Schedule January 26, 2023 - "Rescuing Rolle: H.R. Bramley edits the English Psalter" Michael P. Kuczynski (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) February 23, 2023 - "Practice and Symbolism in An Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Psalmic Prayer to the Five Wounds" Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford) March 23, 2023 - "On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos" Hildegund Müller (University of Notre Dame) April 27, 2023 - "The Oldest Middle Dutch Translation of the Psalms (c. 1250-1300): Context(s) of Origin, Functions and Nachleben’" Youri Desplenter (University of Ghent) May 25, 2023 - "Writing between the Lines: Towards a Typology of Glossing Techniques in the Old English Glossed Psalters" Thijs Porck (Leiden University) June 22, 2023 - "Literary, Exegetical and Theological Aspects of Aramaic Translations of Psalms of Pilgrims (Psa 120-134)" Mirosław Wróbel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach" Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) November 23, 2023 - "Putting the Pieces Back Together: on the Reconstruction of the Fragmentary N-Psalter" Monika Opalińska (Warsaw University) December 14, 2023 - "Psalter in Exile: On an Early Modern English translation of the Psalms from the Vulgate" Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (The Nanovic Institute at University of Notre Dame and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

International scholars partake in a 9-part seminar series devoted to psalms.  The event is free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session. 12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN) 18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS) (Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches) Register for the series Sponsored by The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM) and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Series Schedule January 26, 2023 - "Rescuing Rolle: H.R. Bramley edits the English Psalter" Michael P. Kuczynski (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) February 23, 2023 - "Practice and Symbolism in An Unpublished Fifteenth-Century Psalmic Prayer to the Five Wounds" Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford) March 23, 2023 - "On Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos" Hildegund Müller (University of Notre Dame) April 27, 2023 - "The Oldest Middle Dutch Translation of the Psalms (c. 1250-1300): Context(s) of Origin, Functions and Nachleben’" Youri Desplenter (University of Ghent) May 25, 2023 - "Writing between the Lines: Towards a Typology of Glossing Techniques in the Old English Glossed Psalters" Thijs Porck (Leiden University) June 22, 2023 - "Literary, Exegetical and Theological Aspects of Aramaic Translations of Psalms of Pilgrims (Psa 120-134)" Mirosław Wróbel (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach" Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) November 23, 2023 - "Putting the Pieces Back Together: on the Reconstruction of the Fragmentary N-Psalter" Monika Opalińska (Warsaw University) December 14, 2023 - "Psalter in Exile: On an Early Modern English translation of the Psalms from the Vulgate" Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (The Nanovic Institute at University of Notre Dame and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.