Join the curators of Homecoming: Walter Osborne’s Dublin, 1880–1900 every Football Friday for an introduction to one of Ireland’s most acclaimed artists, as well as the people he knew and the places he visited. From luscious parks to bustling market scenes, quiet libraries and churches to intimate domestic interiors, Osborne’s luminous depictions of everyday life offer insights into Ireland’s changing realities at the turn of the twentieth century. Meet at the entrance to the Temporary Exhibition Gallery.  All are welcome. Originally published at raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu.

The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to inaugurate the sixth edition of the series Tre Corone: testi e contesti dell'Italia medievale (2025–2026) with an event dedicated to the recently published volume Voci sul Purgatorio di Dante. Una nuova lettura della seconda cantica (Carocci, 2024), edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Maria Antonietta Terzoli. The book brings together canto-by-canto readings of Dante’s Purgatorio, developed through a series of five seminars held between September 2022 and September 2023, co-sponsored by the University of Basel’s Institute of Italian Studies and the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame. International in scope, Voci sul Purgatorio features contributions from scholars across diverse backgrounds and traditions who, building on the momentum of the Dante centenary, offer a fresh critical reassessment of the Purgatorio and its central themes. In addition to the canto readings, the volume includes essays on the structure and models of the Purgatorio ; its language and style between memory and modernity; the theme of love; the pastoral tradition; and issues of biography and textual transmission. On this occasion, the editors will be joined in conversation by Alberto Casadei (University of Pisa) and Mira Veronica Mocan (University of Roma Tre). Register hereZygmunt G. Barański is the Emeritus R. L. Canala Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame and the Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous studies on Dante’s works and their reception, on medieval Italian literary tradition with particular focus on authors such as Cavalcanti, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as on modern Italian literature, culture, and cinema, with many essays devoted to Pasolini. His books include: The New Italian Novel (with Lino Pertile, 1993); “Libri poetarum in quattuor species dividuntur”: Essays on Dante and ‘Genre’ (1995); “Luce nuova, sole nuovo”: Saggi sul rinnovamento culturale in Dante (1996); The “Fiore” in Context: Dante, France, Tuscany (with Patrick Boyde, 1997); Pasolini Old and New: Surveys and Studies (1999); Dante e i segni: Saggi per una storia intellettuale di Dante (2000); “Chiosar con altro testo”: Leggere Dante nel Trecento (2001; winner of the Valle dei Trulli Prize for Literary Criticism); The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture (with Rebecca West, 2001); Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition (with Theodore J. Cachey Jr., 2009); Dante in Context (with Lino Pertile, 2015); The Cambridge Companion to Dante’s “Commedia” (with Simon Gilson, 2019); Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality (2020); and Voci sull’Inferno di Dante (with M. A. Terzoli, Rome, 2021). Maria Antonietta Terzoli is professor emerita at the University of Basel and the author of numerous studies on Italian literature from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Her publications include: Il libro di Jacopo (1988); La casa della “Cognizione” (1993 and 2005); Foscolo (2000, 2008, 2010, and 2016); Le lingue di Gadda (1995); I margini del libro (2004); Le prime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (2004); Piccolomini und Basel (2005); Piccolomini: uomo di lettere (2006); Un archivio italiano (2006, with G. Giovannetti); Con l’incantesimo della parola (2007); Alle sponde del tempo consunto (2009); Letteratura e filologia fra Svizzera e Italia (2010, with A. Asor Rosa and G. Inglese); Nell’atelier dello scrittore (2010); Un meraviglioso ordegno (2013, with C. Veronese and V. Vitale); L’italiano in Svizzera (2014, with C. A. Di Bisceglia); William Blake. I disegni per la “Divina Commedia” (2014, with S. Schütze); L’italiano sulla frontiera (2015, with R. Ratti); Commento a “Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana” di C. E. Gadda (2015 and 2016, with the collaboration of V. Vitale); Gadda: guida al “Pasticciaccio” (2016, 2017, and 2018); Dante und die bildenden Künste (2016, with S. Schütze); Invenzione del moderno (2017); William Blake. La “Divina Commedia” di Dante (2017, with S. Schütze); Inchiesta sul testo (2018); Tasso und die bildenden Künste (2018, with S. Schütze); I “Trionfi” di Petrarca (2020, with M. M. S. Barbero); Saba, Ungaretti e altro Novecento (2021); Petrarca und die bildenden Künste (2021, with S. Schütze); and Voci sull’Inferno di Dante (Rome, 2021, with Z. G. Barański). Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Amit Prasad is an associate professor in the School of History & Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology. He specializes in global, transnational, and postcolonial sociology and history of science, technology, and medicine. His research focuses on the history of the present — in particular, how history of colonialism continues to impact present day norms, values, and practices. His goal has been to excavate the complex and often contradictory entanglements of colonial tropes, ideologies, etc. with emergent knowledges and practices of science, technology, and medicine. Prasad also explores the visual culture of medicine, in particular its shift with the emergence of technologies such as MRI, issues of priority and invention, and scientific misinformation . He has also published on biopolitics of overseas drug trials and medical transcription and engaged with the role of history of science in films. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, American Institute of Indian Studies, among others and he has published in a number of journals, including Social Studies of Science, Science, Technology & Human Values, Theory, Culture, and Society, Cultural Geographies, Technology & Culture. His first book, Imperial Technoscience: Entangled Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India (MIT Press, 2014), through a study of connected histories of MRI in the US, the UK, and India, investigated how the invention, industrial production, as well as cultures of MRI were entangled within colonial, West-centric, and Orientalist discourses. His second book, Science Studies Meets Colonialism (Polity, 2022), investigates how colonial tropes, norms, ideologies, etc. continue to animate the present, including in the fields of history of science and science and technology studies (STS). Drawing on an ethnographic study of a stem cell clinic, he is writing his third book that is tentatively titled Miracle or Science: Scientific Uncertainty, Contested Ethics, and Global Melange in a Stem Cell Laboratory. He is an editor of the journal Science, Technology and Society (Sage). He is also an avid collector of Indian art - medieval miniatures and modern and contemporary paintings and etchings. He is particularly interested in postcolonial cosmopolitanism of Indian art/artists. Prasad's lecture is sponsored by the Liu Institute's South Asia Group and Health, Humanities and Society, Reilly Center for Science Technology and Values.Lunch Provided — Please Bring Beverages In support of the Liu Institute’s growing commitment to sustainability, we will no longer be offering drinks at our public lectures and panels. We encourage audience members to bring their water bottles or to drink from nearby water fountains.   Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

American Airlines CEO Robert Isom will launch the 2025–26 Dean’s Speaker Series. Hosted by Martijn Cremers, the Martin J. Gillen Dean of the Mendoza College of Business, the conversation will be held in a “fireside chat” format and include an opportunity for audience questions. The discussion will focus on leadership, Isom’s journey to American Airlines and his advice for future leaders. Robert Isom is chief executive officer of American Airlines Group and American Airlines, its principal subsidiary company. He also serves on the airline’s board of directors. Robert assumed the role of CEO in March 2022. Robert served as president of American from 2016 to 2022. In that role he oversaw the airline’s commercial and operations activities. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of American after holding those same positions at US Airways. A proud Notre Dame alumnus, Isom earned bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and English from Notre Dame, followed by an MBA from the University of Michigan. Lecture is free and open to the public. No tickets required. The Dean’s Speaker Series is sponsored by The Burns Family endowment.

Join in to learn about volunteer opportunities to teach a series of introductory Python workshops for South Bend–Mishawaka high school students. No prior Python experience is required. We welcome all graduate students to take advantage of this opportunity! The perk? Enjoy free pizza during the session! RSVP here!

This drop-in tour will introduce you to your Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. Join a student gallery teacher or a member of the museum staff to explore the architecture of the building through some of its most unique spaces and discover works of art that are highlights of the collection. Meet at the Welcome Desk. All are welcome and no registration is required. This tour will explore all gallery levels of the museum. Although the tour will keep moving between spaces, gallery stools are available upon request. Originally published at raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu.