The lecture, delivered by Giorgi Margvelashvili, the fourth president of the Republic of Georgia (2013-18), is free and open to the public. Giorgi Margvelashvili is a Georgian academic and politician and was the fourth president of the Republic of Georgia from 2013 to 2018. A philosopher by education, Margvelashvili was the rector of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) from 2000 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2021. His first role in politics began in 2012 when he was appointed Minister of Education and Science as part of the Georgian Dream coalition formed by the newly-elected Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. In February 2013, Ivanishvili appointed Margvelashvili to the position of First Deputy Prime Minister.  Margvelashvili was named by the Georgian Dream coalition as its candidate in the 2013 presidential election, which he won in October with 62% of the votes. As president, Margvelashvili focused on grassroots campaigns engaging youth and students in discussions on constitutional and electoral reform, foreign policy issues, and Georgia's integration into NATO and the EU, he was also vocal in his support for minority and LGBTQ+ rights. After leaving office in 2018, Margvelashvili returned to GIPA to teach a lecture series on politics.     Photo source Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

Join the Rooney Center for an interactive talk on the Framers' visions for "We the People" and democracy in the United States. Think alongside other members of the Notre Dame community, as we reconcile these core democratic values with the Founders' historical entanglements in racist institutions of slavery and colonialism. Featuring Josh Kaplan, professor of political science, and Katlyn Carter, professor of history. You can submit an a question here.  Originally published at rooneycenter.nd.edu.

The Notre Dame Collegium Musicum presents "Renaissance Settings of the Song of Songs." This concert in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center is free but ticketed. Call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu.  Originally published at music.nd.edu.

The Department of Art, Art History, and Design presents a lecture by Sinclair Bell, professor of art history at Northern Illinois University. Sinclair Wynn Bell is an American classical archaeologist and art historian. He is a professor of art history at Northern Illinois University where he teaches courses in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art history, architecture, and archaeology, as well as museum studies. His research focuses on the art and archaeology of the Etruscans; sport and spectacle in the Roman imperial period, especially the Roman circus; and slavery in ancient Rome, especially the visual representation of slaves, freedmen, and foreigners in Roman art. Bell earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Classical Studies and History from Wake Forest University, where he was a student of Allen Mandelbaum. He completed his graduate work in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Cologne. During his graduate work, Bell was the recipient of a Postgraduate Fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2001-2) to study with Prof. Henner von Hesberg at the Archaeological Institute at the University of Cologne, as well as a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Ancient Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2002-3). Bell joined the Art History department faculty at Northern Illinois University as an assistant professor in 2008, was promoted to associate professor in 2012, and to professor in 2020. During the 2010–11 academic year, Bell was named a “Research Ambassador” to the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Bell has co-edited numerous volumes, including a book with Teresa Ramsby on freed slaves in ancient Rome titled "Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire," and with Alexandra Carpino "A Companion to the Etruscans." Bell was selected for a three-year term as the editor of the journal the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. He has received numerous postdoctoral grants and fellowships in support of his research, including a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Roman Archaeology at the University of Manitoba (2007-8), the Howard Fellowship from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation (2013), the Richard D. Cohen Fellowship from the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University (2019), and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2021). He also appeared as a presenter in a documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, "Rome's Chariot Superstar" which was based in part on his dissertation research.   Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.

Carlos Lozada '93 Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times Opinion columnist Carlos Lozada is an Opinion columnist for The New York Times and author of What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2019 and was a finalist for the award in 2018. Previously he was the Washington Post’s Outlook editor and has overseen news coverage of economics and national security. He received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle’s citation for excellence in reviewing. Previously, he was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a Knight-Bagehot fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University.  At Notre Dame, Lozada majored in economics and political science. He went on to earn a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University. In 2022–23, he is a practitioner in residence at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.  Learn more about the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy and the Red Smith Journalism Lecture series.  Sponsors: Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Notre Dame Magazine Originally published at americanstudies.nd.edu.

This event will feature local and regional experts in low-barrier shelter and permanent supportive housing as they explore best practices and identify opportunities to address gaps in the housing continuum of care in St. Joseph County. The format will include presentations, discussions, and workshops on selected topics. Lunch will be served and registration is free. Hosted by the Center for Social Concerns.  Register and view the full schedule on our website.  Learn more

“What Should U.S. Policy Be Toward China?” is presented by Joshua Eisenman, associate professor of politics at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. His research focuses on the political economy of China’s development and its foreign relations with the global south – particularly Africa. This is the third 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. No registration is required.

Heather Ann Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian on faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is the author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy as well as Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City, and she writes regularly on the history of policing, mass incarceration and the current criminal justice system for myriad scholarly and popular publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. Thompson has served on a National Academy of Sciences blue-ribbon panel that studied the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States and has given congressional staff briefings on this subject. She currently runs the Carceral State Project at the University of Michigan and is on a Guggenheim Fellowship completing her next book on the long history of the MOVE Bombing 1985 in Philadelphia. Reception to follow. This event is a part of the Unlocked: Understanding Mass Incarceration in the US series at the Center for Social Concerns.

Support the work of the Notre Dame Children's Choir to bring joy, expression, hope and healing through free instruction and performance opportunities for young voices in sacred choral music! Revel in the lovely voices of the very talented NDCC directors/Sacred Music graduate students — performing songs of love and friendship from your favorite musicals! Savor mouth-watering Italian hors d'oeuvres and desserts by Adele from Ciao's Catering! Enjoy a beer, wine and soft drinks available for additional purchase (one drink is included with your ticket). Tickets are $40 per person or a table of 8 for $300.  Limited seats available. ORDER TICKETS HERE Can't make it that night?  You can still support NDCC and bid in the online Silent Auction! Originally published at sma.nd.edu.

Celebrate Black History Month with the ultimate live tribute concert! Join us at the DeBartolo Performing Art Center for "A Tribute to Motown" honoring the legendary record label's impact on the music industry and culture. This concert will be hosted by Emory University's Assistant Professor of Music and African American Studies and University of Notre Dame alum, Emorja Roberson '22, while featuring a live band, amazing local performers, and music by Daniel "DJ MacMane" Marshall. This event will highlight your favorite Motown Hits by the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Mary Wells, Gladys Knight and many more. Presented by A. Gammage Solutions and Bishop's House Productions. GET TICKETS

Join Rev. Greg Haake, C.S.C., for a guided tour of the Basilica as we explore the French heritage of Notre Dame.  Follow up your tour with Holy Mass in French 4:00 p.m. in the Sacred Heart Crypt. For more information, contact Eva Hoeckner, in the the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures (ehoeckn2@nd.edu). Sponsored by Campus Ministry  Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.

Please join us for a panel discussion about the movie on Tuesday, February 14, at 12:30 p.m. This movie depicts the transitional justice process that took place in Argentina after the military dictatorship. More than 30,000 Argentines were estimated to have disappeared between 1976 and 1983, and some 3,000 officials and non-officials have been charged with crimes as of 2018. The film provides a dramatic depiction of the groundbreaking transitional justice trial, a process that has set precedents for human rights litigation, created awareness around the limits of state power, and influenced peace-building mechanisms after human atrocities. “Nunca mas” (“Never again”) has shaped the historical memory of older and younger Argentines, and material reparations are available still today, as the country continues to recuperate from the legacy of state violence.Cosponsored with the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.Originally published at https://kellogg.nd.edu/film-argentina-1985 Originally published at cslc.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 February we are thrilled to welcome Margaret Plews-Ogan, MD, Professor of Medicine at UVA Health.  REGISTER  

What does it mean to grow up in Italy today as an Afro-descendant child of immigrants? Sabrina Onana, born in Paris and raised in Naples, is a 24-year-old sociologist, independent film director and photographer. In her documentary, Crossing the Color Line, Sabrina gives us an opportunity to discover a new Italy often unrecognized on screens and by institutions. Crossing the Color Line will guide us through the lives and stories of young Afro-descendants who tell us what it means to be Italian today. For years in Italy, many activists have been aiming to "change the narrative" and Crossing the Color Line carries out this imperative: Italian Afro-descendants speak out about their roots, language, identity with a deep awareness of their dual belonging intended not as a double absence but as a new way of addressing “Italianity.” Join us in the screening of this unique documentary followed by a conversation with Sabrina as she shares how she navigates language, culture and identity as an Afro-Italian and her experience of dual-belonging as a child of immigrants. Sponsored by the Italian Program in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.   Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.

Join the Keough School of Global Affairs and its cosponsors for the launch of Professor Julia Kowalski's new book, Counseling Women: Kinship against Violence in India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). Kowalski will discuss her book with Sarah Lamb of Brandeis University and Michele Friedner of the University of Chicago. Lakshmi Iyer, associate professor of economics and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, will moderate. Counseling Women follows family counselors in India as they support women who have experienced violence at home in the context of complex shifting legal and familial systems. Drawing on ethnographic research at counseling centers in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Kowalski shows how an individualistic notion of women’s rights places already vulnerable women into even more precarious positions by ignoring the reality of the social relations that shape lives within and beyond the family. Rather than focusing on attaining independence from kin, family counselors in India instead strive to help women cultivate relationships of interdependence in order to reimagine family life in the wake of violence. Counselors mobilize the beliefs, concepts, and frameworks of kinship to offer women interactive strategies to gain agency within the family, including multigenerational kin networks encompassing parents, in-laws, and other extended family. Through this work, kinship becomes a resource through which people imagine and act on new familial futures. In viewing this reliance on kinship as part of, rather than a deviation from, global women’s rights projects, Counseling Women reassesses Western liberal feminism’s notions of what it means to have agency and what constitutes violence, and retheorizes the role of interdependence in gendered violence and inequality as not only a site of vulnerability but a potential source of strength. The launch will be followed by a reception in 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls. Both the events are free and open to the public. Julia KowalskiAssistant Professor Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs Concurrent Faculty, Gender Studies Program Concurrent Faculty, Department of Anthropology Faculty Fellow, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Kellogg Institute for International StudiesSarah LambBarbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences Professor of Anthropology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Brandeis UniversityMichele FriednerAssociate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development  University of ChicagoLakshmi Iyer, ModeratorAssociate Professor of Economics and Global Affairs Liu Institute Faculty Fellow University of Notre DameCosponsored by the Keough School of Global Affairs, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Kellogg Institute for Global Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Gender Studies Program, and Department of Anthropology Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

What inner workings — questions placed upon notes — lie within heartland storyteller Iris DeMent's words? An intimate evening of conversation with Wilsey Family Collegiate Professor of Philosophy Meghan Sullivan and DeMent performing songs from her storied repertoire bring you close to the artist whose 1992 debut, Infamous Angel, Rolling Stone magazine hailed as an essential album of the 90s. The singer/ songwriter's gospel-tinged roots music draws captivating, lyrical landscapes earning her two Grammy nominations and the respect of peers like John Prine, Emmylou Harris, and Rodney Crowell.The one-hour concert will be followed by a 30-minute conversation moderated by Meghan Sullivan on philosophy as an influencer of DeMent's songwriting.GET TICKETS

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.

Visuality in the 21st century — especially as promoted by digital content providers and planners of the smart city — relies on unhindered, smooth, and seamless communication. Yet both urban life and new media depend also onYomi Braesterhaphazard, intrusive, blemishing signals. The talk examines recent multimedia art from the People’s Republic of China, which mounts a cultural criticism of mediated space, challenging notions of the digital city based on virtual reality and augmented reality. Urban spaces are imagined instead as photomontage, and traversing the city is seen as reliant on the digital noise produced by the city.About the Speaker Yomi Braester is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. His research focuses on literary and visual practices, with emphasis on modern China and Taiwan — in architecture, advertisement, screen media, and stage arts. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

The Mathews Lectures bring a distinguished scholar of Byzantine studies to campus each year to deliver a talk, supported by the Rev. Constantine Mathews Endowment for Excellence in Byzantine Christianity in the Medieval Institute. Vasilios Mathews and Nikiforos Mathews established the endowment to honor their father, the Reverend Constantine Mathews, who earned a Masters Degree in Liturgical Studies at Notre Dame in 1977. During a half-century of dedicated ministry, Father Mathews served as presiding parish priest at St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church in South Bend, followed by the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Stamford, Connecticut.  "A historian at work on monastic documents: Gabriel Millet, Rossikon, Mount Athos, ca 1920" © Photothèque Gabriel Millet EPHE-PSLAbout the TalkByzantine documents preserved in the archives of the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece are by far the most extensive and valuable body of documentation from the Byzantine Empire. They represent about half of the entire collection of archival documents that have survived, span more than five centuries (10th–15th c.), and cover large areas of Macedonia and Thrace as well as some North-Aegean islands. Moreover, these documents are often our only source of information about rural and urban society, agrarian economy, demography, provincial administration, among other subjects. Their prevalence should be a matter of concern since monasteries–although common in Byzantium–are very specific by nature. This presentation will assess the current research on the documentation of Mount Athos and ask the following question: is monastic history– economic, social, administrative–representative of the Empire? How can we guess what is missing, based on these monastic archives?About the SpeakerOlivier Delouis is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a former member of the French School of Archaeology of Athens, Greece. In Oxford, he is currently a Research Fellow at the Maison française d’Oxford (CNRS) and a Visiting Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Campion Hall. From 2013 to 2021, he directed  the Revue des études byzantines (Peeters Publishers). His current research includes the edition of the Great Catecheseis of Theodore the Stoudite, the edition of two volumes of Mount Athos archives collection (monastery of Chilandar), and the publication of the scientific correspondence of Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1856–1912). Among his  recent publications are three collective volumes on Monastic Mobility (Rome, 2019), Monastic Daily Life, 4th–10th c. (Cairo-Athens, 2019), and Athos Monastic Archives and their Reception (Paris, 2019), as well as various articles on Theodore the Stoudite.Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.

Tubist Kendrick Oliver's band, featuring the octave-leaping tenor of vocalist Monica Anderson, unveils the stunning treasures of William James Basie Jr. — Count Basie — and the Kansas City Sound. Oliver modeled his band like Basie's (rhythm guitar!), but it's far from a retro tribute band. Instead, carefully balanced solos and shimmering section passages combine for a timely resurrection of Basie's timeless music. Inventive, fresh arrangements blending gospel and brass band references signify the cohesive intensity of the big band swing era Basie, the Jersey-to-Kansas City transplant, was a key architect. "The Comeback," where Anderson's vocals fan the flames, and "Jumping at the Woodside" are among Basie's slew of hits ready to command your attention.   GET TICKETS