The Glee Club presents its annual fall concert. The program will include classical choral music by Gabrieli, Verdelot, Monteverdi, Schütz, and Richard Strauss, along with shanties, barbershop harmony, and tributes to recently departed American musical icons Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Tom Lehrer. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

New at the BrowningDirected by Four/Ten MediaWith Stephen Lancaster, Susan McDaniel, and Kyle MarshallNot Rated, 55 minutes, DCPWorld Premiere! Discussion with filmmakers and artists to follow the screening.Experience humanity's oldest recorded story in a new light. Gilgamesh, a visual song cycle, fuses contemporary English poetry, music, dance, and film to reimagine the ancient Mesopotamian epic. This innovative work, exploring timeless themes of power, friendship, love, grief, and mortality, features music by J. Scott Brubacher and libretto by David James Brock with performances by Stephen Lancaster (baritone), Susan McDaniel (piano), and Kyle Marshall (dance & choreography). The screening will be followed by a "Behind the Scenes" video and a talkback with members from the cast and crew. This is a free but ticketed event.  Call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Co-presented by the Canada Council for the Arts, Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, Department of Music, and Graduate Program in Sacred Music. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Eli Stine is an internationally active media artist, software engineer, and educator. Projects that Stine has designed sound and written code for have been mentioned in the New York Times, USA Today, The Wire, The Economist, and on NPR, and have toured Europe, Asia, and India. Stine is an assistant professor of computer music and digital arts at Oberlin Conservatory in the Technology In Music And Related Arts program. Prior to that, Stine worked as a software engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook) Reality Labs Audio Research. Stine received Ph.D. and masters degrees in composition and computer technologies as a Jefferson Fellow at the University of Virginia and bachelor’s degrees in technology in music and related arts and computer science from Oberlin College and Conservatory. Stine's work spans immersive electronic music, mixed reality story-telling, interactive multimedia experiences, and frequent collaboration between disciplines, artistic and otherwise.This event is part of the lecture series "Sonifying the Body: Embodied Technologies in Electronic Music Performance," sponsored by the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, the Department of Music, and the Technology & Digital Studies Program. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Erik Gartzke is currently serving as Scholar-in-Residence at USCYBERCOM.Gartzke is professor of political science and founding director of the Center for Peace andSecurity Studies (cPASS) at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been a faculty member since 2007. Previous academic postings include Columbia University (2000 to 2007) and the Pennsylvania State University (1997 to 2000). He has also held temporary positions at the Australian Defense College, the Naval Postgraduate School, University of Essex, U.C. Santa Barbara, the Ecole des Affaires Internationales (Sciences Po) and Dartmouth College. Gartzke received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa in 1997. He is also a U.S. military veteran (Commissioned Infantry Reserve, Enlisted Combat Engineer). Professor Gartzke’s research focuses on war, peace and international institutions. His scholarly interests include deterrence, democratization, nuclear security, the liberal peace, information and war, cyberwar, alliances, arms racing and the evolving technological nature of interstate conflict. He has written on the effects of global commerce, development, system structure and climate change on war. Recent studies include the role of technological change and military automation on patterns of interstate conflict, geography/seasonality and disputes, cross/multi-domain deterrence and research contributing to the intellectual foundations of cyber conflict. Professor Gartzke is among the most widely cited scholars of his generation in the study of world affairs. He is the most cited researcher in the topic “war and peace studies,” and the twelfth most cited researcher in “international security”). Gartzke has served as “primary investigator” on dozens of grants totaling over $15 million dollars in funding. He haspublished over one hundred books, articles and chapters. Professor Gartzke’s scholarship has appeared in most of the top journals of his discipline and field: American Political ScienceReview, the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science,International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, the Journalof Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Politics, Security Studies, World Politics, and elsewhere.His latest book, co-authored with Jon R. Lindsay, is titled Elements of Deterrence: Strategy,Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics, published in 2024 by Oxford University Press. This is a hybrid event. Join us via Zoom. Download the readahead.Download the event flyer. Originally published at ondisc.nd.edu.

Scholars from different fields will discuss the central themes of Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America's Wife, America's Concubine, a new book by Perin Gürel, associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a faculty fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. With a focus on how U.S. foreign policy shaped comparative approaches to Türkiye and Iran, the panel will explore the transnational formation of national identities, gender politics, racial ideas, and religious discourse, from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Gürel will moderate a panel made up of the following discussants:Asher Kaufman, the John M. Regan, Jr., Director of the Kroc Institute and professor of history and peace studiesAlyssa Paylor, postdoctoral student and Ph.D. graduate (‘25) in peace studies and anthropologyMahan Mirza, executive director, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with ReligionNell Haynes, assistant professor, global studies and intercultural studies, Saint Mary’s College  This panel is cosponsored by Notre Dame’s Gender Studies Program and the Department of American Studies, in addition to the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, the Southwest Asia and North Africa Working Group at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, all part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

As part of the 2025 Fall Italian Research Seminar series, the Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Filippo Gianferrari (UC Santa Cruz) titled:Our Memories, Ourselves: Restoring Political Communities in Purgatorio   In one of the most striking and comic episodes of the Commedia, Dante and Virgil, Dante, Virgil, and a group of newly arrived souls in Purgatorio are suddenly scattered—like doves in a public square—by an irate Cato. They have just been caught indulging in a moment of recreation, entranced by the singing of a Florentine musician, Casella, who is performing one of Dante’s own canzoni: “Amor che nella mente mi ragiona.” This enigmatic episode has generated sustained critical debate, particularly concerning the target of Cato’s rebuke. Yet the preceding exchange between Dante and Casella is no less peculiar and deserves closer scrutiny—an inquiry this reading seeks to undertake. Casella’s assurances about his unchanged “memory” and “practice of the songs of love” (Purgatorio 2.107) constitute a bizarre and surprising claim in light of the late-medieval scholastic controversy on the survival of memory and affections in the disembodied soul. Dante’s revelations here about the condition of the separated souls must be appreciated as integral to the development of two of the Ante-Purgatory’s central and interconnected themes: the human body-soul composite and the political wreckage of Dante’s contemporary Italy. How do these seemingly unrelated concerns converge to animate this liminal space between life and death, body and soul, time and eternity? To begin addressing this question, this reading broadens its focus to examine the nexus between memory and embodiment in Dante’s treatment of both human generation (Purgatorio 25) and his representation of bodily ombre who can see, experience, and remember each other in Purgatorio (12–14). Through this exploration, affective memory and empathy emerge as key elements of Dante’s anthropology. Not only are they essential to individual and collective identities, but they are also central to his vision of ‘embodied’ souls called to purge themselves and to mend their fractured political bonds. Filippo Gianferrari is associate professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received a Ph.D. in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame, and an MA and BA from the University of Bologna. Before joining USCS, he taught at Vassar College and Smith College. His recent book, Dante’s Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics, was published by OUP in 2024 and investigates the influence of Latin school texts on Dante's poetics of vernacular learning. His next book project, “Political Eschatology: Vernacular Theories of the Common Good,” focuses on debates on the common good among the laity in late medieval Italian city-states. In particular, the project explores the entanglements of late-medieval political theory and theological controversies on the body-soul nexus, the intellect, and the beatific vision. He is the organizer of the webinar, “Project Paradiso: Exploring Dante’s Heaven,” and co-editor with Ronald Herzman of the edited volume Dante's Paradiso: A Reader's Guide (forthcoming, Routledge: 2025). The lecture is co-sponsored by the Medieval Institute.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.