In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the OVI-UND seminar series, the Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a seminar by Prof. Theodore Cachey from the University of Notre Dame: Automappature dantesche: da ‘Voi che ‘ntendendo’ a Paradiso 8” (Dantean Mappings: From ‘Voi che ‘ntendendo’ to Paradiso 8)   Unico tra i poeti del suo tempo, Dante sviluppò la sua identità poetica all'interno di una cornice cosmica. C'è una profonda analogia e corrispondenza tra l'esperienza bio-spaziale della sua vita e il cosmo che il poeta costruisce nella sua letteratura sia in termini celesti che terrestri. Detto in termini più semplici, dovrebbe essere possibile seguire l’emergere e lo sviluppo del tema cosmologico, del cosmo di Dante, lungo l’intero percorso della sua vita e delle sue opere, come una sorta di barometro del continuo bisogno di Dante di stabilire e mantenere il suo “luogo” nel mondo. Questo è ciò che si intende per “auto-mappatura” nel titolo. Theodore J. Cachey Jr. è professore ordinario di letteratura italiana all’università di Notre Dame e direttore del Centro di Italian Studies e del William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies a Notre Dame. La sua ricerca verte su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, la storia della lingua italiana, la letteratura di viaggio e i rapporti tra cartografia e letteratura. Ha pubblicato e curato numerosi libri, tra cui Le isole fortunate (1995), Petrarch’s Guide to the Holy Land (2002), Petrarch and Dante (2009) e Dante’s Other Works (2022). I suoi saggi sono apparsi in riviste come Italianistica, Critica del Testo, e Annali d’italianistica. Please register here Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

The Office of Institutional Transformation, in partnership with the Initiative on Race and Resilience, invites students, faculty, and staff to gather weekly for support and fellowship. Wellsprings: A Time for Connection and Care provides a safe space for members of the campus community to discuss fears and concerns related to social divisiveness. Some sessions may feature presentations or information from campus resources. To suggest a topic, please contact Eve Kelly at ekelly11@nd.edu. Originally published at diversity.nd.edu.

The Cushwa Center 50th anniversary conference will convene April 10–12, 2025, at the University of Notre Dame to explore Catholic modernity as a global reality shaped by the Church’s former peripheries—not least South and North America. Conference sessions are free and open to all, but participants must register in order to join in conference meals. Learn more and registerImage: Indigenous women and children in front of the mission church of Santa Teresita de Kavanayén in Venezuela’s Gran Sabana, c. 1955. Pictorial Parade via Getty Images. Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.

Robert M. Citino, the retired Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National WWII Museum, presents "The Fascist Lair: the Battle of Berlin." This lecture, cosponsored by the Department of History, is being held in conjunction with the spring Rare Books and Special Collection exhibit, "Tragedies of War: Images of WWII in Print Visual Culture." About the Exhibit This exhibit commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War (1939-1945) using primarily European visual sources recently acquired by Rare Books and Special Collections. It showcases over forty works on paper, including posters, maps, propaganda ephemera, and illustrated books, as well as photographs and first-hand accounts. The exhibit explores themes of Nazi racial ideology, the Holocaust, children in war, resistance, liberation, and memories of war. By examining images created for personal use and for state-sponsored propaganda, the exhibit presents a visual narrative of the war’s profound impact on individuals and societies, offering deeper insight into how this war was experienced and remembered. This exhibit is curated by Natasha Lyandres, Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections, Jean McManus, Catholic Studies Librarian, University Archives, and Julia Schneider, German Language and Literature and Italian Studies Librarian, Hesburgh Libraries. This and other exhibits within the Hesburgh Libraries are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment. All exhibits are free and open to the public during business hours.Open to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, postdocs, the public, alumni, and friends.

The School of Architecture is excited to welcome Francesco de Angelis from Columbia University to campus for a lecture titled, "Victory in the Making: Triumphal Arches on Roman State Reliefs." This talk will focus on ancient depictions of triumphal arches in the medium of sculptural relief. Several of these images represent the monuments in an abridged fashion, for example by diminishing or omitting key components of their figural decoration, including sculpted scenes. Therefore, especially if we try to understand the reliefs as evidence for ancient viewing habits, they appear paradoxically to downplay their own relevance as carriers of meaningful and semantically rich imagery. The talk will examine this seeming act of self-effacement and argue that, rather than a simple celebration of past deeds, Roman arches—and their decoration—were parts of a project that was perpetually in the making. Join us for this insightful discussion and learn how Roman relief sculptures represented monumental arches and their profound significance in ancient art and architecture. This event is open to all—don’t miss the opportunity to learn from an expert in the field! This lecture is co-sponsored by the School of Architecture, Department of Classics, Center for Italian Studies, and the Department of Art, Art History and Design.   Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.

The Cushwa Center 50th anniversary conference will convene April 10–12, 2025, at the University of Notre Dame to explore Catholic modernity as a global reality shaped by the Church’s former peripheries—not least South and North America. Conference sessions are free and open to all, but participants must register in order to join in conference meals. Learn more and registerImage: Indigenous women and children in front of the mission church of Santa Teresita de Kavanayén in Venezuela’s Gran Sabana, c. 1955. Pictorial Parade via Getty Images. Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.