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- Apr 47:00 PMMusic program: Timothy Chooi, violin and Dror Baitel, pianoInternationally acclaimed virtuoso Timothy Chooi joins faculty pianist Dror Baitel for an eclectic program featuring works by Fazil Say, Beethoven, Heifetz-Gershwin and more. This event is free and open to the public. To watch live. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- Apr 512:00 AMConference — "Tradition and Innovation: New Perspectives on the Violin Concerto in the Long 19th Century"This conference brings together leading experts on musical form and analysis from the US, UK, and Canada to explore both well-known and less-known corners of this fascinating repertoire, ranging from Viotti, Beethoven, and Spohr to Joachim, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, and Glazunov, and beyond to Nielsen and Elgar, among others. In addition to formal presentations with Q&A followup, each day will feature a panel discussion with audience participation encouraged. A banquet dinner concludes the conference. View complete schedule here and abstracts here. Open to the public. Registration required: $150 (student discount available) to include attendance at all paper sessions and panel discussions, all-day beverage service on April 5 and 6, a banquet dinner on April 6, and a recital on April 4 by violinist Timothy Chooi, professor at University of Ottawa and prize winner at the Joachim and Queen Elisabeth competitions.Speakers:Joel Galand, Florida InternationalJulian Horton, Durham UniversityAnne Hyland, University of ManchesterCaitlin Martinkus, Cleveland Institute of MusicJanet Schmalfeldt, TuftsPeter H. Smith, Notre DameBenedict Taylor, University of EdinburghSteven Vande Moortele, University of TorontoPaul Wingfield, CambridgeREGISTER NOW Register by April 3, by 11:59 p.m. Made possible through the generous support of the Notre Dame–Durham University Seed Grant Program. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- Apr 58:00 PMNotre Dame ChoraleNotre Dame’s flagship vocal ensemble presents a typically wide mix of choral masterpieces from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. For tickets, call the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- Apr 58:00 PMNotre Dame Chorale Spring ConcertThe Notre Dame Chorale, directed by Alexander Blachly, presents a program of choral works and choral arrangements of solo songs by Monteverdi, Handel, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Dvořák, Debussy, and Deák-Bárdos. With acclaimed accompanist Päivi Ekroth. GET TICKETS
- Apr 69:00 AMDolan Seminar/Book Discussion: Stephen Bullivant’s "Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America"Stephen Bullivant (St. Mary’s University, London) will discuss his book Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America (Oxford, 2022) at the Cushwa Center's spring 2024 Jay P. Dolan Seminar in American Religion.Commentators for this seminar are Ruth Braunstein (University of Connecticut) and David Campbell (University of Notre Dame).This event is cosponsored by Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society and Department of Sociology. — Inaugurated in 1980 and named in 2023 to honor the Cushwa Center’s founding director, the Jay P. Dolan Seminar in American Religion convenes each semester at the University of Notre Dame to discuss a notable book recently published in the field. Along with faculty and graduate students from Notre Dame, scholars from throughout the Midwest travel to campus to attend as invited guests of the Cushwa Center. The featured author engages with two invited commentators as well as the larger group. The Saturday morning seminar is free and open to all. Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.
- Apr 611:00 AMBrain Awareness FairThe University's Neuroscience and Behavior program has an annual Brain Awareness Fair each spring in Michiana to promote STEM disciplines, specifically neuroscience. This program is free to the community and consists of hands-on activities developed to foster public enthusiasm in the understanding of neuroscience. The event brings together Notre Dame students and Michiana families to learn about the different aspects of the brain. The Howard Park Event Center is located at 219 S. Saint Louis Blvd., South Bend, IN 46617 Originally published at neuroscienceandbehavior.nd.edu.
- Apr 1012:00 AMThe Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy — "You Can't Fool Rules: Opera and International Thought"Featuring David R. Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard UniversityApril 10-12, 2024Professor David Armitage, a leading scholar of political thought and international law, will give a trio of lectures on the topic of his next book—on the surprising connections between opera and international thought—which will be open to all students, faculty, and the public. All lectures and receptions will be held in the Morris Inn's Smith Ballroom. April 10, 3:30-5:30pm, reception to follow until 6:30pm. David Armitage (Harvard), "Diplomatic Mozart." Commentator 1: Jennifer Pitts (Political Science, University of Chicago). Commentator 2: Pierpaolo Polzonetti (Music, UC Davis-Arts). Featuring a performance by the local bass-baritone vocal artist, Ian Williams, with pianist Dror Baitel.April 11, 3:30-5:30pm, reception to follow until 6:30pm. David Armitage (Harvard), "Death at Sea: Wagner to Klinghoffer." Commentator 1: Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard) & Commentator 2: Christopher Chowrimootoo (Program of Liberal Studies/ Sacred Music, Notre Dame). Featuring a performance by the soprano vocal artist and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Notre Dame, Deborah Mayer, with pianist Dror Baitel.April 12, Noon-12:30pm, lunch reception. Final lecture, 12:30-2:30pm, with concluding reception to follow until 3:30pm. David Armitage (Harvard), "Refugee Songs." Commentator 1: Mira Siegelberg (History, Cambridge) & Commentator 2: Martha C. Nussbaum (Law, Philosophy, Classics, Political Science, University of Chicago). Featuring a performance by the soprano vocal artist and Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Voice in the Department of Music at Notre Dame, Anne Slovin, with pianist Dror Baitel.Please contact the faculty organizer, Professor Eileen M. Hunt (ehunt@nd.edu), or the graduate student assistant, Shasta Kaul (skaul2@nd.edu), with any questions.--- The Niemeyer Lectures honor the contributions and memory of the late Gerhart Niemeyer (1907-1997), professor of political philosophy at the University of Notre Dame from 1955 to 1997. This biennial lecture series is made possible by the generosity of Notre Dame alumnus Raymond Biagini. Originally published at politicalscience.nd.edu.
- Apr 104:30 PMLetras Latinas 20th Anniversary EventAda Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including "The Carrying," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her most recent book of poetry, "The Hurting Kind," was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. As the Poet Laureate, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. Carmen Giménez is the author of numerous poetry collections, including "Milk and Filth," a finalist for the NBCC Award in Poetry and Be Recorder (Graywolf Press, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry, the PEN Open Book Award, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship Prize in 2020. A 2019 Guggenheim fellow, she served as the publisher of Noemi Press for twenty years. She is publisher and executive director of Graywolf Press. heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, sick/disabled, brown/Colombian, poet, scholar, educator, and cultural worker. Their poetry collection, "The Inheritance of Haunting" (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) won the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. They are a 2023 recipient of the Creative Capital Award, a VONA alum, and have received fellowships from Zoeglossia, CantoMundo, Radar, and Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Their poetry has been published in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Waxwing, among other places. Originally published at latinostudies.nd.edu.
- Apr 1112:00 AMThe Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy — "You Can't Fool Rules: Opera and International Thought"Featuring David R. Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard UniversityApril 10-12, 2024Professor David Armitage, a leading scholar of political thought and international law, will give a trio of lectures on the topic of his next book—on the surprising connections between opera and international thought—which will be open to all students, faculty, and the public. All lectures and receptions will be held in the Morris Inn's Smith Ballroom. April 10, 3:30-5:30pm, reception to follow until 6:30pm. David Armitage (Harvard), "Diplomatic Mozart." Commentator 1: Jennifer Pitts (Political Science, University of Chicago). Commentator 2: Pierpaolo Polzonetti (Music, UC Davis-Arts). Featuring a performance by the local bass-baritone vocal artist, Ian Williams, with pianist Dror Baitel.April 11, 3:30-5:30pm, reception to follow until 6:30pm. David Armitage (Harvard), "Death at Sea: Wagner to Klinghoffer." Commentator 1: Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard) & Commentator 2: Christopher Chowrimootoo (Program of Liberal Studies/ Sacred Music, Notre Dame). Featuring a performance by the soprano vocal artist and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Notre Dame, Deborah Mayer, with pianist Dror Baitel.April 12, Noon-12:30pm, lunch reception. Final lecture, 12:30-2:30pm, with concluding reception to follow until 3:30pm. David Armitage (Harvard), "Refugee Songs." Commentator 1: Mira Siegelberg (History, Cambridge) & Commentator 2: Martha C. Nussbaum (Law, Philosophy, Classics, Political Science, University of Chicago). Featuring a performance by the soprano vocal artist and Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Voice in the Department of Music at Notre Dame, Anne Slovin, with pianist Dror Baitel.Please contact the faculty organizer, Professor Eileen M. Hunt (ehunt@nd.edu), or the graduate student assistant, Shasta Kaul (skaul2@nd.edu), with any questions.--- The Niemeyer Lectures honor the contributions and memory of the late Gerhart Niemeyer (1907-1997), professor of political philosophy at the University of Notre Dame from 1955 to 1997. This biennial lecture series is made possible by the generosity of Notre Dame alumnus Raymond Biagini. Originally published at politicalscience.nd.edu.
- Apr 115:00 PMLecture: "Boccaccio, the Disguised Revolutionary"The spring lectures are being planned in a hybrid online and in-person format. Please register here. The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Martin Eisner (Duke University) titled: Boccaccio, the Disguised Revolutionary Medieval and renaissance, feminist and misogynist, radical and conservative, class-warrior and aspiring aristocrat, Boccaccio has been interpreted in a variety of contradictory ways since the fourteenth century. Prof. Eisner's lecture proposes a new way of reading Boccaccio's work that puts the Decameron at the center to show how the revolutionary ideas about fleshly desire, language, gender, cultural diversity, and power that Boccaccio identifies in the Author's Conclusion to the Decameron radiate throughout his works. Martin Eisner is chair of romance studies and professor of Italian at Duke University. He is the author of Dante's New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature (Oxford UP, 2021), which won the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Modern Language Association. His first book Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular (Cambridge UP, 2013) has recently been published in Italian as Boccaccio e l'invenzione della letteratura italiana (Salerno, 2022). He is currently working on a biography of Boccaccio for Reaktion Books's Renaissance Lives series. He continues to develop the online research project Dante’s Library. His articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Machiavelli have appeared in PMLA, Renaissance Quarterly, Dante Studies, Mediaevalia, California Italian Studies, Quaderni d’Italianistica, Annali d’Italianistica, and Le Tre Corone. His research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the American Academy in Rome, the American Philosophical Association, and the Fulbright Foundation. 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.
- Apr 1212:00 AMThe Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy — "You Can't Fool Rules: Opera and International Thought"Featuring David R. Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard UniversityApril 10-12, 2024Professor David Armitage, a leading scholar of political thought and international law, will give a trio of lectures on the topic of his next book—on the surprising connections between opera and international thought—which will be open to all students, faculty, and the public. All lectures and receptions will be held in the Morris Inn's Smith Ballroom. April 10, 3:30-5:30pm, reception to follow until 6:30pm. David Armitage (Harvard), "Diplomatic Mozart." Commentator 1: Jennifer Pitts (Political Science, University of Chicago). Commentator 2: Pierpaolo Polzonetti (Music, UC Davis-Arts). Featuring a performance by the local bass-baritone vocal artist, Ian Williams, with pianist Dror Baitel.April 11, 3:30-5:30pm, reception to follow until 6:30pm. David Armitage (Harvard), "Death at Sea: Wagner to Klinghoffer." Commentator 1: Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard) & Commentator 2: Christopher Chowrimootoo (Program of Liberal Studies/ Sacred Music, Notre Dame). Featuring a performance by the soprano vocal artist and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Notre Dame, Deborah Mayer, with pianist Dror Baitel.April 12, Noon-12:30pm, lunch reception. Final lecture, 12:30-2:30pm, with concluding reception to follow until 3:30pm. David Armitage (Harvard), "Refugee Songs." Commentator 1: Mira Siegelberg (History, Cambridge) & Commentator 2: Martha C. Nussbaum (Law, Philosophy, Classics, Political Science, University of Chicago). Featuring a performance by the soprano vocal artist and Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Voice in the Department of Music at Notre Dame, Anne Slovin, with pianist Dror Baitel.Please contact the faculty organizer, Professor Eileen M. Hunt (ehunt@nd.edu), or the graduate student assistant, Shasta Kaul (skaul2@nd.edu), with any questions.--- The Niemeyer Lectures honor the contributions and memory of the late Gerhart Niemeyer (1907-1997), professor of political philosophy at the University of Notre Dame from 1955 to 1997. This biennial lecture series is made possible by the generosity of Notre Dame alumnus Raymond Biagini. Originally published at politicalscience.nd.edu.