Lecture Series: "Meetings with the Psalms and Psalters"

Udi Greenberg, associate professor of history at Dartmouth College, studies and teaches modern European history. His scholarship and teaching focuses especially on the history of ideas, politics, and gender and sexuality. His work has been supported, among others, by the ACLS, Mellon Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the DAAD. Organized by the research cluster on Transnational France at the University of Notre Dame This faculty grant provided funding for a research cluster that explores the ambiguities of migration and cross-cultural exchange in culture and daily life during multiple periods of religious, political, and cultural upheaval, particularly in the European context. This research cluster sought to answer what it means to welcome—or reject—the “stranger,” whether these strangers are enemies or friends, and whether they are our “neighbor” or a threat to our way of life.   Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.

March 23–25, 2023 | University of Notre Dame "We are called to establish with truth, justice, charity, and liberty new methods of relationships in human society.” #163, Pacem in Terris The Justice Sown in Peace conference at the University of Notre Dame will recognize the 60th anniversary of the seminal Catholic social tradition encyclical, Pacem in Terris, as well as celebrate the dual 40th anniversaries of the U.S. Bishops peace pastoral, The Challenge of Peace, and the founding of the Center for Social Concerns. This international gathering will examine justice issues by thought leaders like Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka of Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg; Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ of Dead Man Walking fame; and Marie Dennis of Pax Christi International, as well as a panel of higher education experts. The conference will focus on particular issues central to our time: migration, violence, racism, internationalization, and the role of political structures. Join us at this conference of global scholars working to expand the Catholic social tradition through intellectual, artistic, and social engagement. Register now! The registration deadline is March 10, 2023. A registration fee of $125 is required. There is no registration fee for Notre Dame, Saint Mary's or Holy Cross College faculty, staff and students, however we do ask that you register. If you plan to attend the Friday night dinner there is a meal fee.  REGISTER Speakers We are excited to welcome the following keynote speakers:  Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka, Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg  Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, Anti-Death Penalty Advocate Marie Dennis, Pax Christi International Bernard Prusak, Ph.D., King’s College Travel Information All registered participants are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and transportation arrangements. You are welcome to choose from any area hotels, but space and rates cannot be guaranteed. TRAVEL AND LODGING INFORMATION Conference Organizer William Purcell, M.Div., Center for Social Concerns; Director, Catholic Social Tradition; Co-Director, Catholic Social Tradition Minor Co-sponsors Center for Social Concerns; Catholic Charities USA(link is external); Catholic Relief Services(link is external); Catholic Social Tradition Minor; Center for the Study of Religion and Society; College of Arts and Letters; Cushwa Center for American Catholicism; Department of Theology; Department of Political Science; Keough School of Global Affairs; Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights; Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Nanovic Institute for European Studies; Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State, & Society; Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor

Register HereAliyeh Ataei is an Iranian-Afghan author and screenwriter whose books have won major literary awards, including Mehregan-e-Adab for Best Novel. Ataei was born in 1981 and grew up in Darmian, a border region between South Khorasan Province of Iran and Farah Province of Afghanistan. Growing up in Iran as a female minority, she experienced a lot of discrimination and difficulties which led her to work as a women`s rights activist. Her works are deeply influenced by her observations and experiences as a child. She graduated from high school in Birjand and went to Tehran to continue her studies in Tehran University of Art where she received her B.A. and M.A. in screenplay writing. Ataei dedicated most of her focus to writing about immigration. In addition to publishing books, she has been working with several magazines such as Hamshahri, Tajrobeh, and Nadastan. Her short stories have also been translated and published in several American and French magazines such as Michigan Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, and Guernica. Ataei`s collection of personal essays, entitled Kursokhi in Persian, is currently being translated into French and is set to be published by Gallimard publishing House in 2023.  Atiq Rahimi, born in Kabul in 1962, is a French-Afghanistani writer and filmmaker. In 1984, Rahimi’s family went into exile, and after studying at the Franco-Afghanistani lycée, he joined his father in Bombay. In 1979, he returned to Afghanistan to read literature at the University of Kabul, and worked as a cinema critic. In 1984, he relocated to Pakistan for a brief period, before seeking political asylum in France. He completed his PhD in audio-visual communications at the Sorbonne, and began writing Earth and Ashes in 1996. After 18 years in exile, Atiq Rahimi returned to Afghanistan in February 2002 and helped establish an Afghanistani writers’ centre in Kabul, with the assistance of the French government. Rahimi is the recipient of a number of prestigious literary and film awards. In 2004, he won the Prix du Regard vers l’Avenir at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Dhow award for Best Feature Film at the Zanzibar International Film Festival for his film version of Earth and Ashes. In 2008, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt for The Patience Stone – France’s highest literary honour. Rahimi directed 2012 the film adaptation of The Patience Stone from a screenplay he co-authored with Jean-Claude Carrière.   The conversation will be moderated by Amir Ahmadi Arian, who has published short stories and essays in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, The Guardian, London Review of Books, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. His first novel in English, Then The Fish Swallowed Him, was published by HarperCollins in 2020. He earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Queensland in Australia, and an MFA in creative writing from NYU.​ He teaches literature and creative writing at City College, New York.   The conversation will take place in Farsi, with English interpretation provided by Nasim Fekrat, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and photographer from Afghanistan. He has written for the BBC, CNN, Foreign Policy Magazine, the Nieman Watchdog Foundation (now Nieman Reports), and the UN. He holds a BA in political science from Dickinson College, an MA in religious studies from the University of Georgia, and an MA in anthropology from UNC Charlotte. He's currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at UC Irvine with a focus on the Hazaras' struggle for equal rights and belonging within the context of Afghanistan, nationalism, migration, and the geopolitics of South Asia and the Middle East.   Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance, launched by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, is a research collective and lecture series co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and housed at the newly launched Initiative on Race and Resilience, directed by Mark Sanders, Professor of English and Africana Studies. The series focuses on contemporary literature, film, and visual art that has been shaped by revolutionary and resistance movements, decolonization, migration, class and economic warfare, communal and state-sanctioned violence, and human rights violations. We aim to theorize new modes of contemporary literary and artistic resistance across national borders and to amplify the voices of scholars, artists, and writers of color whose lived experience is instrumental in forging new alliances across formal, linguistic and national boundaries.Originally published at litofexile.nd.edu.

March 23–25, 2023 | University of Notre Dame "We are called to establish with truth, justice, charity, and liberty new methods of relationships in human society.” #163, Pacem in Terris The Justice Sown in Peace conference at the University of Notre Dame will recognize the 60th anniversary of the seminal Catholic social tradition encyclical, Pacem in Terris, as well as celebrate the dual 40th anniversaries of the U.S. Bishops peace pastoral, The Challenge of Peace, and the founding of the Center for Social Concerns. This international gathering will examine justice issues by thought leaders like Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka of Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg; Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ of Dead Man Walking fame; and Marie Dennis of Pax Christi International, as well as a panel of higher education experts. The conference will focus on particular issues central to our time: migration, violence, racism, internationalization, and the role of political structures. Join us at this conference of global scholars working to expand the Catholic social tradition through intellectual, artistic, and social engagement. Register now! The registration deadline is March 10, 2023. A registration fee of $125 is required. There is no registration fee for Notre Dame, Saint Mary's or Holy Cross College faculty, staff and students, however we do ask that you register. If you plan to attend the Friday night dinner there is a meal fee.  REGISTER Speakers We are excited to welcome the following keynote speakers:  Prof. Dr. Michelle Becka, Julius-Maximilians-University, Wurzburg  Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, Anti-Death Penalty Advocate Marie Dennis, Pax Christi International Bernard Prusak, Ph.D., King’s College Travel Information All registered participants are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and transportation arrangements. You are welcome to choose from any area hotels, but space and rates cannot be guaranteed. TRAVEL AND LODGING INFORMATION Conference Organizer William Purcell, M.Div., Center for Social Concerns; Director, Catholic Social Tradition; Co-Director, Catholic Social Tradition Minor Co-sponsors Center for Social Concerns; Catholic Charities USA(link is external); Catholic Relief Services(link is external); Catholic Social Tradition Minor; Center for the Study of Religion and Society; College of Arts and Letters; Cushwa Center for American Catholicism; Department of Theology; Department of Political Science; Keough School of Global Affairs; Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights; Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Nanovic Institute for European Studies; Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State, & Society; Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor

Philosopher and Buddhism scholar Jay Garfield of Smith College will deliver the third annual Justice and Asia Distinguished Lecture by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. The event is cosponsored by Notre Dame's Department of Philosophy, and Mike Zhao, assistant professor of philosophy, will moderate. The event is free and open to the public with a reception to follow. In a lecture titled “Buddhism and Nonviolence in the Contemporary World,” Garfield will present a Buddhist analysis of nonviolence in a way relevant to our contemporary life. He will first explain how violence manifests in the contemporary world. Second, he will present a Buddhist analysis of that violence and its causes. Third, he will ask how a Buddhist ethical framework determines our responsibilities as agents in the context of that violence and a path to its eradication.   Garfield chairs the Department of Philosophy and directs the Buddhist Studies Program and Tibetan Studies in India Program at Smith College. He is a visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, professor of philosophy at Melbourne University, and adjunct professor of philosophy at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies. Academicinfluence.com has identified him as one of the 50 most influential philosophers in the world over the past decade.Mike ZhaoHis research addresses topics in the foundations of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, the history of modern Indian philosophy, and topics in ethics, epistemology and the philosophy of logic, and topics in Buddhist philosophy, particularly Indo-Tibetan Madhyamaka and Yogācāra. He is the author of more than 30 books, including his most recent titles, “Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self,” “Knowing Illusion: Bringing a Tibetan Debate into Contemporary Discourse,” and “Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration.” ̛The Liu Institute’s Justice and Asia Distinguished Lecture invites top scholars who examine the theme of justice in relation to Asia and with awareness of Asian cultures and traditions. The series is part of the Liu Institute’s organizing theme of “Justice and Asia” that examines and supports thematic work from a range of perspectives, projects, disciplines, and collaborations.  Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

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.