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.

Welcome to American culture! How are you coping? Are you still excited and eager to experience American life, or have you had quite enough and long for home? Or, perhaps you have finally acclimated to your host culture. Either way, join the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures as we explore culture shock through shared discussion. Let's listen, laugh and commiserate as we explore this topic. Register for Event Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.

The English Conversation Table (ECT — formerly English Language Table) meets bi-monthly and is a great chance to practice English with both native and non-native speakers and to make some new friends in the process. For more information and to be added to the participants' email list, contact Josh Barthuly or Lea Barthuly.  Full ECT Schedule Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.

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.

Spring is coming! And what better way to celebrate than to celebrate with friends and colleagues at the Chinese New Year Celebration. To celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year (the Year of Rabbit) and provide a way to expose students to different cultures, there will be food, student performances, singing, and dancing.  You probably won't get a hongbao as a gift, but you will receive the gift of good luck and wishes for a prosperous new year. For more information, contact Yongping Zhu (yzhu8@nd.edu)   Sponsored by East Asian Languages and Cultures Co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Letters (Teaching Beyond Classroom Grant), the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures (CSLC). Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.

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.

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.

If you are looking for a fun and unique way to experience Irish culture, then come to the Irish Ceilí during Foreign Language Week. This informal gathering will get you engaged in a mix of traditional Irish dance and music. Organized by Shannon Dunne, ND '98, adjunct assistant teaching professor for Irish Language and Literature. Sponsored by the Department of Irish Language and Literature. Originally published at cslc.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.

BUY TICKETS The passion of youthful love is never more vivid than in Romeo and Juliet, arguably Shakespeare’s most beloved and well-known work. Alternating between laugh-out-loud comedy, exuberant romance, and wrenching tragedy, Romeo and Juliet features Shakespeare’s greatest romantic pairing: a star-crossed duo whose passion careens into disaster. Populated with immortal characters, high drama, and Shakespeare’s most famed passages, Romeo and Juliet is as powerful as ever.     The feud between two dynastic families is put to the ultimate test when Romeo, of the Montague family, and Juliet, of the Capulets, fall deeply into love. Prevented from marrying by their warring families yet unable to turn away from each other, the lovers embark on a dangerous plan to secretly wed, leading to unexpected yet devastating consequences.     Actors From The London Stage, the globally celebrated 5-actor touring company, returns with a fresh new staging of Shakespeare’s immortal tale. With each actor portraying multiple roles, Romeo and Juliet is a stirring, engaging, and moving night of theatre.CAST:Grace Andrews: Juliet / Benvolio / ApothecaryKaffe Keating: Mercutio / Capulet / Balthasar / AbrahamHilary Maclean: Nurse / Prince / Paris / Friar John / Old Capulet / SampsonJonathan Oldfield: Friar Lawrence / Lady Capulet / Tybalt / Peter / MontagueThomas Wingfield: Romeo / Lady Montague / GregorySPECIAL THANKS: Philip d'Orléans, Fight ChoreographerHazel Monaghan, Musical ArrangementsMORE INFORMATION: Tour BlogPRESS & MEDIA:"International Shakespeare troupe returning to Rice Feb 2-4," Rice University News & Media Relations, 1/9/23SPRING 2023 TOUR SCHEDULE:Jan. 23-29: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Jan. 30-Feb. 5: Rice University, Houston, TX Feb. 6-12: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Feb. 13-19: John Carroll University, University Heights, OH Feb. 20-26: University of North Alabama, Florence, AL Feb. 27-Mar. 5: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, INOriginally published at shakespeare.nd.edu.

Guest lecture Nancy Rao, Head of Music Theory, Professor, Rutgers University The defining tunes of the Chinese diaspora in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth America were those of the Chinese opera. This history has been invisible due to the scarcity of Chinese materials in archives.  Its sonic imageries were also imprisoned by the mounting derision in historical English newspapers and travelogues. What were the patterns of networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures?  How did border crossing, listening practices, and visual emblems constitute their sounding identity?  This talk offers readings against the grain to consider the ways that archives structure and frame not only our understanding of the past but how we enter into the present and future. Nancy Yunhwa Rao has produced award-winning research on a range of topics, including gender and music, sketch studies, music modernism, cultural fusion in music, racial representations, and the music history of early Chinese Americans. Her publications have provided innovative analytical approaches to cross-cultural music, and enhanced public discussions about cultural encounter in music. Through her scholarship, as well as teaching, she has promoted diversity and advanced knowledge and dialogue about the complexity of diversity issues in music scholarship. Rao’s book, Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (Illinois University Press, 2017), tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. She unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. It received Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society; Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music; and Book Award in Performance and Media, Associations for Asian American Studies. As a music theorist, Rao has explored intersections between China and the West, particularly global perspectives in contemporary Chinese music. She has published on the use of music gestures, vocal style, and percussion patterns of Beijing opera in contemporary music. Her study on Ruth Crawford won the award of best article in American music published in 2007 from the Society for American Music. She has continued in the direction of sketch studies, for which her publication can be found in Music Theory Spectrum, as well as Carter Studies Online. At Rutgers, Rao helps students work their way through issues related to various forms of aesthetic concerns, exploitation and collaboration in musical cultural fusion. She encourages her students to explore different theoretical/methodological tools to study the complex phenomenon of cultural fusion, including transcultural theory, cosmopolitanism, and transnational studies. This lecture is free and open to the public.  Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Italian Coffee Hour, a new and fun experience every month where you are welcome to meet and practice your Italian with members of the Italian Program, Italophones, Italophiles, and people with an appreciation for all things Italian. This week, learn some Italian while playing some fun games! For more information, contact cslcstaf@nd.edu.   Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.

BUY TICKETS The passion of youthful love is never more vivid than in Romeo and Juliet, arguably Shakespeare’s most beloved and well-known work. Alternating between laugh-out-loud comedy, exuberant romance, and wrenching tragedy, Romeo and Juliet features Shakespeare’s greatest romantic pairing: a star-crossed duo whose passion careens into disaster. Populated with immortal characters, high drama, and Shakespeare’s most famed passages, Romeo and Juliet is as powerful as ever.     The feud between two dynastic families is put to the ultimate test when Romeo, of the Montague family, and Juliet, of the Capulets, fall deeply into love. Prevented from marrying by their warring families yet unable to turn away from each other, the lovers embark on a dangerous plan to secretly wed, leading to unexpected yet devastating consequences.     Actors From The London Stage, the globally celebrated 5-actor touring company, returns with a fresh new staging of Shakespeare’s immortal tale. With each actor portraying multiple roles, Romeo and Juliet is a stirring, engaging, and moving night of theatre.CAST:Grace Andrews: Juliet / Benvolio / ApothecaryKaffe Keating: Mercutio / Capulet / Balthasar / AbrahamHilary Maclean: Nurse / Prince / Paris / Friar John / Old Capulet / SampsonJonathan Oldfield: Friar Lawrence / Lady Capulet / Tybalt / Peter / MontagueThomas Wingfield: Romeo / Lady Montague / GregorySPECIAL THANKS: Philip d'Orléans, Fight ChoreographerHazel Monaghan, Musical ArrangementsMORE INFORMATION: Tour BlogPRESS & MEDIA:"International Shakespeare troupe returning to Rice Feb 2-4," Rice University News & Media Relations, 1/9/23SPRING 2023 TOUR SCHEDULE:Jan. 23-29: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Jan. 30-Feb. 5: Rice University, Houston, TX Feb. 6-12: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Feb. 13-19: John Carroll University, University Heights, OH Feb. 20-26: University of North Alabama, Florence, AL Feb. 27-Mar. 5: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, INOriginally published at shakespeare.nd.edu.

Please join the History Department for the semi-annual DeSantis Lecture presented by Elizabeth Schmidt, professor emeritus of history at Loyola University Maryland. A reception will follow on the fourth floor of Decio Hall. The lecture is open to all, and registration is not required.Professor Schmidt holds a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Foreign Intervention in Africa After the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (2018); Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (2013); Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958 (2007); Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939-1958 (2005); Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939 (1992); and Decoding Corporate Camouflage: U.S. Business Support for Apartheid (1980). Dr. Schmidt has published in scholarly journals such as the American Historical Review, the Journal of African History, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and in news outlets including the Washington Post.Professor Schmidt's scholarship, teaching, and service have garnered numerous awards including the African Politics Conference Group’s 2008 Best Book Award; Alpha Sigma Nu’s Book Award for History (2008); Loyola’s Nachbahr Award for outstanding scholarly achievement in the Humanities; and the 2012 Bud Day Scholar-Activist Award of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars.  Originally published at history.nd.edu.

BUY TICKETS The passion of youthful love is never more vivid than in Romeo and Juliet, arguably Shakespeare’s most beloved and well-known work. Alternating between laugh-out-loud comedy, exuberant romance, and wrenching tragedy, Romeo and Juliet features Shakespeare’s greatest romantic pairing: a star-crossed duo whose passion careens into disaster. Populated with immortal characters, high drama, and Shakespeare’s most famed passages, Romeo and Juliet is as powerful as ever.     The feud between two dynastic families is put to the ultimate test when Romeo, of the Montague family, and Juliet, of the Capulets, fall deeply into love. Prevented from marrying by their warring families yet unable to turn away from each other, the lovers embark on a dangerous plan to secretly wed, leading to unexpected yet devastating consequences.     Actors From The London Stage, the globally celebrated 5-actor touring company, returns with a fresh new staging of Shakespeare’s immortal tale. With each actor portraying multiple roles, Romeo and Juliet is a stirring, engaging, and moving night of theatre.CAST:Grace Andrews: Juliet / Benvolio / ApothecaryKaffe Keating: Mercutio / Capulet / Balthasar / AbrahamHilary Maclean: Nurse / Prince / Paris / Friar John / Old Capulet / SampsonJonathan Oldfield: Friar Lawrence / Lady Capulet / Tybalt / Peter / MontagueThomas Wingfield: Romeo / Lady Montague / GregorySPECIAL THANKS: Philip d'Orléans, Fight ChoreographerHazel Monaghan, Musical ArrangementsMORE INFORMATION: Tour BlogPRESS & MEDIA:"International Shakespeare troupe returning to Rice Feb 2-4," Rice University News & Media Relations, 1/9/23SPRING 2023 TOUR SCHEDULE:Jan. 23-29: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Jan. 30-Feb. 5: Rice University, Houston, TX Feb. 6-12: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Feb. 13-19: John Carroll University, University Heights, OH Feb. 20-26: University of North Alabama, Florence, AL Feb. 27-Mar. 5: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, INOriginally published at shakespeare.nd.edu.

The Chicago-based, genre-defying young violinist presents, together with Daniel Schlosberg, sonatas by H. Leslie Adams and Irene Britton Smith, and recent works by Nathalie Joachim and Ahmed Alabaca. This concert in the O'Neill Hall of Music is free and not ticketed.  Originally published at music.nd.edu.