Register here to attend via Zoom>>Documenting human rights violations during armed conflict is difficult and can be dangerous, and the data that results is generally incomplete. Some records of violence are missing key information about the victim, the presumed perpetrator, or the context of the violence; some victims’ stories are undocumented altogether, leaving gaps in the data. In this talk, Maria Gargiulo, a statistician with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), will discuss the joint project between the Colombian Truth Commission (CEV), the Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP), and the HRDAG. This collaboration—the largest human rights data project to date—uses statistical methods to examine patterns of homicide, enforced disappearance, kidnapping, forced displacement, and the recruitment of child soldiers during the armed conflict in Colombia. Gargiulo will introduce a statistical methodology that can be used to overcome data gaps while documenting human rights violations, and will discuss how this methodology can be replicated using Verdata, an R package created to aid researchers when designing their own analyses about the impacts of the conflict. Following the presentation, Joséphine Lechartre and Patrick McQuestion, Kroc Institute Ph.D. students, will offer their comments as discussants. The event will be moderated by Josefina Echavarría, professor of the practice. This event takes place within the framework of the Legacy Project at the University of Notre Dame, which seeks to preserve the digital archive of the Colombian Truth Commission, and provide unique sources of testimonies from over 30,000 victims, witnesses and offenders of the 52-year long armed conflict. It is cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Northern Ireland, and the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, with the support of Humanity United. In addition to this lecture, The Legacy Project invites you to attend a workshop Unregistered Victims: Statistical Methods, Data, and the Findings of the Colombian Truth Commission hosted by the Lucy Institute in Jenkins Nanovic Halls room 1030 on December 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Interested attendees can register here. It is cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Northern Ireland, and the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, with the support of Humanity United.   In addition to this lecture, The Legacy Project invites you to attend a workshop Unregistered Victims: Statistical Methods, Data, and the Findings of the Colombian Truth Commission hosted by the Lucy Institute in Jenkins Nanovic Halls room 1030 on December 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Interested attendees can register here. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

 The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Loredana Polezzi (Stony Brook) titled:  Desire, Anxiety, Shame: Transatlantic (Re)Mediations and “Italian Culture”  In this talk, Professor Polezzi will look at the complex and often fraught processes of linguistic and cultural translation/mediation which characterize the relationship between Italian and Italian American culture in the 20th Century. Through the notion of ‘affect’ and, in particular, articulations of ‘desire’, 'anxiety', and ‘shame’, she will explore how these exchanges still resonate today with the construction and perception of individual figures as well as of the field of Italian American Studies. She will concentrate on two moments and the related trajectories: the ongoing re-framing of mid-century Italian accounts of Italian American life, such as the essays collected in Prezzolini's volume I trapiantati (recently translated into English as The Transplanted); and a parallel reading of personal narratives of crossing geographic, social and language boundaries in La straniera/Strangers I know by Claudia Durastanti and in Kym Ragusa’s The Skin between Us and the short film Fuori/Outside.Loredana Polezzi is the Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies at Stony Brook University. She has written on contemporary Italian travel writing, colonial and postcolonial literature, migrant and diasporic cultures, translingualism and self-translation. She is one of the founding editors of the ‘Transnational Modern Languages’ book series, published by Liverpool University Press, and co-editor of Transnational Italian Studies (2020) and Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation (2020).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.

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. Fall Schedule October 26, 2023 - "Renaissance translations of the Psalms into Polish: A Bibliological Approach"Rajmund Pietkiewicz (Pontifical Faculty of Theology)November 16, 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) Previous Sessions 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 (Ghent University)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)  Originally listed at nanovic.nd.edu.  

REGISTER HERE Roosevelt Montás, professor, author and director of the Freedom and Citizenship Program at Columbia University, will discuss Freedom, Citizenship and Liberal Learning. Roosevelt specializes in Antebellum American literature and culture, with a particular interest in American national identity. His dissertation, Rethinking America, won Columbia University’s 2004 Bancroft Award. In 2000, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student and in 2008, he received the Dominican Republic’s National Youth Prize. He regularly teaches moral and political philosophy in the Columbia Core Curriculum as well seminars in American studies. Roosevelt speaks widely on the history, place, and future of the humanities in the higher education and is the author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation There will be time for audience questions. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum housed at the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education.

Trustworthy Machine Learning and the Security Mindset is presented by Somesh Jha, the Lubar Professor in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin. His work focuses on analysis of security protocols, survivability analysis, intrusion detection, formal methods for security, and analyzing malicious code. Recently, he has focused his interest on privacy and Adversarial Machine Learning. This is the second of eight lectures in the Ten Years Hence Speaker Series which will focus on Artificial Intelligence: Promise and Peril. All lectures are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public. No tickets or registration required. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment.  Contact: Jean Meade  

 The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Francesca Fiorani (University of Virginia) titled: Leonardo da Vinci’s Way of Seeing Water. Wetlands, Mapping, and the Art of PaintingLeonardo da Vinci’s close observation of water is well known as is his unparalleled draftsmanship in rendering water eddies, turns, swirls, and flows. In this lecture, Prof. Fiorani focuses on the artist’s observations on wetlands—swamps, marshes, bayous, rivers, lakes—and on his representations of them in maps, drawings, and paintings. Prof. Fiorani will privilege texts and images that relate to specific places and moments of the artist’s life and that uniquely document the environmental history of various places in the Italian peninsula. Some of the texts and images on wetlands that Prof. Fiorani will examine relate to military campaigns, others to draining projects, other still to commerce and navigation, or to the improvement of mills or water lifting devises, or even to the destructive power of water. Above all, though, all these materials document Leonardo’s lifelong fascination with the wetland landscape itself, a fascination that came to play for him a foundational role in his way of painting and in his way of writing about art. Francesca Fiorani is professor of art history at the University of Virginia, where she also served as associate dean for the arts and humanities and chair of the art department. An expert on the intersections of art, science, and technology, she has now turned to the study of global networks of the early modern period, the transmission of Arab science into the Latin West, and Leonardo da Vinci's art theory. In collaboration with UVA’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, she created “Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting.” She is the author of numerous books, including The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint (2020) and The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography, and Politics in Renaissance Italy (2005). The lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History, and Design.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.

The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the HumanitiesConcurrent Professor of Film, Television & Theatre; Professor of European Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs; Director of the Initiative for Global Europe, Keough School of Global Affairs Research and Teaching InterestsContemporary European Studies (migration, refugees, European Union, populism)German literature and filmHolocaust StudiesGerman Jewish StudiesArt as a form of protest, social engagement, and community building TopicThis talk will be based on how the U.S. was a mentor to Germany post-war, and how we now need to look to Germany to recon with our own history w/r/t race in order to bolster our democracy. This is event is free and open to the public. Originally published at rooneycenter.nd.edu.