Art and History
Ravarino Lecture: “Pandemic and Wages in Boccaccio’s Florence”
The Center for Italian Studies presents the sixth annual Ravarino Lecture on April 27, 2023. The 2023 lecture will be delivered by William Caferro of Vanderbilt University. ...
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Conversations That Matter | Virtual Apocalypse: Renewing Christian Culture in a Digital World
Episode 2: The Virtue of Art Explore how the experience of making and enjoying art reminds us what it means to be human in a world of increasing automation and artificial...
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Aftermaths II: The Invasion of Iraq in the Present
This event is part of the 2022-23 Notre Dame Forum, focused on the theme “War & Peace.” Twenty years ago the United States invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq, a country of...
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A Biographical Bet: Fortune, Limits, and New Directions of Dante’s New Lives
“Vite nuove. Biografia e autobiografia di Dante” (Fayard & Carocci, 2021) aimed less to chronicle the life of Dante Alighieri than to raise essential, still unanswered...
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The Berlin Cathedral: Designing, Building, Preserving
Sonja Tubbesing will speak about the preservation of historical monuments, particularly about the Berlin Cathedral, ongoing maintenance of the building, and planned construction...
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The Border Has To Be Crossed
The Border Has To Be Crossed: Alie Ataee and Atiq Rahimi in conversation with Amir Ahmadi Arian. Join us on Friday, March 24, 2023, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET. Register here...
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Virtual Slow Look
Join the Snite Museum of Art on Zoom for a slow look at Markey Robinson’s Road or Days Beyond Recall. We’ll use tools of mindfulness meditation as a way to approach and...
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Education and the New AI
Artificial Intelligence is changing rapidly with new technologies that create complex artistic images from scratch and generate human-looking text in seconds. These systems are...
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The Italian Research Seminar
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...
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OVI-UND Seminar Series: Linguistic, Philological, and Literary Developments in the Italian Middle Ages
Each Spring semester since 2016, in partnership with the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, the Center for Italian Studies sponsors a series of video conference seminars conducted...
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William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
In collaboration with the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, the Devers Program initiated a series dedicated to the publication of the most significant current...
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Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
This exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with...
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