News

Ravarino Family Director of the Center for Italian Studies and Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, Professor Theodore Cachey, has been invited to sit on the scientific committee for the 2021 Dante centenary organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Read More about Italian Studies Director Serves on Vatican Dante Centenary Committee

This article is the twenty-third in a series of blog posts published by the Keough School of Global Affairs. Dignity and Development provides in-depth analysis of global challenges through the lens of integral human development.  The global coronavirus pandemic has tested and reshaped societies around the globe, including national and international refugee support systems. The reported experiences of refugees, volunteers and social workers convey how local communities can continue to support and integrate each other through messages of courage, trust, perseverance and kindness. These messages can strengthen the efforts to remain resilient despite the logistical challenges that quarantine has brought about. As Maurizio Albahari wrote in a recent blog post,…

Read More about Accompanying Refugees in Italy During a Pandemic

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies is pleased to share the story of Pietro Roberto Goisis, a Milan-based psychiatrist who survived coronavirus. Translated by Ingrid Rowland. 

Read More about Milan-based psychiatrist, Pietro Roberto Goisis, on surviving Coronavirus

Listen to Italian Studies faculty affiliate, Prof. Barry McCrea, deliver a radio essay on teaching literature in a pandemic for Ireland's RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday Miscellany…

Read More about "Lockdown Literature," a pandemic reading list by Prof. Barry McCrea

Enrico Terrinoni, Full Professor Chair of English Literature at Università Per Stranieri di Perugia and a Visiting Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute in Fall 2019, writes about completing his new translation of James Joyce's Ulysses while in quarantine. The translation is a task he is undertaking in a country suffering greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic and in a city rendered eerily quiet by it.

Read More about Translation . .or a hundred years of ulyssitude

During this time of social distancing and restricted movement, of potential interest to affiliates of Notre Dame's Center for Italian Studies and other Italophiles is the New York Metropolitan Opera's schedule of streamed operas…

Read More about NY Metropolitan Opera is streaming operas nightly for free

Three weeks before Italy went on lockdown to combat the spread of COVID-19, the Rome Global Gateway (RGG) was preemptively taking drastic measures to protect its study abroad students, faculty, staff, and surrounding community. The RGG was the first study abroad program at the University of Notre Dame to witness and respond to what has since evolved into a global pandemic.…

Read More about How the Rome Global Gateway responded to the COVID-19 crisis

On March 17, 2020, Prof. Vittorio Hösle was interviewed (in Italian) by Fiorinda Li Vigni of the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici) for its series on the COVID-19 pandemic, "Diario della crisi."

Read More about Faculty affiliate interviewed on the COVID-19 pandemic

Due to the new University policies and guidelines that have emerged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Italian Studies is cancelling all public events between now and April 13, as well as several others which involve scholars from the US, Italy, and across Europe who have been affected by the current global health crisis.

Read More about Center for Italian Studies Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

David Lummus, assistant director of the Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, has won an award from the Modern Language Association of America for his manuscript about the poet’s role as an authority in the political arena in the 14th century. Lummus accepted the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies at the MLA’s annual convention in Seattle last month for The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy.

Read More about Dante scholar wins Modern Language Association of America award for book on 14th-century poets

Professor Sabrina Ferri (Romance Languages and Literatures–Italian), faculty affiliate of the Center for Italian Studies, is co-organizing a conference with Professor Clorinda Donato (California State University, Long Beach) on the Italian Enlightenment journal "Il Caffè" as a part of the annual core program of the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library on 5-6 November 2021

Read More about Italian Studies Affiliate to Organize Conference on Italian Enlightenment at UCLA's Clark Library

Professors W. Martin Bloomer (Classics), Meredith Chesson (Anthropology), and Charles Leavitt IV (Romance Languages and Literatures–Italian), faculty affiliates of the Center for Italian Studies, have received a grant from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies to pursue a project entitled "Place, Memory, Story in Contemporary Calabria: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Recuperation of Heritage."

Read More about Three Italian Studies Affiliates to Begin Collaborative Work on Contemporary Calabria

Matteo Favaretto joined the Center for Italian Studies and Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in Fall 2019 as the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission. We recently sat down with Matteo to learn a little more about him and the work he will be doing at Notre Dame.

Read More about Q&A with Marie Curie Fellow Matteo Favaretto

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the History of Philosophy Forum, which will host the inaugural stand-alone conference of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at Notre Dame from Sept. 30 to Oct 2, 2020.

Read More about News from the History of Philosophy Forum

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: [Satire fate in occasione de sede vacante per la morte di Papa Clemente XIII Carlo Rezzonico l’anno 1769.] Bound manuscript preserving 61 poems. A sede vacante– the period between a pope’s death and the election of his successor– was historically a period of disorder and transgression within the city of Rome, during which the deceased pope and other figures of authority were lampooned in songs and poetry. Chief amongst these compositions were pasquinades, or satirical poems that were pasted onto the fragmentary statue of Pasquino near the Piazza Navona. Once posted on Pasquino or one of the city’s other statue parlanti…

Read More about New Library acquisition: Satire fate in occasione de sede vacante...

Launched from the Rome Global Gateway, Initiatives are long-term collaborations on a single theme designed to bring together Notre Dame students and faculty with partners in the city. Three Initiatives are currently underway: Mapping Rome, Pathways to Rome…

Read More about New Initiatives provide multifaceted opportunities in Rome

Community-based learning (CBL) is a form of experiential education that integrates community engagement with instruction and reflection, deepening and enhancing the learning that takes place both in and outside the classroom. When in Rome students have the opportunity to engage with timely topics such as Migrants and refugees crisis in Rome…

Read More about Experiencing Rome through Community-Based Learning

The Devers Family Program in Dante Studies announces the publication of Dante e la cultura fiorentina. Bono Giamboni, Brunetto Latini e la formazione intellettuale dei laici, edited by Luca Lombardo, Zygmunt G. Barański, and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. (Rome: Salerno editrice, 2019).

Read More about New Publication: Dante e la cultura fiorentina / Dante and Florentine Culture

The Rome Global Gateway announces a consortium with Stanford University and Princeton University’s Humanities Council to support the Rome Seminar, a one-month funded summer course for graduate students held in the city. The Seminar introduces students to working with primary sources in Rome. Taught on-site in archives and libraries, graduate students from diverse disciplines learn hands-on how to find primary sources. …

Read More about The Rome Global Gateway announces consortium with Stanford University and Princeton University

Notre Dame's study abroad program in Rome is open to all Notre Dame students. Read more below, download the brochure (PDF, 760KB), or learn more on the Study Abroad website. The 2020 program dates are May 19 to June 28. The deadline to apply is February 1, 2020.

Read More about Applications open for 2020 Rome Summer Program