Spotlight Exhibit: The Elisabeth Markstein Archive — Elisabeth Markstein (1929-2013) was the daughter of a high-ranking communist official in Austria. Because of these communist connections and because her mother was Jewish, the family fled Vienna when Nazi Germany annexed the country in 1938. Eventually, the family found refuge in the Soviet Union, where Elisabeth spent her formative years from the late 1930s through the war years. After the war Markstein went on to earn a Ph.D. in Russian literature at the U. of Vienna and to study at the Translation Institute. In the 1950s she began a long career as a teacher, literary scholar, and award-winning translator.

5:00pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "Sandro Botticelli on Facing in Dante's Paradiso" — Heather Webb (Cambridge). Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Fall Exhibit: Ingenious Exercises: Sports and the Printed Book in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 — What was the nature of sports in the early modern era, before the widespread preoccupation with rules, records and Reeboks? And what kinds of books did people write about them? “Ingenious Exercises” addresses precisely these questions. This exhibit of volumes derived from the extensive holdings in the Joyce Sports Collection. The exhibit remained on display through mid-December.

Spotlight Exhibit: The Elisabeth Markstein Archive — Continued from August (above).

5:00pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "From the Body to the Body Politic: Peter Leopold's Creation of the Tuscan Enlightenment State" — Rebecca Messbarger (Washington University). Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:00pm | Questing for God: A Symposium Honoring Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ. Sponsored by The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.

Spotlight Exhibit: The Nathaniel Rogers Sermon Notebook, ca. 1634-1645 — This exhibit is dedicated to an important recent acquisition: a journal of sermon notes compiled by the Puritan minister Nathaniel Rogers (1598-1655), before and after his emigration from England to Massachusetts. This exhibit remained on display through March 2017.

Spotlight Exhibit: Plumb Crazy—Dante and Music — This small exhibit highlighted selections from the Hesburgh Libraries' collections of musical adaptations of Dante's works.

5:00pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "Where Do Ideas Come From? Of Critical Method and/or Historical Materialism" — Joseph Francese (Michigan State). Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: Two Irish Bibles — On display were the Old Testament Irish translation known as Bedell's Bible, printed in 1685, and Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta's An Bíobla Naofa (1981), the first Catholic Bible in Irish.

5:00pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "The Dynamic Psyche: Italian Pragmatism and Fascism" — Francesca Bordogna (Notre Dame). Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions — Photograph Albums of Travel to Cuba, ca. 1900 — Rare Books and Special Collections recently acquired two photograph albums of Cuba: the Liebee Family Cuba Photo Album and the Gómez Souvenir Album. The two albums illustrate the manner in which late nineteenth-century travelers memorialized their journeys through photography.

4:30pm | Italian Research Seminar: "Economic and Communal Implications of Blood in Dante" - Anne Leone (Notre Dame) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions — Photograph Albums of Travel to Cuba, ca. 1900 — Continued from August (above).

4:00pm | Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture: "Heaney, Place and Property" - Christopher Morash (Trinity College Dublin) — Sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

4:30pm | "Dante's Other Works" 2015: Monarchia - Paola Nasti (Reading) — Co-sponsored by the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:30pm | After Gutenberg: Exhibit Opening and Keynote Lecture — Co-sponsored by the Henkels Lecture Fund, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Department of History, and Hesburgh Libraries.

4:30pm | "Dante's Other Works" 2015: Theology and the other works - Vittorio Montemaggi (Notre Dame), and Philosophy and the other works - Luca Bianchi (Piemonte Orientale) — Co-sponsored by the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:00pm | "The Future of the Past: Revival Ireland 1891-1922" - Declan Kiberd (Notre Dame) — Sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

Spotlight Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions — Building the Yeats Collection — Visiting professor John Kelly alerted the Library to the availabilty of the Yeats collection of American scholar and bibliographer Milton McClintock Gatch. In all, 32 volumes from the Gatch Collection have been added to the Hesburgh Library, adding significantly to the already rich Yeats Collection at the Hesburgh Library.

4:30pm | "Dante's Other Works" 2015: Questio de aqua et terra - Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. (Notre Dame), and Authenticity and the other works - Albert R. Ascoli (Berkeley) — Co-sponsored by the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:30pm | Research Seminar: "Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories" - Alan O'Leary (University of Leeds) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: The Evgeniia Ginzburg and Antonina Axenova Collection — Evgeniia Solomonovna Ginzburg (1904–1977) was a journalist and teacher who wrote an acclaimed autobiographical account of her 18-year journey through the Stalin Gulag. Born in the Kolyma camps, Antonina Axenova (1946-) was adopted by Ginzburg in 1949 when Antonina was 3 years old. RBSC recently acquired this collection which consists of material related to Ginzburg's arrest and her life in the camps as well as material relating to Axenova's professional life.

3:00pm | Symposium: The Troubles — Co-sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Brian J. Logue Fund for Northern Ireland.

• "The Meaning of the Troubles" - Ian McBride (King's Cross London)
• "The Long War" - Ruán O'Donnell (University of Limerick)

4:30pm | "Dante's Other Works" 2015: Eclogues - Jonathan Combs-Schilling (Ohio State) and Fiore and Detto d'Amore - Christopher Kleinhenz (Wisconsin-Madison) — Co-sponsored by the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: The Evgeniia Ginzburg and Antonina Axenova Collection — Continued from November (above).

Traveling Exhibit: First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library — In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's legacy, the Folger Shakespeare Library is launching a national tour of the First Folio—the University of Notre Dame has been selected as Indiana's only host site. Thanks to a partnership forged between Shakespeare at Notre Dame, Hesburgh Libraries Rare Books and Special Collections, and the Robinson Community Learning Center, you'll have a rare opportunity to experience this historic and famous book first hand!

Housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections gallery of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame marks the official first stop of the First Folio national tour and exhibit.

Spotlight Exhibit: Constructing Shakespeare — The posthumous First Folio printing of William Shakespeare's plays in 1623 represents a landmark development in the history of English drama, rescuing some of the bard's works that would have been lost forever. The earlier editions that do exist, however, differ markedly from the First Folio, and there is little evidence that Shakespeare oversaw their publication. What, then, is the "real" text?

The Shakespeare we know emerges from hundreds of years of this debate. Current holdings and recent acquisitions in Rare Books and Special Collections shed light on the discussion as it developed into the nineteenth century. Selections from the Second and Third Folio accompanied printings by some of Shakespeare's earliest critical editors, including the famous poet Alexander Pope and the moral censor Thomas Bowdler.

4:16pm | Ribbon Cutting Ceremony - To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's legacy (1616-2016), the ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at exactly 16:16 on 1/6/16, a numerical tribute to the enduring impact his words and works have had on our world for four centuries.

4:00pm | "Folio Fridays" Lecture: Printed Shakespeare: Quartos, Folios, and the History of Books - Jesse Lander (Chair, Department of English, Notre Dame)

4:00pm | "Folio Fridays" Lecture: Mobile Shakespeare - Elliott Visconsi (Chief Academic Digital Officer, Notre Dame)

Shakespeare Week: January 18–22 - During the third week of the First Folio exhibit – Monday, January 18 through Friday, January 22 – there was increased traffic from 9am–3pm. Shakespeare at Notre Dame led 90-minute encounters with over 1000 students from throughout Indiana and Southern Michigan.

Spring Exhibit: Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion — The Easter Rising of 1916 was one of the most important events in Irish history. The exhibit features items from our Easter Rising Ephemera collection, from our Irish Manuscript collection, and from our book and newspaper collections. In addition, material from the Notre Dame Archives helps us to see the international aspect of the Easter Rising. The exhibit remained on display through late April.

Spring Spotlight Exhibit: Native American Literature before 1924 — To honor the legacy of Native American writer, this exhibit presents a small sampling of the literature produced before 1924, when passage of the Indian Citizenship Act granted citizenship to all Native Americans. The exhibit remained on display through September 2016.

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: Graduate Student Presentations — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "Toxic Tales: Narrating Dioxin in Contemporary Italy" - Monica Seger (William and Mary) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: Hoops and Herstory: Early Women's Basketball History in the Joyce Sports Research Collection — In 2001 Notre Dame's women's basketball team won the NCAA national championship. Exactly 100 years earlier an instructor at Smith College in Northampton, MA, Senda Berenson, created rules for women and girls for the new game of "basket ball." She published them in a series of guides by Spalding, the sporting goods manufacturer. Spalding's Athletic Library series is an example of the significant sources held in the Joyce Sports Research Collection that document the history of women's sports in the twentieth-century United States.

Spotlight Exhibit: Ryosuke Cohen's Brain Cell 261: Mail Art from the Vagrich and Irene Bakhchanyan Collections — This spotlight exhibit showcased a piece of mail art sent by Ryosuke Cohen to the Soviet émigré artist and poet Vagrich Bakhchanyan (1938-2009). It is drawn from the substantial collection of mail art in the Vagrich and Irene Bakhchanyan Collections, acquired by the Hesburgh Libraries in 2013.

6:00pm | One Book, One Michiana: "Spirits of Another Sort: Imagining Faeries in A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Jesse Lander (Notre Dame)

5:00pm | "Lev Loseff: Poet, Son and Exile" - Barry P. Scherr (Dartmouth) — Sponsored by the Program in Russian and East European Studies and Hesburgh Libraries.

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "Boccaccio and Petrarch on Poetry: Genealogy of the Pagan Gods and Invectives against the Physician" - David Lummus (Stanford) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Summer Exhibit: Vestigia Vaticana: An exhibition of papal manuscripts, books, and more — Manuscripts, incunabula, seals, maps, engravings, and printed books from the thirteenth century to the present highlight how the Holy Father has left his mark on society. These materials from RBSC, together with a great bull on loan from Saint Mary's College, are featured in the new exhibit "Vestigia Vaticana." The exhibit opened to coincide with the conference The Promise of the Vatican Library, being held May 8–10, 2016, at the University of Notre Dame, and remained on display through mid-August.

Spotlight Exhibit: Ryosuke Cohen's Brain Cell 261: Mail Art from the Vagrich and Irene Bakhchanyan Collections — Continued from April (above).

Spotlight Exhibit: The Catholic Pamphlet Collection — The Catholic Pamphlets Collection in RBSC includes more than 5000 pamphlets, published from the 1840s to the present. This extensive collection includes pamphlets on saints and sacraments, daily Catholic life, moral issues, and Catholic social thought and action—as highlighted by the thirteen pamphlets featured in this exhibit.

Spotlight Exhibit: Three Works of Piranesi — Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) was a renowned etcher and engraver of Roman scenes. The library's volume is dedicated to Pope Clement XIII, an important patron of Piranesi's, and incorporates three related works from 1762-1764. All three focus on the environs of Castel Gandolfo, which is just outside of Rome, overlooking Lake Albano, and is the summer residence of the popes. On display was a print set within the ancient drainage tunnels at Lake Albano.

Spotlight Exhibit: Reporting from the Western Front during World War I — Featured is a pictorial news article by the prominent war correspondent, Frederic Villiers (1852-1922), about German entrenchments during the first Battle of Aisne.

5:00pm | Dept. of History Lecture: Andrew Beaumont (Hertford College, Oxford University)

1:00pm - 4:00pm | Italian Studies Lecture: "Dante’s Prayer to the Virgin, the Commedia and the Marian Tradition" - Brian K. Reynolds (Fu Jen Catholic University)

3:30pm - 6:30pm | Italian Studies Workshop: "Theological Culture in Dante's Florence" — Organized by the AHRC-funded Project "Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society," co-led by the Universities of Leeds and Warwick. Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame. Presented by Matthew Treherne, Claire Honess, Anna Pegoretti and Nicolò Maldina.

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: " 'There’s Nothing Like Going to an Authority!' : Valentino, Mussolini and Celebrity Culture in 1920s America" - Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:00pm | Irish Lecture: "Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1922" - Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford) — Sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

4:30pm | "The Pace of Praise: Might Theology Walk Together with Literature?" - Robin Kirkpatrick (Cambridge) — Sponsored by the Notre Dame journal Religion & Literature.

Spotlight Exhibit: The Patrick McCabe Papers — The Hesburgh Library recently acquired the papers of Irish writer Patrick McCabe. A leading Irish writer and former Distinguished Keough Visiting Professor at Notre Dame, McCabe was twice shortlisted for the Booker prize for his novels The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. Born in Clones, County Monaghan in 1955, he is a writer of novels, short stories, plays and film scripts, and has been in the forefront of the Irish literary scene for the past thirty years at least.

Recption, hosted by the Hon. Aidan Cronin (Consul General of Ireland), following the Hibernian Lecture: "Chief O'Neill's Music of Ireland" - Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin which began at 4:00pm in the William J. Carey Auditorium, Hesburgh Library — Sponsored by the Cushwa Center, the Keough-Naughton Institute, the Hesburgh Libraries, and the Consul General of Ireland in Chicago.

4:00pm | ND Digital Week 2014, Roundtable: Scholarship in the New Knowledge Economy — Digital advances are fundamentally altering traditional processes of scholarly communication. In this roundtable, speakers will discuss the significance of the shift from print to digital technology as the primary medium in which scholarship occurs. Featuring: Tara McPherson (USC), Erin McLaughlin (Notre Dame), Elliott Visconsi (Notre Dame), Jim Collins (Notre Dame), Time Flanagan (Notre Dame), and John Wang (Hesburgh Libraries).

1:30pm | ND Digital Week 2014, Keynote: "Lost in Translation? Some Strategies for Designing an Effective Online Course" - Jen Ebbeler (UT Austin) — Key to the translation of a successful classroom course into the online environment is thinking about how to leverage the strengths of the online environment to reimagine how teaching/learning work in your course. In this talk Ebbeler discusses the benefits of the online environment, pinpoints the challenges of online course design, and provides some best practices for those new to the digital classroom.

3:15pm | ND Digital Week 2014 Roundtable: Going Digital to Improve the World,t — How does higher education use digital tools to improve the world? What roles do digital technology and academia play in conversations about healthcare, economic development, democracy, and universal education? In this roundtable, speakers will discuss how academics are working to change the world for the better through the digital. Featuring: Nitesh Chawla, Tom Marentette, Marya Lieberman, Emily Block, and Maria McKenna.

4:00pm | Badin Bible Symposium — Sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.

4:30pm | "Modernism at War: Pirandello and the Crisis of Collective Identity" - Michael Subialka (St. Hugh's College, Oxford) — Co-sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:30pm | A conversation wth Cuban writer Victor Fowler (in Spanish) — Co-sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Fernández Funds, and the Fernández Caribbean Initiative

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "Theorizing the (Roman) Child" - Martin Bloomer (Notre Dame) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Russian Avant-Garde: Books from the Herbert P. J. Marshall Collection — This spotlight exhibit presents three Russian avant-garde books by and about Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), the great troubadour of the Bolshevik Revolution, as well as original documents pertaining to Mayakovsky and his circle. All are from the Herbert P. J. Marshall collection. Illustrated by such prominent early twentieth-century artists as El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko, the books demonstrate new forms of design, typography, and language that emerged in Soviet Russia to inspire the revolutionary spirit.

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "Boccaccio and the Coup in Florence (1360-61)" - Elsa Filosa (Vanderbilt) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Russian Avant-Garde: Books from the Herbert P. J. Marshall Collection — Continued from November (above).

Spotlight Exhibit: Sebastian Brant and The Ship of Fools — This spotlight exhibit presents a satirical work titled Das Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam published by Sebastian Brant, a German jurist and humanist scholar, in Basel, Switzerland, in 1494. Lampooning and illustrating over 112 follies and vices of humankind, it became an international bestseller of the Renaissance as it was quickly translated into other languages.

4:30pm | "Dante's Other Works" 2015: Vita nova - Zyg Baranski (Cambridge-Notre Dame) — Co-sponsored by the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: Sebastian Brant and The Ship of Fools — Continued from January (above).

Spotlight Exhibit: Quaestiones by Giles of Rome — The subject of this Spotlight Exhibit was a late medieval manuscript acquired in October 2015, Notre Dame Frag. I. 31. It is a set of five scholastic questions attributed to Giles of Rome (1243/7-1316), Master of Theology at Paris, Prior General of the Augustinian Hermits, and Bishop of Bourges. The manuscript is unique because it exists in the form in which it was circulated, two gatherings of seven folios total; it has never been bound with another collection of manuscripts.

4:30pm | "Joseph Brodsky: Digital Humanities Lab" - a seminar by Marjeta Bozovic (Yale) — Co-sponsored by the Nanovic Institute, REES, Hesburgh Libraries, and the Department of German &Russian.

4:30pm | "Dante's Other Works" 2015: Epistles - Claire Honess (Leeds) — Co-sponsored by the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:00pm | Breandán Ó Buachalla Memorial Lecture: "Man and Bull in Táin Bó Cúailnge" - Tomás Ó Cathasaigh (Harvard) — Co-sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Department of Irish Language and Literature.

Spotlight Exhibit: Birmingham Black Barons Records — This spotlight exhibit focused on a collection of manuscript business records of the Birmingham, Alabama, Black Barons, an elite black professional baseball team during the pro game's long era of segregation. The most notable item is an account book recording the club's financial transactions with each of its players for the 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, and 1930 seasons, including the legendary pitcher Leroy ("Satchel") Paige. The Libraries acquired the collection in 2005.

4:30pm | "Dante's Other Works" 2015: Rime - Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford) — Co-sponsored by the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:00pm | "Dante's Other Works" 2015: Convivio - Simon Gilson (Warwick), and De vulgari eloquentia - Steven Botterill (Berkeley) — Co-sponsored by the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:00pm | Poetry Reading with Irish poet Colette Bryce — Sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

Spotlight Exhibit: The Conservation of Captain Francis O'Neill's Music Manuscripts — Our May spotlight exhibit, curated by Liz Dube and Sue Donovan, showcased the treatment of two music manuscripts from the Captain Francis O'Neill collection. The manuscripts are the only two of their kind in the collection, and they were in poor condition after years of handling. Their treatment involved stabilizing the bindings and mending and resewing the text, which can be a time-consuming procedure, but which was rationalized by the items' importance in the collection and in RBSC.

In the exhibit, the use of photographs together with the actual manuscripts allowed the observer to see the condition of the items before treatment contrasted with the condition after treatment.

Spotlight Exhibit: Giorgio Fossati's Collection of Various Fables (Venice, 1744) — Giorgio Fossati (1705-1785) gathered 216 fables, from a variety of sources, into these two volumes. Each tale, given in parallel columns of Italian and French, is illustrated with a full-page engraving. Fossati has grouped the stories into six "books" of thirty-six, which are bound together in these two volumes.

Each fable is accompanied by a full-page illustration intended, according to the author's introduction, to arouse the curiosity of the audience. Many of these compositions portray animals, with architectural settings frequently in evidence as well.

The Italian Research Seminar: John Welle (Notre Dame), "Reading Divismo: Chronicles from the Golden Age of Italian Silent Film" - Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Patrick McCabe (Irish novelist), "Irish Village Life over 100 years....from Brass Band to Broadband" - Sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

Brian Reynolds (Fu Jen Catholic University), "Theo-poetic Approaches to the Virgin Mary in Dante's Commedia" - Co-sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame and the Devers Series for Dante Studies.

Poetry Reading with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Distinguished Professor of Irish Poetry and Naughton Fellow, Fall 2013) - Sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

The Italian Research Seminar: Karla Mallette (University of Michigan), "Petrarch at Sea: Late Style in the Canzoniere" - Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

David McWilliams (Irish economist, broadcaster and author), "Ireland, Europe and the Irish Diaspora - Re-imagining Ireland in the 21st Century" - Sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

Exhibit Opening Reception: Tír na nÓg - Literature for Young People from the Hesburgh Libraries' Collection - Sponsored by the Hesburgh Libraries.

Collaborations, Archives, Reading: Poster Poems, Drawings, and Monotypes by Jean Dibble and Douglas Kinsey based on the poetry of John Matthias [PDF]

"Performing the Middle Ages" - Presentation by Professor Margot Fassler's Liturgical Prayer class and Dr David Gura.

"From Scrutiny to Penance: the Inquisition as seen through the McDevitt Inquisition Collection in the Hesburgh Library" - Sesion II in Conversion & Literature, a Mellon-ISLA Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop.

Reception after the Hesburgh Libraries Lecture: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Director, Rare Book School University of Virginia), "Can These Dry Bones Live? Old Books, Modern Libraries, and The Digital Domain"

Franziska Meier (Universität Göttingen), "Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping of the Artist" - Co‑sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame and the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies.

Massimo Lollini (University of Oregon), "Poetic Geography and More than Human Humanism in Sardinian Literature from Grazia Deledda to Marcello Fois" - Co-sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame, the PhD in Literature Progam, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

The Italian Research Seminar: Margaret Meserve (Notre Dame), "Heralds, Printers, and Humanists: Techniques of Publication in Early Modern Rome" - Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Silvia Guerra Díaz (Uruguayan poet and scholar), "El mapa bajo el mapa: Diálogos con Mistral en la América de los años 30." ‑ Co‑sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Henkels Interdisciplinary Visiting Speaker, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.

Ambrosiana Lecture: Don Federico Gallo (Accademia Ambrosiana and Biblioteca Ambrosiana), "The Library of S. Maria Incoronata in the 15th century" - Co-sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame, the PhD in Literature Program, the Medieval Institute, the Department of Classics and Hesburgh Libraries.

Declan Kiberd (Notre Dame), "Invisible Republics: Modernism and Childhood" - Sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: James Cotton, Martino Rabaioli and Xiaoyi Zhang - Graduate Research — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

10:00am - 5:00pm | Symposium: Robert Creeley's Library — Sponsored by the Department of English, the Hesburgh Libraries, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. {download a PDF about the symposium}

5:00pm | Russian and East European Studies, RBSC Lecture Series: "Poetry, Performance, Political Resistance, and Mass Spectacle in the 1960s Soviet Union" - Donald Loewen (SUNY-Binghamton University) — Sponsored by the Hesburgh Libraries, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, the Russian and East European Studies Program, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. {download a PDF about the lecture series}

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "Italy Seen at Its Margins: Photography and Social Exclusion Since 1861" - David Forgacs (New York University) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

New Acquisitions Spotlight Exhibit: Samizdat and Uncensored Literature in the post-Stalin Soviet Union — This introductory exhibit highlighted literary, artistic, and political samizdat works from the recently acquired Russian manuscript collections, including an original typescript of Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tale; Rimma Zanevskaia’s hand-made illustrated poetry collection; the 1979 Moscow Helsinki Watch Group Report on human rights abuses in the Soviet Union; as well as drawings, photographs, and correspondence of famous Soviet dissidents and samizdat publishers, among them Aleksandr Ginzburg and Vladimir Maramzin.

2:00pm - 5:05pm | Workshop: "Ambrose: Bishop, Homilist, Hymnist, Exegete" - with Francesco Braschi (Biblioteca Ambrosiana) — Sponsored by the PhD in Literature, the Medieval Institute and Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

11:30am - 1:00pm | Public Seminar: "Dantes in Print: Paratexts and Readers in late 15C and 16C-Italy" - Simon Gilson (University of Warwick) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame and the Devers Program in Dante Studies.

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "Reading and Defending Dante in the Florentine Academy: Giovan Battista Gelli's Lectures on Dante (1541-63)" - Simon Gilson (University of Warwick) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

5:00pm | Russian and East European Studies, RBSC Lecture Series: "Writing a Memoir of Joseph Brodsky: Problems of Memory, Selection, and Truth" - Samuel C. Ramer (Tulane University) — Sponsored by the Hesburgh Libraries, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, the Russian and East European Studies Program, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. {download a PDF about the lecture series}

4:00pm | Inaugural Breandán Ó Buachalla Memorial Lecture: "Gaeilge Anois Labharfar: Travails of the Irish Language" - Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin) — Sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

Spotlight Exhibit: First edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica — On display was the Department's first edition, published in London in 1687, along with images from both the first and second editions of the text.

11:00am - 12:15pm | Public Seminar: "Mendicant Schools and Philosophy in Dante's Florence" - Anna Pegoretti (Warwick) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

5:00pm | Russian and East European Studies, RBSC Lecture Series: "The Hawk, the Cod, and 1975: Brodsky's Point of No Return" - David Bethea (University of Wisconsin-Madison) — Sponsored by the Hesburgh Libraries, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, the Russian and East European Studies Program, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. {download a PDF about the lecture series}

12:00pm - 1:30pm | Public Seminar: "The Representation of Space in Dante's Commedia and in its Earliest Manuscripts" by Anna Pegoretti (Warwick) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

4:30pm | The Italian Research Seminar: "The Futurist Avant-Garde and Gender Roles during World War One: Femininity Unbound" - Lucia Re (UCLA) — Sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame.

Spotlight Exhibit: Natalia A. and Irina V. Roskina Papers — On display were a variety of items from the collection, which reflects the literary and intellectual atmosphere of Moscow in the second half of the 20th century. The collections consists of approximately 240 items, comprised primarily of manuscripts, letters, and photographs.

Spotlight Exhibit: David Roberts' Egypt and the Holy Land — On display was David Roberts' elephant folio-sized three-volume Egypt and the Holy Land of 1842-49. This collection of lithographs of the sites and monuments of Egypt and Palestine, done after drawings made on location by Roberts in 1838-39, is a key work in the evolving Western understanding of the cultures of the ancient Middle East in the 19th century.

Spotlight Exhibit: A Twelfth-Century Bible Fragment and Modern-Day Forgery — This spotlight exhibit featured a leaf from a twelfth-century Italian Giant Bible. These large format Bibles were produced in Italy from the mid-eleventh through twelfth century. This particular page also contains a modern forgery painted in the left margin to drive up the price for an unsuspecting collector.