{"id":2999,"date":"2018-04-02T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:46:34","slug":"upcoming-events-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/upcoming-events-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Events: April and early May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join us for the following events being hosted in Rare Books and Special Collections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thursday, April 5 at 5:00pm<\/strong>\u00a0| A talk on the reception of Medieval Catalan poet Ausi\u00e0s March in Early Modern Iberia, by Albert Lloret (UMass Amherst). Sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/romancelanguages.nd.edu\/graduate\/iberian-and-latin-american-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Iberian and Latin American Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wednesday, April 11 at 4:30pm<\/strong>&nbsp;| <a href=\"https:\/\/cushwa.nd.edu\/events\/2018\/04\/11\/lecture-centering-black-catholics-reimagining-american-catholicism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Centering Black Catholics, Reimagining American Catholicism&#8221; by Matthew Cressler<\/a> (College of Charleston). Sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/cushwa.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thursday, April 19 at 5:00pm<\/strong>&nbsp;| <em>The Italian Research Seminar:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/italianstudies.nd.edu\/events\/2018\/04\/19\/research-seminar-from-surface-to-symptom-and-back-again-reading-isabella-destes-correspondence-deanna-shemek-uc-santa-cruz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;From Surface to Symptom and Back Again: Reading Isabella d\u2019Este\u2019s Correspondence&#8221; by Deanna Shemek<\/a> (University of California, Santa Cruz). Co-sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/italianstudies.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Italian Studies at Notre Dame<\/a> and the William and Katherine <a href=\"https:\/\/dante.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devers Program in Dante Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thursday, April 26 at 5:00pm<\/strong>&nbsp;| <a href=\"https:\/\/italianstudies.nd.edu\/events\/2018\/04\/26\/lecture-towards-a-new-biography-of-dante-alighieri-paolo-pellegrini-verona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Towards a New Biography of Dante Alighieri&#8221; by Paolo Pellegrini<\/a> (Verona). Co-sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/italianstudies.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Italian Studies at Notre Dame<\/a> and the William and Katherine <a href=\"https:\/\/dante.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devers Program in Dante Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friday, May 4 at 1:00pm<\/strong>\u00a0| Awards ceremony for the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/library-research-award.library.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Undergraduate Library Research Award (ULRA)<\/a>, followed by a reception in the Special Collections Seminar Room (103 Hesburgh Library).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main exhibit this spring is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digital-exhibits.library.nd.edu\/3df879828f\/in-a-civilized-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>In a Civilized Nation: Newspapers, Magazines, and the Print Revolution in 19th-Century Peru<\/strong><\/a>. This exhibit is curated by Erika Hosselkus and draws on strengths of Rare Books and Special Collections\u2019 Jos\u00e9 E. Durand Peruvian History collection. Together these items offer diverse perspectives on Peruvian political events and cultural and religious practices and preferences from the colonial era, through the country\u2019s birth in 1825, and beyond the turn of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0spotlight exhibits during early April are\u00a0<strong>From Distant Waters: Whaling Manuscripts in Special Collections<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Baseball and Tin Pan Alley: Sheet Music from the Joyce Sports Collection<\/strong>, both curated by George Rugg. The baseball exhibit will end mid-month, with the exhibit <strong>Chaste, Choice and Chatty: Irish-American Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century<\/strong>, curated by Aed\u00edn N\u00ed Bhr\u00f3ithe Clements, opening for the second half of the month and continuing through the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the following events being hosted in Rare Books and Special Collections: Thursday, April 5 at 5:00pm\u00a0| A talk on the reception of Medieval Catalan poet Ausi\u00e0s March in Early Modern Iberia, by Albert Lloret (UMass Amherst). Sponsored by Iberian and Latin American Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Wednesday, April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/upcoming-events-april-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upcoming Events: April and early May<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":3220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77927,5065,75050,75053,75058,75054,75060,12646,75063,75056,75052],"tags":[73938,12614,156,77929,77931],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-catholic-studies","category-events","category-exhibits","category-irish-studies","category-italian-literature","category-latin-american-studies","category-medieval-renaissance","category-miscellaneous","category-sports-research","category-theology-church-history","category-us-history-culture","tag-manuscripts","tag-music","tag-news","tag-periodicals","tag-printed-ephemera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11870,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/11870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}