{"id":4839,"date":"2020-03-02T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:01:52","slug":"upcoming-events-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/upcoming-events-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Events: March and early April"},"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><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">CANCELLED<\/span> Thursday, March 26 at 5:00pm<\/strong>\u00a0| <em>The Italian Research Seminar:<\/em> &#8220;Points of View: &#8216;The People&#8217; in the 19th-Century Italian Novel&#8221; by Roberto Dainotto (Duke).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/italianstudies.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Center for Italian Studies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">CANCELLED <\/span>Saturday, March 28 at 10:00am-noon<\/strong>&nbsp;| <em>Exhibit Event:<\/em> &#8220;Animals, Animals, and More Animals: The Zoo Comes to Special Collections&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Scholars Lounge (10:00-11:00am)<br>\nSpecial Collections (11:00am-noon)<br>\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">&nbsp;In order to protect the health and wellness of our community, this event has been canceled. We will share more information on rescheduling, as appropriate, at a later date.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">CANCELLED<\/span> <strong>Thursday, April 2 at 5:00pm<\/strong>\u00a0| <em>Ravarino Lecture:<\/em> &#8220;Niccol\u00f2 Acciaiuoli: Contradiction and Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Trecento Italy&#8221; by William Caferro (Vanderbilt).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em> Each year, thanks to the Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Endowment for Excellence, <a href=\"http:\/\/italianstudies.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Center for Italian Studies<\/a> sponsors a public lecture by a distinguished scholar of Italian Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spring <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-exhibits.library.nd.edu\/717b14e1a3\/paws-hooves-fins--feathers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exhibit<\/a>,\u00a0<em><strong>Paws, Hooves, Fins &amp; Feathers: Animals in Print, 1500-1800<\/strong><\/em>, is open and will run through the summer. This is an exhibit of rare zoological books featuring early printed images of animals. We welcome classes and other groups of any age and would love to tailor a tour for your students and your curriculum \u2014 and if you can&#8217;t come to campus, the curators can bring the exhibit to you. Watch for forthcoming announcements of additional related events!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For more information about the exhibit or to set up a visit, contact curators <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/whos-who-in-rbsc-julie-tanaka\/\">Julie Tanaka<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/whos-who-in-rbsc-erika-hosselkus\/\">Erika Hosselkus<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current\u00a0spotlight exhibits are: <em><strong>John Ruskin and Popular Taste<\/strong><\/em> (February \u2013 April 2020), featuring materials from Special Collections relating to <a href=\"https:\/\/reilly.nd.edu\/news-and-events\/ruskin-lecture-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Ruskin Conference that was held at Notre Dame in February<\/a>, and <em><strong>The Papers of Mary Taussig Hall<\/strong><\/em>, a selection of items from the collection documenting her legacy and path to activism (March 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>RBSC is open regular hours (Monday&nbsp;&#8211; Friday, 9am &#8211; 5pm)<br>\nduring Notre Dame&#8217;s Spring Break (March 9 &#8211; 13)<\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the following events being hosted in Rare Books and Special Collections: CANCELLED Thursday, March 26 at 5:00pm\u00a0| The Italian Research Seminar: &#8220;Points of View: &#8216;The People&#8217; in the 19th-Century Italian Novel&#8221; by Roberto Dainotto (Duke). Sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies. CANCELLED Saturday, March 28 at 10:00am-noon&nbsp;| Exhibit Event: &#8220;Animals, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/upcoming-events-march-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upcoming Events: March and early April<\/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":[5065,75050,75058,75061,75055,12646,75052],"tags":[77938,5072],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","category-italian-literature","category-modern-european-cultures","category-natural-science-natural-history-medicine","category-miscellaneous","category-us-history-culture","tag-book","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","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=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12058,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/12058"}],"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=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}