Rome Kabbalah Symposium

May 20-22, 2025, Vatican Library and Notre Dame Rome

A collaboration between the Vatican Library and the University of Notre Dame offers unprecedented access to kabbalistic manuscripts held by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana to advance research into the history of kabbalah in Italy and its theological and political intersections with Christianity.

Featuring a keynote lecture by:

Saverio Campanini
Professor of Hebrew language and literature
University of Bologna

Special contributions from:

• Emma Abate, University of Bologna
• Avishai Bar-Asher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Jeremy Phillip Brown, University of Notre Dame
• James T. Robinson, University of Chicago
• With an international team of researchers from
  France, Germany, Israel, Italy, and the U.S.

Sponsors:

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

From the University of Notre Dame:

Center for Italian Studies
Department of Theology
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Henkels Lecture Fund
Jewish Studies at Notre Dame
Medieval Institute
Notre Dame Rome