Meet the authors: a book presentation series in Rome
This month, the Rome Global Gateway (RGG) is hosting two book presentations that will be streamed online and accessible to everyone prior registration as part of a “Meet the authors” series.
The first event, hosted on September 30th, presented the new translation of…
New Initiatives provide multifaceted opportunities in Rome
Launched by the Rome Global Gateway, three new Initiatives are long-term collaborations on a single theme designed to bring together Notre Dame students and faculty with partners in the city. The three Initiatives are currently underway: Mapping Rome, Pathways to Rome…
The Rome Global Gateway announces consortium with Stanford University and Princeton University
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...
The Rome Gateway opens summer internship opportunities for year 2020
The Rome Global Gateway is pleased to announce the opening of the Summer Internship Program 2020 for rising sophomores, juniors and seniors. Students are encouraged to submit their applications if interested in coming to Rome to conduct an internship from late May through early July 2020.…
When in Rome, live as the Romans live
Michela D’Orazio, a 19 year-old university student, recently moved to Rome from Isola del Liri, a small town in the Lazio region. In September, the chemistry major started at La Sapienza university, the main university in Rome with more than 112,000 enrolled students.
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The Rome Global Gateway and the Center for Italian Studies to collaborate on enriching the Rome Library Italian Literature Collection
The Rome Global Gateway and the Center for Italian Studies have started a collaboration to enrich the Rome library collection during the academic year 2018-2019. Due to last year’s success, the collaboration was extended to the current academic year 2019-2020. The first project in this collaboration will involve the acquisition...
Applications Open for Rome Seminar 2020
The Rome Global Gateway is glad to announce the opening of the application process for the Rome Seminar 2020 which will take place from June 10 to July 5th, 2020. Participants at the Vatican Library Every summer since 2011, the Rome gateway has hosted this unique research opportunity for graduate...
Notre Dame Professor advocates for Italian "Dante Day" in Interview with Corriere della Sera
Professor Zygmunt G. Barański was recently interviewed by the major Italian daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera.
A dose of culture and context: How a tarantula spider teaches cultural diversity in Italy
When students come from campus to Rome for the summer programs, they have a shorter amount of time to spend in the city and truly immerse themselves in the atmosphere, culture, contradictions and beauties of it, compared to their colleagues during the academic year.…
Rome Global Gateway receives new designation as Italian research institution
The Rome Global Gateway's location is in the heart of Rome, just steps from the Colosseum
The University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway has been recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research…
How a summer program allows engineering students to conquer the eternal city
Every year, during the months of June and July, Rome flocks with engineering students from the University of Notre Dame. Since 2014, students have been coming every semester for a six-week summer program at the Rome Global Gateway. More than 270 students have participated in over six years. All engineering...
Marching for climate change while interning in Rome
Meilin Scanish, a junior at the University of Notre Dame, is interested in working in international law in and wanted to gain international work experience. After having the chance to travel to Nepal and Qatar for conferences on the conciliation of traditional Islamic theology and modernity, and to France to...
Daria Borghese presents her book: "Palazzo Borromeo. L'Ambasciata d'Italia presso la Santa Sede"
Daria Borghese, who teaches the All Roads lead to Rome course at the Rome Global Gateway, presented at Palazzo Borromeo the second edition of the book "Palazzo Borromeo. L'Ambasciata d'Italia presso la Santa Sede" during the seminar conducted by architect Enzo Pinci: "Pirro Ligorio and the Roman factories…
David Mayernik live-streaming fresco painting demonstrations
David Mayernik, associate professor in the school of architecture and graduate of Notre Dame 83', is a fresco evangelist. He recently conducted from the Rome Gateway a live-streamed video demonstration of the fresco painting process for Professor Marius Hauknes’ course on campus, Pictures on Walls: Murals and Mosaics in the Medieval...
Luca Codignola publishes book on blurred nationalities across the North Atlantic, 1763-1846
Luca Codignola, senior fellow of the Cushwa Center for the History of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame…
Professor Ingrid Rowland publishes book on the divine spark of Syracuse
Ingrid D. Rowland, professor in the department of history and the school of architecture at the University of Notre Dame, published her latest book entitled “The Divine Spark of Syracuse." The book focuses on the figures of Plato, Archimedes, and Caravaggio, disclosing the role that Syracuse, a Greek cultural outpost...
Study abroad students in Rome volunteer at annual Pontifical Academy for Life conference
Chris Kreienkamp, Grace Schippers, Hannah Gillespie, Megan Welborn, and Conor Fitzpatrick in front of the Vatican after the conference Seven students, studying abroad for the semester at the Rome Global Gateway, volunteered in February with the press office for the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) conference during the 25th General...
The Brasini’s Papers Conservation Project
The University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway, in collaboration with the Notre Dame School of Architecture, has signed a six month collaboration with the Archivio Armando Brasini for the Progetto di valorizzazione dell’Archivio dell’Architetto Armando Brasini (1879-1965)…
How a community-based learning opportunity helps you find your own Path
Isabella Walter came to Rome with the School of Architecture Program and decided to switch to Arts and Letters during her time in Italy. As part of her semester abroad she had to choose a community-based learning (CBL) activity to carry on, and she decided to dedicate her time to...
Presentation of "The Holy See and the United States, 1932–1939" by Cristina Rossi
A new book by Cristina Rossi, entirely based on Vatican documents, was the occasion for the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism to convene a lively and well attended seminar on the Holy See's relationship with the United States in the crucial period immediately preceding World War Two...
Maps of Rome, The Frutaz Project
The Scientific Committee looking at the first map of modern Rome by Matteo Greuter, 1618 In 1962 Monsignor Amato Pietro Frutaz published Le Piante di Roma, three large folio volumes, published by the Istituto di Studi Romani (Institute of Roman Studies), which served as a completion of a project begun...
Dante Now! Through the streets of Celio
Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest Italian poets and one of the most important writers of European literature. He lived in the XIV century, but he is still considered one of the most current writers and his masterpieces are immortal. For many, Dante is not part of the past,...
Annunziata Pirro at the ESA's workshop on Earth System Monitoring and Modeling
Annunziata Pirro is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. Through the Rome Global Gateway short-term graduate research fellowship this summer, she attended the European Space Agency’s (ESA)…
Prof. David Mayernik contributes to the Oxford Handbook of the Baroque
The Oxford Handbook series addresses a wide range of topics with contributions that both incorporate recent scholarship and offer pointed analyses of the authors’ own. The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque, coming out at the end of 2018, focuses on the baroque epoque. Associate Professor David Mayernik, in the School of...
Rome Seminar brings together graduate students to tap into Roman sources
Rome during the summer time can be confusing. The heat can be suffocating and roads are always full of tourists following the same routes. At the end of the day, one may feel exhausted. But at the same time, it is even more charming. It’s a time where Romans enjoy...
Catholic Education around the Globe
In mid-March, the Rome Global Gateway hosted the “Global Catholic Education and Integral Human Development Conference”. This conference addressed a growing international need and expanding research interest in the under-explored arena of international Catholic education and integral human development. Scholars from the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies…...
Gaelic Football in Italy? Why not!
Gaelic Football is a sport originally from Ireland with unique rules: at first sight a sort of mix between football, rugby and basketball, it is played with hands and feet and a round ball on an outdoor court with the goal of scoring a goal or a point between the high...
The ND Villa Opens the Gates to Open House Roma 2018
It’s 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Rome. The streets are still awakening, as people are chatting in front of a local bar and moms are running to do some grocery shopping after taking their kids to school. Emily Patton, a Rome International Scholar, and Diana Neacsu from the School...
Inspired leadership initiative gets its inspiration from Rome
On February 2018, the Rome Global Gateway hosted a group meeting from the Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI), a one-year Notre Dame program to help accomplished individuals who have completed their traditional career discern optimal paths to leverage their talents, experience and relationships as they pivot to a new mission. The Inspired Leadership...
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to fund Rome Seminar 2018
Picture from Biblioteca Casanatense
Prof. Heather Hyde Minor, Academic Director of the Rome Global Gateway, has been awarded $20,000 from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, to support the Rome Seminar 2018…