The Medieval Institute, the Center for Italian Studies, and the Notre Dame Rome have co-sponsored three planning grants awarded to:
Denis Robichaud, the John and Patrice Kelly Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Director of PHYSIS, and his team, composed of Thérèse Scarpelli Cory, the John and Jean Oesterle Associate Professor of Thomistic Studies and director of the History of Philosophy Forum, and Robert Goulding, Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Director of the Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values.
The grant will support a collaborative program entitled PHYSIS Summer Convivium, a week-long advanced summer research seminar and a two-day public conference held at the Rome Global Gateway. Eight graduate students and eight researchers or faculty members, half from Notre Dame and half from Rome, will be invited to participate in the convivium, the first of which will take place in the summer of 2024 on the topic of Elements of Nature/Elements of Reasoning.
Claire Jones, the William Payden Associate Professor of German, will focus on a project entitled The Ritual Cultures of Medieval Religious Women.
Jones’ project will also be developed in a three-year time frame that will include research time in Rome and collaboration with colleagues and scholars at the Vatican Library, the Dominican Order Archives, the Angelicum and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies’ Toronto-Rome Programme in Manuscript Studies.
Jeremy Phillip Brown, Jordan H. Kapson Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology.
His Rome Kabbalah Symposium is planning on renewing an interreligious research collaboration dating back a half-millennium, when Jews and Catholics studied kabbalah together in Rome during the Renaissance.
The project will be developed in association with Avishai Bar-Asher (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana), and it will launch a symposium dedicated to advancing collaborative research into kabbalah’s Italian history and its complex relationship with the church. Participants will include a small cohort of international researchers and a selection of doctoral students in Rome who will present and exchange work on these topics in a setting that attracts both local Italian and international scholars and facilitates direct contact with the archives.
Call for Applications for 2025 Arts and Letters Pizzo Rome Research Fellows Program
Pizzo Family Fellowship
The College of Arts and Letters offers tenured college faculty interested in spending the Spring 2025 semester in Rome to work on a research project that would benefit from residence in the region.