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GLOBAL GATEWAY AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP AND COLLABORATION

WELCOME TO NOTRE DAME The University of Notre Dame boasts a network of extraordinary facilities located around the world—the Notre Dame Global Gateways. Under the aegis of Notre Dame International (NDI), the Global Gateways are academic and intellectual centers where scholars, students, and leaders from universities, government, business, and community gather to discuss, discover, and debate issues of topical and enduring relevance.

At each Global Gateway, the Notre Dame community and its many international partners and colleagues work together to advance knowledge across all disciplines with a view to the common good.

Rome is home to one of six Notre Dame Global Gateways, with others in Beijing, Chicago, Dublin, Jerusalem, and .

The Rome Global Gateway is located in Via Ostilia 15—in the heart of the Eternal City—one block from the . The newly renovated, 32,000 square-foot facility serves as a hub supporting the academic, educational, and cultural mission of the University. The Gateway also fosters research and graduate education and develops and maintains institutional relations with universities, educational foundations, and organizations in , Europe, and the Mediterranean, as well as with the . ABOUT THE GATEWAY The entrance to the Rome Global a number of hotels in this strategic Gateway is in Via Ostilia 15, in the Rione and beautiful location, the area is not (Caelian neighborhood), on the populated by hordes of tourists like other slopes of the , overlooking the central Roman neighborhoods. Modern Palatine, Aventine, and Esquiline hills. life flows around the Gateway alongside The newly restored building, which dates 4th- and 5th-century churches, with their back to the turn of the 20th century, is 1600s and 1700s façades—all examples painted the warm yellow ochre typical of of the centuries-old stratification of Rome’s center. Its windows open onto Via Roman history. Ostilia and two side roads, Via dei S.S. Quattro and Via Capo d’Africa. The Gateway’s building is located in an important center for the history of early The site is in the heart of Rome, enclosed Christian Rome and features important and served by large thoroughfares such and churches, including San as Via Labicana, Via Celio Vibenna, Clemente, San Giovanni in Laterano, Via dell’Amba Aradam, Piazza di Porta , and Santi San Giovanni, Via Merulana, and Via Quattro Coronati. The neighborhood Emanuele Filiberto: beneath here run is also a site traditionally devoted to the two lines of the subway, with a third study. In addition to Notre Dame, two under construction. Still, the area around other international institutions have the Gateway itself is an oasis of peace and their campuses in the area: the Pontificia quiet, with narrow streets where traffic is Università Lateranense (Pontifical Lateran very limited. University), founded in 1773 by The surrounding neighborhood is lively, Clement XIV, and the Pontificio Collegio and mainly inhabited by Romans (by Irlandese (Pontifical Irish College), birth and adoption). While there are founded in 1628.

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PROGRAMS The Rome Global Gateway hosts top- and living in this extraordinary tier study and research opportunities. environment resulting from nearly 30 For more information, visit: centuries of art and culture. international.nd.edu/rome. • International Scholars: Students ACADEMIC YEAR PROGRAMS admitted to this semester-long program • Rome General Education Program: pursue independent research projects A general education abroad program based in Rome with Notre Dame (semester- or year-long) for students faculty supervision. Engagement in the colleges of arts and letters, activities, such as local community business, science, and engineering. service and internships, are also part of Students enroll in a required “All the program requirements. Roads Lead to Rome” onsite course • ICCS: A semester-long program open offered by Notre Dame faculty and to sophomores, juniors, and seniors can take courses in a large variety of majoring in classics, classical history, disciplines in collaboration with John or archaeology—or art history majors Cabot University. with a strong classical background. The • School of Architecture Rome program is offered by Notre Dame’s Program: Unique among its peers, partner, the Intercollegiate Center for Notre Dame requires all graduate and Classical Studies (ICCS). undergraduate architecture students to 4 spend time in Rome studying SUMMER PROGRAMS • Rome Summer in the Eternal City: This five-week, six-credit, faculty- • TheR ome Seminar offers talented led program at Notre Dame’s Rome international junior faculty and Global Gateway takes students on advanced graduate students the a journey through the city’s storied opportunity to participate in a landscape while introducing them to distinctive annual seminar series that contemporary Italian culture and issues. brings together noted international scholars from diverse disciplines to RESEARCH, INTERNSHIPS, reflect on and discuss critical scholarly AND SERVICE questions and issues. • Research grants for faculty and • TheS ummer Engineering Program graduate students are available through in Rome offers students an opportunity the Rome Global Gateway. to complete 2 technical electives while • The atewayG facilitates academic living in central Rome. The six-week year and summer internships for program includes cultural, historical, undergraduate and graduate students. and technical tours. • The atewayG also provides

students with opportunities for community service.

5 ROME EVENTS • Dante’s Intellectual Formation • Safeguarding the Musical Traditions of • Transnational Approaches to U.S. Eastern Christianity Catholic History • Contending Modernities: Catholic, • Catholic Higher Education and Muslim, Secular Democracy in Europe • Transnational Migration in Comparative • Human Dignity and Human Perspective: Italy and the U.S. Development conference • The igitalD Future of World Heritage • Notre Dame Center for Nano Science and Technology ROME GLOBAL GATEWAY LECTURE SERIES This annual lecture series features four leading scholars in a variety of disciplines. The lectures are either in English or Italian and are designed for—and open to—the Italian and international scholarly community. Visit international.nd.edu/rome to learn about this year’s speakers.

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MEETING FACILITIES The following rooms are available for programs and events:

CLASSROOM ROOMS THEATRE-STYLE (WITH TABLES)

Matthew and Joyce Walsh Aula 125 people

Exposition Room on two levels 50 people

Classroom 202 50 people On request

Classroom 411 30 people

Seminar Room 409 14 people

Seminar Room 410 14 people

Seminar Room 412 14 people

Refreshments and Exposition Room 30 people On request

Terrace Centioli Family II level 30 people seated + 30 standing On request

Roof Terrace 503 54 people seated + 50 standing On request

Court Yard 20 people seated + 100 standing On request

Office space available on request

• Wireless Internet connection is available • The building is open 8:00 a.m. to throughout the building. midnight during the academic year; • Audio/video system available in shorter hours during the summer and classrooms 409, 410, 411, 412, holiday periods. and 202. • Facilities are available for rent for • Audio/video system with streaming academic, cultural, religious, or other available in the Matthew and Joyce charitable purposes on evenings, Walsh Aula. Fridays, and weekends as well as during the week when classes are not in session. • Teleconferencing facilities available upon request. • Smoking is not permitted on the premises. 7 OFFICE SPACE • Offices ear available upon request to • Priority status will be given to Notre Dame faculty visiting Rome. University of Notre Dame programs or Notre Dame-affiliated groups, but • The library is available for use by the Rome Global Gateway welcomes Notre Dame faculty and students. requests from charitable, religious, and COMMON SPACES educational institutions. • Undergraduate Common Room: • The omeR Global Gateway is unable lounge for undergraduate students. to accommodate sit-down dinners, but can provide receptions and coffee • Graduate Common Room: lounge for breaks in connection with events. graduate students. • Policy Requirements: • Other common spaces: courtyard, second floor terrace, roof terrace, ººAll guests must be registered prior to canteen, and kitchen. an event. The hosting organization must provide complete guest list at HOW TO BOOK EVENTS least 48 hours prior to the event. • Requests to hold activities and events in ººCatering details (number of the Gateway are reviewed by its faculty guests, menu choices, and dietary advisory committee. For more details, requirements) must be confirmed at visit international.nd.edu/rome. least seven days prior to the event. • For more information about the process involved in planning Global Gateway events, Notre Dame faculty and staff should contact Lauri Roberts at [email protected].

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VISITOR INFORMATION

WALKING TOURS Because Rome is a city that must be modifications were made during the walked in order to be understood, reign of Domitian (81–96 A.D.). visitors are invited to approach the city These three emperors are known as the on foot through nine walking tours Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheater with Roman Walks—a free guide that is was named in for its association available in printed form or as an eBook. with their family name (Flavius). It is estimated that the Colosseum The proposed walks have their center in could hold between 50,000 and 80,000 Notre Dame’s Roman neighborhood, spectators and was used for gladiatorial and at the same time they intend to contests and public spectacles such project in various directions, towards as mock sea battles, animal hunts, other centers and monuments in executions, re-enactments of famous Rome and beyond. Please contact the battles, and dramas based on Classical Gateway at [email protected] to request mythology. The building ceased to be your copy. used for entertainment in the early The Gateway is not far from many medieval era. It was later reused for important Early Christian sites, such purposes as housing, workshops, including San Clemente, San Giovanni quarters for a religious order, a fortress, in Laterano, Santa Maria in Domnica a quarry, and a Christian shrine. and . Other popular destinations are listed below. Defined as a public space in the last Colosseum years of the 15th century when the The Colosseum or Coliseum, also city market was transferred to it known as the Flavian, is an elliptical from the Campidoglio, the Piazza amphitheater in the center of the city Navona was transformed into a of Rome. Built of concrete and stone, highly significant example of it was the largest amphitheater of the Roman architecture and art during and is considered the pontificate of Innocent X, who one of the greatest works of Roman reigned from 1644 until 1655 and architecture and engineering. It is whose family , the Palazzo the largest amphitheater in the world Pamphili, faced the piazza. It features and is situated just east of the Roman important sculptural and architectural Forum. Construction began under creations: in the center stands the the emperor in 70 A.D. famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or and was completed in 80 A.D. under of the Four Rivers (1651) by Titus, his successor and heir. Further , topped by the Obelisk of Domitian, brought here in It is one of the best preserved of all pieces from the ; ancient Roman buildings and has the of Sant’Agnese in Agone been in continuous use. Since the 7th by , Girolamo century, the Pantheon has been used as a Rainaldi, and others; Roman dedicated to St. and the aforementioned Pamphili Mary and the Martyrs, but informally palace, also by , known as “Santa Maria Rotonda.” The that accommodates the long gallery square in front of the Pantheon is called designed by Borromini and frescoed by . . Saint Peter’s During its history, the piazza has Designed principally by Donato hosted theatrical events and other Bramante, , Carlo ephemeral activities. From 1652 until Maderno, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1866 when the festival was suppressed, St. Peter’s is the most renowned work it was flooded on every Saturday of and remains and Sunday in August in elaborate one of the largest churches in the celebrations of the Pamphili family. world. While it is neither the mother The pavement level was raised in the church of the Catholic Church nor 19th century and the market was the Catholic cathedral moved again in 1869 to the nearby of the , St. Peter’s is Campo de’ Fiori. A Christmas market regarded as one of the holiest Catholic is held in the piazza. sites. St. Peter’s is famous as a place of pilgrimage for its liturgical functions. Pantheon Because of its location in the Vatican, Commissioned by Marcus Agrippa the Pope presides at a number of services during the reign of (27 throughout the year, drawing audiences B.C.–14 A.D.) as a temple to all the of 15,000 to more than 80,000 people, gods of ancient Rome, and rebuilt by either within the Vatican Basilica or in the emperor Hadrian about 126 A.D., St. Peter’s Square. the Pantheon is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns Piazza di (8 in the first rank and 2 groups , at the bottom of the of 4 behind) under a pediment. A , is one of the most famous rectangular vestibule links the porch to squares in Italy. It owes its name to the the rotunda, which is under a coffered Palazzo di Spagna, seat of the Embassy concrete dome, with a central opening of Spain among the Holy See. In the (oculus) to the sky. Almost 2,000 years middle of the square is the famous after it was built, the Pantheon’s dome , dating to the is still the world’s largest unreinforced beginning of the baroque age, sculpted concrete dome. by Pietro Bernini and his son, the more famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini. ROME GLOBAL GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL.ND.EDU/ROME

VISITOR INFORMATION (CONTINUED)

Campo de’ Fiori Campo de’ Fiori (field of flowers) is The Roman Forum is a rectangular a rectangular square south of Piazza forum surrounded by the ruins of Navona in Rome, Italy, at the border several important ancient government between rione and rione buildings at the center of the city of . It is just diagonally southeast Rome. Citizens of the ancient city of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and one referred to this space, originally a block northeast of the . marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, Executions used to be held publicly or simply the Forum. For centuries in Campo de’ Fiori. In February of it was the center of Roman public 1600, the philosopher Giordano Bruno life: the site of triumphal processions was burnt alive for heresy, and all of and elections; the venue for public his works were placed on the Index of speeches, criminal trials, and Forbidden Books by the Holy Office. gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus In 1887 Ettore Ferrari dedicated a of commercial affairs. Here statues monument to him on the exact spot of and monuments commemorated his death. He stands defiantly facing the city’s great men. The teeming the Vatican, reinterpreted in the first heart of ancient Rome, the Forum days of a reunited Italy as a martyr to has been called the most celebrated freedom of thought. The inscription on meeting place in the world, and in all the base, translated to English, reads: history. Located in the small valley “To Bruno—the century predicted by between the Palatine and Capitoline him—here where the fire burned.” At Hills, the Forum today is a sprawling , Campo de’ Fiori is a meeting ruin of architectural fragments and place for tourists and young people intermittent archaeological excavations coming from the whole city. attracting 4.5 million annual sightseers. ROME GLOBAL GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL.ND.EDU/ROME ROME GLOBAL GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL.ND.EDU/ROME

REACHING THE ROME GLOBAL GATEWAY

From Fiumicino Airport: • By train: The Leonardo Express • By taxi: From Terminals 1, 2, 3, and 5. to/from Roma departs every • Car rental services: It is also possible 30 minutes and has a journey time to book car service to the airport of 31 minutes. The FL1 rail line through the Gateway. regional trains to/from other stations in Rome, including Rome , From Ciampino Airport: depart every 15 minutes on weekdays • Ciampino Città is connected to and every 30 on public holidays. Visit trenitalia.com. the airport by bus Cotral/Schiaffini every 30 minutes. The traveling time • Cotral: From Terminal 2 arrivals, is about 5 minutes. Tickets can be Regional Bus Station to Piazza dei purchased on the bus and at the Cinquecento (in front of Museo station, and cost 1 euro. Nazionale Romano), Roma Tiburtina • A surface light rail system connects Station, subway station Ciampino station to Termini station (Metro line “A”) and subway station in about 15 minutes. Eur-Magliana (Metro Line “B”). Visit cotralspa.it. • Daily bus connections between the airport and Termini station are • Terravision: From Terminal 3 arrivals, guaranteed by Atral (www.atral-lazio. bus stall 3. Bus station to Termini com), Cotral (www.cotralspa.it), station via Marsala. Visit terravision.eu. Terravision (www.terravision.eu), and • Sit Bus Shuttle: From Terminal Schiaffini (www.schiaffini.it). 3 arrivals, bus stall 1. Bus station • A taxi service to Rome is available to Termini station (via Marsala), near the exit of the airport. Vaticano, Via Crescenzio, 2. Visit sitbusshuttle.com. • It is also possible to book car service to the airport through the Gateway. • T.A.M. Bus: From Terminal 3 arrivals, bus stall 4. Bus station to From Termini Train Station: Ostiense station (Piazzale 12 ottobre • Take the subway line “B” (Metro B) 1492), Termini Station (via Giovanni and get off at the stop “.” Giolitti,10). Visit tambus.it. • Atral Schiaffini: From Terminal 3 arrivals, bus stall 4. Bus station to Termini station (via Giolitti). Visit atral-lazio.com. GETTING PREFERRED AROUND HOTELS There are several transportation options in Hotel Mercure order to get to the Rome Global Gateway. Via Labicana, 144 To calculate your personal itinerary, please 00184 Roma atac.roma.it/ visit . Tel: +39 06 770021 • Colosseum Metro station, just five minutes from the university building, Hotel Capo d’Africa is served by heading to Via Capo D’Africa, 54 , to Conca d’Oro, and 00184 Roma to . Tel: +39 06 772801 • Manzoni Metro station is served by , heading to and Hotel Lancelot . It is only a 10-minute Via Capo D’Africa, 47 walk from the Gateway. 00184 Roma Tel: +39 06 7045 0615 • Several buses stop on Via Labicana, a 2-minute walk from the Gateway, Albergo del Sole including 53, 85, 87, 571, 810, and Piazza della Rotonda, 63 tram line 3. 00186 Roma • Taxis may be hailed off the street, Tel: +39 06 678 0441 but the nearest taxi rank is on Piazza del Colosseo, a 2-minute walk from Profumo Maison d’Hôtes the Gateway. Via di San Giovanni in Laterano, 108 00184 Roma Tel: +39 06 709 6043 ROME GLOBAL GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL.ND.EDU/ROME

THINGS TO DO

PLACES TO EAT For lunchtime snacks (sandwiches, There are hundreds of restaurants soup, fruit, pizza, ice creams, pastries, around the University building, near etc.) and coffee there are several bars, Via in the area, near groceries, gelaterias, and pizzerias. Piazzale Argentina, , , Piazza della Rotonda, , GALLERIES, San Giovanni. Recommended by past AND THEATERS faculty are: Musei Capitolini: Piazza del La Pace del Cervello Campidoglio, 1 - 00186 Roma Via de S.S. Quattro, 63 Palazzo Brancaccio: Tel: +39 06 700 5173 Largo Brancaccio 82, Roma Il Bocconcino Palazzo delle Esposizioni: Via Ostilia, 23 Tel: +39 06 7707 9175 Via Nazionale, 194 - 00184 Roma PapaGiò Palazzo Doria Pamphili: Capo d’ Africa, 26 Via del Corso, 305 - 00186 Roma Tel: +39 06 700 9800 NEARBY THEATERS La Matricianella Teatro dell’Opera: Via del Leone, 4 Piazza Beniamino Gigli, 7 - 00187 Roma Tel: +39 06 683 2100 Teatro Brancaccio: Da Meo Patacca Via Merulana, 244 - 00185 Roma Piazza dei Mercanti, 30 Teatro Ambra Jovinelli: Tel: +39 06 581 61 Via Guglielmo Pepe, 43 - 00185 Roma Da Domenico Teatro Flavio: Via di San Giovanni in Laterano, 134 Via G.M. Crescimbeni, 19 – 00186 Roma Tel: +39 06 7759 0225 Teatro Eliseo and Piccolo Eliseo: Gourum India Via Nazionale, 183 - 00184 Roma Via Labicana, 29 Tel: +39 06 7003406 PARKS Taverna dei Quaranta and Via Claudia, 24 are just five minutes away from the Tel: +39 06 700 0550 Gateway. The beautiful Villa Borghese is a 30-minute walk from the Gateway, but it is worth it. LOCAL SUPERMARKETS SHOPPING A big discount supermarket is Tuodì Close to San Giovanni in Laterano, just in Via Annia 18, a three-minute walk a 10-minute walk from the Gateway from the Gateway. A small grocery building, there is a big shopping center store (Carrefour) is located in Via dei called Coin where it is possible to S.S. Quattro, 53-54. find some of the main brands. Via Merulana is a major CHURCHES thoroughfare with shopping all along it. Finally, via del Corso, , Basilica San Clemente a’l in Laterano and via Frattina are also popular Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano shopping destinations, with boutiques S. Maria in Domnica alla Navicella and stores such as , Dolce e Gabbana, , , Luis Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati Vuitton, or even H&M, Zara, Gap, Chiesa di S. Stefano Rotondo and many others.

GYMS Hard Candy Fitness (via Capo D’Africa, 5). Swimming pool (Collegio S. Maria in Viale Alessandro Manzoni, 5). Palestra Indomita (via Merulana, 246). CONTACT US

OFFICE LOCATION TOPICS CONTACT EMAIL & TELEPHONE

Rome Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. [email protected] Inaugural Academic Director Academic +39 06 77264 3609 Programs and Rome Collaborations Silvia Dall’Olio [email protected] Assistant Director +39 06 77264 3608 South Bend Lauri Roberts 246 O’Shaughnessy Hall Academic Conference Assistant Director [email protected] (Contact if you are based in South Bend) Conferences +1 574 631 1468 and Events Rome Krista Di Eleuterio [email protected] Event Services Specialist +39 06 77264 3602 South Bend Thomas Guinan Main Building 105 Associate Vice President for [email protected] Administrative Operations +1 574 631 9186 Rome Anthony Wingfield [email protected] Director of Operations Facilities and +39 06 77264 3610 Operations Rome Mallory Nardin [email protected] Student Affairs +39 06 77264 3210 Rome Costanza Montanari [email protected] Gateway Communications +39 06 77264 3612

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