The AAHD Gallery is excited to announce the opening of "New Faces," an exhibition featuring the artworks of first-year MFA students in Studio Art and Design. The exhibition will showcase the works of Franceska Alvarado, Heidi Dargle, Lily Dorian, Lucy Schultz, and Olivia Koziel. The exhibition is set to run from November 30, 2023, until January 16, 2024 (access not available when the University is closed from December 22 through January 1). Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.

This exhibition explores the fraught, circuitous and unfinished course of emancipation over the nineteenth century in Cuba and the United States. People — enslaved individuals and outside observers, survivors and resistors, and activists and conspirators — made and unmade emancipation, a process that remains unfinished and unrealized. Exhibit Tours Tours of the exhibit may be arranged for classes and other groups by contacting Rachel Bohlmann at (574) 631-1575 or Bohlmann.2@nd.edu. Additional curator-led tours are open to the public at noon on the following Fridays:Sept. 1 Sept. 15 Sept. 22 Oct. 13 Oct. 27 Nov. 17This exhibit is curated by Rachel Bohlmann, American History Librarian and Curator, and Erika Hosselkus, Latin American Studies Curator and Associate University Librarian. This and other exhibits within the Hesburgh Libraries are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment. All exhibits are free and open to the public during business hours. Open to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff, the  public, alumni and friends.

From its origins on campus in the late nineteenth century, football at Historically Black Colleges and Universities has held a central place in the African American sporting experience, in the landscape of Black higher education, and in the broader African American community. During the era of Jim Crow segregation, the vast majority of African American college students and student athletes attended HBCUs. Over the first half of the twentieth century, many of the yearly gridiron contests between rival HBCUs developed into highly anticipated annual events that combined football with larger celebrations of African American achievement and excellence. The yearly games brought together members of the African American community and came to include a wide range of associated events including dances, parades, musical shows, fundraising drives, and other festivities. We are pleased to exhibit a selection of sources from the Joyce Sports Research Collection that preserve the history of HBCU football. The programs, media guides, ephemera, guidebooks, and other printed material on display document the athletic accomplishments, the celebrations, the spectacle, and the community-building that accompany football at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This exhibit is curated by Greg Bond, curator of the Joyce Sports Research Collection and the Sports Subject Specialist for Hesburgh Libraries. This and other exhibits within the Hesburgh Libraries are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment. All exhibits are free and open to the public during business hours. Open to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff, the public, alumni and friends.

Register here to attend via Zoom>>Documenting human rights violations during armed conflict is difficult and can be dangerous, and the data that results is generally incomplete. Some records of violence are missing key information about the victim, the presumed perpetrator, or the context of the violence; some victims’ stories are undocumented altogether, leaving gaps in the data. In this talk, Maria Gargiulo, a statistician with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), will discuss the joint project between the Colombian Truth Commission (CEV), the Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP), and the HRDAG. This collaboration—the largest human rights data project to date—uses statistical methods to examine patterns of homicide, enforced disappearance, kidnapping, forced displacement, and the recruitment of child soldiers during the armed conflict in Colombia. Gargiulo will introduce a statistical methodology that can be used to overcome data gaps while documenting human rights violations, and will discuss how this methodology can be replicated using Verdata, an R package created to aid researchers when designing their own analyses about the impacts of the conflict. Following the presentation, Joséphine Lechartre and Patrick McQuestion, Kroc Institute Ph.D. students, will offer their comments as discussants. The event will be moderated by Josefina Echavarría, professor of the practice. This event takes place within the framework of the Legacy Project at the University of Notre Dame, which seeks to preserve the digital archive of the Colombian Truth Commission, and provide unique sources of testimonies from over 30,000 victims, witnesses and offenders of the 52-year long armed conflict. It is cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Northern Ireland, and the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, with the support of Humanity United. In addition to this lecture, The Legacy Project invites you to attend a workshop Unregistered Victims: Statistical Methods, Data, and the Findings of the Colombian Truth Commission hosted by the Lucy Institute in Jenkins Nanovic Halls room 1030 on December 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Interested attendees can register here. It is cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Northern Ireland, and the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, with the support of Humanity United.   In addition to this lecture, The Legacy Project invites you to attend a workshop Unregistered Victims: Statistical Methods, Data, and the Findings of the Colombian Truth Commission hosted by the Lucy Institute in Jenkins Nanovic Halls room 1030 on December 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Interested attendees can register here. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.