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Friday, February 14, 2025
- 12:00 AM23h 59mLove Data Week 2025: Data Haiku ContestAbout the Data Haiku Contest Write a haiku about data! Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.). The contest is open to current Notre Dame students and employees. One submission per person. Submissions are due by noon on Friday, February 14. What is a Haiku? Haikus have a rigid structure of 17 syllables divided across three lines. The first line should have five syllables, the second line should have seven syllables, and the third line should have five syllables. Haikus do not need to rhyme. Haiku Example Title: PreprocessingCleaning, reducingand ignoring outliers.Only one case left. Author: Arnon Hershkovitz Prizes Three winners will receive an "I Love Data" coffee mug. Winning haikus will be selected by a panel of judges. Authors of winning and honorable mention entries will be notified via email on February 17 and will be posted on the Data Haiku event page. See the 2024 Love Data Haiku contest winners. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- 12:00 AM23h 59mLove Data Week 2025: Data Haiku ContestAbout the Data Haiku Contest Write a haiku about data! Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.). The contest is open to current Notre Dame students and employees. One submission per person. Submissions are due by noon on Friday, February 14. What is a Haiku? Haikus have a rigid structure of 17 syllables divided across three lines. The first line should have five syllables, the second line should have seven syllables, and the third line should have five syllables. Haikus do not need to rhyme. Haiku Example Title: PreprocessingCleaning, reducingand ignoring outliers.Only one case left. Author: Arnon Hershkovitz Prizes Three winners will receive an "I Love Data" coffee mug. Winning haikus will be selected by a panel of judges. Authors of winning and honorable mention entries will be notified via email on February 17 and will be posted on the Data Haiku event page. See the 2024 Love Data Haiku contest winners. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- 12:00 AM23h 59mLove Data Week 2025: Study Break — Participatory LEGO Data Visualization & Valentine SnacksThroughout Love Data Week, stop in front of the Data Viz Lab (249 Hesburgh Library) for Valentine snacks and add your data point to an ongoing LEGO participatory data visualization. Add your block to the scatterplot(s): How long does it take you to get from your home to the library? How often do you visit the library in a semester? This activity is based on Elsie Lee-Robbins’ work on participatory LEGO visualizations. Watch Lee-Robbins talk about LEGOs and data. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- 12:00 AM23h 59mLove Data Week 2025: Study Break — Participatory LEGO Data Visualization & Valentine SnacksThroughout Love Data Week, stop in front of the Data Viz Lab (249 Hesburgh Library) for Valentine snacks and add your data point to an ongoing LEGO participatory data visualization. Add your block to the scatterplot(s): How long does it take you to get from your home to the library? How often do you visit the library in a semester? This activity is based on Elsie Lee-Robbins’ work on participatory LEGO visualizations. Watch Lee-Robbins talk about LEGOs and data. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- 12:00 AM23h 59mLove Data Week 2025: Study Break — Participatory LEGO Data Visualization & Valentine SnacksThroughout Love Data Week, stop in front of the Data Viz Lab (249 Hesburgh Library) for Valentine snacks and add your data point to an ongoing LEGO participatory data visualization. Add your block to the scatterplot(s): How long does it take you to get from your home to the library? How often do you visit the library in a semester? This activity is based on Elsie Lee-Robbins’ work on participatory LEGO visualizations. Watch Lee-Robbins talk about LEGOs and data. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- 12:00 AM23h 59mLove Data Week 2025: Study Break — Participatory LEGO Data Visualization & Valentine SnacksThroughout Love Data Week, stop in front of the Data Viz Lab (249 Hesburgh Library) for Valentine snacks and add your data point to an ongoing LEGO participatory data visualization. Add your block to the scatterplot(s): How long does it take you to get from your home to the library? How often do you visit the library in a semester? This activity is based on Elsie Lee-Robbins’ work on participatory LEGO visualizations. Watch Lee-Robbins talk about LEGOs and data. About Love Data Week Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us! View all events in this series.
- 12:00 AM23h 59mPublic Domain Day 2025: Music ContestAbout the Music Contest Using at least one pre-1925 sound recording and any other free or original music, create a musical project highlighting some of the new material available in the public domain. Some examples of projects include:Mash-ups Remixes Oral histories over one or more songs Original music with public domain sampling Playlists around a themeSee additional contest guidelines and resources. See 2024 Music Contest winners. Submit your project Submit your project using this Google Form. The project deadline is Sunday, February 16. Note: Please remember as you are looking through the public domain that historical sound recordings may include harmful, biased, prejudiced, and outdated views. Related LibGuide: Public Domain Day Music ContestOpen to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff
- 12:00 AM23h 59mPublic Domain Day 2025: Music ContestAbout the Music Contest Using at least one pre-1925 sound recording and any other free or original music, create a musical project highlighting some of the new material available in the public domain. Some examples of projects include:Mash-ups Remixes Oral histories over one or more songs Original music with public domain sampling Playlists around a themeSee additional contest guidelines and resources. See 2024 Music Contest winners. Submit your project Submit your project using this Google Form. The project deadline is Sunday, February 16. Note: Please remember as you are looking through the public domain that historical sound recordings may include harmful, biased, prejudiced, and outdated views. Related LibGuide: Public Domain Day Music ContestOpen to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff
- 12:00 AM23h 59mPublic Domain Day 2025: Music ContestAbout the Music Contest Using at least one pre-1925 sound recording and any other free or original music, create a musical project highlighting some of the new material available in the public domain. Some examples of projects include:Mash-ups Remixes Oral histories over one or more songs Original music with public domain sampling Playlists around a themeSee additional contest guidelines and resources. See 2024 Music Contest winners. Submit your project Submit your project using this Google Form. The project deadline is Sunday, February 16. Note: Please remember as you are looking through the public domain that historical sound recordings may include harmful, biased, prejudiced, and outdated views. Related LibGuide: Public Domain Day Music ContestOpen to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff
- 12:00 AM23h 59mPublic Domain Day 2025: Music ContestAbout the Music Contest Using at least one pre-1925 sound recording and any other free or original music, create a musical project highlighting some of the new material available in the public domain. Some examples of projects include:Mash-ups Remixes Oral histories over one or more songs Original music with public domain sampling Playlists around a themeSee additional contest guidelines and resources. See 2024 Music Contest winners. Submit your project Submit your project using this Google Form. The project deadline is Sunday, February 16. Note: Please remember as you are looking through the public domain that historical sound recordings may include harmful, biased, prejudiced, and outdated views. Related LibGuide: Public Domain Day Music ContestOpen to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff
- 12:00 AM23h 59mShared WalksStudents, explore campus and build connection with another student during a shared walk! Each week you may sign up to join a shared walk by 9:00 p.m. Wednesday. The next day, Thursday, you will receive an email pairing you with your walking partner. You with both decide on a location and time to meet up on Friday. Discussion guides are provided. Sign up at bit.ly/nd-sharedwalk. Originally published at mcwell.nd.edu.
- 12:00 AM23h 59mShared WalksStudents, explore campus and build connection with another student during a shared walk! Each week you may sign up to join a shared walk by 9:00 p.m. Wednesday. The next day, Thursday, you will receive an email pairing you with your walking partner. You with both decide on a location and time to meet up on Friday. Discussion guides are provided. Sign up at bit.ly/nd-sharedwalk. Originally published at mcwell.nd.edu.
- 10:40 AM1h 20mTen Years Hence Lecture:" A (different) Innovation Journey"A (different) Innovation Journey is presented by John Schroeder, the executive vice president at Marmon Holdings, Inc. who is responsible for the Retail, Foodservice and Water Groups. The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. The theme of the 2025 series is Innovation: The Process of Creation and Renewal. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. This is one of seven lectures in the Ten Years Hence Lecture Series. See website for details and other lecture dates. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and public.
- 10:40 AM1h 20mTen Years Hence Lecture:" A (different) Innovation Journey"A (different) Innovation Journey is presented by John Schroeder, the executive vice president at Marmon Holdings, Inc. who is responsible for the Retail, Foodservice and Water Groups. The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. The theme of the 2025 series is Innovation: The Process of Creation and Renewal. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. This is one of seven lectures in the Ten Years Hence Lecture Series. See website for details and other lecture dates. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and public.
- 10:40 AM1h 20mTen Years Hence Lecture:" A (different) Innovation Journey"A (different) Innovation Journey is presented by John Schroeder, the executive vice president at Marmon Holdings, Inc. who is responsible for the Retail, Foodservice and Water Groups. The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. The theme of the 2025 series is Innovation: The Process of Creation and Renewal. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. This is one of seven lectures in the Ten Years Hence Lecture Series. See website for details and other lecture dates. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and public.
- 10:40 AM1h 20mTen Years Hence Lecture:" A (different) Innovation Journey"A (different) Innovation Journey is presented by John Schroeder, the executive vice president at Marmon Holdings, Inc. who is responsible for the Retail, Foodservice and Water Groups. The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. The theme of the 2025 series is Innovation: The Process of Creation and Renewal. Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the Eugene Clark Distinguished Lecture Series endowment. This is one of seven lectures in the Ten Years Hence Lecture Series. See website for details and other lecture dates. Free and open to students, faculty, staff and public.
- 3:30 PM1h 30m"Writing the Writer's Life": A Conversation on Literary Biography with Frank Shovlin and Brian Ó ConchubhairThe Keough-Naughton Institute invites you to a conversation on literary biography with Professor Frank Shovlin, University of Liverpool, and Professor Brian Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame. Shovlin and Ó Conchubhair will discuss their respective work on the biographies of writers John McGahern and Flann O'Brien, the research and creative processes involved in biography writing, and resonances between writers' lived worlds and the worlds they bring to life on the page. The conversation will be moderated by Gráinne McEvoy, assistant director of research programs at KNI. Speaker BiographiesBrian Ó Conchubhair is a professor of Irish language and literature at the University of Notre Dame and currently serving as interim chair of the Department of Irish Language and Literature. His research focuses on cultural nationalism; Irish-language fiction; the European fin de siècle; and modernism. He is currently editing a collection of Flann O'Brien Irish-language essays and articles. Recent publications include a co-edited (with Philip O'Leary) a special issue of Éire-Ireland on the contemporary Irish-language short story, and an article on Brendan Behan in Litteraria Pragensia. Forthcoming articles will appear in Cambridge History of the Irish Novel; The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry; and The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture. Frank Shovlin is a native of the west of Ireland who was educated at the Universities of Galway and Oxford before taking up a position at the University of Liverpool where he is now professor of Irish literature in English. He has published a wide range of books, chapters and articles on a range of subjects revolving around the development of literature in 20th-century Ireland, with his most recent book The Letters of John McGahern winning widespread critical acclaim. He is currently the M. H. Abrams Visiting Research Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina where he is completing his authorized biography of John McGahern. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.
- 3:30 PM1h 30m"Writing the Writer's Life": A Conversation on Literary Biography with Frank Shovlin and Brian Ó ConchubhairThe Keough-Naughton Institute invites you to a conversation on literary biography with Professor Frank Shovlin, University of Liverpool, and Professor Brian Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame. Shovlin and Ó Conchubhair will discuss their respective work on the biographies of writers John McGahern and Flann O'Brien, the research and creative processes involved in biography writing, and resonances between writers' lived worlds and the worlds they bring to life on the page. The conversation will be moderated by Gráinne McEvoy, assistant director of research programs at KNI. Speaker BiographiesBrian Ó Conchubhair is a professor of Irish language and literature at the University of Notre Dame and currently serving as interim chair of the Department of Irish Language and Literature. His research focuses on cultural nationalism; Irish-language fiction; the European fin de siècle; and modernism. He is currently editing a collection of Flann O'Brien Irish-language essays and articles. Recent publications include a co-edited (with Philip O'Leary) a special issue of Éire-Ireland on the contemporary Irish-language short story, and an article on Brendan Behan in Litteraria Pragensia. Forthcoming articles will appear in Cambridge History of the Irish Novel; The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry; and The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture. Frank Shovlin is a native of the west of Ireland who was educated at the Universities of Galway and Oxford before taking up a position at the University of Liverpool where he is now professor of Irish literature in English. He has published a wide range of books, chapters and articles on a range of subjects revolving around the development of literature in 20th-century Ireland, with his most recent book The Letters of John McGahern winning widespread critical acclaim. He is currently the M. H. Abrams Visiting Research Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina where he is completing his authorized biography of John McGahern. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.
- 3:30 PM1h 30m"Writing the Writer's Life": A Conversation on Literary Biography with Frank Shovlin and Brian Ó ConchubhairThe Keough-Naughton Institute invites you to a conversation on literary biography with Professor Frank Shovlin, University of Liverpool, and Professor Brian Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame. Shovlin and Ó Conchubhair will discuss their respective work on the biographies of writers John McGahern and Flann O'Brien, the research and creative processes involved in biography writing, and resonances between writers' lived worlds and the worlds they bring to life on the page. The conversation will be moderated by Gráinne McEvoy, assistant director of research programs at KNI. Speaker BiographiesBrian Ó Conchubhair is a professor of Irish language and literature at the University of Notre Dame and currently serving as interim chair of the Department of Irish Language and Literature. His research focuses on cultural nationalism; Irish-language fiction; the European fin de siècle; and modernism. He is currently editing a collection of Flann O'Brien Irish-language essays and articles. Recent publications include a co-edited (with Philip O'Leary) a special issue of Éire-Ireland on the contemporary Irish-language short story, and an article on Brendan Behan in Litteraria Pragensia. Forthcoming articles will appear in Cambridge History of the Irish Novel; The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry; and The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture. Frank Shovlin is a native of the west of Ireland who was educated at the Universities of Galway and Oxford before taking up a position at the University of Liverpool where he is now professor of Irish literature in English. He has published a wide range of books, chapters and articles on a range of subjects revolving around the development of literature in 20th-century Ireland, with his most recent book The Letters of John McGahern winning widespread critical acclaim. He is currently the M. H. Abrams Visiting Research Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina where he is completing his authorized biography of John McGahern. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.
- 3:30 PM1h 30m"Writing the Writer's Life": A Conversation on Literary Biography with Frank Shovlin and Brian Ó ConchubhairThe Keough-Naughton Institute invites you to a conversation on literary biography with Professor Frank Shovlin, University of Liverpool, and Professor Brian Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame. Shovlin and Ó Conchubhair will discuss their respective work on the biographies of writers John McGahern and Flann O'Brien, the research and creative processes involved in biography writing, and resonances between writers' lived worlds and the worlds they bring to life on the page. The conversation will be moderated by Gráinne McEvoy, assistant director of research programs at KNI. Speaker BiographiesBrian Ó Conchubhair is a professor of Irish language and literature at the University of Notre Dame and currently serving as interim chair of the Department of Irish Language and Literature. His research focuses on cultural nationalism; Irish-language fiction; the European fin de siècle; and modernism. He is currently editing a collection of Flann O'Brien Irish-language essays and articles. Recent publications include a co-edited (with Philip O'Leary) a special issue of Éire-Ireland on the contemporary Irish-language short story, and an article on Brendan Behan in Litteraria Pragensia. Forthcoming articles will appear in Cambridge History of the Irish Novel; The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry; and The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture. Frank Shovlin is a native of the west of Ireland who was educated at the Universities of Galway and Oxford before taking up a position at the University of Liverpool where he is now professor of Irish literature in English. He has published a wide range of books, chapters and articles on a range of subjects revolving around the development of literature in 20th-century Ireland, with his most recent book The Letters of John McGahern winning widespread critical acclaim. He is currently the M. H. Abrams Visiting Research Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina where he is completing his authorized biography of John McGahern. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.
- 4:00 PM2hJunior Parents Weekend Lecture: "Circle of Hope" with author Eliza GriswoldThe Institute for Social Concerns presents the 2025 Junior Parents Weekend Lecture with Eliza Griswold. Introduction by Rev. Hugh R. Page, Jr., vice president for institutional transformation. Reception to follow. socialconcerns.nd.edu/griswold Pulitzer Prize-winner Eliza Griswold is a journalist, poet and translator. “[Writing] with a reporter’s shrewdness and a poet’s grace (Princeton Humanities Council)”, her work centers on the complex nexus of religion, politics, human rights, and the environment. Director of Princeton University’s vaunted Program in Journalism, Griswold has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker for over two decades and has written and translated several volumes of poetry. Her newest book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award, provides a timely reflection on a growing pattern of fracture and polarization across foundational American institutions. An intimate chronicle of a close-knit church in Philadelphia as it dissolves amidst idealistic crises, it traces the drift away from traditional organized religion and churchgoing in the wake of modern society’s increasingly divergent belief systems. Deeply committed to journalism’s role in sustaining a healthy democracy, Griswold has been hailed for humanizing divisive social and political issues through compassionate portrayals of the people and communities most affected. Her exacting and immersive journalism teases out the stories behind fraying institutions and communities, offering us urgently needed perspectives on a rapidly evolving world—one of ever greater divides—between the have and have nots, rural and urban disparities, the perception of environmental issues, shifting political identities, and the sea-changes within contemporary faith and spiritual communities.
- 4:00 PM2hJunior Parents Weekend Lecture: "Circle of Hope" with author Eliza GriswoldThe Institute for Social Concerns presents the 2025 Junior Parents Weekend Lecture with Eliza Griswold. Introduction by Rev. Hugh R. Page, Jr., vice president for institutional transformation. Reception to follow. socialconcerns.nd.edu/griswold Pulitzer Prize-winner Eliza Griswold is a journalist, poet and translator. “[Writing] with a reporter’s shrewdness and a poet’s grace (Princeton Humanities Council)”, her work centers on the complex nexus of religion, politics, human rights, and the environment. Director of Princeton University’s vaunted Program in Journalism, Griswold has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker for over two decades and has written and translated several volumes of poetry. Her newest book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award, provides a timely reflection on a growing pattern of fracture and polarization across foundational American institutions. An intimate chronicle of a close-knit church in Philadelphia as it dissolves amidst idealistic crises, it traces the drift away from traditional organized religion and churchgoing in the wake of modern society’s increasingly divergent belief systems. Deeply committed to journalism’s role in sustaining a healthy democracy, Griswold has been hailed for humanizing divisive social and political issues through compassionate portrayals of the people and communities most affected. Her exacting and immersive journalism teases out the stories behind fraying institutions and communities, offering us urgently needed perspectives on a rapidly evolving world—one of ever greater divides—between the have and have nots, rural and urban disparities, the perception of environmental issues, shifting political identities, and the sea-changes within contemporary faith and spiritual communities.
- 4:00 PM2hJunior Parents Weekend Lecture: "Circle of Hope" with author Eliza GriswoldThe Institute for Social Concerns presents the 2025 Junior Parents Weekend Lecture with Eliza Griswold. Introduction by Rev. Hugh R. Page, Jr., vice president for institutional transformation. Reception to follow. socialconcerns.nd.edu/griswold Pulitzer Prize-winner Eliza Griswold is a journalist, poet and translator. “[Writing] with a reporter’s shrewdness and a poet’s grace (Princeton Humanities Council)”, her work centers on the complex nexus of religion, politics, human rights, and the environment. Director of Princeton University’s vaunted Program in Journalism, Griswold has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker for over two decades and has written and translated several volumes of poetry. Her newest book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award, provides a timely reflection on a growing pattern of fracture and polarization across foundational American institutions. An intimate chronicle of a close-knit church in Philadelphia as it dissolves amidst idealistic crises, it traces the drift away from traditional organized religion and churchgoing in the wake of modern society’s increasingly divergent belief systems. Deeply committed to journalism’s role in sustaining a healthy democracy, Griswold has been hailed for humanizing divisive social and political issues through compassionate portrayals of the people and communities most affected. Her exacting and immersive journalism teases out the stories behind fraying institutions and communities, offering us urgently needed perspectives on a rapidly evolving world—one of ever greater divides—between the have and have nots, rural and urban disparities, the perception of environmental issues, shifting political identities, and the sea-changes within contemporary faith and spiritual communities.
- 6:30 PM2h 30mFilm: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (2024)United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lumumba. GET TICKETS
- 6:30 PM2h 30mFilm: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (2024)United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lumumba. GET TICKETS
- 6:30 PM2h 30mFilm: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (2024)United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lumumba. GET TICKETS