Can restorative justice challenge and actually transform the systemic injustices inscribed in U.S. mass incarceration? Jason Springs’ newest book, Restorative Justice and Lived Religion: Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago, argues that it can, and examines how. This book launch brings together a panel of scholars and practitioners who focus on issues of racial and social justice, poverty, and U.S. mass incarceration. They will discuss the book’s contribution to further the practice and scholarship on how to resist, build an alternative to, and altogether transform U.S. mass incarceration. Panelists: Jason A. Springs, professor of religion, ethics, and peace studiesGwendolyn Purifoye, assistant professor of racial justice and conflict transformationDarryl Heller, director, Civil Rights Heritage Center, Indiana University South Bend  Fr. David Kelly, C.PP.S., executive director of the Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation  Connie Snyder Mick, senior associate director and the director of academic affairs, Institute for Social Concerns  Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

In his three-person song cycle “A Visit With Emily,” Tom Cipullo sets both poems and letters by Emily Dickinson and her correspondent Thomas Wentworth Higginson to explore the nature of friendship, love and loss. Department of Music faculty members Stephen Lancaster and Anne Slovin collaborate with Matthew Giallongo and Jonathan Young of Purdue University-Fort Wayne to perform this fascinating piece. This event is free and not ticketed.  Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Drawing from historical records and from Chief Leopold, the founder of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, Zada Ballew will tell a fuller, more complicated story of Indigenous peoples central to the history of the land that became Notre Dame. Review the poster for more information.Free and open to the public.Brought to you by the Department for American Studies and the Education, Schooling, and Society program.