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 to attend the lecture >>> The Israeli war in Gaza, following the terror attacks executed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, has raised serious concerns over regional spread of the conflict. In a region that is host to a disproportionate share of the world’s armed conflict, there are a multitude of hot spots and lines of confrontation, all with some connection to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. This webinar will take stock of the regional dimensions of the situation in Israel and Gaza and answer questions, such as: What are the main conflict lines, military activities, and escalation risks at the regional level? What have various states and multilateral actors – in the region and beyond – done to prevent regional escalation? What strategies are missing in this regard? Is time ripe for a regional platform in which states of the region come together, both to prevent escalation and to inform and support political solutions? This is the second installment in a series of webinars addressing various aspects of the Israel/Palestine war, co-sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Panelists include: Kristian Berg Harpviken, Research Professor, PRIO Banafsheh Keynoush, international geopolitical consultant, independent scholar of international relations and Middle East studies, and author Asher Kaufman, John. M. Regan Jr. Director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Ibrahim Fraihat, Associate Professor, Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies Concluding remarks by Laurie Nathan, Professor of the Practice of Mediation, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Register to attend the lecture >>> This event is cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Photo credit: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

Join us for a talk by Rev. Arthur Ssembajja, a native of Uganda and recent graduate of Notre Dame with dual degrees in Master of Business Administration and Master of Global Affairs (MBA and MGA). Father Arthur will speak to how his work in the Bethany Land Institute in Uganda has led to the preservation of critical forest habitat, revived a stalled regional economy, and most importantly, bestowed hope and dignity upon the poorest of the poor.  Food and drinks available. RSVP here so we ensure we get enough food!  Originally published at realestate.nd.edu.