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.

The Congregation of Holy Cross, Midwest Province Archives, holds a large collection relating to Brother Columba O’Neill, C.S.C. (1848-1923), dating from 1895 to 1997. This includes thousands of letters written to Brother Columba, who was known as the Miracle Man of Notre Dame and the Divine Healer. John O’Neill was born in Mackeysburg, Pennsylvania in 1848 and entered the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1874. For the next 42 years, he labored in the humble capacity of a cobbler, repairing shoes and fabricating special shoes for people with foot and ankle problems. Brother Columba had a remarkable devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and a greater love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Around 1900, he began making Sacred Heart badges (30,000 of them). Many were given to students when they came to pick up their shoes. He told them to pray a novena, say five times a day, for nine days (or more, if not cured), “Sacred Heart of Jesus cure me!” As early as 1907, reports of many “miracles” wrought through the prayers of Br. Columba began arriving at Notre Dame. For years after his death in 1923, letters from South Bend and all over the world continued to arrive at Notre Dame. Of more than 10,000 letters in the collection, hundreds thank Brother Columba for cures, from chronic headaches to blindness. For 30 years after his death, people came daily to visit his grave on the Notre Dame campus. Brother Columba died on November 20, 1923, in the Community House — now Columba Hall — from complications related to the Spanish flu. Br. Isidore Alderton wrote, “News of his death soon spread to the people of South Bend, and dozens of members of the community, sisters and strangers were lining up to pass before his casket. For the past two days and nights the parlor in the Community House has become a veritable shrine.” Items on display in the spotlight exhibit are on loan from the Archives of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. This exhibit is co-curated by Brother Philip Smith, C.S.C., Archivist, Midwest Province, Congregation of Holy Cross, and Aedín Clements, Irish Studies 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, faculty, staff, postdocs, public, alumni and friends.

Join the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business in welcoming Gary Gereffi '70, professor emeritus of sociology and director of the Global Value Chains Center at Duke University, as he presents “Bridging the Gap Between Business, National Security and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century.” The World Trade Organization (WTO) rules-based order that once defined globalization is rapidly giving way to geopolitical pressures, climate change, and national security considerations. The U.S.-China power struggle, product shortages, and supply chain fragmentation associated with the COVID-19 global pandemic have triggered a massive rethinking of global supply chains and strategic vulnerability. Growing competition for access to critical minerals prompts a gold rush to find and secure control of these vital raw materials with potentially profound environmental impacts. The opportunity horizon for people experiencing poverty is shaped by how private funds rather than aid are invested across Africa and Asia. Business and governmental leaders struggle to keep up and search for the right strategies and policies. In this discussion, Gareffi seeks to answer how new U.S. industrial policies affect this environment, how this new reality will impact extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change, and should schools of global affairs address and incorporate the growing reach of business and private finance into their identity and curricula on sustainable development. REGISTER HERE Originally published at mckennacenter.nd.edu.

In 1978, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles reached a boiling point. Hundreds of members of the Irish Republican Army were arrested and incarcerated in a notorious British prison known as the Maze. Then, on Sunday, November 26, 1978, two IRA gunmen kicked in the front door at 8 Evelyn Gardens in Belfast—the home of Maze prison official Albert Miles. They then executed Miles in front of his horrified family and vanished into the night. In 1983, 24-year-old Catholic taxicab driver Kevin Barry Artt was convicted and sentenced to life for Miles' murder, falsely named by an IRA member-turned-jailhouse-informant desperate to please his captors. On his way to the Maze, in manacles, Artt still professed his innocence. Six weeks later he made a daring and dramatic escape, fleeing to California and going underground. For decades, the British government, aided by the US Department of State and FBI, relentlessly sought him while he managed to stay just steps ahead of his pursuers. Not until 2020, when the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal threw out Kevin’s murder conviction based on new, exculpatory evidence discovered by Lawton, was Artt set free. Lunch will be provided. Undergraduates welcome and encouraged to attend!  DAN LAWTON is a writer and lawyer. His short fiction and columns have appeared in The Recorder, Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Pensive Quill, The Daily Transcript, and Sheepshead Review. Above the Ground: A True Story of The Troubles in Northern Ireland  is his first work of narrative nonfiction.   Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

On December 4th, the Supreme Court will hear its biggest bankruptcy case in decades. At issue is a simple but impactful question: Can the Sackler family be released of its liability for the opioid crisis in Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy?   The answer to that question promises to reshape bankruptcy practice as well as tort litigation and to define, for decades to come, the role of bankruptcy courts in addressing wide-ranging societal injuries.  Join Professor Anthony Casey from University of Chicago Law and Professor Lindsey Simon from Emory Law for this discussion. ND Law Professor Michael Francus will provide an introduction.  Chick-Fil-A will be served.   All are welcome. Originally published at law.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Jamil Scott explores how political participation is influenced by race and gender. Scott is an assistant professor of political science at Georgetown University. Scott’s research investigates how race and gender impact the decision to participate in activities like running for office, voting, and engaging with politics more generally. Her work has been published in journals such as Politics, Groups, and Identities, American Politics Research, and National Review of Black Politics. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

Join this distinguished panel for a discussion ofGrowing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit by William C. Mattison III. Growing in Virtue is the only comprehensive account of growth in virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas.  Panelists:  William C. Mattison III, Wilsey Family Professor, University of Notre Dame Jennifer Herdt, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University's Divinity School.  Jean Porter, John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame Rev. Dominic Legge, O.P., Director of the Thomistic Institute and Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.Open to the public; lunch available at noon.  Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.

Join us at the Inspired Leadership Initiative open house! The Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI) is for accomplished individuals from all disciplines (business, non-profit, and academic, to name a few) who have completed their chosen careers and wish to embark on a process of discovering, discerning and designing who they want to be in the next stage of their lives. The program encompasses an academic year on the Notre Dame campus, and encourages fellows to take advantage of the University's vast array of resources.   Stop by 329 DeBartolo Hall to connect with staff, current fellows, and alumni to learn more about the Inspired Leadership Initiative. Refreshments will be provided. Visit the Inspired Leadership Initiative website to learn more!

Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in welcoming Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick to campus as they discuss their research and book on Irish women in America, Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women. Farrell and McCormick, the authors of the bestselling and acclaimed book, Bad Bridget, and the creators of the celebrated Bad Bridget podcast, have unearthed a world in which Irish women actually outnumbered Irish men in prison, in which you could get locked up for "stubbornness," and in which a serial killer called Lizzie Halliday was described by the New York Times as "the worst woman on earth." They reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving. From sex workers and thieves to kidnappers and killers, these Bridgets are young women who have gone from the frying pan of their impoverished homeland to the fire of vast North American cities.Bad Bridget is a masterpiece of social history and true crime, showing us a fascinating and previously unexplored world Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety. Others quickly found themselves in trouble - bad trouble, and on an astonishing scale. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

The symphony presents its late fall concert. The program will include the mighty Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.