This second annual event aims to explore the different aspects of Church Property through expert panels, workshops, paper presentations, lightning talks, and case studies. Join Church leaders, industry experts, and world-class academics at Notre Dame's campus from the evening of Sunday, Oct. 29, through midday on Tuesday, Oct. 31. To register and learn more, click here. Registration and Kickoff ReceptionSunday, October 29th, 3:30 p.m. EDTSmith Family Ballroom at the Morris InnPanels and PresentationsMonday, October 30th, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday, October 31st, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. EDTMcKenna Hall, Notre DameTo the Heights Award by MDKeller Presentation and DinnerMonday, October 30th, 7 p.m. ESTDahnke Ballroom, Notre Dame Stadium To the Heights Award We are pleased to announce the first-ever MDKeller To The Heights Award, recognizing a bold, innovative, and missional use of Catholic property. Almost 150 people across five continents submitted an idea or current project to be considered for the $10,000 cash prize that can be used to launch or accelerate your project. The winner will be announced at the conference. Registration details and a comprehensive schedule will be available soon. If you are interested in corporate booths or sponsorship opportunities, please reach out to David Murphy. Originally published at realestate.nd.edu.

Please join us for the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4. Arnall's captivating artwork will be showcased from Oct. 4, to Nov. 10. -- Cody Arnall is an associate professor of sculpture at Texas Tech University. Arnall’s research interests include traditional and nontraditional sculpture approaches, installation, and interdisciplinary approaches in visual art. Through material selection and manipulation, his work addresses human intervention in environments and impending doom. Some recent exhibitions are those at Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA; K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX; CICA Museum, Gimpo, SKR; Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO; Pump Project, Austin, TX; Terminal 136, San Antonio, TX; Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN; Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; DEMO Project, Springfield, IL; Living Arts, Tulsa, OK; the American University Museum, Washington, DC; and The Shed, Galway, IE. He has also participated in residencies at Sculpture Space in Utica, NY and at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson VT. Arnall was born and raised in Tulsa, OK; he received a B.F.A. degree in Studio Art fromOklahoma State University, Stillwater; and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Louisiana StateUniversity, Baton Rouge. Prior to his appointment at TTU, Arnall spent two years as a full-time instructor at the Paducah School of Art & Design in Paducah, KY. He is also a member of the international artists' collective, Expanded Draught, and a founding member of the artist run gallery and studio space, CO-OPt in Lubbock, TX. 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.

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.

Sebastian ElischerAssociate Professor of Political ScienceUniversity of Florida The recent military coups across West Africa have raised longstanding questions about the role of the military in African democratization processes. There is growing evidence that the various juntas intend to entrench themselves in executive power beyond the post-coup elections. Drawing on the theoretical insights of linked ecologies, Elischer will compare the extent to which each junta has formed domestic alliances and defied external pressure to enable a return to civilian-democratic rule, providing an interim assessment from his paper. A live-streamed video of this presentation will also be available here at the appointed time.

The lauded guest artists present an odyssey of songs of Ukraine, and the many lives touched by its history and culture. Composers include Lysenko, Silvestrov, Barvinsky, Lyatoshynsky and Turkevich, as well as Gershwin and Schumann. This concert is free and open to the public. Originally published at music.nd.edu.