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.

Jennifer Cossyleon, senior policy and advocacy manager for Community Change, will speak about funding mechanisms to generate more low-income housing, focusing in particular on the Housing Trust Fund concept. Respondents:Anne Mannix, Housing Matters John Murphy, St. Joseph County AuditorLight refreshments will be served.Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns.

As part of University Press Week, this year's festival will include incredible deals both in person and on our website, several book events, and many giveaways. Event Schedule:Poesía en diálogoLatinx Poetry with Victoria María Castells, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Sheryl Luna, and Vickie VértizNovember 14, 5 to 6 p.m., Hesburgh Library, Scholars Lounge and via ZoomThis virtual event features four Latinx poets—all Notre Dame Press authors—reading and discussing their work. Laura Villareal, Letras Latinas Associate, will moderate the discussion. Registration for the virtual event is free. Register here.Sponsored by Letras Latinas and the Creative Writing Program How to Judge a Book by Its CoverCovers, Layout, and Design with Notre Dame Press StaffNovember 15, 2 to 3 p.m. Hesburgh Library, Scholars LoungeThis in-person event showcases best practices in book cover design, co-presented by Notre Dame Press staffers Wendy McMillen, production and design manager, and Michelle Sybert, assistant director and director of marketing, sales, and development. Suitable for future authors, designers, and marketing professionals, as well as anyone who wants to learn more about book publishing, this event is free and open to the public.Sponsored by the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art Love Thee Notre DameThe History of Our University with Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C. and Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C.November 15, 5 to 6 p.m. Hesburgh Library, Scholars LoungeThis in-person event features Notre Dame Press authors Fr. Thomas Blantz and Fr. Monk Malloy speaking about their combined 130+ years at Notre Dame. Kathleen Sprows Cummings, the Rev. John A. O'Brien Collegiate Professor of American Studies and History, will moderate the discussion. This event is free and open to the public.Sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and the Department of History

Perla KhattarNotre Dame Law School JSD StudentKellogg Institute PhD Fellow This presentation explores how most people suffer from something called "the privacy paradox." In short, people say that they care about their privacy, but are unwilling to take the steps to protect it. With this fact in mind, and knowing that the right to privacy is one of the pillars of a democratic society, different legislation is needed. This is where Perla Khattar proposes the privacy by design legislation: a law that would imbed privacy standards into the architecture of every software, minimizing the steps that consumers have to take to protect their privacy. She also proposes mass technology awareness campaigns as a way to deal with the paradox.

Internal male migration is a significant demographic phenomenon affecting millions of lives in the Global South. How does this form of temporary male absence shape the lives of women that these migrants leave behind? Using fieldwork intensive qualitative and quantitative data, and a national level panel dataset from India, Kumar argues that male migration is fundamentally shifting the contours of local political engagement in these communities through the heightened presence of women in traditionally male-dominated political arenas. Rithika Kumar is a postdoctoral visiting fellow with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies whose research contributes to scholarship on gender and politics, comparative political behavior, the politics of migration and urbanization, and South Asian politics. Her talk is sponsored by the Liu Institute's South Asia Group. Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

Poesía en diálogoLatinx Poetry with Victoria María Castells, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Sheryl Luna, and Vickie VértizHesburgh Library Scholars Lounge and ZoomThis virtual event features four Latinx poets—all Notre Dame Press authors—reading and discussing their work. Laura Villareal, Letras Latinas Associate, will moderate the discussion. Registration for the virtual event is free. Register here. Sponsored by Letras Latinas and the Creative Writing Program.

Our dear friends, Alvaro and Liz, will be teaching Argentine Tango at Notre Dame RecSports this fall. Don't miss out on the following dates: Tuesday, November 14, 6:30-7:30pm Wednesday, November 29, 6:30-7:30pm To register please use this link or navigate to recregister.nd.edu, select "Instructional Series" and scroll to "POP-IP: Tango". Due to ND RecSports requirements, only people affiliated with ND and their spouses may enroll in the classes. Follow the Notre Dame Argentine Tango group on Facebook! Originally published at internationalerg.nd.edu.