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.

Decades before Alex Haley’s Roots swept to No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List in 1976, writing and editing produced by African Americans was central to twentieth-century American publishing. Literary production was interracial. View examples of mid-century books by African Americans whose designs — from dust jackets to illustrations to bindings and paper quality — conveyed their centrality in publishing and American literature. This exhibit is curated by Korey Garibaldi, asociate professor of American Studies, and Rachel Bohlmann, curator of North Americana at 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.

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.

This talk will be held in-person and streamed live on the institute's YouTube channel. Vist the event main page to find the viewing link. About the Talk This talk will spotlight the role of orality, vernacularity, and performance as means of knowledge transmission in late medieval women’s religious communities in northern France. Setting the stage for such processes are two manuscripts produced in the fourteenth century at the abbey of Origny Ste. Benoite. Liturgical dramas, saints’ lives, sermons, and images within these manuscripts illuminate a complex network of improvisational knowledge and communication practices that, I argue, can be recuperated through historical methods adapted from folklore and performance studies. About the Speaker Sara Ritchey is professor of history and distinguished professor in the humanities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is author of Holy Matter: Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity and Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health. She is co editor-in-chief of the journal postmedieval. About the Series In 2002, the Medieval Institute inaugurated a lecture series in honor of Robert M. and Ricki Conway. Robert Conway was a 1966 graduate of Notre Dame and trustee of the University. He was, and his wife continues to be, long-time friends and supporters of the Medieval Institute. The annual Conway Lectures bring senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines.  Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.

Medieval Muslim Women, Maqamat Al Hariri This talk will be held in-person and streamed live on the institute's YouTube channel. Vist the event main page to find the viewing link. This lecture will be followed by a reception. About the Talk Ibn Qunfudh, a 14th-century Algerian biographer of the female saint ‘Azīza al-Saksāwiyya, admirably described how whenever ‘Azīza attended the mixed-gender religious assemblies “she would sit in the middle and deliver sermons, injunctions, and juridical responses” to everyone, displaying such “confident authority” that “no one would move without her order”. Yet Ibn Qunfudh's contemporary, the Egyptian jurist Ibn al-Ḥājj denounced “the moral corruption of men, women, and children all mingled together before the male or female hortatory preacher” and urged the authorities to forbid women from attending the assembly of “someone whom they claimed to be a female shaykh.” This lecture discusses how such contrasting opinions about the status and propriety of Muslim female  preachers are symptomatic of larger historical deliberations and contemporary scholarly debates among Muslim feminists concerning the roles Muslim women played in the transmission of knowledge and the extent of their involvement in Islam’s oral and written culture. About the Speaker Linda G. Jones is a research professor of medieval history at Pompeu Fabra University. Her research focuses on the religious and cultural history of medieval Muslim Iberia and the Maghreb, medieval Islamic preaching, the religiosity of the Mudejars, and cross-cultural gender studies. She has published a monographic book on Islamic preaching, coedited collective volumes on Jewish, Christian, and Muslim preaching and sainthood, and has several publications on islamic oratory and on gender, masculinity and Islam, including “Representations of Hegemonic Masculinities in Medieval Leonese-Castilian and Almohad Chronicles," Speculum 97/3 (2022): 737-774; and “Constructing Gender Identities and Relations in a Mudejar Hortatory Sermon Addressed to Women," Medieval Sophia 24 (2022). Her current research projects include a study of representations of male grief in premodern Islamic literature, a study of gender distinctions in the hagiographies of male and female Muslim saints, and the edition and analysis of two Mudejar sermonaries. About the Series In 2002, the Medieval Institute inaugurated a lecture series in honor of Robert M. and Ricki Conway. Robert Conway was a 1966 graduate of Notre Dame and trustee of the University. He was, and his wife continues to be, long-time friends and supporters of the Medieval Institute. The annual Conway Lectures bring senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines.  Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.

In 1964, Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase, "The medium is the message." Borrowing inspiration from Thom Anderson's 2003 film, Los Angeles Plays Itself, this collage of a program draws from twenty-five 16mm films within IU-Bloomington's collections which highlight the filmmaking process, film handling equipment, exhibition and the cellulose material itself, putting the medium of film at the forefront. Archivists will demonstrate 16mm film handling equipment beginning at 6pm. Curators Jon and Jennifer Vickers scheduled to appear. This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will only be available for pick-up one hour prior to the performance. To guarantee your reservation please pick-up your Will Call tickets at least 15 minutes prior to the performance. In the event of a sell out, unclaimed Will Call tickets will be used to seat patrons waiting on standby.

Playwright Heidi Schreck's Tony-nominated hit play breathes new life into the U.S. Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Post-talks and guest speakers to be announced.Purchase tickets online or at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center box office window.