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.

Tours of the fall exhibit — Making and Unmaking Emancipation in Cuba and the United States — may be arranged for classes and other groups by contacting Rachel Bohlmann at (574) 631-1575 or Rachel.Bohlmann.2@nd.edu. 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. 17

Innovation Rally events feature complementary lunch, innovative speakers, networking and an interactive showcase of emerging and cutting-edge Notre Dame startups and technologies. REGISTER NOWFEATURED SPEAKER: Malcolm Johnson   Malcolm Johnson is the founder and CEO of Langdon Park Capital, a real estate investment manager focused on creating lasting social impact in historically underserved Black and Latino communities. Johnson directs the firm’s overall strategy and operations.  Prior to founding Langdon Park Capital, Johnson was a director in JPMorgan’s Commercial Real Estate group. Johnson joined JPMorgan in 2012 as the senior coverage banker in the firm’s Real Estate Banking group in Los Angeles, where he underwrote and arranged $3 billion in debt financing for institutional real estate developers and investment firms. From 2006—2012, Johnson was a vice president in the Commercial Real Estate Banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to his banking career, Johnson played professional football with the Cincinnati Bengals, New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers from 1999—2003.  Johnson serves on the advisory board for the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate at the University of Notre Dame, the Board of Trustees for the Marlborough School and the Corporate Advisory Board for The Brotherhood Crusade, a non-profit organization supporting low-income South Los Angeles residents. Johnson received his Master’s in Business Administration from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and his Bachelor’s of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business. Originally published at ideacenter.nd.edu.

A Conversation with Dr. James Curran, MD, MPH ('66) Dean Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health, Emory University About the speaker: Jim Curran joined the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) as dean and professor of epidemiology in 1995, following 25 years of leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is emeritus director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research, and holds faculty appointments in the Emory School of Medicine and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Curran is internationally known for heading the 1981 CDC Task Force charged with investigating the first cases of what later became known as AIDS and was a key figure in the interactions between the CDC and the NIH during the two agencies’ efforts to investigate the epidemiology and cause of HIV. While at the CDC, he attained the rank of assistant surgeon general. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame, Curran received his MD from the University of Michigan and a master of public health from Harvard University. Author or co-author of more than 300 scholarly publications, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science (now the National Academy of Medicine) in 1993. Curran has served in numerous leadership positions, including chair of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) Council and chair or co-chair of two IOM Committees on International HIV policies and programs. In 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also been a member of the Board of Public Health, State of Georgia since 2011 and served as chair since 2019. In 2009, the Rollins School of Public Health Dean’s position was named the James W. Curran Dean of Public Health in his honor. On July 1, 2022 Curran stepped down as dean and remains on the faculty of the Rollins School of Public Health as emeritus dean and professor of epidemiology and global health. Originally published at globalhealth.nd.edu.

A conversation with Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad is Untrue. Catered reception and book signing to follow.   Co-sponsors: Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, Creative Writing Program, Initiative on Race and Resilience  Join the Center for Social Concerns on home football weekends for MVP Fridays: lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose.  Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent some years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the author of several books for young readers, including Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story), winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, the Christopher Medal, and the Middle Eastern Book Award. He lives in the U.S. with his wife and son. 

Professor Shannon DunneJoin the Medieval Institute and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies for a festive tailgate filled with dancing, music, and storytelling! Live music will be on offer courtesy of Notre Dame Céilí Band with acclaimed sean-nós performer Professor Shannon Dunne providing dance instruction! True to historical céilí tradition, students and faculty of the Medieval Institute will also present stories and poetry from the Middle Ages between dance sessions.Complimentary food and drink will be provided. This event is free and open to the public—all people and all ages are welcome! Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.

Restored and remastered, Chan-Wook’s (Decision to Leave, The Handmaiden) influential masterpiece returns to theaters for the first time in decades, still as shocking as ever. After being mysteriously kidnapped and imprisoned with no human contact for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik) is suddenly released without any explanation. In a twisted game of cat and mouse, he has only five days to retrace his past, track down his captors, and get his revenge. Get tickets.

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.

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.

In the works of art that populate the Uffizi Galleries, the halls of the great Venetian palaces, or the most important basilicas of Rome, often ignored faces are represented: those of the African and Afro-descendant characters of the Italian Renaissance. Who were they? Where did they come from? And why have they gone unnoticed for so long? This documentary written by Francesca Priori and directed by Cristian Di Mattia discovers the stories of these characters and through works and documents creates a continuous dialogue in which art helps to give answers to the enigmas contained in the archives and vice versa. Filmmaker Justin Randolph Thompson, writer Francesca Priori, and Professor Angelica Pesarini are scheduled to appear.Part of the Learning Beyond the Classics series Early 70s Italian Cinema.Get tickets.

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.

Join Notre Dame students, faculty, and staff as we celebrate the opening of the Beth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room and kick off the year-long 60th Anniversary Celebration for the Hesburgh Library.Enjoy music, food, and refreshments. View digital exhibits spanning more than 60 years of the iconic landmark. Take a 60th-anniversary commemorative mug—it’s our way of saying thank you to the campus community for your inspiration and partnership.The newly transformed Grand Reading Room was designed to inspire focused and contemplative intellectual work, which is as vital to academic success as the renewed collaborative spaces throughout the building. The 20,000 square foot, two-story space is furnished with over 250 table seats for individual study and comfortable seating around a large enclosed fireplace. Natural light now floods the space and a 100-pendant light installation hangs in the center of a new atrium, creating a magical ambiance. Walls of windows provide expansive views of west campus, including the Basilica’s spire and the Dome of the Main Building. Leisure periodicals, current newspapers, Catholic newspapers, and the new Notre Dame Authors Collection are located just outside the first floor Grand Reading Room entrance. All are invited to celebrate this important milestone! Please join us in our newest study space and celebrate 60 years of the Hesburgh Library. Look for additional 60th Anniversary activities throughout the academic year. Download and share the invitation.Celebrating 60 Years of the Hesburgh Library More than 60 years ago, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., dreamed of a new library building that would serve, along with the Basilica and the Golden Dome, as one of the three pillars of the Notre Dame campus. It would become the academic heart of the University. He envisioned that the Memorial Library (renamed Hesburgh Library in 1987) and its now world famous Word of Life mural would stand, for all to see, as a symbol of academic excellence and the pursuit of truth. Reflecting on his goals for this building, Fr. Hesburgh said, "When I began to dream of a greater Notre Dame, it seemed to me that there was no greater step forward we could make, as a great Catholic university, than to have the best Catholic university library in the world." This dream was realized when the building opened on September 18, 1963, and was dedicated on May 7, 1964. We have launched a year-long 60th Anniversary Celebration framed by these two significant dates to honor this important milestone. Throughout this 60th anniversary year, we will reflect on this vision-turned-reality and the vital contributions the Hesburgh Libraries have made to the advancement of Notre Dame. This look back anchors our renewed vision as we create a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive community that advances human flourishing. Collectively, we will shift the paradigm on how research libraries further the creation, understanding, and use of knowledge. Please join us throughout the year as we embrace this vision anew, ensuring that the Hesburgh Libraries will inspire intellectual inquiry and remain a symbol of academic excellence in pursuit of truth and human flourishing for generations to come.

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.

Swedish actor/musician Björn Andresen’s life was forever changed at the age of 15 when he played Tadzio, the object of Dirk Bogarde’s obsession in Death in Venice — a role which led Italian maestro Luchino Visconti to dub him “the world’s most beautiful boy.” This is the story of a boy who was thrust into international stardom for his iconic looks and lived a life of glamour. Fifty years later, Björn looks back. Get tickets.

Originally published at irishlanguage.nd.edu.