Professor Pfinklepfunder's $1 Sunday FilmsDirected by Robert AltmanWith Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul L. SmithRated PG, 114 minutes, Blu-rayWhen one thinks of comic book adaptations as we know them now, one wouldn't quickly imagine a director like Robert Altman pulling Popeye IP for a live-action musical. By golly, though, they cast Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl (natural fit) and Robin Williams as Popeye (less natural fit) and made a movie that a lot of people hated. The film unraveled Altman's career, which took years to recover. Today, though, there is more interest in and love for the film, which is a bit of a road not taken with comic book adaptations, as well as bizarre fun for people giving it fresh eyes. GET TICKETS

This drop-in tour will introduce you to your Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. Join a student gallery teacher or a member of the museum staff to explore the architecture of the building through some of its most unique spaces and discover works of art that are highlights of the collection. Meet at the Welcome Desk. All are welcome and no registration is required. This tour will explore all gallery levels of the museum. Although the tour will keep moving between spaces, gallery stools are available upon request. Originally published at raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu.

Films to Talk AboutDirected by Sally El HosainiWith Nathalie Issa, Manal Issa, Ahmed MalekRated PG-13, 134 minutesIn English and Arabic with English subtitlesPanel discussion to follow!A scene many parents and kids know well: a youth swimming competition that pulls together striving athletes and the families who cheer them on. Here, though, the competition is in Syria, and bombs are exploding literally both outside and inside the sports facility. The juxtaposition between childhood sports and war is one often used to illustrate lost innocence, and The Swimmers moves that genre forward by telling the true story of Yusra Mardini, whose drive to compete in the Olympics pushes her and her sister out of Syria. At the cross-section of a biopic and the refugee experience, The Swimmers also allows for an experience to reflect on forced determination, success, and the fallout of state violence. GET TICKETS *This is a free but ticketed event. To guarantee your seat, please pick up your tickets at least 15 minutes prior to the show, at which point your unclaimed tickets may be used to seat patrons waiting on standby. Tickets will be available for pick-up at the Ticket Office beginning one hour prior to the performance. **Co-presented by Neighbor 2 Neighbor.

Join the McDonald Center for Student Well-Being for Spin the Conversation: Truth or Stigma. Bust myths and get creative with us. Spin the wheel to tie-dye a purple "I ❤️ ND" shirt to show your support for Recovery Awareness Week. Shirts are available while supplies last, so don't miss out! Originally published at mcwell.nd.edu.

The Chicago-based intermedia percussion ensemble Beyond This Point will lead a hands-on workshop showcasing the innovative and unconventional performance technologies used in their work. Participants will explore how these technologies shape musical expression—ranging from controlling lighting and sensor-driven cues to interacting with electronic elements and unconventional instruments. The workshop will showcase how such technologies can enhance theatricality and audience engagement, transforming traditional composition and performance spaces into rich, multi-sensory experiences.Bio:Beyond This Point is a Chicago-based collaborative music ensemble dedicated to the advancement of experimental and contemporary culture. This multifaceted collective of musicians, performers, and arts practitioners builds experimental projects that engage with written music, sound art, lighting, installation, improvisation, and live electronics. From the intimate to the monumental, BTP is known for producing unique performances that offer captivating and exhilarating experiences. Most recently, BTP has presented its community-oriented multimedia production Reclaimed Timber; immersive sound+light concert LIT; and thought-provoking theatrical performance Musician Minus Instrument.This workshop is part of the lecture series "Sonifying the Body: Embodied Technologies in Electronic Music Performance," sponsored by the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, the Department of Music, and the Technology & Digital Studies Program.   Originally published at music.nd.edu.

James A. Maynard, Ph.D., is a professor of number theory at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford University in Oxford, England. He is being recognized with the Carrier Medal for transformative discoveries in analytical number theory and the structure of prime numbers, advancing both foundational science and practical application. He will accept the Rev. Carrier Medal on September 15, 2025.   Maynard won the Fields Medal, a prestigious honor awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union, which chooses two to four medalists during each award cycle for outstanding advancements in mathematics. His early work was on sieve methods, a technique used to estimate the size of a set of numbers by "sifting out" numbers that are divisible by specific primes. He settled an established conjecture by Paul Erdös — a prolific mathematician who spent a year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame during the 1950s — on large gaps between prime numbers.   Recently, Maynard has improved upon previous work on questions about the Diophantine approximation, the process of finding successively better rational approximations to irrational numbers. In 2024 he and Larry Guth, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed a new proof that better estimates how many primes exist in short intervals on the number line. The proof also provides more insights into the behavior of prime numbers.  Read more about James MaynardOriginally published at science.nd.edu.

What impact have Western sanctions, international aid, and regional diplomacy and trade had on the Taliban’s internal dynamics, governance capacity, and international relations? Are the Taliban weakened or strengthened as a result of these strategies since 2021? Join this webinar panel to learn about our research findings. The Kroc Institute’s Afghanistan Program for Peace and Development collaborated on a study with the Libertas Council to examine the impact of international strategies on Afghanistan from August 2021 to December 2024. Led by Sibghatullah Ghaznawi, the study assessed their influence on the Taliban’s governance, internal cohesion and response to these strategies. Register hereModerator:Laurie Nathan, director of the Mediation Program at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global AffairsIntroductory remarks:Aref Dostyar, director of the Afghanistan Program for Peace and Development at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, and a Global Fellow at the Libertas CouncilPanelists:Sibghatullah Ghaznawi, associate research scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia UniversityMuqaddessa Yoursih, senior advisor at swisspeaceConcluding remarks:Emily Ann Milnes, chief of staff, Libertas CouncilCo-Sponsor:Libertas CouncilRegister here Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

Enrique SeiraKellogg Institute Faculty FellowJoe and Deborah Loughrey Professor of Economics We complement a field experiment with cross-country evidence to show that exposure to apex corruption— corrupt acts implicating top-level politicians—causes large decreases in democratic values and associated behaviors. Behaviors such as individual voter turnout, contributions to support elections, and honesty and trust in incentivized games all fall. The effects on voting are greatest for incumbents perceived to be honest when apex corruption is exposed close to elections. We show, both experimentally and across scandals in 17 national settings, that apex corruption also reduces explicit support for democracy in favor of authoritarianism. We test two restorative solutions. Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute at the Keough School of Global Affairs.    

The McDonald Center for Student Well-Being and the Gender Relations Center invite ND students for free ice cream and bracelet-making. We'll be chatting about how to build and maintain healthy relationships while navigating recovery. Originally published at mcwell.nd.edu.

Classics in the BrowningDirected by Oscar MicheauxWith Evelyn Preer, Floy Clements, James D. RuffinNot Rated, 79 minutes, Blu-rayStill early in the canon of films by trailblazing director Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates is generally cited as the oldest surviving feature film by an African-American director. The plot follows a North-South journey storyline: A Southern school sends Sylvia (Flo Clements) to Boston in order to raise funds to educate underprivileged children at a rural school in the Deep South. In Boston, she meets and falls in love with a Black doctor who learns from her the scourge of Jim Crow racism. GET TICKETS

So much art, so little time! Join in for this 15-minute lunchtime program, where a member of the museum's education staff will lead a brief, interactive exploration of a single work of art in the permanent collection. Not all works on view take center stage, so join us for this opportunity to take a deep dive into a piece that you might not have noticed on a previous stroll through the galleries. Gain new perspectives on an old favorite, or engage with something completely new! After our time in the galleries, participants can explore other works in the Museum or enjoy a 10 percent discount at Ivan’s Cafe. Originally published at raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu.

Classics in the Browning Directed by Chantal Akerman With Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck Not Rated, 201 minutes In French with English subtitles A singular work in film history that recently topped the Sight and Sound decennial poll for the best film of all time, Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow—whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman's film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or one of cinema's most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades. *Free for ND, SMC, HC, IUSB, and high school students. GET TICKETS **Sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema.

Petrus Liu is professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Chinese, German, and Latin) from UC Berkeley in 2005 and taught at Cornell University and Yale-NUS College before joining BU in 2017. His research interests lie at the intersection of queer theory and Marxist cultural criticism, which he explores through publications and courses on modern Chinese and comparative literature, digital media, capitalism and the novel, and new social movements in the global South. Liu is the author of three scholarly monographs: Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History (Cornell East Asia Series, 2011); Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (Duke University Press, 2015), winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize Honorable Mention and a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award; and The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus (Duke University Press, 2023), a work that offers a new approach to the political economy of sexuality through a decentered history of global capitalism’s latest mutations and queer bodies. Liu is also the coeditor (with Lisa Rofel) and cotranslator of Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet (Duke University Press, 2024), a collection of queer stories by the Chinese writer Cui Zi’en. Liu’s other publications include “Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics,” a coedited special issue of the journal positions: asia critique that received the Modern Language Association’s Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Award for Best Journal Special Issue of 2010; three collections of film commentaries simultaneously published in English, Chinese, Spanish, and French; and journal articles in Social Text; South Atlantic Quarterly; Modern Language Quarterly; GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; Feminist Studies; positions: asia critique; The Funambulist; Asian Exchange; Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature; Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies; Genre en Action; Kaos Queer+; Sexuality Policy Watch; Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies; Refeng xueshu; and The China Journal. His works have been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Turkish, and Russian. The lecture is sponsored by the Liu Institute's Chinese Working Group. The event is free and open to the public. Lunch Provided - Please Bring Beverages In support of the Liu Institute’s growing commitment to sustainability, we will no longer be offering drinks at our public lectures and panels. We encourage audience members to bring their water bottles or to drink from nearby water fountains.  Originally published at asia.nd.edu.

The Kellogg Institute presents its annual tradition—that introduces research of new Visiting Fellows and Dissertation-Year Fellows in an informative and inviting atmosphere. Learn firsthand why Kellogg has invested in the work of these fellows from brief research overview presentations moderated by Kellogg Director Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. Feel free to ask questions and chat with the visiting fellows at the reception in the Great Hall afterward. Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute at the Keough School of Global Affairs.

Join an evening of sketching, community, and inspiration centered around themes found in the exhibition Homecoming: Walter Osborne’s Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900. This month’s session will focus on field drawing in the Charles B. Hayes Family Sculpture Park (weather location in the galleries) and will be led by local artist Kelly Harrington. Come ready to share a sketch (sketches should be no larger than 9” x 12”) of your own, created in response to this prompt: Choose one natural object—either living or inanimate—from your own yard or a location nearby to draw from life. This could be anything that catches your eye: a leaf, a feather, a rock, a branch, a patch of moss, or even an insect or small plant. Use any drawing medium you’re comfortable with. Your drawing can be quick and expressive or more detailed and precise—but work only while observing the object in real time. Limit your drawing session to no more than one hour to keep the focus on direct observation. On the same page as your drawing, be sure to include the following:The location (where you found or observed the object)The time of dayThe name of the object, if you know itAny notes or reflections on what you discovered while drawingBefore you finish, take a clear photograph of your subject to bring with you to our next session. During the program, we’ll share sketches, discuss artistic choices and techniques, find inspiration in each other’s and Osborne’s work, and take on a new sketching challenge inspired by this month’s theme. Local Lines is open to artists aged 15 and up. This program is part of The Big Draw, the world's largest drawing celebration, which takes place across the globe every year in October. It is for anyone who loves to draw, as well as those who think they can't. The festival promotes drawing as a universal language that has the power to change lives and unite people of any age, background, race, or religion from around the globe. Parking is available in the Visitor Lot immediately north of the Sculpture Park for a fee during the week (before 4:30 p.m.). Free two-hour parking is available in the Eddy Street Commons Parking Garage or along Angela Blvd. After 4:30 p.m. and on weekends, parking is free and available in any non-gated campus lot. If traveling via South Bend Transpo, take the No.7 bus and use the Eddy St. Commons stop. Originally published at raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu.

Experience your museum in a whole new way as DJ PB creates a new soundtrack for your art experience each month. Enjoy an evening where rhythm, melody, and beat echo the textures, colors, and emotions of the works of art on view. Come for the art, and stay for the vibe. Parking is available in the Visitor Lot immediately north of the Sculpture Park for a fee during the week (before 4:30 p.m.). Free two-hour parking is available in the Eddy Street Commons Parking Garage or along Angela Blvd. After 4:30 p.m. and on weekends, parking is free and available in any non-gated campus lot. If traveling via South Bend Transpo, take the No.7 bus and use the Eddy St. Commons stop.   Originally published at raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu.

Learning Beyond the Classics: Voicing Intergenerational Trauma in Postwar Korea and Japan through Contemporary Cinema Directed by Yasujiro Ozu With Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama Not Rated, 137 minutes In Japanese with English subtitles A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is a crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which follows an aging couple's journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director's customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, Tokyo Story plumbs and deepens the director's recurring theme of generational conflict, creating what is without question one of cinema's mightiest masterpieces. GET TICKETS *Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students. **Co-presented by the David A. Heskin and Marilou Brill Endowment for Excellence, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship/Hesburgh Libraries.

In collaboration with the University Counseling Center (UCC) and the McDonald Center for Student Well-being (MDC), this support forum offers an open space for students experiencing concerns related to substance use and recovery, offering a practical, skills-based approach to maintenance and well-being. We will cover topics such as finding and maintaining your motivation ("why"), navigating urges and cravings, cultivating self-awareness, and integrating holistic well-being. Originally published at mcwell.nd.edu.

Notre Dame students are invited to a free night of bowling and games at Strikes & Spares in Mishawaka. Help the McDonald Center for Student Well-Being and Zero Proof build their recovery community. We'll provide free transportation from Stepan Center, along with pizza, bowling and a drink ticket (NO COST TO YOU!). Show your support by joining our Purple Out! Only 50 spots are available, so RSVP to save yours. RSVP here. Originally published at mcwell.nd.edu.

MFA Students Pick Some Films for Us to WatchDirected by Giuseppe Patroni GriffiWith Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Andy WarholNot Rated, 105 minutesIn English and Italian with English subtitlesWith a scheduled introduction by Paul Cunningham, the Creative Writing Program manager, Department of English.In what remains the most obscure, bizarre, and wildly misunderstood film of her entire career—and perhaps even 1970s Italian cinema—Identikit (aka The Driver's Seat) stars Elizabeth Taylor as a disturbed woman who arrives in Rome to find a fragmented city. From there, Taylor navigates autocratic law, leftist violence, and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all. Oscar® nominee Ian Bannen (The Offence), Mona Washbourne (The Collector), and Andy Warhol (!!!) co-star in this hallucinatory neo-noir, which was photographed by three-time Oscar® winner Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor). GET TICKETS