Celebrate opening weekend at the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art! Join us for performances, activities and refreshments that celebrate creativity and belonging.Opening NightFriday, Dec. 1; 6 to 10 p.m.: Usher in this historic moment with a fun and lively evening of art, entertainment, refreshments and merriment. Find your groove with a museum soundtrack curated by DJ PB. Enjoy sweet bites created by Notre Dame chefs inspired by works of art paired with drinks from the cash bar.Saturday, Dec. 2; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Bring your family and friends to enjoy an exciting and activity-filled day in the galleries alongside local musicians, dancers and artists.Sunday, Dec. 3; noon to 5 p.m.: Stroll through the galleries and enjoy activities to spark your imagination alongside local musicians, dancers and artists.

The University Band presents a concert including marches, contemporary concert band pieces, holiday music, and traditional Notre Dame favorites. The University Band is a concert band for current students as well as staff, faculty, and alumni of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s, and Holy Cross. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu.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. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

The Notre Dame Jazz Bands feature two full-size big bands and ND’s New Orleans Brass Band. They perform a wide variety of music, ranging from jazz classics and vocal selections, to new works in many jazz styles, all with a good beat which is enjoyable for everyone. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

The AAHD Gallery is excited to announce the opening of "New Faces," an exhibition featuring the artworks of first-year MFA students in Studio Art and Design. The exhibition will showcase the works of Franceska Alvarado, Heidi Dargle, Lily Dorian, Lucy Schultz, and Olivia Koziel. The exhibition is set to run from November 30, 2023, until January 16, 2024 (access not available when the University is closed from December 22 through January 1). 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.

Join us for a talk by Rev. Arthur Ssembajja, a native of Uganda and recent graduate of Notre Dame with dual degrees in Master of Business Administration and Master of Global Affairs (MBA and MGA). Father Arthur will speak to how his work in the Bethany Land Institute in Uganda has led to the preservation of critical forest habitat, revived a stalled regional economy, and most importantly, bestowed hope and dignity upon the poorest of the poor.  Food and drinks available. RSVP here so we ensure we get enough food!  Originally published at realestate.nd.edu.

The AAHD Gallery is excited to announce the opening of "New Faces," an exhibition featuring the artworks of first-year MFA students in Studio Art and Design. The exhibition will showcase the works of Franceska Alvarado, Heidi Dargle, Lily Dorian, Lucy Schultz, and Olivia Koziel. The exhibition is set to run from November 30, 2023, until January 16, 2024 (access not available when the University is closed from December 22 through January 1). 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.

Register here to attend via Zoom>> Documenting human rights violations during armed conflict is difficult and can be dangerous, and the data that results is generally incomplete. Some records of violence are missing key information about the victim, the presumed perpetrator, or the context of the violence; some victims’ stories are undocumented altogether, leaving gaps in the data. In this talk, Maria Gargiulo, a statistician with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), will discuss the joint project between the Colombian Truth Commission (CEV), the Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP), and the HRDAG. This collaboration--the largest human rights data project to date--uses statistical methods to examine patterns of homicide, enforced disappearance, kidnapping, forced displacement, and the recruitment of child soldiers during the armed conflict in Colombia. Gargiulo will introduce a statistical methodology that can be used to overcome data gaps while documenting human rights violations, and will discuss how this methodology can be replicated using Verdata, an R package created to aid researchers when designing their own analyses about the impacts of the conflict. Following the presentation, Joséphine Lechartre, Kroc Institute PhD student, will offer her comments as a discussant. The event will be moderated by Josefina Echavarría, professor of the practice. Register here to attend via Zoom>> This event takes place within the framework of the Legacy Project at the University of Notre Dame, which seeks to preserve the digital archive of the Colombian Truth Commission, and provide unique sources of testimonies from over 30,000 victims, witnesses and offenders of the 52-year long armed conflict. It is cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Northern Ireland, and the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, with the support of Humanity United.   In addition to this lecture, The Legacy Project invites you to attend a workshop Unregistered Victims: Statistical Methods, Data, and the Findings of the Colombian Truth Commission hosted by the Lucy Institute in Jenkins Nanovic Halls room 1030 on December 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Interested attendees can register here. Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

The AAHD Gallery is excited to announce the opening of "New Faces," an exhibition featuring the artworks of first-year MFA students in Studio Art and Design. The exhibition will showcase the works of Franceska Alvarado, Heidi Dargle, Lily Dorian, Lucy Schultz, and Olivia Koziel. The exhibition is set to run from November 30, 2023, until January 16, 2024 (access not available when the University is closed from December 22 through January 1). 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 Notre Dame Collegium Musicum presents its fall concert, a retrospective of the music of William Byrd (1543-1623) on the 400th anniversary of his death. Works will include his Mass For Five Voices, selected Propers for All Saints, and English anthems and songs. Free but ticketed. Call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

The AAHD Gallery is excited to announce the opening of "New Faces," an exhibition featuring the artworks of first-year MFA students in Studio Art and Design. The exhibition will showcase the works of Franceska Alvarado, Heidi Dargle, Lily Dorian, Lucy Schultz, and Olivia Koziel. The exhibition is set to run from November 30, 2023, until January 16, 2024 (access not available when the University is closed from December 22 through January 1). 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 Center for Italian Studies is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Loredana Polezzi (Stony Brook) titled:  Desire, Anxiety, Shame: Transatlantic (Re)Mediations and “Italian Culture”  In this talk, Professor Polezzi will look at the complex and often fraught processes of linguistic and cultural translation/mediation which characterize the relationship between Italian and Italian American culture in the 20th Century. Through the notion of ‘affect’ and, in particular, articulations of ‘desire’, 'anxiety', and ‘shame’, she will explore how these exchanges still resonate today with the construction and perception of individual figures as well as of the field of Italian American Studies. She will concentrate on two moments and the related trajectories: the ongoing re-framing of mid-century Italian accounts of Italian American life, such as the essays collected in Prezzolini's volume I trapiantati (recently translated into English as The Transplanted); and a parallel reading of personal narratives of crossing geographic, social and language boundaries in La straniera/Strangers I know by Claudia Durastanti and in Kym Ragusa’s The Skin between Us and the short film Fuori/Outside.Loredana Polezzi is the Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies at Stony Brook University. She has written on contemporary Italian travel writing, colonial and postcolonial literature, migrant and diasporic cultures, translingualism and self-translation. She is one of the founding editors of the ‘Transnational Modern Languages’ book series, published by Liverpool University Press, and co-editor of Transnational Italian Studies (2020) and Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation (2020).The Italian Research Seminar, a core event of the Center for Italian Studies, aims to provide a regular forum for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and colleagues from other universities to present and discuss their current research. The Seminar is vigorously interdisciplinary, and embraces all areas of Italian literature, language, and culture, as well as perceptions of Italy, its achievements and its peoples in other national and international cultures. The Seminar constitutes an important element in the effort by Notre Dame's Center for Italian Studies to promote the study of Italy and to serve as a strategic point of contact for scholarly exchange.Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

The AAHD Gallery is excited to announce the opening of "New Faces," an exhibition featuring the artworks of first-year MFA students in Studio Art and Design. The exhibition will showcase the works of Franceska Alvarado, Heidi Dargle, Lily Dorian, Lucy Schultz, and Olivia Koziel. The exhibition is set to run from November 30, 2023, until January 16, 2024 (access not available when the University is closed from December 22 through January 1). Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.