We are thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibition, The Sound of Found Objects by the talented Neill Prewitt, at A|AH|D Gallery (room 214) in Riley Hall. You're invited to join us at the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, where you'll have the chance to experience a captivating performance at 5:30 p.m. Get ready to be inspired and moved by Prewitt's remarkable work, on display from August 31 until September 28, 2023. --- Artist Statement In The Sound of Found Objects, an installation by Neill Prewitt, a group of everyday objects come alive, moving and singing in video projections synchronized across the four walls of the gallery. Rhythm, both visual and musical, animates what were once an unremarkable lot of found objects, and frees them from the semantic dead-end of their ordinary use. Both immersive and non-narrative, the installation encourages playfulness to reanimate our relationship to ordinary things. During his visit to campus Prewitt will also lead the participatory performance Found Object Choir, in which he facilitates the audience improvising movement and sound with found objects.  Biography Neill Prewitt works in video, sound, performance, and installation. Neill has produced videos and installations that have been shown nationally at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL; Lump in Raleigh, NC; and Freedman Gallery at Albright College in Reading, PA. He has performed and produced participatory art at numerous sites nationally including Satellite Art Show Miami; Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; OBX Art Truck in Elizabeth City, NC; and Silent Barn in Brooklyn. With the collective Yuxtapongo, Neill has produced art for public spaces including public access TV, as well as installations that have been shown at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. Neill is currently senior lecturer and foundations coordinator at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. neillprewitt.comOriginally 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.

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.

All students interested in a career in financial services, especially underclassmen and non-business majors, are encouraged to attend Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing's (NDIGI's) Demystifying Financial Services. NDIGI team members Patty Brady and Mark Dumich will provide an overview of the financial services industry and share the wide variety of programs and opportunities available to you. Please let us know if you’ll be attending by filling out this short Google Form. NDIGI will provide pizza!Patty BradyMs. Brady joined NDIGI in 2021. She is responsible for designing and implementing strategic programs, leveraging key partnerships across the College and University, and working collaboratively with industry practitioners to promote NDIGI’s mission. Ms. Brady also co-teaches Equity Valuation in the Master of Science in Finance (‘MSF’) program and ‘The Art of Investing’ at the undergraduate level. Ms. Brady joined NDIGI from the Notre Dame Investment Office. She joined the investment team in 2004 and was part of the University’s Public Equity team, which focuses on U.S. long only, non‐U.S. long only, and global long‐short funds. She also helped oversee the University's Pension Plan investments and was a member of the University’s Retirement Plan Committee. Previously, Ms. Brady was an associate in the Capital Markets Group of Jones Lang LaSalle in Chicago, which provides advisory services to banks, life companies, private equity funds and agencies on the valuation and sale of commercial real estate assets. Ms. Brady holds a bachelor of business administration in finance from the University of Notre Dame and is a CFA charterholder. Ms. Brady resides in South Bend, Indiana, and is married to Coley. They have four children.Mark Dumich Mark brings an investment and trading background to NDIGI and works alongside NDIGI leadership to execute on the Institute’s priorities which are focused on: increasing experiential learning opportunities, expanding our global presence, creating more career discernment opportunities for students and building inclusion programs, such as our women in finance initiative which are aimed at increasing diversity across the investment management industry. Mark joins NDIGI from the Notre Dame Development Office, where he managed the Strategic Analytics and Prospect Management teams. In that role, he was very involved in organizing the many events that engage alumni and parents working on Wall Street. Before his time in Development, Mark spent eight years working at M&N Trading in Chicago, where he primarily focused on spread trading across the U.S. Treasury yield curve.Mark received a BBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA from the University of Illinois Gies College of Business, and is a CFA Charterholder. He lives in Granger, Indiana, with his wife, Carrie, and their five children. Originally published at ndigi.nd.edu.

With increasing urgency, it will take more than scientists and engineers to study the adaptations and mitigations necessary to address the growing climate crisis. Scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and law must also contribute to the conversation about our energy choices. Considering the unique environs of Notre Dame, a place where normative questions with local and global implications are welcomed alongside the rigors of scientific investigation, a well-rounded approach seems natural and highly constructive. How can we best wrestle with energy and climate change in broader contexts of humanistic, ecological, and even theological inquiry? Join the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Notre Dame Energy for an interdisciplinary conversation about the benefits expansive and “ecumenical” approaches can have for society as it confronts a future of rapid transformation.This event is free and open to all. Light food and refreshments will be available following the panel discussion. ND Energy Week Plus Panelists  Darren Dochuk (moderator) is co-director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and the Andrew V. Tackes College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His writing and research deal primarily with the United States in the long twentieth century, with emphasis on the intersections of religion, politics, energy, environment, and culture in national life. In 2023, he became co-editor of the journal Modern American History.    Emily Grubert is associate professor of sustainable energy policy in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. The author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, her work focuses on life cycle socio-environmental impacts associated with future policy and large-scale infrastructure, with an emphasis on how community and societal priorities can be incorporated into project decisions. Prior to coming to Notre Dame, Grubert worked at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at the U.S. Department of Energy. She holds a Ph.D. in environment and resources from Stanford University.    Bruce Huber joined the Notre Dame law faculty in 2011. He earned his J.D. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received several teaching awards. His areas of expertise include energy regulation, public land management, and the interaction between law and politics. His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and elsewhere. Huber is a fellow of the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate and an editor of the journal Transnational Environmental Law.    Roy Scranton is associate professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of English. He is the author of five books, and has written widely for publications such as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Yale Review, and others. His research interests include environmental humanities, postcolonial anthropocene studies, and literary journalism. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University, and he is the founding director of the Notre Dame Environmental Humanities Initiative.  Feature image: Solar panels at St. Joseph’s Solar Farm, on land formerly worked by Holy Cross brothers and sisters to provide dairy, meat, and produce for Notre Dame. Photo: Matt Cashore/UND. Learn more about the history of St. Joe Farm. Originally published at cushwa.nd.edu.