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.

For millennia, cultures across humanity were diverse and unique. In language, dress, religion and social constructs, people groups were as diverse as the lands they inhabited. This held especially true for the Indigenous peoples of North America. This discussion, led by Principal Chief Richard G. Sneed, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, will review the history of systematic cultural destruction, and how the implementation of those policies still impacts tribal cultures today. Finally, as technology, communication and media become globally ubiquitous, there is a risk of the homogenization of culture. The need to be deliberate in our embrace, practice and celebration of the uniqueness of all cultures will be discussed. Sponsored by the American Indian Catholic Schools Network, the Native American Student Association of Notre Dame and the Enrollment Division.

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 SPEAKERS: Jack Markwalter   Jack Markwalter serves as the chief executive officer of VIVA. He oversees VIVA’s capital markets, product development, and guides the company’s strategic direction. Jack started VIVA in April of 2019 alongside his brother and co-founder, Hodges. Prior to starting VIVA, Jack worked at Third Lake Capital as a senior analyst. At Third Lake, Jack worked on a number of acquisitions of consumer finance companies and helped to manage Third Lake’s consumer finance portfolio companies. Jack graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in Finance as a member of the class of 2017.Hodges Markwalter   Hodges Markwalter is the COO at VIVA Finance. Prior to this current position, Hodges worked as an investment banking analyst - Equity Capital Markets at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey from July 2018 to May 2019. Hodges also worked as an investment banking summer analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey from June 2017 to August 2017 and as a summer analyst for CIBC for the Real Estate Finance Division from May 2016 to August 2016. Hodges began his career as an intern at Hodges Warehouse + Logistics from June 2014 to July 2014 and at Panattoni Development Company from June 2013 to July 2013. Hodges also interned at the University of Notre Dame Development Office from March 2015 to May 2017. Hodges studied finance at the University of Notre Dame in the Mendoza College of Business. After completing his undergraduate degree, Hodges studied at the University of Notre Dame in London. Originally published at ideacenter.nd.edu.

Join the Institute for Latino Studies to kick of the start of Hipanic Heritage Month with a fiesta outside Bond Hall. The event will feature free T-shirts for the first 200 people who RSVP and attend. There will be free tacos and Kona Ice for everyone who attends. RSVP for the event here.   Originally published at latinostudies.nd.edu.

Kate Hardiman Rhodes is a Notre Dame alumna and a 2016-2017 Menard Family Tocqueville Fellow. She graduated from Notre Dame in 2017 with a B.A. summa cum laude in the Program of Liberal Studies and a minor in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She also received her M.Ed. through Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) program in 2019. Kate graduated from Georgetown Law School in 2022 and is currently a law clerk for Judge Trevor McFadden of the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia.  She will be discussing her 2021 book, Unshackled: Freeing America's K-12 Education System, co-authored with Clint Bolick, a justice on the Arizona Supreme Court and research fellow at the Hoover Institution.  This event is co-sponsored with Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education and Notre Dame Law School's Education Law Forum. Watch the video here.  Open to the public. Lunch available at noon.  Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Felix Owusu explores racial disparities in the American criminal justice system. Owusu is a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Owusu spearheaded the effort to produce and publicly release administrative data on police stops in the District of Columbia and as a research fellow in the Criminal Justice Policy Program, he was the lead researcher on the report on Racial Disparities in the Massachusetts Criminal System submitted to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary is a weekly lecture series presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to a deeper understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. Lectures are available to the Notre Dame community via Zoom. Registration with a valid nd.edu or alumni.nd.edu is required. Register for the series here Originally published at klau.nd.edu.

The Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI) is for accomplished individuals from all disciplines (business, non-profit, and academic, to name a few) who have completed their chosen careers and wish to embark on a process of discovering, discerning and designing who they want to be in the next stage of their lives. The program encompasses an academic year on the Notre Dame campus, and encourages fellows to take advantage of the University's vast array of resources.   Stop by 329 DeBartolo Hall to connect with staff, current fellows, and alumni to learn more about the Inspired Leadership Initiative. Refreshments will be provided. Visit the Inspired Leadership Initiative website to learn more!

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is presented by Steve Levitt as part of the Thomas H. Quinn Lecture Series. Levitt co-authored Freakonomics, which spent over two years on the New York Times Best Seller list and has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. SuperFreakonomics, released in 2009, includes brand new research on topics from terrorism to prostitution to global warming. Steve is also the co-author of the popular Freakonomics Blog. Open to the public and Notre Dame community. This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will be available for pick-up at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Ticket Office one hour prior to the event. The Thomas H. Quinn Lecture is an annual event hosted by the Mendoza College of Business to honor the Notre Dame alumnus and former member and chairman of Mendoza’s Business Advisory Council. For more information about the Thomas H. Quinn Lecture series visit mendoza.nd.edu.

A conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, journalist for The Atlantic and author of An Immense World. Catered reception and book signing to follow.   Introduction by Tim Weber, associate director of the Eck Institute for Global Health   Co-sponsors: College of Science, Eck Institute for Global Health, and Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy  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.  Named “the most important and impactful journalist” of 2020 by Poynter, Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong is a science staff writer with The Atlantic. He was awarded journalism’s top honor, the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for his crucial coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.He is the best-selling author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us, a groundbreaking, informative, and entertaining examination of the relationship between animals and microbes. His second book, An Immense World, takes a comprehensive look at the fascinating sensory worlds of animals. A New York Times bestseller, An Immense World is longlisted for the PEN America 2023 Literary Award and has made many Best Books of the Year lists. In addition to The Atlantic, his work has appeared in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, and Scientific American, among others.

A coming-of-age tale wrapped inside a cautionary tale of communicating with the dead is a fun subgenre (see, e.g., 1986's Witchboard, which is currently being rebooted). In Talk to Me, both the coming-of-age vibes and the scares are given a deeper resonance than its peers thanks to the slick direction, breezy comedic moments, and actors willing to ground potential stock characters in actual pathos. The result shapes the stretched limits of Ozploitation films into an instant horror film classic that speaks to both modern-day youth performance on social media and family hangups from time immemorial. All this comes from when a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes something meant to stay on the other side. GET TICKETS