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.

Join Harvey Mansfield (Harvard), Michael Moreland (Villanova), and the Hon. Jeffrey Sutton (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit) for a conversation on Religious Liberty and the American Founding by Vincent Phillip Muñoz (Notre Dame). The Founders understood religious liberty to be an inalienable natural right. Muñoz explains what this means for church-state constitutional law, uncovering what we can and cannot determine about the original meanings of the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses and constructing a natural rights jurisprudence of religious liberty. Breakfast will be available beginning at 9 a.m., with the panel to follow at 9:30. No RSVP necessary.  Cosponsored by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and the Program on Chuch, State & Society. Originally published at ethicscenter.nd.edu.

Join Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University; Michael Moreland, Villanova University; and the Hon. Jeffrey Sutton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, for a conversation on “Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses” by Vincent Phillip Muñoz, the Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and concurrent professor of law. Breakfast available beginning at 9 a.m., with the panel to follow at 9:30. No RSVP necessary.Hosted by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.  Originally published at constudies.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.

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.

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!

Please join the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Program in Dante Studies for its annual "Dante Now!" event, dedicated to a community recitation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Click here for more information on the event's history. Dante Now! Community Recitation • 2:00–2:30pm – Throughout the Notre Dame Campus: Selections from Dante’s Divine Comedy • 2:30pm – Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes: Dante’s Prayer to the Virgin (Paradiso 33. 1-21) Lecture 3:00–4:15pm: 104 Bond Hall “Dante, Jazz, and the Black Radical Tradition”Joseph Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal StudiesSponsored by the Center for Italian Studies, the Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, the Notre Dame Dante Club, and the Program of Liberal StudiesOriginally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.

Watch the livestream of the conversation with Justice Kagan > As part of the 2023-24 Notre Dame Forum, the Notre Dame Law School will host a conversation between U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and G. Marcus Cole, Joseph A. Matson Dean of the Law School. Justice Elena Kagan was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2010, and took her seat as an Associate Justice on August 7, 2010. She received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1981, an M. Phil. from Oxford University in 1983, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986. The conversation will be free, but ticketed, and open to members of the Notre Dame campus community. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Ticket Office one hour prior to the event. Attendees will need to show their Notre Dame ID card at the door. Since its establishment in 2005 by University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the Notre Dame Forum has invited a campus-wide dialogue about issues of importance to the University, the nation and the larger world. Learn more about the 2023-24 Notre Dame Forum, focused on “The Future of Democracy,” at forum.nd.edu. Please note: To ensure the safety of DeBartolo patrons and employees, there will be a bag policy in effect for this event. Prohibited items include, but are not limited to, purses larger than a clutch bag, briefcases, backpacks, computer bags, camera bags, diaper bags, plastic grocery store bags, and other large bags. We appreciate your understanding. Originally published at forum2023.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. 

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 15 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.