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- 9:30 AM7hFall Exhibit — "Making and Unmaking Emancipation in Cuba and the United States"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.
- 9:30 AM7hFall Exhibit — "Making and Unmaking Emancipation in Cuba and the United States"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.
- 9:30 AM7hFall Exhibit — "Making and Unmaking Emancipation in Cuba and the United States"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.
- 9:30 AM7hSpotlight Exhibit — "Football and Community at Historically Black Colleges and Universities"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.
- 9:30 AM7hSpotlight Exhibit — "Football and Community at Historically Black Colleges and Universities"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.
- 4:30 PM1hPresentation — "Synodality in the Church: An African Perspective"Please join the McGrath Institute for Church Life for a special presentation by His Eminence Cardinal John O. Onaiyekan. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.
- 4:30 PM1hPresentation — "Synodality in the Church: An African Perspective"Please join the McGrath Institute for Church Life for a special presentation by His Eminence Cardinal John O. Onaiyekan. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.
- 4:30 PM1hPresentation — "Synodality in the Church: An African Perspective"Please join the McGrath Institute for Church Life for a special presentation by His Eminence Cardinal John O. Onaiyekan. Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.
- 4:30 PM1h 30mPanel Discussion and Exhibit Walkthrough — "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!"Join the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures for an exploration of the themes behind the "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" exhibit. In this panel discussion to open the exhibit's stay at Notre Dame, three panelists will engage with Mann's public life, legacy, and relevance to contemporary issues. This discussion, which is particularly relevant to the 2023 Notre Dame Forum topic "The Future of Democracy," will seek to find the ways that Mann's resistance to populism and nationalism can inform our own engagement with democracy today. The panelists and their topics are as follows:"Thomas Mann and The Coming Victory of Democracy," presented by Tobias Boes, professor and chair of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, as well as a Nanovic faculty fellow "Thomas Mann and Czechoslovak Democracy," presented by Jan Vondráček, postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences "Thomas Mann in Pacific Palisades, 1942/1943," presented by Meike Werner, associate professor of German and European studies, acting chair of the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, chair of the Department of French and Italian, and director of graduate studies in the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies.A Q&A session and a walkthrough of the exhibit will follow. About the Exhibit "It is a terrible spectacle when the irrational becomes popular," said Thomas Mann in his famous speech at the Library of Congress in 1943. His resistance is inspiring and relevant today as we witness the fundamental values of democracy once again being called into question, and that populism and nationalism are putting our democratic society under massive pressure. The exhibition "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" sees itself as a concrete contribution to the current debate on both sides of the Atlantic. The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, California forms the spatial and metaphorical center of the exhibition. From this sanctuary in exile, Thomas Mann campaigned for a new understanding of democracy. Today, the house is once again at the service of intellectual exchange and transatlantic understanding. The first part of the exhibition presents Thomas Mann's political biography in its development from monarchist to powerful opponent of National Socialism and committed fighter for democracy. Photographs, texts, excerpts from the famous radio addresses "To the German Listeners!" and original exhibits trace his intellectual, political, and spatial paths. The second multimedia part connects this history to the present. What makes a political person? How does one become a supporter of democracy? How does one defend one's stance? Examples from the recent past, films and interviews, tweets and quotes from personalities from politics, pop, literature, and society — such as Greta Thunberg or Saša Stanišić, Donald Trump or Barack Obama, Igor Levit or Edward Snowden — illustrate the importance of the question: How can we defend and sustainably strengthen democracy as the only possible form of society? This is a task that is more important than ever today, in times of global migration, climate change, and new pandemics. The terms Beginnings, Zeitgeist, Affirmation, Take Action, and Responsibility structure the exhibition — and show the ambivalences that even a democratic system cannot eliminate. Thomas Mann's life offers numerous points of departure for examining the state and future of democracy — while adhering to Mann's dictum: "DEMOCRACY WILL WIN!" About the SpeakersTobias Boes teaches German Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, where he also chairs the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures. He is the author of the monograph Thomas Mann’s War (2019), which was published in German translation in 2021, and currently working onA Reader’s Guide to Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus,” contracted with Camden House. He was one of the scientific advisors for the traveling show “Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!” Jan Vondráček is a postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and teaches modern history at Charles University in Prague. His dissertation on local administration and everyday life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was recently published in German and Czech. In this context, he is working on a digital history-related project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which builds on his dissertation and focuses on institutional data. Meike Werner teaches German and European Literature and Culture at Vanderbilt University, where she also serves as Director of the Max Kade Center for German and European Studies. She has published widely on German literature and culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, most recently Gruppenbild mit Max Weber (2023). She is the recipient of a number of awards, including Vanderbilt’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, and serves as the president of the American Friends of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.
- 4:30 PM1h 30mPanel Discussion and Exhibit Walkthrough — "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!"Join the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures for an exploration of the themes behind the "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" exhibit. In this panel discussion to open the exhibit's stay at Notre Dame, three panelists will engage with Mann's public life, legacy, and relevance to contemporary issues. This discussion, which is particularly relevant to the 2023 Notre Dame Forum topic "The Future of Democracy," will seek to find the ways that Mann's resistance to populism and nationalism can inform our own engagement with democracy today. The panelists and their topics are as follows:"Thomas Mann and The Coming Victory of Democracy," presented by Tobias Boes, professor and chair of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, as well as a Nanovic faculty fellow "Thomas Mann and Czechoslovak Democracy," presented by Jan Vondráček, postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences "Thomas Mann in Pacific Palisades, 1942/1943," presented by Meike Werner, associate professor of German and European studies, acting chair of the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, chair of the Department of French and Italian, and director of graduate studies in the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies.A Q&A session and a walkthrough of the exhibit will follow. About the Exhibit "It is a terrible spectacle when the irrational becomes popular," said Thomas Mann in his famous speech at the Library of Congress in 1943. His resistance is inspiring and relevant today as we witness the fundamental values of democracy once again being called into question, and that populism and nationalism are putting our democratic society under massive pressure. The exhibition "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" sees itself as a concrete contribution to the current debate on both sides of the Atlantic. The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, California forms the spatial and metaphorical center of the exhibition. From this sanctuary in exile, Thomas Mann campaigned for a new understanding of democracy. Today, the house is once again at the service of intellectual exchange and transatlantic understanding. The first part of the exhibition presents Thomas Mann's political biography in its development from monarchist to powerful opponent of National Socialism and committed fighter for democracy. Photographs, texts, excerpts from the famous radio addresses "To the German Listeners!" and original exhibits trace his intellectual, political, and spatial paths. The second multimedia part connects this history to the present. What makes a political person? How does one become a supporter of democracy? How does one defend one's stance? Examples from the recent past, films and interviews, tweets and quotes from personalities from politics, pop, literature, and society — such as Greta Thunberg or Saša Stanišić, Donald Trump or Barack Obama, Igor Levit or Edward Snowden — illustrate the importance of the question: How can we defend and sustainably strengthen democracy as the only possible form of society? This is a task that is more important than ever today, in times of global migration, climate change, and new pandemics. The terms Beginnings, Zeitgeist, Affirmation, Take Action, and Responsibility structure the exhibition — and show the ambivalences that even a democratic system cannot eliminate. Thomas Mann's life offers numerous points of departure for examining the state and future of democracy — while adhering to Mann's dictum: "DEMOCRACY WILL WIN!" About the SpeakersTobias Boes teaches German Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, where he also chairs the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures. He is the author of the monograph Thomas Mann’s War (2019), which was published in German translation in 2021, and currently working onA Reader’s Guide to Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus,” contracted with Camden House. He was one of the scientific advisors for the traveling show “Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!” Jan Vondráček is a postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and teaches modern history at Charles University in Prague. His dissertation on local administration and everyday life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was recently published in German and Czech. In this context, he is working on a digital history-related project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which builds on his dissertation and focuses on institutional data. Meike Werner teaches German and European Literature and Culture at Vanderbilt University, where she also serves as Director of the Max Kade Center for German and European Studies. She has published widely on German literature and culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, most recently Gruppenbild mit Max Weber (2023). She is the recipient of a number of awards, including Vanderbilt’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, and serves as the president of the American Friends of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.
- 4:30 PM1h 30mPanel Discussion and Exhibit Walkthrough — "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!"Join the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures for an exploration of the themes behind the "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" exhibit. In this panel discussion to open the exhibit's stay at Notre Dame, three panelists will engage with Mann's public life, legacy, and relevance to contemporary issues. This discussion, which is particularly relevant to the 2023 Notre Dame Forum topic "The Future of Democracy," will seek to find the ways that Mann's resistance to populism and nationalism can inform our own engagement with democracy today. The panelists and their topics are as follows:"Thomas Mann and The Coming Victory of Democracy," presented by Tobias Boes, professor and chair of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, as well as a Nanovic faculty fellow "Thomas Mann and Czechoslovak Democracy," presented by Jan Vondráček, postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences "Thomas Mann in Pacific Palisades, 1942/1943," presented by Meike Werner, associate professor of German and European studies, acting chair of the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, chair of the Department of French and Italian, and director of graduate studies in the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies.A Q&A session and a walkthrough of the exhibit will follow. About the Exhibit "It is a terrible spectacle when the irrational becomes popular," said Thomas Mann in his famous speech at the Library of Congress in 1943. His resistance is inspiring and relevant today as we witness the fundamental values of democracy once again being called into question, and that populism and nationalism are putting our democratic society under massive pressure. The exhibition "Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!" sees itself as a concrete contribution to the current debate on both sides of the Atlantic. The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, California forms the spatial and metaphorical center of the exhibition. From this sanctuary in exile, Thomas Mann campaigned for a new understanding of democracy. Today, the house is once again at the service of intellectual exchange and transatlantic understanding. The first part of the exhibition presents Thomas Mann's political biography in its development from monarchist to powerful opponent of National Socialism and committed fighter for democracy. Photographs, texts, excerpts from the famous radio addresses "To the German Listeners!" and original exhibits trace his intellectual, political, and spatial paths. The second multimedia part connects this history to the present. What makes a political person? How does one become a supporter of democracy? How does one defend one's stance? Examples from the recent past, films and interviews, tweets and quotes from personalities from politics, pop, literature, and society — such as Greta Thunberg or Saša Stanišić, Donald Trump or Barack Obama, Igor Levit or Edward Snowden — illustrate the importance of the question: How can we defend and sustainably strengthen democracy as the only possible form of society? This is a task that is more important than ever today, in times of global migration, climate change, and new pandemics. The terms Beginnings, Zeitgeist, Affirmation, Take Action, and Responsibility structure the exhibition — and show the ambivalences that even a democratic system cannot eliminate. Thomas Mann's life offers numerous points of departure for examining the state and future of democracy — while adhering to Mann's dictum: "DEMOCRACY WILL WIN!" About the SpeakersTobias Boes teaches German Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, where he also chairs the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures. He is the author of the monograph Thomas Mann’s War (2019), which was published in German translation in 2021, and currently working onA Reader’s Guide to Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus,” contracted with Camden House. He was one of the scientific advisors for the traveling show “Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!” Jan Vondráček is a postdoctoral fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and teaches modern history at Charles University in Prague. His dissertation on local administration and everyday life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was recently published in German and Czech. In this context, he is working on a digital history-related project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which builds on his dissertation and focuses on institutional data. Meike Werner teaches German and European Literature and Culture at Vanderbilt University, where she also serves as Director of the Max Kade Center for German and European Studies. She has published widely on German literature and culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, most recently Gruppenbild mit Max Weber (2023). She is the recipient of a number of awards, including Vanderbilt’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, and serves as the president of the American Friends of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.
- 7:00 PM1hCare for Creation: Theological Foundations of Environmental JusticeTheology Of Environmental Justice This free series of conversations is scheduled to take place virtually at 7:00PM ET every Monday throughout the month of October and will explore the interconnected relationship between violence and the ecological crisis. To prioritize student interaction in this space, the Zoom room will be reserved for college and university contacts (including watch parties). Recordings will be available each week, edited with discussion/essay questions after each speaker. All details including registration are at https://cnifallseries.info. This event is hosted and sponsored by Catholic Climate Covenant, NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice besides Pax Christi USA, and Casa Esther Catholic Worker.