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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
- 12:00 AM23h 59mSt. Francis Week, Film Screening: Why Is Mona Lisa Smiling?Why is Mona Lisa Smiling? The Re-imagination of the Corporation is meant to be a catalyst for intelligent discourse on the role of business in society. The film explores the shift away from shareholder primacy toward a purpose-driven, stakeholder-focused model of capitalism. Informed by the lessons and parallels between our time and the Renaissance — a global pandemic that prompted reciprocal free market relationships and expanded philosophical mindsets, fueled by the democratization of knowledge and power — the film makes the case for more inclusive capitalism and lays the foundation for the re-imagination of the corporation. The film stars CEOs and thought leaders who delve into what is required to evolve corporations and why it is essential to our collective future. Hosted by Mendoza College of Business.
- 12:00 AM23h 59mSt. Francis Week: Global Day of ActionAs part of the annual St. Francis Week celebration, Global Day of Action, an initiative of Notre Dame International, will take place on Wednesday, October 4. To celebrate the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, members and friends of the Notre Dame International community around the world will be responding to Laudato Si's call to care for our common home with local action. The theme for this year’s Global Day of Action focuses on reducing our waste. We are encouraging everyone to consider how we can reduce waste in our everyday life, whether that means reducing energy consumption, reusing and repurposing materials and relying less on single-use items, purchasing and consuming fewer materials, or donating unwanted goods and food. Staff and students at our global locations are invited to host an event such as an environmental service project, a litter pick, a seminar, a group reflection, or prayer service to gather people in our local community together to act on and reflect on our role in caring for our earth. This year, NDI is thrilled to partner with the Student Government, who will host a campus-wide community clean-up effort. “We challenge everyone to gather a team—be it your office mates, friends, fellow dorm residents, or faculty cohort—and spend an hour outside together for a trash pick-up. The pick-up can take place wherever you are on this day. You might be amazed at what you find! We want to see your group and the trash you collect! Be sure to tag your group photos and weird finds @sustainableND and @NDinternational on Instagram with #FrancisFest. If you are on campus and need trash bags, please stop by the Sustainability Office at 100 Mail Distribution Center for free bags!” - Lizzie Stifel, Director of Sustainability Please join with Notre Dame students, faculty, staff, and alumni around the world as we make a collective effort, inspired by St. Francis, to protect and conserve this beautiful place we call home. Global Day of Action forms part of the annual St. Francis Week celebration and is sponsored by Notre Dame International and supported by the Office of Sustainability and Student Government. #FrancisFest #GoFurther
- 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.
- 2:00 PM1h 15mLecture — "War in Ukraine: Challenges to the National and International Legal Order"Svitlana Khyliuk, director of the Ukrainian Catholic University Law School.Join the Notre Dame Law School and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies as they welcome Svitlana Khyliuk, director of the Law School at Ukrainian Catholic University, for a public lecture "War in Ukraine: Challenges to the National and International Legal Order." Khyliuk is no stranger to Notre Dame, having served as a visiting scholar with the Nanovic Institute during the fall 2021 semester. This lecture is open to all. About the Speaker Svitlana Khyliuk serves as director of the Ukrainian Catholic University School of Law. She previously served as head of the Department of Theory of Law and Human Rights and academic director of the bachelor's program at the law school. Khyliuk serves as a legal expert in the projects of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordinator in Ukraine, the Council of Europe, and the U.S. Department of Justice. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ukraine’s Supreme Court and Constitutional Court. She teaches legal research, analysis, and writing, criminal law, and law of the European Convention on Human Rights. While at Notre Dame as a visiting scholar during the fall 2021 semester, Khyliuk worked on how to leverage two polarities: judicial independence, on the one hand, and judge’s liability, on the other, in order to guarantee democracy and the rule of law in transitional societies. Khyliuk was also featured, together with Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, in a story for Notre Dame Magazine in February 2023. This event is co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Law School and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.
- 2:00 PM1h 15mLecture — "War in Ukraine: Challenges to the National and International Legal Order"Svitlana Khyliuk, director of the Ukrainian Catholic University Law School.Join the Notre Dame Law School and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies as they welcome Svitlana Khyliuk, director of the Law School at Ukrainian Catholic University, for a public lecture "War in Ukraine: Challenges to the National and International Legal Order." Khyliuk is no stranger to Notre Dame, having served as a visiting scholar with the Nanovic Institute during the fall 2021 semester. This lecture is open to all. About the Speaker Svitlana Khyliuk serves as director of the Ukrainian Catholic University School of Law. She previously served as head of the Department of Theory of Law and Human Rights and academic director of the bachelor's program at the law school. Khyliuk serves as a legal expert in the projects of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordinator in Ukraine, the Council of Europe, and the U.S. Department of Justice. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ukraine’s Supreme Court and Constitutional Court. She teaches legal research, analysis, and writing, criminal law, and law of the European Convention on Human Rights. While at Notre Dame as a visiting scholar during the fall 2021 semester, Khyliuk worked on how to leverage two polarities: judicial independence, on the one hand, and judge’s liability, on the other, in order to guarantee democracy and the rule of law in transitional societies. Khyliuk was also featured, together with Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, in a story for Notre Dame Magazine in February 2023. This event is co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Law School and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.
- 2:00 PM1h 15mLecture — "War in Ukraine: Challenges to the National and International Legal Order"Svitlana Khyliuk, director of the Ukrainian Catholic University Law School.Join the Notre Dame Law School and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies as they welcome Svitlana Khyliuk, director of the Law School at Ukrainian Catholic University, for a public lecture "War in Ukraine: Challenges to the National and International Legal Order." Khyliuk is no stranger to Notre Dame, having served as a visiting scholar with the Nanovic Institute during the fall 2021 semester. This lecture is open to all. About the Speaker Svitlana Khyliuk serves as director of the Ukrainian Catholic University School of Law. She previously served as head of the Department of Theory of Law and Human Rights and academic director of the bachelor's program at the law school. Khyliuk serves as a legal expert in the projects of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordinator in Ukraine, the Council of Europe, and the U.S. Department of Justice. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ukraine’s Supreme Court and Constitutional Court. She teaches legal research, analysis, and writing, criminal law, and law of the European Convention on Human Rights. While at Notre Dame as a visiting scholar during the fall 2021 semester, Khyliuk worked on how to leverage two polarities: judicial independence, on the one hand, and judge’s liability, on the other, in order to guarantee democracy and the rule of law in transitional societies. Khyliuk was also featured, together with Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, in a story for Notre Dame Magazine in February 2023. This event is co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Law School and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, both at the University of Notre Dame. Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.
- 5:15 PM1hFeast of St. Francis Green MassCome celebrate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi! A Green Mass will take place in honor of our common home. Fr. Robert Lisowski will preside over the mass, and Fr. Martin Lam Nguyen will provide the homily. Who was St. Francis? St. Francis was declared a saint in 1228. On 29 November 1979, Pope John Paul II declared Francis the patron saint of ecology. On 28 March 1982, John Paul II said that Francis' love and care for creation was a challenge for contemporary Catholics and a reminder "not to behave like dissident predators where nature is concerned, but to assume responsibility for it, taking all care so that everything stays healthy and integrated, so as to offer a welcoming and friendly environment even to those who succeed us." The same Pope wrote on the occasion of the World Day of Peace, 1 January 1990, that Francis "invited all of creation – animals, plants, natural forces, even Brother Sun and Sister Moon – to give honour and praise to the Lord. The poor man of Assisi gives us striking witness that when we are at peace with God we are better able to devote ourselves to building up that peace with all creation which is inseparable from peace among all peoples." In 2015, Pope Francis published his encyclical letter Laudato Si' about the ecological crisis and "care for our common home, which takes its name from the Canticle of the Sun that Francis of Assisi composed. It presents Francis as "the example par excellence of care for the vulnerable and of an integral ecology lived out joyfully and authentically."