For the Week of January 29
Arts and Performances
Exhibitions
Sacred Art: Visio Divina
Visio Divina, or “sacred seeing,” is an ancient form of Christian prayer in which we allow our hearts and imaginations to prayerfully and meditatively enter into an image. Join this guided session of Visio Divina with sacred art in the Mary, Queen of Families Chapel.
Tuesday, Jan. 30; 11 to 11:30 a.m. in the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
“Architecture as Art”: A Conversation with the Architects of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Although the galleries of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art hold more than 1,000 works of art, they, in turn, are contained within a larger work of art — the museum building. Architects Melissa DelVecchio ’94, Tony McConnell ’06 and Kasey Tilove ’12 of the design firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) will discuss this extraordinary addition to the University and the design process and artistic choices made by RAMSA. Co-sponsored by the School of Architecture.
Wednesday, Jan. 31; 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Art + Spirit
This interactive series will explore major aspects of how one might think about art as “spiritual” through the lens of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art’s collection. The series will be divided into four horizons of inquiry: “Spirit + the Viewer,” “Spirit + Artist,” “Spirit + Religious Subject” and “Spirit + Religious Object.”
Thursday, Feb. 1; 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Saturday, Feb. 3; 3:30 p.m.
Art180 First Fridays
Wondering how to spend 180 minutes with your chosen work of art? Interested in meeting others also participating in Art180? Stop by the museum for Art180 First Fridays! These drop-in hours will include small activities and prompts to guide you on your Art180 journey, along with the opportunity to chat with others.
Friday, Feb. 2; 2 to 4 p.m. in the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Spotlight Exhibit Ending — “A Warning Against Rum in Early America”
Visit Rare Books & Special Collections to see an 1835 poster that commends a Salem, Massachusetts, minister’s attack on a neighbor for distilling and selling rum. This particular copy was partially hand-colored in watercolor, preserved with a cloth backing, folded and bound into a pocket-sized leather cover. Learn more.
Mondays through Fridays until Wednesday, Jan. 31; 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Rare Books & Special Collections (Room 102), Hesburgh Library
Films
“Frybread Face and Me” (2023)
Winner of the best narrative feature at the 2023 Urbanworld Film Festival, “Frybread Face and Me” follows two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds as they bond during a summer on their grandmother’s Arizona ranch, learning more about their family’s past and themselves. Part of “Learning Beyond the Classics: New Indigenous Cinema.” $7 adults, $6 faculty/staff, $5 seniors, $4 students; free for ND students.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
“Anatomy of a Fall” (2023)
The fictional true-crime story follows Sandra, her husband Samuel and their tweenager Daniel, who have lived a secluded life in a remote French Alps town. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, Sandra becomes the main suspect in an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship. $7 adults, $6 faculty/staff, $5 seniors, $4 students.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 9:30 p.m. to midnight in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Friday, Feb. 2; 7 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 3; 3 and 7 p.m.
“The Little Mermaid” (2023)
Ariel (Halle Bailey) is a mermaid who lives fathoms below in a sea kingdom overlooked by her father, King Triton (Javier Bardem). Despite her social and material capital, her awareness of what’s on the surface and the perceived freedom that it provides pushes her to be part of a different world via a Faustian bargain with the sea witch, Ursula. $1.
Sunday, Feb. 4; 1 to 3:15 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
“A Man for All Seasons” (1966)
“A Man for All Seasons” studies St. Thomas More’s conviction when opposing an annulment of the marriage between King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon and his steadfastness in that position amid increasing threats from the crown.
Sunday, Feb. 4; 4 to 6 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Performances
The Ciompi Quartet with Patrick Yim, Viola
Duke University’s Ciompi Quartet performs a richly varied program of masterpieces for strings.
Tuesday, Jan. 30; 7 to 8:15 p.m. in the LaBar Recital Hall, O’Neill Hall of Music
Brahms’ “Requiem”
Mark Doerries conducts vocalists and musicians from Sacred Music at Notre Dame in Brahms’ “Requiem” and George Walker’s “Lyric for Strings.” These composers’ deeply felt meditations on loss invite us to share in each other’s sorrows and triumphs. The evening opens with “Joy, It’s On The Way,” a new gospel work by Emorja Roberson, DMA ’22. $40 adult, $38 faculty/staff, $20 student/child, $10 ND student.
Saturday, Feb. 3; 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Dover Quartet
The Dover Quartet plays luscious music for string ensemble, including “String Quartet No. 1 in G major” by one of classical music’s many “hidden figures,” Florence Price; Janáček’s lovelorn “Intimate Letters”; and Schubert’s achingly beautiful “Death and the Maiden.” $35 adult, $33 faculty/staff, $15 student/child, $10 ND student.
Sunday, Feb. 4; 4 to 5:45 p.m. in the LaBar Recital Hall, O’Neill Hall of Music
Athletics and Sporting Events
Visit the Athletics composite schedule for events this week.
Deadlines or Registrations
Mini-Conference: “Constituent Relationship Management”
Communicators and leaders across the University are invited to a mini-conference on the topic of constituent relationship management to learn about what’s going on at the University and help guide the future strategy. Register online.
Wednesday, Feb. 7; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 205, McKenna Hall (Continental breakfast starts at 8:30 a.m.)
Smart Brevity — Say More with Less!
Smart Brevity: A clever and concise way to sharpen your communication skills and be a better leader. Communicate what matters, make emails worth reading and achieve clarity in writing. Register by Wednesday, Feb. 7.
Thursday, Feb. 8; 2 to 3 p.m. via Zoom
Connections Series: “Connect with the Poverty Initiative”
The Connections Series is devoted to promoting interdisciplinary community and collaboration, with a focus this year on the strategic framework and its University-wide initiatives. This event will include a short program featuring the director of the Poverty Initiative and include the opportunity for Q&A as well as for fellowship and conversation with your colleagues. Register online.
Thursday, Feb. 8; 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Rooms 215/216, McKenna Hall
Love Data Week 2024: Data Haiku Contest and Workshops
If you love data, share your love through a haiku about data (management, processing, sharing, preservation, etc.). Open to ND students and employees. Submissions are due by noon Friday, Feb. 16. You can also join a series of workshops to help you learn skills, tools and techniques for managing your data. Learn more at library.nd.edu/events/series/love-data-week-2024.
Monday, Feb. 12, through Friday, Feb. 16
Deals and Discounts
Legendary Deals
On Tuesdays through Thursdays at Legends of Notre Dame, enjoy 50 percent off select appetizers from 6 to 8 p.m. and $2 pints all day. Included appetizers are nachos, fried pretzels, loaded fries, pub cheese and hot honey tenders.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Teaching with the Columbus Murals
The Columbus Murals on the second floor of the Main Building will be uncovered from Monday, Jan. 29, through noon Friday, Feb. 2, to allow instructors and their students to engage with and discuss the murals. More information about the Columbus Murals, their history and their use by instructors can be found here.
Educational and Research Opportunities
Hesburgh Libraries and Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship Workshops:
Click on each workshop to see more details and to register.
· Introduction to Github and Markdown
Traditionally used for software development, Git and the online platform GitHub have been adopted for projects of all kinds, including humanities research. This workshop guides participants through the basic functions of contributing to a repository and writing documents in its preferred plain-text format, markdown.
Tuesday, Jan. 30; 1 to 2 p.m. in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (Room 247), Hesburgh Library
· RefWorks — Managing Citations for Research
This workshop will review the basics of citation managers, identify some of the more common citation managers, practice importing citations from a few databases (such as Google Scholar and Web of Science), show how to identify when you have missing data in your citation and show how to create endnotes.
Wednesday, Jan. 31; 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (Room 247), Hesburgh Library
· Data Organization in Spreadsheets
Good data organization is the foundation of any research project. Most researchers have data in spreadsheets, so it’s the place where many research projects start. In this workshop, you will learn good data entry practices, including formatting data tables in spreadsheets, as well as basic quality control, how to avoid common mistakes and more.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (Room 248), Hesburgh Library
· Using a Concordance
Concordances are centuries-old tools used to understand large volumes of text. Modern-day concordances also help the reader identify statistically significant key words and word collocations and navigate a text in question. This workshop will demonstrate a free, cross-platform concordance program called AntConc to do all of these things and more.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (Room 247), Hesburgh Library
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Lucy Training Workshop: Tidyverse in R
This workshop will give an introduction to the Tidyverse packages in “R.” Tidyverse is a set of “R” packages that comprehensively deal with data wrangling and visualization using a common syntax. The workshop will cover some of the most common packages and functions in Tidyverse using a variety of social science data. Please register to attend.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 1 to 2 p.m. in Room 246, Hesburgh Library
Lucy Training Workshop: Linear Regression in R
This workshop is designed as an introduction to linear regression in “R”. Linear regression is considered the “backbone” of quantitative social science and provides the grounding and framework for understanding advanced regression models. Please register to attend.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 3 to 4 p.m. in Room 246, Hesburgh Library
Health and Recreation
Artful Yoga
Engage with the museum as a space for well-being and inspiration. Join yoga instructor Steve Krojniewski in the galleries to relax and recharge while surrounded by works from the collection.
Mats are provided, or you can bring your own. Artful Yoga is free and open to all but is limited to the first 15 participants.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Latin Dance Night
The lesson, co-sponsored by South Bend Latin Dance, starts at 8 p.m., followed by open dance from 8:30 to 10 p.m. Salsa, bachata, cumbia, merengue and more! Free with valid student ID; $5 for non-students. Cash bar.
Saturday, Feb. 3; 8 to 10 p.m. in Legends (Clubside)
Lectures and Presentations
Summus Master Class: “The Weight Is Over — Healthy Weight Management Practices”
Dr. Eduardo Grunvald, professor and medical director of the Weight Management Program at UC San Diego School of Medicine, will talk about building healthy habits and goal setting for weight management, common weight management myths and weight management treatments. Register through your Summus dashboard.
Monday, Jan. 29; 3 to 3:30 p.m. virtually
Info Session: Master of Science in Global Health
Offered by the Eck Institute for Global Health, College of Science and the Keough School of Global Affairs, the two-year MSGH program leverages diverse resources and strengthens students’ capacities to address the complexities of global health challenges. To attend this virtual session, registration is required.
Tuesday, Jan. 30; 3 to 4 p.m. virtually
Lecture: “War and International Politics”
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. Sponsored by the Notre Dame International Security Center.
Tuesday, Jan. 30; 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Room 1030, Jenkins Nanovic Halls
NDIGI Lunch and Learn: Joe Orecchio ’19
Joe Orecchio ’19 is an associate, private equity, at Northwestern Mutual Capital. He started his career at Baird in equity research. After nearly three years at Baird, he joined Northwestern as a private debt and equity analyst. He became a senior analyst before moving into his current role. Orecchio is a CFA charter holder and will receive his MBA later this year. Register online.
Wednesday, Jan. 31; noon to 1 p.m. in Room 161, Mendoza College of Business
Lecture: “The Eucharist and Human Dignity”
This lecture reflects on the connection between human dignity and the Eucharist with special attention to the dignity of people at the margins. It reconstructs the relevance for a deep understanding of a preferential option for the poor and works with examples of how the Eucharist has lifted up the dignity of people under difficult circumstances. Sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life.
Wednesday, Jan. 31; 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. in the Oak Room, South Dining Hall
Information Session: “Protect Your Collaborative Content in Google and Box”
The University is introducing a new process for storing collaborative data that may affect your shared files and folders. Learn more about what you can do to maintain access to collaborative work not stored in a shared drive. This includes essential research, University projects or critical academic or business endeavors.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 2 to 2:45 p.m. via Zoom. No registration is required.
Tuesday, Feb. 13; 9:30 to 10:15 a.m.
Lecture: “Hearing Embodied Timbres in Sikh Devotional Music (Kirtan)”
An embodied, synesthetic perception of music, sound and timbre is central to Sikh devotional worship. It is an intensely vibrating body that signals spiritual attainment where different musical timbres mark each stage of the meditative journey. The lecture is presented by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal, the Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music at Wellesley College.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Room 306, O’Neill Hall of Music
Lecture: “Leonardo da Vinci’s Way of Seeing Water. Wetlands, Mapping and the Art of Painting”
The Center for Italian Studies hosts a lecture by Francesca Fiorani, professor at University of Virginia, focusing on the artist’s observations on wetlands — swamps, marshes, bayous, rivers, lakes — and on his representations of them in maps, drawings and paintings. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Rare Books & Special Collections (Room 102), Hesburgh Library
Visual Cultures Workshop — “From BOC to FTT: The Evolution of TV Education at Notre Dame”
When WNDU was christened in 1955, University President Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., pledged that the University-owned commercial broadcasting station would serve as an educational laboratory enabling students to contribute the betterment of society through “the marvelous medium of television.” While the station hosted courses and interns over the next few decades, the goal of offering a multi-year course of study in television at Notre Dame sputtered. Instead, the most comprehensive TV education on campus then was offered to area high school students via “Beyond Our Control,” a sketch comedy show produced at WNDU (1968-86). Presented by Christine Becker, associate professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre.
Thursday, Feb. 1; 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Room B043, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Signs of the Times — “The Power of Near Peer Mentoring: Helping First Gen Students Achieve College Degrees”
Presented by Rose Meissner, president of the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County. Signs of the Times is a monthly series that connects campus to community experts around justice topics. Bring your lunch; dessert and drinks provided!
Friday, Feb. 2; noon to 1 p.m. in the Coffee House, Geddes Hall
Book Launch: “A History of Fake Things on the Internet” by Walter Scheirer
As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is “real” and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner — and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. Join the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Walter Scheirer, for this book launch.
Friday, Feb. 2; 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Oak Room, South Dining Hall
Social Gatherings
Tae is Plé
Welcome to Tae is Plé, the Irish language conversation table! Want to discover more about the language and culture of Ireland, meet new people or practice your cúpla focal? Bígí linn!
Tuesday, Jan. 30; 7 to 8 p.m. in Room 334, Bond Hall
Italian Coffee Hour: Pane e Nutella
Come meet Italian students and faculty members! Everyone is welcome.
Wednesday, Jan. 31; 4 to 5 p.m. in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, third floor, Decio Hall
Lego KingDOME
Do you enjoy building Lego sets? The Themed Entertainment Association at ND is proud to host its annual Lego KingDOME event. Swing by to help build a Lego theme park!
Saturday, Feb. 3; 8 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. at Midfield Commons, Duncan Student Center
Tech Tips, Tools and IT Maintenance
Canvas Tip: Make Sure Your Course Announcements Are Visible to Students
When you send announcements to your students through Canvas, whether or not they receive an email notification depends on their personal account settings. By adding recent announcements to the top of your course home page, you guarantee that messages are front-and-center each time a student logs in to your course.
Don’t Risk Losing Access to Shared Files — Take Action by March
In March, all files and folders owned by inactive Google and Box accounts will be permanently deleted if you don’t move them to Google Shared drive or a Box Group account. Inactive accounts are those owned by people who left the University more than a year ago. If no action is taken, the files and folders shared with you from an inactive account will be deleted.
Keep up to date on new hires and colleagues celebrating service anniversaries. Obituaries and memorial information may be found at In Memory. Please contact askHR at 631-5900 to submit obituary and memorial updates.