For the Week of September 25
Arts and Performances
Exhibitions
AAHD Gallery Exhibition: “The Sound of Found Objects” by Neill Prewitt
Get ready to be inspired and moved by Prewitt’s remarkable work! A group of everyday objects come alive, moving and singing in video projections synchronized across the four walls of the gallery.
Through Thursday, Sept. 25; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the AAHD Gallery (Room 214), Riley Hall of Art
Films
“The Hidden Renaissance” (2022)
A multinational team of art historians found new ways to explore Black history in Italy, focusing on the Renaissance period lives of Africans and those of African descent, reconfiguring their identity and role in society, exposing an astonishing era that has remained hidden, despite an indelible presence in some of the world’s most famous artworks. $7 adults, $5 seniors, $6 faculty/staff, $4 students.
Tuesday, Sept. 26; 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” (2021)
Björn Andrésen was 15 when he starred in Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of “Death in Venice.” Visconti proclaimed Andrésen to be “the world’s most beautiful boy.” Through a fascinating mix of archival footage and recent interactions with Andrésen, the film explores the nature of overnight stardom and the objectification that sometimes follows. $7 adults, $5 seniors, $6 faculty/staff, $4 students.
Thursday, Sept. 28; 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
“Scrapper” (2023)
A humorous touch lends a magical quality to this father-daughter story. After her mum’s death, resourceful tween Georgie lives alone in their London-outskirts flat. She makes money stealing bikes with a friend and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. It works like a charm until her rubbish dad, Jason, shows up. $7 adults, $5 seniors, $6 faculty/staff, $4 students.
Thursday, Sept. 28; 9:30 to 11 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Friday, Sept. 29; 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 30; 7 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 1; 4 p.m.
The Met: Live in HD — “Die Zauberflöte” (Mozart)
One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years — a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that a reviewer in The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” $23 adult, $16 child/student.
Saturday, Sept. 30; 1 to 4:30 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
“The Peanut Butter Solution” (1985)
The hair-raising Canadian comedy that creeped out a generation enjoys almost legendary status among kids who saw it growing up, largely owing to its wonderfully nutty story. When a boy literally gets the hair scared off his head, he’s visited by a pair of ghosts who give him a magic remedy that mustn’t be overused. It is, and hair-larity ensues! $1.
Sunday, Oct. 1; 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Performances
“Monomythical”: A New Musical by Solomon Duane ’24
Discontent with her mundane life, Hera ventures to break free of the established story cycle. As reality begins to crumble, characters challenge their emotional agency and obligations to a prescribed destiny: the script. This sardonic new meta-musical explores the relationships between the Hero’s journey of the stage and reality as we know it. Tickets to this PEMCo student production are available at the LaFortune Student Center box office for $10.
Friday, Sept. 29; 7 to 8 p.m. in the Lab Theatre, Washington Hall
Saturday, Sept. 30; 3:30 and 7 p.m.
An Evening with CeCe Winans
The best-selling and most-awarded female gospel artist of all time, CeCe Winans, added South Bend to her wildly popular fall tour. After several sold-out dates last year, 2022’s Dove Award Artist of the Year will bring her live show to the Leighton Concert Hall! $70 adult, $66 faculty/staff, $25 student, $10 Notre Dame student.
Friday, Sept. 29; 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Nathalie Joachim, Flute
Created by performer/composer Nathalie Joachim, “Ki moun ou ye” weaves together textured vocal samples, somber flute tones and longing melodies that take listeners on a journey of discovery and defining of self. Set on her family’s Haitian farmland, Joachim’s intimately staged song cycle ponders its title’s posed question: “Who are you?” $30 adult, $20 faculty/staff, $10 student, $5 Notre Dame student.
Sunday, Oct. 1; 4 to 5 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.
Notre Dame Volleyball Hosts Louisville
Notre Dame volleyball hosts 2022 NCAA championship runner-up Louisville. Come cheer on the Irish for this pivotal, nationally televised matchup! Admission is free for all fans.
Wednesday, Sept. 27; 7 to 9 p.m. in Purcell Pavilion, Joyce Center
Deadlines or Registrations
Patient Advocacy Summit
The annual Rare Disease Patient Advocacy Summit aims to increase the awareness of rare diseases by bringing industry leaders, students and patient families together through a series of panel discussions and networking opportunities. There is no cost to attend, and all are welcome. Please register by Wednesday, Sept. 27.
Friday, Oct. 13; 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Downes Ballroom, Corbett Family Hall
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 Text Mining
This hands-on workshop affords participants the opportunity to learn the benefits of using computers to analyze textual corpora such as a collection of books or journal articles. Sometimes called “distant” or “scalable” reading, text mining is a way to analyze the words (or phrases) in a text in order to find patterns and anomalies within it.
Tuesday, Sept. 26; 11 a.m. to noon in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (Room 247), Hesburgh Library
· Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python
This hands-on workshop is an introduction to the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), a very popular suite of Python (programming language) modules making the process of text mining easier. By the end of the workshop you will have a working knowledge of Python and exposure to the inner workings of the NLTK.
Wednesday, Sept. 27; 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (Room 247), Hesburgh Library
· Topic Modeling Against a Corpora
Topic modeling is a process of analyzing a collection of texts to better understand the collection as a whole. This process can be useful for identifying genres, authors or subjects in a body of literature. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate and facilitate the use of a free Java-based program called Topic Modeling Tool.
Thursday, Sept. 28; 11 a.m. to noon in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (Room 247), Hesburgh Library
· Bringing Order to Qualitative Madness with ATLAS.ti
If you’re in the middle of a qualitative research project, you’re probably juggling dozens of documents that need to be coded. Interview transcripts, focus group transcripts, digitized text — whatever your source material is — you could use a system for organizing and coding it all. This is where ATLAS.ti comes in! Designed for beginners.
Friday, Sept. 29; 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Collaboration Hub (Room 220), Hesburgh Library
Technology Training Classes
Office of Information Technologies technical training classes are free. Check the class description in Endeavor for the method of delivery of each class.
· Tableau: Requirements and Best Practices for Publishing to Notre Dame’s Tableau Server,
Tuesday, Oct. 3; 8:30 a.m. to noon
· GLez Training, Thursday, Oct. 5; 1:30 to 3 p.m.
To register for courses, go to endeavor.nd.edu. Questions or problems registering? Call 631-7227 or email OIT at training@nd.edu.
Health and Recreation
Flu Vaccine Blitz
All faculty, staff and spouses must have their own unique appointments and will be asked to show their appointment QR code on their phone upon arrival. The free flu vaccines will be available while supplies last. Register online and review the details.
Tuesday, Sept. 26; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Stepan Center
Wednesday, Sept. 27; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Lectures and Presentations
NDIGI Lunch and Learn
Jen Cavolo, product manager, ND class of ’05, University of Chicago Booth School of Business class of ’12, will join the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing to talk about new product development at Progressive, including an interactive case study. She’ll follow the presentation with a brief discussion on nontraditional career paths, and internship and full-time opportunities for ND undergrads, grad students and MBAs at Progressive.
Monday, Sept. 25; noon to 1 p.m. in Room 159, Mendoza College of Business
Masterclass — “Monumental Questions: Representing Catholicism at Notre Dame and in America”
Join the ND Institute for Advanced Study for a masterclass led by Kathleen Sprows Cummings, professor of American studies and history. The Masterclass Series showcases NDIAS fellows and the “can’t miss” ideas that fuel their research.
Tuesday, Sept. 26; 2 to 4 p.m. in Room 246, Hesburgh Library
The 30th Annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy — “Redefining Peace: A Necessity for Global Sustainability”
Presented by Leymah Gbowee, the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and a Liberian peace activist, trained social worker and women’s rights activist. Gbowee’s life and work is chronicled in her memoir, “Mighty Be Our Powers,” and in the documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.”
Tuesday, Sept. 26; 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium, Hesburgh Center for International Studies
Book Talk — “Every Citizen a Statesman: The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century”
David Allen is a historian of U.S. foreign relations and a former fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. This, his first book, was published by Harvard University Press earlier this year.
Tuesday, Sept. 26; 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Room 1030, Jenkins Nanovic Halls
Panel Discussion: “Connecting Our World Using Science”
This panel discussion includes special guest Sandeep Ravindran, a Washington, D.C.-based science journalist, and will explore how science communications professionals help people understand the world around them, promote scientific literacy, build trust in science and influence public policy. Reception precedes event at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. Review the poster.
Tuesday, Sept. 26; 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 105, Jordan Hall of Science
Talk: “The Game as History”
More than entertainment or escape, sports can also be sites where historical currents and dynamics of power run into each other. Abe Streep, author of “Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana,” will explore journalism’s role and the beauty of unresolved complexity in telling stories about sport.
Tuesday, Sept. 26; 7 to 8 p.m. in Andrews Auditorium (Room B001), Geddes Hall
NDIGI Lunch and Learn
Chris Hendriksen, class of ’00, is a partner at Pacific Lake Partners and is at his best when he is working alongside entrepreneurs to build great companies. From his first day as CEO to executing on a long-term strategy, Hendriksen is committed to pushing entrepreneurs to think bigger, grow faster and be better leaders. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing.
Wednesday, Sept. 27; 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Room 121, Mendoza College of Business
Recycling Listening and Learning Session
Do you have comments or questions about the recycling program on campus? The Office of Sustainability and Building Services are collaborating to offer a listening and learning session to discuss the current landscape of recycling and waste management efforts on campus. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. Register by Tuesday, Sept. 26.
Wednesday, Sept. 27; 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Room 113, DeBartolo Hall
Conference: “The Black Church and Religious Freedom”
Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative will host this conference in collaboration with the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies. The conference aims to recognize the profound influence of the Black Church in advocating for religious freedom.
Thursday and Friday, Sept. 28 and 29; 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. in the Smith Ballroom, Morris Inn
Presentation — “Ancient Science and Modern Wisdom: The Universe from Genesis to Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation”
Faculty and staff are welcome to join a presentation sponsored by the Office of Mission Engagement and Church Affairs.
Thursday, Sept. 28; 7 to 8:15 p.m. in the Digital Visualization Theater, Jordan Hall of Science
Virtues and Vocations: “Healing with Intention”
Join the Center for Social Concerns for a conversation with Dr. Rana Awdish, pulmonary and critical care physician and author of “In Shock.” Reception to follow.
Virtues & Vocations is a national forum housed at the Center for Social Concerns for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education.
Thursday, Sept. 28; 7 to 9 p.m. in the auditorium, McKenna Hall
The Prose and Poetry of Fred Arroyo and Luivette Resto
As part of its Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 series of events, the Institute for Latino Studies’ Letras Latinas and the Creative Writing Program present “A Reading and Conversation featuring the Prose and Poetry of Fred Arroyo and Luivette Resto.” Readings will be followed by a moderated conversation, and a Q&A session led by Francisco Aragón.
Wednesday, Sept. 27; 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the auditorium, Eck Visitors Center
NDIGI Lunch and Learn
Roy Gallagher, class of ’98, is a senior managing director and the global co-leader of Ankura’s Turnaround and Restructuring North America practice. He has 25 years of experience in the global financial markets and has spent more than a decade of his career as an active investor in the leveraged loan and distressed debt markets with a primary focus on distressed debt investing. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing.
Thursday, Sept. 28; 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Room 161, Mendoza College of Business
Lecture — “Generative AI for Good: From Molecular Biology to Human Health to AI Policy”
Invited speaker Amarda Shehu is a professor of computer science and associate dean for AI innovation in the College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University. Sponsored by the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society.
Friday, Sept. 29; 10 to 11 a.m. in Room 209, DeBartolo Hall
Virtual Conversation with Investor Mohnish Pabrai
In 1991, Mohnish Pabrai started his IT consulting and systems integration company, TransTech Inc., with about $30,000 from his own 401(k) account and $70,000 from credit card debt. He sold the company in 2000 to Kurt Salmon Associates for $20 million. Today he is the managing partner of the Pabrai Investment Funds, which he founded in 1999. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing.
Friday, Sept. 29; noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom (Students are encouraged to gather in Room 159, Mendoza College of Business, to Zoom as a group)
Hibernian Lecture — “Revolutionary Traces: Radical Women, Commemoration and Public Space”
Julie Morrissy of Maynooth University will deliver the 2023 Hibernian Lecture, which is co-sponsored by the Cushwa Center and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.
Friday, Sept. 29; 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Room B02, McKenna Hall
Safety, Parking and Traffic
Campus Safety’s Zombie Preparedness Festival
Learn how to prepare for emergencies and disasters during National Emergency Preparedness Month. If you are prepared for zombies, you are prepared for any emergency! Come for food, giveaways and prizes. Prizes include a Coach Marcus Freeman-signed football, gift cards and more!
Thursday, Sept. 28; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside Notre Dame Stadium, Gate E
Notre Dame Introduces ParkMobile for Visitor Parking
· Guests and visitors of the University can now use ParkMobile to pay for hourly parking. ParkMobile is a popular parking application that allows visitors to use their mobile device to pay for parking at the touch of a button, without the hassle of locating or waiting in line at a pay station. Football fans already use ParkMobile to purchase parking for gameday, and now all visitors will have the convenience of using the same application for weekday parking.
· Notre Dame faculty, staff and students with a valid Notre Dame parking permit do not need to purchase additional parking through ParkMobile.
· Any department that would like to reimburse the cost of daily parking for a conference or special event can visit police.nd.edu/parking for more information.
Social Gathering
Campus Open House for the Beth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room
Join Notre Dame students, faculty and staff to celebrate the opening of the Beth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room and kick off the year-long 60th anniversary celebration for the Hesburgh Library. There will be music, food and refreshments, as well as digital exhibits of the Hesburgh Library’s history and a 60th anniversary commemorative mug. Review the poster.
Wednesday, Sept. 27; 4 to 6 p.m. in the Beth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room (First Floor West), Hesburgh Library
Faculty Happy Hour
Faculty Happy Hours are an opportunity to meet colleagues from other departments and colleges, share ideas and research, relax together and build community. Bring colleagues from your department with you. All faculty are welcome along with their spouses and partners. Appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages included.
Thursday, Sept. 28; 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on the roof of the Jordan Hall Science Building (in case of inclement weather, the fourth-floor landing)
Tech Tips, Tools and IT Maintenance
1Password Features a Family Account
A password manager is the easiest way to store account passwords — including shared accounts with family members. 1Password is available to ND faculty and staff at no cost. It also offers access to a family account to help keep your family safe online and share logins, passwords, credit cards, personal documents and more. It can also help you keep your work and personal accounts separate.
Also This Week ...
Introducing St. Michael’s Laundry 24-Hour Laundry Drop Box
St. Michael’s Laundry, located behind Notre Dame Credit Union, now features an indoor 24-hour drop box providing you flexibility and convenience for your laundry needs. Items dropped off will be ready the next business day after 2 p.m. You will receive an email notification that your items are ready for pickup. Review the attached flyer for more information.
Safety Compliance Training Made Easier Through Endeavor
Risk Management and Safety announces a fresh new look for safety compliance training. As of May 31, ComplyND is no longer available. With this transition comes new and enhanced features. Use the form to learn more and register for training. Sign up now for a Zoom training session.
Wednesday, Sept. 27; 10 to 11 a.m. via Zoom
Tuesday, Oct. 17; 10 a.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 25; 2 p.m.
FedEx Office Print OnDemand Portal Training
FedEx Office will host virtual Print OnDemand portal training on the following four dates. Contact DeeAnne Locsi at deeanne.locsi@fedex.com to register. More information is available by contacting Procurement Services or reviewing the flyer.
Session dates/times:
Thursday, Sept. 28; 11 a.m.
Friday, Sept. 29; 11 a.m.
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.