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Peter MacDonald, Sr.: Navajo Code Talker, World War II 1944-1946 and Former Leader of the Navajo Nation

Time: Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business

Following regular combat and communication training at USMCB in Camp Pendleton, CA, MacDonald along with other Navajo Marines, was selected from other Marines for top secret Navajo Code School. During the final phase of World War II (1944-46) MacDonald served...

Lecture: "The Church on a Spiritual Retreat: Leadership Lessons from the Francis Pontificate"

Time: Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Austen Ivereigh is an author, journalist, commentator, and biographer of Pope Francis and is a fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, Oxford. Biographer Austen Ivereigh, will speak on his most recent book, Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His...

Holy Land Seminar

Time: Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location: B001 Andrews Auditorium Geddes Hall

Please join us for a reflection on this past summer’s archeological work at Tantur and Azeqa, done in collaboration with Tel Aviv University. Three speakers from Tel Aviv will present on the summer’s results, and our students will offer reflections on...

Fridays at Noon Recital

Time: Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: LaBar Recital Hall

Enjoy a free noontime recital in O'Neill Hall of Music. Performances by Department of Music majors Katie Hyry, soprano, ‘21, Zachary Pearson, baritone, ‘21, Kate Ragan, piano, ‘21, and Carolina Robledo, soprano, ‘20. Works by de Falla, Beach, Beethoven, Schumann, Handel, and Dvořák. Tickets are not required. …

Inaugural ND-Navy Debate

Time: Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Location: Carey Auditorium, Hesburgh Library

Notre Dame launches a new tradition this year on the weekend of the Navy football game. At the suggestion of two members of the debate team of the United States Naval Academy, the University of Notre Dame will inaugurate the...

Performance: Kathleen Battle's Underground Railroad: A Spiritual Journey

Time: Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

One of the most legendary operatic sopranos of the past century, five-time Grammy Award winner Kathleen Battle performs her critically acclaimed pageant Underground Railroad. The program chronicles the courageous quest for freedom via the secret network traveled by America’s slaves and...

Saturdays with the Saints Lecture Series

Time: Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Location: Andrews Auditorium, Geddes Hall

Saint Padre Pio, O.F.M. Cap. “The Sacrament and the Stigmata.” Presented by Nathan O’Halloran, S.J., Department of Theology. Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series that combines the university’s rich traditions of Catholic faith and spirited...

Saturday Scholar Series: "Treasures of the Sinai Desert: The History and Marvels of the Ancient Monastery of St. Catherine"

Time: Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Location: Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art

A different game plan for autumn weekends. You are invited to join in discussion with Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times.

Sounds of the Sahel Live-Score: "Bloodsport"

Time: Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

When world-renowned Malian musicians Ahmed Ag Kaedy, Dramane Toure, and Belco Guindo (together performing as Amical Blues) live scored Carl Dreyer’s "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1929) last year, they were asked: What film do you want to score next? The...

"Finnegans Wake": On Infinite Translation

Time: Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Rare Books and Special Collections (102 Hesburgh Library)

Please join the Center for Italian Studies and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies for the presentation of the monumental Italian translation of James Joyce’s "Finnegans Wake" and a roundtable discussion.

Lecture: "The Global Rebel Elite: Transnational Social Networks in Violent Rebellion"

Time: Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic

Reyko Huang is an associate professor at the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University. Her research situates armed conflict within international politics, with a focus on rebel organizations and their strategies of governance, diplomacy, and...

Lecture: “Too Many Americans: Overpopulation and the Crisis of Abundance”

Time: Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: Auditorium, Geddes Hall

Angela Allan, assistant director of studies in the American studies and ethnic studies fields, lecturer in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Sustainability Studies...

Film: "Lupe Under the Sun"

Time: Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location: Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

"Lupe Under the Sun" is a neorealist film following an aging migrant worker living in California, who longs to return to Mexico before it is too late. Featuring a cast of nonprofessional actors, real farm workers, and authentic locations,

Theater: "Staging the Daffy Dame"

Time: Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm (part of a series)

Location: Patricia George Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Notre Dame Film, Television, and Theatre presents "Staging the Daffy Dame," by Anne García-Romero. A Latina theatre professor employs non-traditional casting while staging a Spanish Golden Age comedy on a present-day college campus, provoking heated conversations about race, class, gender, and immigration....

Arts and Letters Career Community (Graduate Students and Postdocs)

Time: Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location: Duncan Student Center 526

Join a small group of fellow Arts and Letters graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to engage in open, interdisciplinary dialogue focused on career development topics important to YOU. Create a sense of community around common interests.

Italian Research Seminar: “In arts it is repose to life: è filo teso per siti strani.” The Role of Anglophone Culture in Primo Levi and His Times.

Time: Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: Rare Books & Special Collections (102 Hesburgh Library)

Sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies, Valentina Geri will examine the importance of Anglophone culture in Primo Levi’s work, beginning from his English-Italian palindrome from the short story “Calore vorticoso” (Lilít) – “In arts it is repose to life: è...

Art Conservation Panel Discussion

Time: Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm

Location: 200 Riley Hall

Join the Art History Club for a panel discussion on art conservation with a reception to follow. Professionals in the field of conservation will discuss their careers and experiences with conserving art in a conversation moderated by Cheryl Snay, curator of...

"Telling Histories of Violence Without Borders": 2019 Laura Shannon Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony

Time: Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm

Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies will present the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize to Max Bergholz, author of "Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community," published by Cornell University Press. Bergholz will deliver a public lecture...

Theater: "Staging the Daffy Dame"

Time: Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm (part of a series)

Location: Patricia George Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Notre Dame Film, Television, and Theatre presents "Staging the Daffy Dame," by Anne García-Romero. A Latina theatre professor employs non-traditional casting while staging a Spanish Golden Age comedy on a present-day college campus, provoking heated conversations about race, class, gender, and immigration....

Theater: "Staging the Daffy Dame"

Time: Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm (part of a series)

Location: Patricia George Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Notre Dame Film, Television, and Theatre presents "Staging the Daffy Dame," by Anne García-Romero. A Latina theatre professor employs non-traditional casting while staging a Spanish Golden Age comedy on a present-day college campus, provoking heated conversations about race, class, gender, and immigration....

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