Football weekend events: Notre Dame vs. Michigan

Author: Erin Blasko

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A lecture on antitrust law in college and professional sports, a flag football game with Special Olympics athletes from South Bend and Ann Arbor and a projection film chronicling great moments in Notre Dame history are among the events surrounding Saturday’s football game between the University of Notre Dame and University of Michigan at Notre Dame Stadium.

Friday, Aug. 31

• “Solidary and Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection,” 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, through Dec. 15, Snite Museum of Art.

• “There’s No Place Like Time: A Retrospective of Video Artist Alana Olsen,” 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, through Dec. 2, Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery, Snite Museum of Art.

• Football Fridays at the Eck, featuring “Chalk Talk with Bill and Bill” and conversations with former Notre Dame defensive end Justin Tuck and former Notre Dame Head Coach Lou Holtz, plus food, prizes and giveaways, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Eck Visitors Center.

• Friday Reconciliation, 11 to 11:30 a.m., Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

• Mass, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 5:15 to 6:15 p.m., Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

• Innovation Rally — An IDEA Week Event, featuring keynote speaker Pat Patnode, president of licensing, GE Ventures, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., IDEA Center (registration required).

• Law School Speaker Series, “Applying Antitrust Law to College and Professional Sports,” featuring Makan Delrahim, assistant attorney general, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., 1130 Eck Hall of Law.

• Graduate Business Program Highlights, 2 to 3 p.m., 162 Mendoza College of Business.

• Thomas H. Quinn Lecture Series, “The Big Trends Shaping the World Today: Economics, Technology and Geopolitics,” featuring Thomas Friedman, reporter and columnist for the New York Times, 3 to 4:15 p.m., Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

• Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies Speakers and Public Talks Series, “Swift, Gulliver and the Art of Travel,” featuring Daniel Carey, director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls.

• “Listening to Puerto Rico: A Roundtable Discussion,” 4:30 to 6 p.m., Eck Visitors Center Auditorium.

• Special Olympics Unified Flag Football Game, 4:30 to 7 p.m., Ricci Family Fields.

Listening to Puerto Rico, Drop-in Studio Hours, 6 to 8 p.m., Martin Media Center, Corbett Family Hall.

• Daily Rosary, 6:45 to 7 p.m., Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.

• “Sorin: A Notre Dame Story,” 7:30 to 9 p.m., a one-man play about Notre Dame founder Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

• “Under the Dome,” a projection film chronicling great moments in Notre Dame history on the exterior of the Main Building, 9:30 to 10 p.m., 10:15 to 10:45, 11 to 11:30 p.m., Main Quad.

Saturday, Sept. 1

Saturdays with the Saints, “St. John of the Cross: Silences and the Spiritual Life,” featuring Cyril O’Regan, Huisking Professor of Theology, 10:30 to 11: 30 a.m., Geddes Hall Auditorium.

Science Exploration Series, “GDPR, Personal Privacy and Big Data — Friends or Foes?” featuring Fang Liu, associate professor of applied and computational mathematics and statistics, 1 to 2 p.m., 101 Jordan Hall.

• Gameday Rosary, 2:30 to 3 p.m., Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

• Mass, 4 to 5 p.m., Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

• Crypt Mass, 4 to 5 p.m., Sacred Heart Crypt.

Saturday Scholar Series, “The Cross: When and Why it Became the Church’s Central Symbol,” featuring Robin Jensen, Patrick O’Brien Professor of Theology, 4 to 5 p.m., Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art.

• Mass, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

 Sunday, Sept. 2

• Mass, 6:30 to 7:30 a.m., 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m. to noon, Sacred Heart Crypt.

• Mass, 8 to 9 a.m., 10 to 11 a.m., 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Basilica of the Sacred Heart.