Cosponsored

Guided Mindfulness Workshop for Community Renewal and Wellbeing: A Post-Election Healing Space

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The Liberal Arts Engagement Hub and Institute for Advanced Study invite you to join us for a gathering centered on renewal and wellness in the wake of a stressful election. Whether you are feeling anxious, hopeful, isolated, overwhelmed, relieved, or anything else, there is space here for you to breathe, move, create, heal, and connect in community.

IDF Information Session

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Are you a graduate student interested in applying for an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship? Join us for an information session with several of the University’s IDF-sponsoring Centers and Institutes:

An Evening with Award-Winning Journalist & Political Commentator Rosa Alicia Clemente

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The 2024 Ramona Arreguin de Rosales Lecture presented by the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, introduced by Minnesota State Rep. María Isa Pérez-Vega.

Rosa Alicia Clemente Presents: “Can’t Stop Our Blackness: Black Latinx Narratives and Resisting Erasure”

I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States

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Mainstream conservative rhetoric, dating even far back in the 20th century, has put the United States on track to our contemporary firestorm of racist, misogynist, and gendered aggrievement. Paul E. Johnson (University of Pittsburgh) complicates philosophical narratives about conservatism as a heterodox ideology, focusing on its reliance upon cunning, longstanding identity politics and the possessive liberal tradition.

The World is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War

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Allison M. Prasch (University of Wisconsin, Madison) considers how presidential appearances overseas broadcast American superiority during the Cold War. Drawing on extensive archival research, she theorizes the “global rhetorical presidency,” and reveals how the president’s physical presence defined the boundaries of the “Free World” and elevated the United States in Cold War geopolitics.

The Global Reach of Local Activism: Minnesota’s Human Rights Stories

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The people of Minnesota have played an outsized role in international human rights activism and scholarship since the 1970s. The story is also a complicated one. As Minnesota-based actors have made their international impact, the state remains the site of persistent human rights violations.