IAS in the News: August 2021
A collection of recent news featuring IAS community members and programs.
August 2021
Meet an IAS Staff Member: Angela Carter
Please help us welcome Angela Carter, who recently joined the Mellon-funded initiative Minnesota Transform as Access and Inclusion Pedagogy Specialist.
Announcing the Fall 2021 IAS Thursdays Schedule
Join the IAS on Thursday afternoons this fall for our eclectic, wide-ranging discussion series designed for scholars from all walks of life.
Events are free, open to the public, and will be held online*. All events will take place at 3:30 p.m. CT. Events are FREE, open to the public, and will be held online via Zoom. Additional details about each event, including registration details, can be found via the links below and on our events calendar.
The 2021–2022 Spotlight Series: Reconsidering Patriotism, Public Service, and Civic Engagement
We are pleased to announce the 2021–2022 Spotlight Series: Reconsidering Patriotism, Public Service, and Civic Engagement.
The series is FREE and open to the public (registration requested), and will be held online via Zoom and in person at Northrop in the Best Buy Theater (masks required).
IAS Thursdays | NASA Scientist Kate Marvel on Climate Change
Kate Marvel, Research Scientist
Columbia University / NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
IAS Thursdays | CANCELLED — George Floyd, Christopher Columbus, and the “Evidence of Things Not Seen”
Demetrius L. Eudell
Dean of Social Sciences
Professor of History
Wesleyan University
IAS Thursdays | Telling Stories Differently: Public Scholarship as Creative Exchange
Hana Maruyama, Assistant Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Kacie Lucchini Butcher, Director of the UW-Madison Public History Project
Laurie Moberg, Managing Editor and Project Manager, IAS, UMN
IAS Thursdays | The Deaths America Treats as Normal
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Assistant Professor
Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, UMN Twin Cities
IAS Thursdays | Building an Abolitionist University: What Will it Take to Free Higher Education from Its Current Conditions?
Davarian Baldwin
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College
Misty Blue, MPH • Citizen of the White Earth Nation & Indigenous Researcher
Jae Yates, Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar
IAS Thursdays | “No One is Expendable”: A Conversation on Higher Education Prison Partnerships and Institutional Transformation
Kate Marshall
Associate Professor of English, Notre Dame & faculty, Moreau College Initiative
