All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend a film screening of "Beyond Closure” (54 mins), followed by Q&A with Urban Designer and Executive Producer Paola Aguirre Serrano (30 mins). Film synopsis: What happened since Chicago closed 50 public schools in 2013? This documentary retraces the history of the largest mass school closures in […]
Join us for an evening with Jeane Delaney! Hear her talk, "Reflections of a Latin Americanist in Tumultuous Times." Hosted by Latin American Studies. Professor Jeane DeLaney will return to St. Olaf to give a talk titled REFLECTIONS OF A LATIN AMERICANIST IN TUMULTUOUS TIMES. DeLaney will talk about her career as a Latin Americanist […]
The St. Olaf Community is welcome to join us as we honor our Social Justice Award recipient, Jaden Janak, in the Buntrock Ballrooms on April 10th at 7:30 p.m! This award recognizes the hard work of faculty members in bringing needed change to the College and demonstrates St. Olaf’s commitment to developing a more inclusive […]
The Institute for Freedom & Community is hosting “The Challenge of Police Reform,” a conversation with Michelle S. Phelps and Jake Monaghan. The talk is part of the IFC’s spring series, Democracy and Dialogue. It will be streamed and available for on-demand viewing online. Michelle S. Phelps is associate professor of sociology at the University of […]
All are welcome to attend a lecture by Associate Professor of Religion Devin Singh. Singh will be giving a lecture on how debt wields extraordinary power in societies, shaping national economies and influencing individual choices. Unsurprisingly, the concept has longstanding uses in religion. Sacred texts employ debt language to encourage social responsibility and trust, while […]
The 8th Annual James M. May Endowed Lecture in Classics will be delivered by Dr. Jon Solomon, Robert T. Novak Chair and Professor of Classics, Medieval Studies, and Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. in Viking Theater. The lecture is free and open […]
St. Olaf students are invited to watch the 2025 CHINA Town Hall on Thursday, April 24 at 5:30 PM in Holland Hall 610. The 2025 CHINA Town Hall program will discuss President Trump’s China policy 100 days in, with featured virtual speakers Ryan Hass, Director of John L. Thorton China Center at the Brookings Institution, […]
The Institute for Freedom and Community's Science Communications Conference will feature a keynote address by Kasisomayajula Viswanath titled Truth and Evidence: Public Communication and Science in the Era of Misinformation. His talk will begin at 4 p.m. on April 25 in Tomson Hall 280. It will be streamed online. Viswanath is the Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication […]
The St. Olaf community is invited to attend the Panel Presentations in Regents 410 as part of the Science Communication Conference hosted by the Institute for Freedom and Community. Please see the schedule below: 9:00 a.m.: Science Messaging and Misinformation 10:45 a.m.: Science Messaging and the Public 1:30 p.m.: Science Engagement 3:00 p.m.: Closing Remarks
Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited to this year’s Rand Scholar Award presentation by Naomi Meints ’25. Light refreshments provided.
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