The Institute for Freedom and Community welcomes David Siemers '91, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, to Viking Theater in Buntrock Commons to kick off the Fall Speaker Series. Siemers will present Hate the Game, Not the Player: The Politics of Rumor, Innuendo, and Allegations of Crime. Calumnies are lies designed […]
The Buntrock Institute for Freedom and Community invites the greater campus community to their Fall Speaker Series featuring Franita Tolson, Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law, USC Gould School of Law, presenting In Congress We Trust? 250 Years of "We the Voters" in the American Democratic Experiment in Viking Theater on October 22 from […]
The Buntrock Institute for Freedom and Community invites the greater campus community to their Fall Speaker Series featuring Lisa Tetrault, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, who will present When Women Won the Right to Vote: An American Fiction on October 29 from 3:45-4:45 p.m. in Viking Theater. The lecture will discuss how when […]
The Buntrock Institute for Freedom and Community invites the greater St. Olaf community to A Bicentennial Midterm: What Happened in the 2026 Election and What It Means for American Democracy with speaker John Sides, Professor of Political Science and William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair at Vanderbilt University, on November 16 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Viking Theater. […]
The annual Mellby Lecturer Award honors a St. Olaf faculty member who demonstrates “excellence in professional activity, intellectual rigor in both scholarship and teaching, and a creative concern for interrelationships and communication across disciplines.” This year’s awardee is Professor of Political Science Kris Thalhammer.
The Buntrock Institute for Freedom and Community invites the greater St. Olaf community to their Fall Speaker Series featuring guest speaker Judge Eric Tostrud '87 on Public Confidence: How the Judiciary Should Earn It (and What Lessons that Might Hold for the Political Branches) in Viking Theater on December 10 from 4-5 p.m.