The Institute for Freedom & Community and The Lutheran Center are co-hosting “Learning to Disagree: A Conversation with John Inazu.” The talk is part of the IFC’s spring series, Democracy and Dialogue. It will be streamed and available for on-demand viewing online. John Inazu’s scholarship focuses on the First Amendment freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion, […]
Hsiang-Lin Shih, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, will present Fathers and Children: The Cao Family and the Early Medieval Chinese Court Poetry. "The parent–child relationship prescribed in the Analects of Confucius is so unique, and the grief for parents is so distinct from any other kind, that one who upholds the tradition may say, as […]
Welcome to the 2025 Ole Cup! Launched in 2014, the Ole Cup is an annual student entrepreneurial pitch competition open to all St. Olaf students. The Ole Cup helped launch successful businesses like JonnyPops, Teranga Strings, and the Ole Thrift Shop. The winner of the Ole Cup is awarded a $10,000 prize to help launch their […]
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 […]
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 […]
Students, faculty, staff are all welcome to attend the 45th Eunice Belgum Lectures. This year's lecturer is Lewis Gordon. Lewis Gordon's lecture "The Jazz of Freedom" will untangle some of the meanings of “freedom” and their significance for aesthetic, ethical, and political life, culminating in a discussion of jazz as a leitmotif of democracy and […]
Students, faculty, staff are all welcome to attend the 45th Eunice Belgum Lectures. This year's lecturer is Lewis Gordon. Lewis Gordon's lecture "Humanity Matters" will summarize why anti-humanism and misanthropy are misguided features of an influential, yet disastrous, thread of modern and contemporary philosophy, which fails to address a pressing problem of the Euromodern Age: […]
The Institute for Freedom & Community is hosting "Making Sense of the 2024 Elections,” a conversation with Julia Azari. The talk is part of the IFC's fall series, Democracy & Dialogue and Undergrad Research Conference. Julia Azari is Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. An active public-facing scholar, she has published commentary on presidential […]
The Institute for Freedom & Community is hosting "Mobilizing Young Voters in a Polarized Political Environment,” a conversation with Dr. Sunshine Hillygus. The talk is part of the fall series, Democracy & Dialogue. Dr. Sunshine Hillygus is professor of political science and public policy at Duke University. She has published widely on the topics of […]
All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend this presentation hosted by the Latin American Studies Program. The talk will include observations about the experience of the Chinese in Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama, as well as the role of the U.S. in influencing Chinese immigration and adaptation. Benjamin Narváez can include commentary about […]