Professor Rika Ito, Asian Studies, presents this years Mellby Lecture "The Role of Language in Reproducing Imagined "Others": Critical Views from Anime and Manga". 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 […]
All are welcome to attend the performance "The Blues of Achilles". Modern bard Joe Goodkin, an acclaimed singer-classicist, will perform The Blues of Achilles, his musical adaptation of Homer's Iliad, on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 7-8 p.m. in Viking Theater. This epic event, co-sponsored by the St. Olaf Department of Classics and the Enduring Questions […]
Acclaimed Brazilian scholar, Lucas Lazzaretti, to present talk on Kierkegaard.
All are welcome to attend a screening of the short film, "Predictable," by the St. Olaf Film Production Society. "Ellison lives in a time loop, repeating the same day over and over, but she likes it that way! At least until an unexpected event shatters her reality, leaving her to grapple with the unpredictability of […]
National Coming Out Day Panel
St. Olaf is celebrating LGBTQIA+ History Month with: "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gay Man" featuring Patrick Scully When: Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 @ 6pm Where: Viking Theater Please RSVP Here The Taylor Center is thrilled to be collaborating with Northfield Pride and the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies for this event! […]
Dr. Alex Ketchum on The 50+ Years of Lesbian and Queer Labour Behind American Feminist, Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses
The 7th Annual James M. May Lecture in Classics, “‘Not in that imaginary Republic of Plato’s’: Rhetoric, Lies, and Morality in Cicero (and why he is not Donald Trump),” will be delivered by Dr. Jakob Wisse, Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Newcastle University, U.K., on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. in Viking […]
Mary Maker '23 will be sharing with us her thoughts on educational access, and tie it into her lived experience as an International Ole. Mary will speak at 3:30pm in Viking Theater, and will then transition to the Norway Room for a small reception. Due to her lived experience as a South Sudanese refugee, Mary Maker […]
The St. Olaf community is welcome to join the 44th Annual Eunice Belgum Lectures. They will take place April 15th & 16th, 2024 from 7:00-8:30 p.m., in The Viking Theater. Dr. Critchley will be joining us via zoom. The Belgum Lecturer for this year is Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New […]
