Apr 2022
Twin Ports Festival of History: Exploring the Archives
Sample film and oral histories from the UMD archives during this Twin Ports Festival of History event in the Kathryn A. Martin Library's fourth-floor rotunda. The festival runs April 6-11 at multiple venues in Duluth and Superior and features lectures, tours, scavenger hunts and more. The event aims to provide those with an interest in history an opportunity to listen and discuss topics with authors and historians of local, regional, national and international renown. The event is sponsored by the…
Find out more »Twin Ports Festival of History: Whiteness in Plain View
Chad Montrie presents "Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota." The inaugural Twin Ports Festival of History runs April 6-11 at multiple venues in Duluth and Superior and features lectures, tours, scavenger hunts and more. The event aims to provide those with an interest in history an opportunity to listen and discuss topics with authors and historians of local, regional, national and international renown. The event is sponsored by the UMD Public History and Museum Studies…
Find out more »Oct 2022
Duluth Poets Laureate Reading
This retrospective project celebrates the Duluth Poets Laureate. Each Poet Laureate will read from their own work. They will also have selected a young poet to share the stage with them, to draw attention to the next generation of diverse and engaging poets. Additionally, poets from the Minnesota League of Poets (Duluth Poetry Chapter), will be present to host the events and point toward the next generation of poets.
Find out more »Duluth Poets Laureate Reading Series
This retrospective project celebrates the Duluth Poets Laureate. Each Poet Laureate will read from their own work. They will also have selected a young poet to share the stage with them, to draw attention to the next generation of diverse and engaging poets. Additionally, poets from the Minnesota League of Poets (Duluth Poetry Chapter), will be present to host the events and point toward the next generation of poets.
Find out more »Duluth Poets Laureate Reading Series
This retrospective project celebrates the Duluth Poets Laureate. Each Poet Laureate will read from their own work. They will also have selected a young poet to share the stage with them, to draw attention to the next generation of diverse and engaging poets. Additionally, poets from the Minnesota League of Poets (Duluth Poetry Chapter), will be present to host the events and point toward the next generation of poets.
Find out more »Sami Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North
Digital media, GIFs, films, TED Talks, tweets, and more have become integral to daily life and to indigenous people’s strategies for addressing the historical and ongoing effects of colonization. In Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North, Thomas DuBois and Coppélie Cocq examine how Sámi people of Norway, Finland, and Sweden use media to advance a social, cultural, and political agenda anchored in notions of cultural continuity and self-determination. Thomas A. DuBois is a Professor of Scandanavian Studies,…
Find out more »Reading with Jeannine Ouellette and Tim Moder
Duluthians Jeannine Ouellette and Tim Moder will read from their works. Ouellette spent her childhood in Duluth and is the author of the memoir The Part that Burns, the children’s book Mama Moon and several educational titles. She is the recipient of a Margarita Donnelly Prize, Curt Johnson Fiction Award, Proximity Essay Award, Masters Review Emerging Writer's Award, two recent Pushcart nominations, as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Medill School of Journalism. Her work…
Find out more »Nov 2022
An Evening with Tony Dierckins
Tony Dierckins will present about “Duluth’s Grand Old Buildings” in a presentation from the book Duluth‘s Grand Old Architecture 1870–1940. The book, by Dierckins and co-author Maryanne C. Norton, explores the first 70 years of Duluth’s rich tradition of creating architectural statements. From the first brick buildings of the early 1870s through the Romanesque monuments of the 1890s and on to the Art Deco delights of the 1930s, readers can discover many of the remarkable structures -- some lost, most…
Find out more »Feb 2023
Sámi Day Celebration
Feb. 6 commemorates the first Sámi congress, which was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway. The first time Sámi National Day was celebrated was in 1993, making 2023 the 30th year of Sámi National Day! The Sámi Cultural Center of North America's Sámi Day Celebration will be held at the Kathryn A. Martin Library at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the library's 4th-floor rotunda. Activities include Sámi storytelling, button-making, browsing the library's Sámi Collection and exploring some items from…
Find out more »Apr 2023
Twin Ports Festival of History 2023: The Battle for Thermopylae
Dr. Jeffrey Rop presents "The Battle for Thermopylae between Modern Historians and the International Far Right" in the fourth floor rotunda of the University of Minnesota-Duluth's Kathryn A. Martin Library. The second annual Twin Ports Festival of History runs March 30 to April 4 at multiple venues in Duluth and Superior and features lectures, tours and more. The event aims to provide those with an interest in history an opportunity to listen and discuss topics with authors and historians of…
Find out more »Twin Ports Festival of History 2023: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater
Minnesota author Timothy Cochrane will be doing a presentation, reading and book signing on his new book Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater from the University of Minnesota Press. The event takes place on the fourth floor rotunda in the Kathryn A. Martin Library at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. John Linklater, of Anishinaabeg, Cree and Scottish ancestry, and his wife Tchi-Ki-Wis, of the Lac La Croix First Nation, lived in the canoe and border country of…
Find out more »Aug 2023
Rewilding Finland
Dr. Tero Mustonen will discuss his work transforming depleted and damaged peatlands -- the largest carbon stores on Earth -- into productive and biodiverse habitats and wetlands. Dr. Mustonen is the Finnish founder and president of the Snowchange Cooperative, a non-profit organization based in Finland. He is an adjunct professor of Geography at the University of Eastern Finland. He was awarded the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize for his work restoring peatlands in Finland. He has also won several human rights…
Find out more »Sep 2023
Borgen Project Volunteer Info Session
Attendees can learn how to get involved with fighting global poverty.
Find out more »New Economic Statecraft: China, the United States and the United Kingdom
Dr. Zhang Xiaotong, visiting scholar from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, looks at wealth production, wealth mobilization and wealth/power conversion.
Find out more »From Duluth to the Arctic Circle: Weaving Relationships Through Sámi Libraries
In summer 2023, Chelsey Miller, communications associate and bibliographer for the Sámi Collection, and Matt Rosendahl, director of the UMD Kathryn A. Martin Library, embarked on a journey to the Arctic Circle to spend time in Sápmi. During this event they will discuss their journey in the land of the midnight sun, share how and why they took the trip, and what their hopes are for the future of the area and the library's work.
Find out more »Gripped by Guyana: A Memoir of Purpose and Adventure
Dr. Merle Kindred is an expert with Cuso International, a Canadian international development organization. She will discuss doing development work in the country of Guyana located in South America. Her assignments grew from doing strategic planning for an urban NGO to sparking ecological and economic development deep in indigenous territories. Her presentation explores this post-colonial country and the experience of indigenous peoples in Guyana who are working to create positive momentum in their lives.
Find out more »Torii Gates and Hot Springs in Japan
Mia O’Brien and her two children traveled to Japan in May 2023 visiting Tokyo, Hakone, Isumi (a Duluth Sister City), and surrounding areas. Attendees can see what can happen when your son becomes your travel planner to share his love for Japan. "A delightful experience of traditions, modern culture, serene spaces, and food." O'Brien is the Executive Office and Administrative Assistant of the University of Minnesota Duluth Department of History, Political Science, & International Studies.
Find out more »Barbara Sjoholm
Barbara Sjoholm is visiting UMD to present on national museums in the Nordic countries. She’ll discuss the establishment of Sámi museums in Norway, Sweden and Finland in the past fifty years and their role in the renaissance of Indigenous Sámi music, duodji (handicraft) and language restoration. Sjoholm is the author of From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and of the recently reissued The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels…
Find out more »Oct 2023
The Queen of the Danube: The Wonder that is Budapest
Cindy Christian (Director of the Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International Studies) and her spouse visited the city of Budapest in July of this year. Christian will share stories and images of the places she visited and discuss what she learned about the complexity of Hungarian history.
Find out more »War in Ukraine: From Everyday Challenges to Global Change
Join Humphrey School of Public Affairs 2023-2024 International Fellow at the University of Minnesota and Strategy Director of the Ukrainian Women’s Congress, Iryna Drobovych, as she examines how the war has changed the daily lives of Ukrainians. She shares a photo exhibition she prepared with a Ukrainian photographer who is currently in the frontline serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She also shares information about the women in security and defence, the new approaches to the security policies and…
Find out more »Malaysian Makan Time: The Delights of a Multiethnic Cuisine
Geraldine Hughes, Executive Office and Administrative Specialist for the UMD Department of Mathematics and Statistics took her first trip since before COVID to her native home in Malaysia. In this talk she will highlight the food of Malaysia which offers incredible variety and flavors. The cuisine reflects the multi-ethnic make-up of the country are Malay, Chinese and Indian. She will share images and discuss Malaysian dishes, including her favorites.
Find out more »Nov 2023
A Story of Holocaust Survival with Ron Schwarz
Ron Schwarz is the son of Holocaust Survivor Charles Schwarz. As a second-generation speaker, Ron uses a multimedia presentation to share his father’s and grandparents’ journey and teach the lessons of the Holocaust.
Find out more »Feb 2024
Sámi Day Celebration
The UMD Kathryn A. Martin Library in partnership with the Sámi Cultural Center of North America present a Sámi Day celebration featuring guest presenter and Sámi artist, Tomas Colbengtson. Tomas Colbengtson (b. 1957) is of South Sámi descent and grew up in the small Sámi village of Björkvattnet. In his art, he asks how colonial heritage has changed the lives and landscapes of the Sámi and other Indigenous peoples. All are welcome. Guests/visitors who do not have a parking permit…
Find out more »From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens
UMD’s Baeumler-Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee will host Dr. Melanie O’Brien. who will discuss her most recent book which studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth field research from the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, this book demonstrates that a pattern of specific escalating human rights abuses takes place in genocide. O’Brien deftly illustrates how the ‘crime of crimes’ and the human rights law regime correlate and applies…
Find out more »Apr 2024
Community Poetry Reading featuring Lake Superior Writers Members
Members of Lake Superior Writers will celebrate the art of poetry during this reading in the UMD Library Rotunda. Anyone can sign up for a five-minute reading slot to share their own original work or the work of other poets. Sign up for a reading slot at lakesuperiorwriters.org.
Find out more »Oct 2024
Reimagining US Grand Strategy
Christopher Preble, Senior Fellow and Director, Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program of Stimson Center, will offer a "reimagined" set of foreign policy perspectives that provide for the realities a changed new world order that the US no longer dominates. He argues that the US must embrace more "diplomacy, trade, and cultural agreements" instead of force and coercion if it wishes to maintain its own security.
Find out more »A Walk Around Beirut
Dr. Jayson Iwen, Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing, Language and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, leads the audience on a photographic walking tour of contemporary Beirut and the nearby mountains, sharing images from his trip there last March. UMD Library Rotunda.
Find out more »Nov 2024
Returning to China: A Tribute to the City of Beijing
UMD Department of Communication professor Dr. Hairong Feng, a native of China, shares stories of experiencing the country in 2024, five years after her last visit before the global pandemic. 4th Floor Rotunda, UMD Library.
Find out more »From Germany to Duluth: Researching Nature-Based Programs for Children
This International Colloquium features Ronja Wiedemann, a short-term scholar from Scheidegg, Germany who will share a bit about her background and experiences working in a forest school in Germany and her interest in nature-based education. She will also highlight some of the research work she has been involved in so far and experiences she has had in Duluth such as volunteering and visiting nature preschools.
Find out more »A Foreigner’s Take on the American Southwest
Presented by Dr. William Henderson, International Associate and former director of the Alworth Institute for International Studies. Henderson will give an idiosyncratic account mainly derived from one long road trip through southern Colorado, southern Utah, Arizona and New Mexico and he will reflect on the all-American road trip and on the truly awesome landscapes he viewed. UMD Library, 4th Floor Rotunda.
Find out more »Zhizhoobii’ige – A “Dreaming Our Futures” Exhibit Artists’ Panel
A panel discussion with artists from UMD's Tweed Museum of Art exhibit "Dreaming Our Futures". Featured artists, Awanigiizhik Bruce and Andrea Carlson.
Find out more »Britain in the New World Order
Dr. William Henderson, Alworth Institute International Associate and former Director, offers his professional opinion of what is to come as the UK grapples with the new world order. UMD Library, 4th Floor Rotunda.
Find out more »Honduras and the Roots of Migration
Dr. Carol Wallace, UMD Assistant Professor of Spanish Studies, participated in a delegation to Honduras through the Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective in August of 2024. She will discuss the experience that focused on the reasons for the migration of Hondurans out of the country, including forced displacement related to extractive industries, militarization, and climate change. She will emphasize the human face of migration and the role of U.S. policies in perpetuating many of these issues. This talk will be…
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