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Faculty Books: Translating the Dakota

Major Spotlight: Tess Maki

Major Spotlight: Emma Pitzl

Shakespeare Behind Bars

Lois Cucullu: Exchanging Ideas, Creating Knowledge

Patricia Hampl: Heading Out Without a Map

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August 22, 2019 to September 2, 2019

Join CLA at the Minnesota State Fair

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Visit us if you’re heading to the great Minnesota get-together! College of Liberal Arts departments and researchers will be in the U of M Central Crossroads building and the Driven to...

September 26, 2019

The Shared Spaces of Blackface and Yellowface: American Theater before 1930

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Josephine Lee, professor of English and Asian American Studies at UMN, will present on the juxtaposition of blackface representation and stage orientalism in minstrelsy, vaudeville, and...

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Shakespeare Behind Bars

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Faculty Books: Translating the Dakota

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Faculty Books: Translating the Dakota

Major Spotlight: Tess Maki

Major Spotlight: Emma Pitzl

Shakespeare Behind Bars

Lois Cucullu: Exchanging Ideas, Creating Knowledge

Patricia Hampl: Heading Out Without a Map

Upcoming Events

Join CLA at the Minnesota State Fair

The Shared Spaces of Blackface and Yellowface: American Theater before 1930