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The Engagement of Imagination

The Fraser Legacy: Fighting for Human Rights

UMN Students, Faculty Receive Grant for Human Rights Research

African Voices of Paris

A Degree Abroad: Four Trips, Four Years

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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...

October 8, 2019

“The (In)visible Migrant Child in Bessora and Barroux's graphic novel, Alpha:...

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Speaker Agnès Schaffauser - Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, specializing in Francophone postcolonial literature with an emphasis on...

February 27, 2020

Double Amnesia: Zionism and Human Rights in 1948 and Today

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2018 marked the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human...

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