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April 13, 2020

UPDATED: The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of...

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**3/13 UPDATE: This event will now take place virtually. More details are to come. The Austrian School of Economics—a movement that has had a vast impact on economics, politics, and society...

April 17, 2020

CANCELED: The 1980 Refugee Act after 40 Years: Is There a Minnesota School of...

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In posing this question, we do not presume that it exists, nor do we cast Minnesota as a pacesetter in shaping U.S. refugee politics. Moreover, our goal is not to renew American goodwill,...

May 7, 2020

Alchemy, knowledge, and the digital humanities

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"Alchemy, knowledge, and the digital humanities: Reimagining a seventeenth-century alchemical masterpiece" - by Tara Nummedal Tara Nummedal (PhD, Stanford, 2001; MA, University of...

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