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October 15, 2019 to December 17, 2019

GLOSX 0033 - Global Nonfiction: A book club for K-12 and community college educators

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Join us and some University of Minnesota guest speakers in a lively discussion about award winning nonfiction books and how to use them, or excerpts of them, in your classroom, as well as...

November 20, 2019

Negotiating Faith, Religious Consent and Peacemaking in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth...

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Lecture: “Negotiating Faith, Religious Consent and Peacemaking in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe” Speaker: Christina Traxler, History, University of Vienna and UMN Fulbright...

November 21, 2019

Europe 1919-2019: A Suicidal Continent – Still Alive

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Speaker: Poul Houe Poul Houe is Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Literature in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic, and Dutch. His Specialties include modern Danish and Swedish...

November 25, 2019

Peter Handke and the Nobel Prize: A Roundtable

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The decision of the Swedish Academy to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to the Austrian writer Peter Handke has caused great controversy. The politics of this prize, after recent...

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