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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

African Voices of Paris / Voix africaines de Paris

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April 23, 2019

Negotiating Chinese Exclusion and Empire between Havana and New York, 1902-1934

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Part of the Global Race, Ethnicity & Migration (Global REM) Lecture Series "Negotiating Chinese Exclusion and Empire between Havana and New York, 1902-1934." Kent Weber, Doctoral...

April 23, 2019

Rwanda. Remembering Genocide with Resilience: the Voices of Women Survivors

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In three months, from April 7, 1994, more than one million Tutsi and Hutu opposing the genocide were massacred. For the 25th time, this April, Rwandan survivors and the world will honor the...

May 2, 2019

Memory Politics and Minority Rights in Central Europe (1867-2019)

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Described as “the age of extremes” by historian Eric Hobsbawm, the twentieth century was defined by heavily contested borders and identities in Central Europe: politically, culturally,...

May 5, 2019 to May 6, 2019

The Hyphenated Jew

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FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! This conference will examine the meaning of the hyphenated Jew (both with and without the diacritical marker “-”) and Jewish identity in history and theory...

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