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Whether it’s performing arts, lectures, or cultural events - there’s always something happening in CLA! Many campus events are open to the public. We’re celebrating our 150th anniversary during the 2018-2019 academic year with a series of events and activities for the entire CLA community, past and present.

Calling to Question Mar 4 2019 - 8:30am to Jun 14 2019 - 4:30pm

a student speaking with a microphone at a rally

CLA Day of Service May 11 2019 - 9:00am to 1:00pm

Group of about 30 adults and kids standing in front of the half-constructed gazebo

RECEPTION | My Theory Is... May 11 2019 - 6:00pm

CLA's Birthday Bash Jun 8 2019 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Upcoming Events

March 4, 2019 to June 14, 2019

Calling to Question

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To celebrate the College of Liberal Arts’ 150th anniversary, this exhibit highlights many of the college’s “firsts” and explores the history of various departments, faculty, staff, and...

March 6, 2019 to June 14, 2019

Calling to Question: 150 years of Liberal Arts Education at the University of...

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On display March 4 - June 14 About Calling to Question The College of Liberal Arts continues its 150th anniversary celebration with an exhibit from the University Archives. This exhibition...

March 6, 2019 to June 14, 2019

Calling to Question: 150 years of Liberal Arts Education at the University of...

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On display March 4 - June 14 About Calling to Question The College of Liberal Arts continues its 150th anniversary celebration with an exhibit from the University Archives. This exhibition...

May 14, 2019 to May 25, 2019

Historical Wonders

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

May 14, 2019 to May 29, 2019

Portrait of Italy

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

May 19, 2019

College of Liberal Arts Commencement Ceremony

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The College of Liberal Arts is proud to celebrate its graduating seniors! Please join us as we recognize the significant accomplishments of our graduates. In order to accommodate the size...

May 19, 2019

College of Liberal Arts Commencement Ceremony

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The College of Liberal Arts is proud to celebrate its graduating seniors! Please join us as we recognize the significant accomplishments of our graduates. In order to accommodate the size...

May 21, 2019

Doctoral Recital: Xin Lin, piano

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In my lecture recital, I will be introducing the history of piano in Chinese, and playing some famous Chinese piano music from 1910s to 1970. This event is free and open to the public...

May 24, 2019

Doctoral Recital: Christopher Dickhaus, saxophone

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Performing Denzel Washington's "Utopy," John Harbison's "San Antonio," Amy Beach's "Romance," and Evan C. Paul's "Minverva." This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not...

May 24, 2019

Doctoral Recital: Fanghan Liu, piano

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Program: George Crumb Makrokosmos I Shuai Zhang Three piano prelude op.18 This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not necessary, seating is general admission and available on...

May 26, 2019 to June 13, 2019

Essential Europe Grad Trip

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

June 2, 2019

Sally O'Reilly Violin Studio Recital

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Students of Sally O'Reilly present a program of solo pieces including works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens, de Falla, Kreisler, Previn, and others. This event is free and open to the public...

June 4, 2019 to June 14, 2019

Celtic Lands- 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

June 6, 2019

Religion and the Public University, IAS Collaborative

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The role of religion on public university campuses has changed significantly in the 21st century as religious identity has been afforded increasing significance in the intersectional selves...

June 7, 2019 to June 18, 2019

Mediterranean Marvels with Lou Nanne

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

June 8, 2019

CLA's Birthday Bash

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Cheers to 150 years! A Birthday Bash to close out CLA's anniversary year.

June 10, 2019

Story Maps 101: Visual Storytelling with Maps

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This two-hour workshop guides participants through the process of telling stories with maps using the Esri Story Map platform. A discussion about best practices in visual storytelling will...

June 11, 2019

Mapping 101: Introduction to Spatial Analysis using ArcGIS Online

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This five-hour workshop introduces participants to web-based mapping and spatial analysis using Esri's ArcGIS Online. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on activities, participants...

June 18, 2019

Desktop GIS 101: Analyzing Data and Creating Maps

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This seven-hour workshop introduces participants to using a geographic information system (GIS) to analyze data and create maps. Through a combination of presentations and hands-on...

June 18, 2019

Dominick Argento Memorial Concert

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Celebrate the life and music of Professor Emeritus Dominick Argento—composer, teacher, mentor, collaborator, friend, and luminary in our state’s musical landscape. The program, curated and...

June 26, 2019 to July 7, 2019

Riches of the Emerald Isle

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

July 2, 2019

Desktop GIS 101: Analyzing Data and Creating Maps

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This seven-hour workshop introduces participants to using a geographic information system (GIS) to analyze data and create maps. Through a combination of presentations and hands-on...

July 8, 2019 to July 16, 2019

Cruise the Rhine River

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

July 19, 2019

Wind Band Conducting Workshop: Chamber Concert

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Chamber Track Conductors conduct a Chamber Concert in Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall. Program to include: Octet-Partita Op. 67 (~1808) by Franz Krommer, Figures in the Garden (1991) by Jonathan...

July 19, 2019

Summer Orchestra Concert

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The Summer Orchestra performs Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1919) and Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, op. 26 with guest artist Kyung Kim . Ernesto Estigarribia,...

July 21, 2019

Doctoral Recital: Jack Donovan, percussion

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DMA Chamber Recital featuring works for percussion by Lansky, Koshinski, Crumb, and Cage. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not necessary, seating is general admission...

July 22, 2019

Story Maps 101: Visual Storytelling with Maps

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This two-hour workshop guides participants through the process of telling stories with maps using the Esri Story Map platform. A discussion about best practices in visual storytelling will...

July 22, 2019 to August 4, 2019

Northern Frontiers

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

July 24, 2019 to August 2, 2019

Majestic Great Lakes

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

July 29, 2019 to August 3, 2019

Teaching about Genocide - Summer Institute 2019

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This week-long educator workshop will provide an introduction to the legal and social concepts of genocide, as well as historical and contemporary examples of genocide and mass violence,...

July 31, 2019

Collector 101: Field Data Collection using Esri's Collector for ArcGIS

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This three-hour workshop offers a hands-on overview of offline data collection using Esri's Collector for ArcGIS app. Topics include setting up templates, collecting features in the field,...

August 2, 2019 to August 13, 2019

Waterways of Russia

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August 3, 2019

Summer Chorus Concert: A Night at the Opera

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University of Minnesota School of Music and Oratorio Society of Minnesota present A Night at the Opera, conducted by Matthew Mehaffey. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are...

August 13, 2019

Desktop GIS 101: Analyzing Data and Creating Maps

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This seven-hour workshop introduces participants to using a geographic information system (GIS) to analyze data and create maps. Through a combination of presentations and hands-on...

August 16, 2019 to August 23, 2019

Discover Southeast Alaska

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

August 22, 2019 to September 2, 2019

Mediterranean Pathways

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

August 29, 2019

Mapping 101: Introduction to Spatial Analysis using ArcGIS Online

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This five-hour workshop introduces participants to web-based mapping and spatial analysis using Esri's ArcGIS Online. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on activities, participants...

August 29, 2019 to September 8, 2019

Exploring Iceland

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

August 30, 2019

Story Maps 101: Visual Storytelling with Maps

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This two-hour workshop guides participants through the process of telling stories with maps using the Esri Story Map platform. A discussion about best practices in visual storytelling will...

September 9, 2019

Guest & Faculty Recital: Sibling Rivalry

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Three brother and sister teams join forces to present a program "Sibling Rivalry," which will showcase the three sets of siblings performing with each other in varied repertoire. David and...

September 10, 2019 to December 7, 2019

EXHIBITION | Queer Forms

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This multidisciplinary group exhibition and series of public programs investigates and celebrates the history, politics and culture of GLBTQ Liberation across a range of artistic forms and...

September 15, 2019 to September 23, 2019

Great Pacific Northwest

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

September 15, 2019

Alumna & Guest Duo Piano Recital: Andria Fennig and Ashley Strawser

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School of Music alumna and Minnesota native Andria Fennig returns to perform a duo-piano recital with pianist Ashley Strawser. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not...

September 19, 2019 to September 27, 2019

Village Life in Dordogne

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

September 19, 2019

"The Misinformation Age", Cailin O'Connor, UC-Irvine

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Cailin O'Connor, UC-Irvine, will be giving a public lecture. Location: Cowles Auditorium and Atrium

September 21, 2019

RECEPTION | Queer Forms

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Join us for a reception and fashion show featuring designs by Oskar Ly to celebrate Queer Forms, a multidisciplinary group exhibition and series of public programs investigates and...

September 25, 2019 to September 28, 2019

Graduate Diversity Recruitment Weekend

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This Graduate Diversity Recruitment Weekend is designed for students who are historically under-represented in Anthropology and Geography, Environment and Society graduate programs and who...

September 27, 2019 to October 8, 2019

Colors, Coasts & Coves of Canada & New England

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

September 27, 2019

Title: TBA, Cheshire Calhoun, ASU

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Title: TBA Cheshire Calhoun, ASU, will be giving a talk Location: TBA

September 29, 2019 to October 15, 2019

Across Spain and Portugal

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

September 29, 2019 to October 14, 2019

Grand Danube Passage

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

October 2, 2019 to October 8, 2019

Toronto to Vancouver by Rail

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

October 9, 2019 to October 22, 2019

Classic China and the Yangtze

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

October 10, 2019

Arts Quarter Festival

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Arts collide at the 4th annual Arts Quarter Festival: an evening mashup of visual art, dance, music, and theatre showcasing student and faculty talent from across the University. Presented...

October 11, 2019

Title: TBA, Emily Austin, Wake Forest

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Title: TBA Emily Austin, Wake Forest, will be giving a talk. CSOM: 1-136

October 11, 2019

Title: TBA, Hartry Field, NYU

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Title: TBA, Hartry Field, NYU Location: TBA

October 14, 2019

Jazz Combos Recital

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Jazz Combos perform. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not necessary, seating is general admission and available on a first-come, first-seated basis. This event will be...

October 19, 2019 to October 27, 2019

Italian Riviera

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

October 21, 2019 to November 4, 2019

Egypt and the Eternal Nile

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

November 14, 2019

Therapy Apps and Virtual Nurses: Of Meaning, Machines and the Future of Connective...

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Some jobs have relationship at their core, depending upon a personal, emotional connection between practitioners and recipients. Efforts to make such "connective labor" more standardized,...

November 15, 2019 to November 23, 2019

Timeless Cuba

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association invites alumni and friends to explore intriguing destinations together through our Travel Program. Expand your horizons during one of our...

November 18, 2019

Jazz Combos Recital

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Jazz Combos Recital. Phily Hey, director. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not necessary, seating is general admission and available on a first-come, first-seated...

November 23, 2019

Guest Alumna Recital: Mary Prescott, piano

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Minneapolis native and School of Music alumna Mary Prescott presents an improvised piano recital indicative of her award-winning work in New York City and beyond. Mary Prescott is a Thai-...

December 4, 2019 to December 12, 2019

Holiday Markets Cruise

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