According to Jeanne Kilde, the director of the Religious Studies program at the University of Minnesota, it's actually quite hard to nail down a single root of Halloween.
"Minnesota 2.0," a new digital archive created by the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), aims to document how 1.5 and 2nd generation Mexican, Somali, and Hmong youth use social networking sites to express their emerging sense of identity and social connection.
"Elmer Gantry" opera and 49th Annual Marching Band Indoor Concert are among the highlights.
French filmmaker Michael Prazan will be in Minneapolis, Nov. 4-7, for screenings of his film "Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades." The documentary details the SS killing squads (Einsatzgruppen, or "Intervention Groups") charged with destroying entire Jewish populations in occupied Eastern Europe during World War II.
Award-winning novelist, respected professor, Somali exile. Each of these phrases describes Nuruddin Farah, a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota. Farah is a holder of the Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts.
What began as an oral history project by several U of M graduate students and faculty has become a groundbreaking collection of personal stories, which celebrates the release of the publication on Friday, October 22.
The University of Minnesota School of Music today announced that the winning work of the 2011 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize is "Cantus Jubilus" by Zvonimir Nagy.
"Delicious Movement for Forgetting, Remembering, and Uncovering" explores Eiko & Koma's living installation, "Naked."
Anthropology department chair Bill Beeman tries to shed light on Iranian cultural dynamics.
Artistic director Ali Momeni talks about some of the artists and events at this weekend's Spark Festival.
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