Below is a select list of events which engage the public with many of the ongoing discussions, debates, and scholarly discoveries that are happening at the University on a daily basis (or, visit the University events calendar to see all events).
You may also submit an event to the calendar.
7/8/2008 7:00 PM Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel: The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Location: Off Campus, Highland Park Branch Library, Sponsored by University Libraries: The comic book transfigured, this graphic novel tells the story of Spiegelman's parents Vladek and Anna, Jews reaching maturity in a Europe on the verge of Nazism, and their terrifying history and eventual survival in the concentration camps. Spiegelman uses the broadest tools of the genre - Jew...
7/8/2008 7:30 PM Appearance by David Hajdu
Location: Elmer L. Andersen Library, Sponsored by University Libraries: The Friends of the University Minnesota Libraries and the Children's Literature Research Collections proudly present a Twin Cities appearance by David Hajdu, author of The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America. Dessert reception follows with books avai...
7/7/2008 9:00 PM Global Justice and Human Rights Trials - program airing on TPT
Location: Off Campus, Television Broadcast, Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study: Broadcast of talk given by Kathryn Sikkink at the IAS on January 29, "Globalizing Justice: Do Human Rights Trials Really Work?" Program will appear on TPT-Channel 17 on broadcast television, and on satellite and Minnesota Channel cable stations; Channel 13 on the Comcast Cable system in Minneap...
7/8/2008 3:00 AM Global Justice and Human Rights Trials - program airing on TPT
Location: Off Campus, Television Broadcast, Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study: Broadcast of talk given by Kathryn Sikkink at the IAS on January 29, "Globalizing Justice: Do Human Rights Trials Really Work?" Program will appear on TPT-Channel 17 on broadcast television, and on satellite and Minnesota Channel cable stations; Channel 13 on the Comcast Cable system in Minneap...
7/8/2008 7:00 PM Split Rock Soirees
Location: Weisman Art Museum, Sponsored by College of Continuing Education: Weekly Split Rock Soirees Please join us for the 2008 Soiree season! Never been to Split Rock? Now's your chance to check it out! Split Rock Soirees feature four evenings of readings and artists' talks that celebrate the energy, talent, and accomplishment of Spli...
7/8/2008 7:30 PM Appearance by David Hajdu
Location: Elmer L. Andersen Library, Sponsored by University Libraries: The Friends of the University Minnesota Libraries and the Children's Literature Research Collections proudly present a Twin Cities appearance by David Hajdu, author of The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America. Dessert reception follows with books avai...
7/8/2008 2:30 PM The Count of Monte Cristo
Location: Minnesota Centennial Showboat, Harriet Island, Showboat Theatre, Sponsored by Minnesota Centennial Showboat: This summer the Showboat Players tell the tale of Edmund Dantes and his epic quest of love, betrayal and retribution to becoming, the powerful and cunning Count of Monte Cristo. This play, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, follows the unique showboat tradition of turn-of-the-century vaudevi...
7/8/2008 8:00 PM The Count of Monte Cristo
Location: Minnesota Centennial Showboat, Harriet Island, Showboat Theatre, Sponsored by Minnesota Centennial Showboat: This summer the Showboat Players tell the tale of Edmund Dantes and his epic quest of love, betrayal and retribution to becoming, the powerful and cunning Count of Monte Cristo. This play, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, follows the unique showboat tradition of turn-of-the-century vaudevi...
7/9/2008 8:00 PM The Count of Monte Cristo
Location: Minnesota Centennial Showboat, Harriet Island, Showboat Theatre, Sponsored by Minnesota Centennial Showboat: This summer the Showboat Players tell the tale of Edmund Dantes and his epic quest of love, betrayal and retribution to becoming, the powerful and cunning Count of Monte Cristo. This play, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, follows the unique showboat tradition of turn-of-the-century vaudevi...