Join the UMN Book Club for the Summer book discussion August 16th from 1 to 3PM. We will be discussing Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney. All are welcome, even if you haven't read the book!
Shop gently used books of all genres, DVDs, and puzzles. This sale, organized by the Friends of the Andersen Horticultural Library, typically raises over $15,000 for the library. Both cash and credit cards are accepted at the book sale.
Join us for an Archives and Special Collections pop-up exhibit for Banned Books Week. See books, maps, newspapers, and other materials that have been restricted, censored, challenged, and banned across the last 500 years!
Visit Elmer L. Andersen Library on Wednesday, Oct. 15, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., for an Open House event to mark the opening of the exhibit, “Beyond the Page: Preserving the Spirit of the University Through an Independent Student Press.”
Please join us for the 2025 James Ford Bell Lecture, “Hearing African Music Across the Early Modern Atlantic World,” presented by Professor Mary Caton Lingold, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University. This hybrid event is free and open to all. Please register if you plan to attend in person or online.
Guests are invited to celebrate the exhibit, Metamorphosis: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Art and Impact in Minnesota, at the Andersen Horticultural Library. This collaborative exhibition honors Merian’s groundbreaking fusion of art and science, showcasing her influence alongside works by Minnesota artists and authors who have been inspired by her. Enjoy refreshments with our co-curators.
Join us on Thursday, Oct. 23, to celebrate the exhibit, “The Circle Unbroken: Celebrating 40 Years of Community Stewardship and the Givens Collection.”
Join the Center for Premodern Studies on Friday, Oct. 24 for a lecture by printmaker Rebecca Gilbert. A light lunch will be served at this event. Participants are encouraged to RSVP for this event to help plan the catering needs.
Join the UMN Book Club for a book discussion October 25th from 1 to 3PM. We will be discussing On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. All are welcome, even if you haven't read the book!
Please join us Oct. 28 to celebrate 50 years of the Kerlan Award, while honoring illustrator Jim McMullan!
Join Dr. John S. Wright, Emeritus Professor of African American and African Studies, and Davu Underwood Seru, Curator of the Givens Collection, as they discuss their personal paths as interdisciplinary scholars working in the academy and in communities off-campus and within the broader Black Studies tradition.
The Immigration History Research Center is hosting their inaugural Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund lecture featuring Charlotte Karem Albrecht, author of Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling, which was published open access with University of California Press in 2023. This event will take place in person and on Zoom.
Join us for the 2025-2026 season of First Fridays as we explore the things you can see, hear, touch, taste or smell in Archives and Special Collections. This November program in the First Fridays season features presentations from the Givens Collection of African American Literature & Life, the James Ford Bell Library, and the Historical Ethnomusicology department.
Join the UMN Book Club for a book discussion October 25th from 1 to 3PM. We will be discussing On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. All are welcome, even if you haven't read the book!
Join the Charles Babbage Institute and CBI Archives on Friday, Nov. 14 for a presentation by Lisa Messeri, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, about her new book, In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles.
Join the UMN Book Club for a book discussion November 22nd from 1 to 3PM. We will be discussing Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. All are welcome, even if you haven't read the book!
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