The Queer & Trans Zine Conference will be held on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Elmer L. Andersen Library, home of the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies. This all-day, in-person conference takes place in conjunction with the Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest, held at Open Book in downtown Minneapolis, Oct. 19-20.
The University Libraries will be well represented at the 24th annual Twin Cities Book Festival — the annual Minnesota gathering for readers, writers, publishers, and purveyors of all things literary — with staff and swag on hand from the Kerlan Collection of Children's Literature, the Upper Midwest Literary Archives, Minitex, and the Friends of the Libraries.
The 2024 Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest will be held Saturday, Oct. 19 and Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, at Open Book in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The 2024 Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest will be held Saturday, Oct. 19 and Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, at Open Book in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Please join us for the 49th annual Kerlan Award, honoring Lisa Yee, the award-winning author of more than 20 books for children and young adults including her recent titles, Maizy Chen's Last Chance and The Misfits. The child of two public school teachers, Lisa Yee is a third-generation Chinese American. Born and raised in Los Angeles, her groundbreaking book, Millicent Min, Girl Genius, features one of the first Asian American protagonists in contemporary children's literature.
Join us at the Wangensteen Historical Library on Thursday, October 24th from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. to celebrate the opening of Artist-in-Residence Professor Jenny Schmid’s exhibition: Disembodied/Reembodied: The Gaze and Dysphoria of Medical Images of Women’s Bodies.
Join the University of Minnesota Center for Premodern Studies and the James Ford Bell Library on Thursday, Oct. 24 for the 2024 Carl Sheppard Memorial Lecture in Medieval Art History. Professor Elina Gertsman presents, “The Secret of Creation: Bestial Humanity in the Worms Mahzor.” Please register if you plan to attend.
Join us for a literary event on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Elmer L. Andersen Library and online. Lettie Teague will read from her new book “Dear Readers and Riders: The Beloved Books, Faithful Fans, and Hidden Private Life of Marguerite Henry.”
Celebrate Halloween at the Wangensteen's Creepy Crawlies pop up exhibit!
Join us on Oct. 30 for a talk on climate narratives in Finnish-American history by Lotta Leiwo, University of Helsinki PhD Candidate in History and Cultural Heritage. Leiwo’s research focuses on Finnish American socialist women’s history and the cultural history of climate. Additionally, Daniel Necas, Archivist at the Immigration History Research Center Archives, will present the IHRCA records available both on-site and online, as well as provide guidance on how to access them.
Let’s talk about love! From love letters to break up letters, the course of true love never did run smooth. Join us for the 2024-2025 season of First Fridays as we share matters of the heart from collections across Archives and Special Collections. The November program features presentations from the Social Welfare History Archives and the Children’s Literature Research Collections.
Join the UMN Book Club for the November book discussion, located in the Wilson Collaboration Studio on November 9th from 1 to 3PM. We will be discussing World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
Please join us on Nov. 14 for a reception and guided gallery tours of the exhibit, “Journey to Joy: Rise, Relevance, Representation in Children’s Picture Books.”
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Please join us on Nov. 20 for the 2024 James Ford Bell Lecture, “A Mixture of Nations: Feeding Children and Empires in the Early American Northeast,” presented by Carla Cevasco, Associate Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and author of “Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast.”
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. for a book reading and conversation with author Taiyon J. Coleman. Coleman’s new book, “Traveling Without Moving,” includes an essay about the University of Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice Program.
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